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The Game of Sunken Places by M.T. Anderson
- When Brian and Gregory arrive at a distant relative's strange manse,
they stumble upon a board game and suddenly they became players and
must deal with attitudinal trolls and warring kingdoms.
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The Fire Within by Chris D'Lacey
- When David moves in with Liz and Lucy, he discovers their collection
of magical clay dragons. David's personalized dragon, Gadzooks, can
forecast the future, and inspires him to write a story which reveals
the truth behind an unsolved mystery close to home.
- The
Singer of All Songs by Kate Constable
- Calwyn has never been beyond the high ice-wall that guards the sisters
of Antaris from the world of Tremaris. She knows only the rounds of
her life as a novice ice priestess, tending her bees, singing her ice
chantments, and dreaming. But then Calwyn befriends Darrow, a mysterious
Outlander who appears inside the Wall and warns of an approaching danger.
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Dragon Rider by Cornelia Funke
- From the author of "The Thief Lord" and "Inkheart" comes a magical
story about a boy named Ben and a silver-skinned dragon named Firedrake.
Funke casts an enchanting spell, creating an ultimately triumphant tale
about the power of belief and the true meaning of home.
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Midnight for Charlie Bone by Jenny Nimmo
- This first book in Nimmo's Red King quintet introduces Charlie Bone,
who has inherited the magical powers of the Red King, passed down through
generations. His aunts are delighted and enroll him in Bloor's Academy
for gifted children. Charlie soon realizes some of his classmates have
equally mysterious powers.
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The Dark Hills Divide by Patrick Carman
- Twelve-year-old Alexa Daley is spending another summer in the walled
town of Bridewell. This year, she's determined to solve the mystery
of what lies beyond the walls.
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Gregor the Overlander by Suzanne Collins
- When Gregor falls through a grate in the laundry room of his apartment
building, he hurtles into the dark Underland, where spiders, rats, cockroaches
coexist uneasily with humans. This world is on the brink of war, and
Gregor's arrival is no accident. A prophecy foretells that Gregor has
a role to play in the Underland's uncertain future. Gregor wants no
part of it -- until he realizes it's the only way to solve the mystery
of his father's disappearance.
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The Wish List by Eoin Colfer
- Meg Finn is in a tough spot. Really tough. For her last act on Earth,
she committed a crime - and lost her life as a result. Now Meg's spirit
is stuck in limbo, due to a dead-even tally of good and evil deeds.
Meg's only chance at salvation is to return to Earth and stack on a
few more good deeds - namely, helping the old man whose apartment she
was robbing during her last appearance.
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Montmorency: Thief, Liar, Gentleman? By Eleanor Updale
- When a petty thief "dies" trying to escape from the police, he adopts a dual existence as both a respectable, wealthy gentleman named Montmorency and his degenerate servant.
- The Akhenaten Adventure (Children of the Lamp) by Phillip Kerr
- Twelve-year-old twins John and Phillipa Gaunt discover they are descended from a long line of magical djinn.
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Capture (Guardians of Ga'hoole) by Kathryn Lasky
- In the first book in the Guardians of Ga'Hoole series, readers meet Soren, a barn owl who discovers a great evil in the owl kingdom which he must work to vanquish.
- Dragons of Deltora: Dragon's Nest by Emily Rodda
- The evil Shadow Lord has been banished, but famine still stalks Deltora, and only monsters thrive. As the starving people weaken, Lief, Jasmine and Barda discover a terrible secret. The Enemy left the seeds of death behindhim. Four vile creations of sorcery called the Four Sisters are hidden in the land. They are slowly killing it while the Shadow Lord gloats, awaiting his triumphant return.
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The Haunting of Alaizabel Cray by Chris Wooding
- At just 17, Thaniel is a wych-hunter. Together, he and Cathaline, his friend and mentor, track down the fearful creatures that lurk in the Old Quarter of London. It is on one of these hunts that he first encounters Alaizabel Cray, who is half-crazed, lovely, and possessed.
- Dragon's Blood by Jane Yolen
- Jakkin, a bond boy who works as a Keeper in a dragon nursery on the planet Austar IV, secretly trains a fighting pit dragon of his own in hopes of winning his freedom.
- Into the Wild by Erin Hunter
- For generations, four clans of wild cats have shared the forest according to the laws laid down by their warrior ancestors. But now there is trouble. In the midst of this turmoil appears an ordinary house cat named Rusty, who may turn out to be the bravest warrior of them all.
- Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
- The voyages of an Englishman carry him to such strange places as Lilliput, where people are six inches tall, and Brobdingnag, a land of giants.
- Otto and the Flying Twins by Charlotte Haptie
- When Otto sees his father calming what looks like a purple dragon, he finds his life suddenly becoming very odd. He discovers that his family and his city are remnants of an ancient magical world now under threat from humans and that he must try to save it.
- Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer
- Twelve-year-old Artemis is a millionaire, a genius--and above all, a criminal mastermind. But Artemis doesn't know what he's taken on when he kidnaps a fairy, Captain Holly Short of the LEPrecon Unit.
- Heir Apparent by Vivian Vande Velde
- In the virtual reality game "Heir Apparent," there are too many ways to get killed--and Giannine is finding them all. Unless she can get the magic ring, locate the stolen treasure, and defeat the dragon, she'll never win. And she has to, because losing means she'll die--for real.
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