Action and adventure come to life in these books.
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Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card SF TEEN CARD Child-hero Ender Wiggin must fight a desperate battle against a deadly alien race if mankind is to survive. Catalog Link |
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Code Orange (Readers Circle) by Caroline B. Cooney TEEN COONEY While conducting research for a school paper on smallpox, Mitty finds an envelope containing 100-year-old smallpox scabs and fears that he has infected himself and all of New York City. Catalog Link |
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The Thief Lord by Cornelia Funke J FUNKE Prosper and Bo are orphans on the run from their cruel aunt and uncle. The brothers decide to hide out in Venice, where they meet a mysterious thirteen-year-old boy who calls himself the Thief Lord. Brilliant and charismatic, the Thief Lord leads a ring of street children who dabble in petty crime. Catalog Link |
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The Lab by Jack Heath TEEN HEATH Agent Six of Hearts is the strongest, most effective agent in the Deck, a team of special agents fighting to uphold justice in a completely corrupt world. Six would be invincible if not for a deadly secret. He is the product of an illegal experiment by the Lab. When the Deck begins to investigate the Lab, Six walks a tightrope between his two worlds, trying to keep his origin secret. But then he meets Kyntak, a boy whose past equals his own. Catalog Link |
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SilverFin (Young Bond) by Charlie Higson TEEN HIGSON This prequel to the adventures of James Bond, 007, introduces us to the young James when he’s just started boarding school in England and is about to become involved in his first adventure. Catalog Link |
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Raven's Gate Book one of the Gatekeepers by Anthony Horowitz TEEN HOROWITZ Sent to live in a foster home in a remote Yorkshire village, Matt, a troubled fourteen-year-old English boy, uncovers an evil plot involving witchcraft and the site of an ancient stone circle. Matt is being punished for a crime he saw, but didn’t commit. Instead of being locked up, he is being sent to the middle of nowhere to live with a new foster mom, as part of a government scheme called The Leaf Project. But Matt’s new home provides anything but peace and quiet. His new guardian is involved in very sinister things – and the whole town seems to be on her side. Everybody who tries to help Matt winds up disappearing – or dead. The truth is much bigger than Matt or the town—but Matt is the only person who can stop the ultimate evil from being unleashed. Catalog Link |
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Tomorrow, When the War Began (Tomorrow Series) by John Marsden TEEN MARSDEN Seven Australian teenagers return from a camping trip in the bush to discover that their country has been invaded and they must hide to stay alive. Catalog Link |
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Acceleration (Edgar Allen Poe Awards. Best Young Adult (Awards)) by Graham Mcnamee MYS TEEN MCNAMEE Stuck working in the Lost and Found of the Toronto Transit Authority for the summer, seventeen-year-old Duncan finds the diary of a serial killer and sets out to stop him. Catalog Link |
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How to Disappear Completely and Never Be Found by Sara Nickerson MYS TEEN NICKERSON With a swimming medal, the key to a mansion, and a comic book about a half-man/half-rat as her only clues, a twelve-year-old girl seeks the true story of her father’s mysterious death four years earlier near an island in the Pacific Northwest. Catalog Link |
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Zach's Lie by Roland Smith TEEN SMITH When Jack Osborne is befriended by his school’s custodian and a Basque girl, he begins to adjust to his family’s sudden move to Elko, Nevada, after entering the Witness Security Program, but the drug cartel against which his father will testify is determined to track them down. Catalog Link |
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The Gadget by Paul Zindel TEEN ZINDEL In 1945, having joined his father at Los Alamos, where he and other scientists are working on a secret project to end World War II, thirteen-year-old Stephen becomes caught in a web of secrecy and intrigue. Catalog Link |