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The Lava Crown by Michael Dahl; Ben Kovar (Illustrator)
When a group of trolls take Dr. Hoo hostage, a rescue party is sent to rescue him from the troll kingdom deep beneath the city.
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Downside Up by Richard Scrimger
Chasing his deceased dog Casey's tennis ball down a sewer grate, sixth-grader Fred Berdit finds himself in an upside-down world that looks exactly the same as his own, except that Casey is still alive. This is a world where nothing gets lost, and at first Fred thinks no one will be sad here, but he is wrong. When his sister joins him in the upside-down world, the stakes get bittersweet and much higher.
Call Number: M
Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer by Kelly Jones; Katie Kath (Illustrator)
Through a series of letters, Sophie Brown, age twelve, tells of her family's move to her Great Uncle Jim's farm, where she begins taking care of some unusual chickens with help from neighbors and friends.
Call Number: N
In Darkling Wood by Emma Carroll
When Alice goes to stay with her grandmother she discovers the magical Darkling Wood, where she meets a strange friend and discovers letters written between a brother and sister during WWI.
Call Number: O
A Royal Guide to Monster Slaying by Kelley Armstrong
Twelve-year-old Rowan knows that she, being older than her twin brother Rhydd by two minutes, is next in line to inherit her Queen mother's throne, but she would rather have Rhydd's destiny of becoming Royal Monster Hunter. Tragedy conspires to send Rowan out of the kingdom on the hunt for the most dangerous monster--a gryphon--together with a feisty baby jackalope and a moody, giant wolf who just barely tolerates Rowan. The future of Rowan's kingdom depends on a successful hunt.
Call Number: P
Arlo Finch in the Valley of Fire by John August
Arlo Finch is a newcomer to Pine Mountain, Colorado, a tiny town of mystery and magic, but he's already attracted the attention of dark and ancient forces. At first he thinks these increasingly strange and frightening occurrences are just part of being in Rangers, the mountain scouting troop where he learns how to harness the wild magic seeping in from the mysterious Long Woods. But he soon...finds himself at the center of a dangerous adventure, where he faces obstacles that test the foundations of the Ranger's Vow: loyalty, bravery, kindness, and truth.
Call Number: Q
Maya and the Rising Dark by Rena Barron
Twelve-year-old Maya is the only one in her neighborhood who sees strange things like werehyenas stalking the streets and a man made of shadows who plagues her dreams. When her father goes missing, Maya learns that he is the guardian of the veil between our world and the Dark, where the Lord of Shadows has an army waiting. Maya also discovers that she's half orisha and half human and that her neighborhood is considered a safe haven.
Call Number: R
The Time of Green Magic by Hilary McKay
When eleven-year-old Abi moves with her father and new stepfamily into an eerie old house, something magical makes her books more real and brings a not-so-imaginary friend to stepbrother Louis.
Call Number: S
Mulan: Before the Sword by Grace Lin (Illustrator)
A young girl named Mulan sets out on quest with the Jade Rabbit of legend to search for an antidote for her sister, Xiu, who was bitten by a spider. Mulan learns a shapeshifter named Daji wants Xiu dead because a daughter of the Hua family is prophesied to save the emperor. Mulan works to defeat Daji with the help of immortal healers.
Call Number: T
The Magician's Elephant by Kate DiCamillo; Yoko Tanaka (Illustrator)
When ten-year-old orphan Peter Augustus Duchene encounters a fortune teller in the marketplace one day and she tells him that his sister, who is presumed dead, is in fact alive, he embarks on a remarkable series of adventures as he desperately tries to find her.
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Call Number: U
When You Trap a Tiger by Tae Keller
When Lily, her sister Sam, and their mother move in with her sick grandmother, Lily traps a tiger and makes a deal with him to heal Halmoni.
Call Number: V
Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book One the Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan
Percy, expelled from six schools for being unable to control his temper, learns the truth from his mother that his father is the Greek god Poseidon, and is sent to Camp Half Blood where he is befriended by a satyr and the demigod daughter of Athena who join him in a journey to the Underworld to retrieve Zeus's lightning bolt and prevent a catastrophic war.
Call Number: W
The Girl Who Drank the Moon by Kelly Barnhill
Each year, the people of the Protectorate think they must sacrifice an infant to Xan, the witch who lives in the forest. Xan finds the abandoned babies and feels sorry for them, feeding them starlight and delivering them to good homes on the other side of the forest. One year, though, she accidentally gives one baby moonlight, which imbues her with magic. Xan and her friends, Glerk the wise swamp monster and Fyrian, a tiny dragon, decide to raise baby Luna by themselves. However, just as Luna's magic is emerging at her thirteenth birthday, Xan goes to gather the next baby at the same time a young man arrives to kill the witch and end the sacrifices. Glerk and Fyrian try to save Xan, but it is up to Luna to protect those who raised her.
Call Number: X
The Flame in the Mist by Kit Grindstaff
Thirteen-year-old Jemma finds herself in a race for her life when she discovers an ancient prophecy that reveals the truth about her past and an unimaginably great and dangerous destiny--to defeat the evil Agromonds and restore peace and sunlight to Anglavia.
Call Number: Y
The Witch's Boy by Kelly Barnhill
When a Bandit King comes to take the magic that Ned's mother, a witch, is meant to protect, the stuttering, weak boy villagers think should have drowned rather than his twin protects his family and community. Meanwhile, in the woods, the Bandit's daughter puzzles over a mystery that ties her to Ned. The two must find a way to trust each other if they want to stop the oncoming war between their two kingdoms.
Call Number: Z
Snow White and the Magic Mirror by Tony Bradman; Sarah Warburton (Illustrator)
Snow White is just TOO nice and always helping other people out. She never has a moment to herself! She asks her magic mirror for advice but will she ever really listen to the answer? Snow White must learn to say no if she's going to live happily ever after...
Call Number: L
The Bottle Imp of Bright House by Tom Llewellyn
After his father loses his job, Gabe and his family move into an old apartment building. Hefeels lucky when he is given a bottle holding an imp that can grant wishes. He gets a few things, but then he finds that there's a catch-every time he makes a wish, someone else loses something.
Call Number: M
The Cat Who Came in off the Roof by Annie M. G. Schmidt
Mr. Tibble is a reporter whose career is on the brink of disaster for writing too often about cats. After being warned that another cat story will get him fired, Tibble walks outside to find a woman stranded in a tree. He helps her down. Her name, she says, is Miss Minou, and she used to be a cat. Tibble is forced to believe it when Minou feeds him stories about the neighborhood that could only have been overheard by the city's stray cats, Minou's friends. Tibble's career skyrockets with this juicy material and Minou learns how to be human, but a story that reflects badly on a local business lands both Tibble and Minou in trouble.
Call Number: N
Bob by Wendy Mass; Rebecca Stead
Ten-year-old Livy hasn't visited her grandmother in Australia in five years, and when she returns, she gets the feeling she forgot something from her last visit. She then meets a small green creature named Bob, who reminds Livy that she promised to help him get home, and he's been waiting for her ever since.
Call Number: O
The Fire Within by Chris d'Lacey
College student David Rain rents a room in an unusual boardinghouse full of clay dragons, not realizing that they, along with some lively squirrels, will help jumpstart his writing career.
Call Number: P
The Hidden Oracle by Rick Riordan
The god Apollo has been blamed by his father, Zeus, for starting the war between the Greek and Roman demigods. His punishment is to be trapped in the body of a human sixteen-year-old, acne and all, and face a series of trials to prove himself worthy of being a god again. An ancient adversary gets wind of Apollo's punishment and has him followed, forcing the god to go to Camp Half-Blood for aid of the demigods, such as Percy Jackson.
Call Number: Q
Sal and Gabi Break the Universe (a Sal and Gabi Novel, Book 1) by Carlos Hernandez
In order to heal after his mother's death, thirteen-year-old Sal learns to reach into time and space to retrieve things--and people--from other universes.
Call Number: R
Darkstalker by Tui T. Sutherland
Long ago in the SeaWing kingdom, a prince learns he is an animus, with wonderful magic at a terrible price; in the mind of a NightWing dragonet, the future is revealed; and under three full moons and the yes of a NightWing mother and IceWing father, Pyrrhia's most powerful dragon, Darkstalker, hatches from his egg, changing the world forever.
Call Number: S
The Wonderling by Mira Bartok (Illustrator)
At Miss Carbunkle's home for Wayward and Misbegotten Creatures, a fox-like eleven-year-old with no name lives as an orphan in the miserable conditions of "the Home." But when he meets a young bird named Trinket, who finally gives him the name Arthur, he escapes "the Home" with the help of an invention of Trinket's and together they set out on an adventure to see the world for the first time.
Call Number: T
The Sight by Erin Hunter
In a troubled time for the Clans, three young cats, grandchildren of the legendary Firestar, begin their training as warriors and, in the course of many adventures, discover their true destiny.
Call Number: U
Bayou Magic by Jewell Parker Rhodes
Visiting her grandmother in the Louisiana bayou, ten-year-old Maddy begins to realize that she may be the only sibling to carry on the gift of her family's magical legacy.
Call Number: V
Kane Chronicles, the, Book One the Red Pyramid (Kane Chronicles, the, Book One) by Rick Riordan
Brilliant Egyptologist Dr. Julius Kane accidentally unleashes the Egyptian god Set, who banishes the doctor to oblivion and forces his two children to embark on a dangerous journey, bringing them closer to the truth about their family and its links to a secret order that has existed since the time of the pharaohs.
Call Number: W
Sky Raiders by Brandon Mull
Whisked through a portal to The Outskirts, an in-between world, sixth-grader Cole must rescue his friends and find his way back home--before his existence is forgotten.
Call Number: X
Nightingale by Deva Fagan
After twelve-year-old Lark, determined to escape her squalid life, steals a magical sword from the Royal Museum, she reluctantly becomes the next Nightingale, destined to vanquish an ancient evil.
Call Number: Y
His Dark Materials: the Golden Compass (Book 1) by Philip Pullman
Eleven-year-old Lyra Belacqua journeys from her home at Oxford University to the frozen North on a quest to save kidnapped children from the evil Gobblers; and then rescue her father from the Panserbjorne, a race of mercenary polar bears who have taken him captive.
Call Number: Z
Ruby the Red Fairy by Daisy Meadows
Evil Jack Frost sends the Rainbow Fairies far away, and they must return to Fairyland or it will be gray forever. When Rachel and Kirsty discover Ruby the Red Fairy in the pot at the end of the rainbow, they work together to find Ruby's six colorful sisters.
Come Fall by A. C. E. Bauer
nspired by Shakespeare's “A Midsummer Night's Dream,” this story takes an original look at the challenges of middle school and the power of friendship. Three misfit middle school students – Salman, Lue and Blos – are drawn together by a mentoring program and begin to bond when their lives start to fall apart. The children help each other deal with family and school problems that, unbeknownst to them, are caused by Oberon and Titania, the king and queen of Faery, who use the kids in their jealous power struggle.
Call Number: M
The Dark City by Catherine Fisher
Galen, a man of the old Order and a Keeper of relics, and his sixteen-year-old apprentice, Raffi, face many obstacles as they search for a powerful relic that has been hidden for centuries in an effort to stop the devastation that has hit their world.
Call Number: N
The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate
When Ivan, a gorilla who has lived for years in a down-and-out circus-themed mall, meets Ruby, a baby elephant that has been added to the mall, he decides that he must find her a better life.
Call Number: O
Over the Moon by Natalie Lloyd
Twelve-year-old Mallie Ramble works as a maid for the wealthy citizens in the valley but lives in Coal Top, an oppressed community ruled over by evil, authoritarian leaders. When her seven-year-old brother is slated to go to the mines, Mallie knows she must do something to change their financial position and keep her brother out of the mine. She hears of an extremely dangerous opportunity open to orphan boys to fly airborne horses and collect gold from distant mountains. She disguises herself as a boy and forms a close bond to her Starbird, Leo, along with her best friend, Adam, and horse trainer, Iggy. As she faces the danger, she learns of an evil plot at the very heart of Coal Top's oppression.
Call Number: P
Edgeland by Jake Halpern; Peter Kujawinski
Wren lives on Edgeland, an island near a whirlpool thirty miles wide and a hundred miles around called the Drain where the dead are sent. Wren dreams of escaping Edgeland and with the help of her friend Alec, Wren plans on looting a boat before it enters the Drain. When the boat--with Wren and Alec onboard--is sucked into the whirlpool, they discover an unimaginable world.
Call Number: Q
The Dragonet Prophecy by Tui T. Sutherland
Clay and the other four MudWing dragonets were stolen from their homes while they were still in their eggs and hidden for years in order to fulfill a prophecy claiming that the dragonets would end the war between the dragon tribes, but not all of the dragonets want their destiny.
Call Number: R
The Book of Dust: la Belle Sauvage by Philip Pullman
Eleven-year-old Malcolm Polstead listens to everything that happens at his parent's inn on the bank of the Thames. He becomes embroiled in intrigue, however, when he comes across a message which warns of a dangerous substance called Dust. Suddenly, the people he spies on seem to have much different motives, all related to a mysterious and powerful baby girl named Lyra, and Malcolm must do anything to make sure Lyra stays safe from those who want to harm her.
Call Number: S
Wild Beauty by Anna-Marie McLemore
For nearly a century, the Nomeolvides women have tended the grounds of La Pradera, hiding a terrible legacy, until mysterious Fel arrives and Estrella helps him explore his dangerous past.
Call Number: T
The Ruins of Gorlan by John Flanagan
When fifteen-year-old Will is rejected by battleschool, he becomes the reluctant apprentice to the mysterious Ranger Halt, and winds up protecting the kingdom from danger.
The Secret of Dreadwillow Carse by Brian Farrey
A princess and a peasant girl, who hides a sorrow in a town where everyone lives with unending joy, embark on a dangerous quest to outwit a centuries-old warning foretelling the fall of the Monarchy.
Call Number: V
Inkheart by Cornelia Funke; Anthea Bell (Translator)
Twelve-year-old Meggie learns that her father, who repairs and binds books for a living, can "read" fictional characters to life when one of those characters abducts them and tries to force him into service.
Call Number: W
My Diary from the Edge of the World by Jodi Lynn Anderson
Spirited, restless Gracie Lockwood, twelve, of Cliffden, Maine, living in a world where sasquatches, dragons, giants, and mermaids are common, keeps a diary of her family's journey in a used Winnebago as they seek The Extraordinary World in hopes of keeping her little brother, Sam, safe against all odds.
Call Number: X
The Circus of Stolen Dreams by Lorelei Savaryn
Three years after her younger brother disappeared, Andrea is still sad and feeling lost. After stumbling upon a dreamlike world called Reverie in the woods near her home, she discovers that for the price of a memory, she can escape into tents that offer opportunities like flying and fighting pirates. However, the more time Andrea spends in Reverie, she realizes that not everything is as rosy as it's made out to be and the Sandman who is in control of the circuslike atmosphere, may have sinister plans.
Call Number: Y
Toby Alone by Francois Place (Illustrator); Sarah Ardizzone (Translator); Timothée De Fombelle
When Toby Lolness, the son of a renowned scientist, discovers the dangerous plan of political powerhouse Joe Mitch, he must become a fugitive. Mitch's ruthless plan to keep digging deeper into the Tree will endanger their entire Lilliputian civilization and only Toby can rescue his parents and bring down Mitch.
Call Number: Z
Bayou Magic by Jewell Parker Rhodes
Visiting her grandmother in the Louisiana bayou, ten-year-old Maddy begins to realize that she may be the only sibling to carry on the gift of her family's magical legacy.
Call Number: L
Bitter Magic by Roderick Townley
When twelve-year-old Cisley's mother, who controls real magic, disappears during a magic act, Cisley is left with her cold, distant uncle and a great mystery which will only be solved if she can summon her own magic.
Call Number: M
Flora and Ulysses by Kate DiCamillo
After Ulysses the squirrel is sucked up by her neighbor's brand new vacuum cleaner, Flora and he set out to become superheroes.
Call Number: N
Akata Witch by Nnedi Okorafor
Twelve-year-old Sunny lives in Nigeria, but she was born American. Her features are African, but she's albino. She's a terrific athlete, but can't go out into the sun to play soccer. There seems to be no place where she fits in. And then she discovers something amazing—she is a \"free agent\" with latent magical power. Soon she's part of a quartet of magic students, studying the visible and invisible, learning to change reality. But will it be enough to help them when they are asked to catch a career criminal who knows magic too?
Call Number: O
The Good Hawk (Shadow Skye, Book One) by Joseph Elliott
Fifteen-year-old Agatha, who has a Down syndrome-like condition, is a Hawk whose job it is to patrol the walls of her island home, proud of her job despite the bullying she faces. Her friend Jaime, an anxious, self-loathing Angler who hates the sea, has been told to marry a girl—a practice long-forbidden in his clan—from another clan, which seems to coincide with rumors of war. Then the entire clan is enslaved by raiders and Agatha and Jaime must draw on all their individual strengths as they journey to the magical, plague-torn Scottish mainland to find them, facing an ancient magic and dark powers along the way.
Call Number: P
The Sasquatch Escape by Suzanne Selfors; Dan Santat (Illustrator)
Ben Silverstein is visiting his grandfather in Buttonville for the summer when his grandpa's cat brings home what looks to be a baby dragon! Astonished, Ben sees the dragon is wounded, and so he and an adventurous girl named Pearl take it to Dr. Woo's Worm Hospital. On the outside it appears to be an ordinary vet clinic; on the inside, it is a clinic for fantastic imaginary creatures! Accidentally leaving the clinic door unlocked, Ben and Pearl are horrified when they learn the stinky, hairy Sasquatch has escaped--and now Dr. Woo expects them to get the beast back!
Call Number: Q
Seriously Wicked by Tina Connolly
Camellia's adopted mother is a real wicked witch who has now summoned a demon that gets loose and possesses Devon, the cute new boy at school. Suddenly Cam's friends are turning into zombies, Devon is not acting like himself, and a phoenix hidden in the school is set to explode on the night of the Halloween dance. To fix things, Cam resorts to a spell of her own, and desperately hopes that she won't become seriously wicked like her mother.
Call Number: R
Warriors: Omen of the Stars #1: the Fourth Apprentice by Erin Hunter
Fated to become two of the three cats to attain great powers, Jayfeather and Lionblaze await the arrival of the third cat. Meanwhile, a new ThunderClan apprentices has a sudden dream that she is the third cat.
Call Number: S
Paola Santiago and the River of Tears by Tehlor Mejia
In Silver Springs, Arizona, her mother's stories of the monstrous La Llorona are thrilling but unbelievable to science-loving Paola until she and her best friends Dante and Emma take a walk through a cactus field near the Gila River.
Call Number: T
The Lost Rainforest #1: Mez's Magic by Eliot Schrefer
Caldera is divided into animals who walk by night and those who walk by day. Mez and her sister are nightwalker panthers who fear daywalkers as creatures of myth and legend. When Mez discovers that she can enter the daylight world, she and an unlikely group of animal friends including a bat, a tree frog, and a monkey, must unravel an ancient mystery, discover the extent of Mez's newly discovered magical powers, and face their greatest fears in order to save their rainforest home.
Call Number: U
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J. K. Rowling
Rescued from the outrageous neglect of his aunt and uncle, a young boy with a great destiny proves his worth while attending Hogwarts School for Wizards and Witches.
Call Number: V
Shadow Grail #1: Legacies by Mercedes Lackey; Rosemary Edghill
After her family is killed, Spirit White is taken to Oakhurst Academy, a combination orphanage and school for those with magical powers, where she and her new friends investigate when students start mysteriously disappearing.
Call Number: W
The Thief Queen's Daughter by Elizabeth Haydon; Jason Chan (Illustrator)
Charles Magnus Ven Polypheme, the Royal Reporter of Serendair, is sent by King Vandemere to the Gated City to identify an item. Inside the Gated City Ven and his friends find a merchant society that sells everything, including dreams. The Queen of Thieves threatens the group, which includes her daughter.
Call Number: X
The Cottage in the Woods by Katherine Coville
Presents a twist on the classic story of "Goldilocks and the Three Bears" told by young Teddy's governess, who came to work at the Vaughn family cottage shortly before a golden-haired girl, ragged and dirty, entered the home and soon became a beloved foster child until evil characters tried to take her away.
Call Number: Y
Shadowshaper by Daniel José Older
When the murals painted on the walls of her Brooklyn neighborhood start to change and fade in front of her, Sierra Santiago realizes that something strange is going on--then she discovers her Puerto Rican family are shadowshapers and finds herself in a battle with an evil anthropologist for the lives of her family and friends.
Call Number: Z
The Lava Crown by
When a group of trolls take Dr. Hoo hostage, a rescue party is sent to rescue him from the troll kingdom deep beneath the city.
Downside Up by
Chasing his deceased dog Casey's tennis ball down a sewer grate, sixth-grader Fred Berdit finds himself in an upside-down world that looks exactly the same as his own, except that Casey is still alive. This is a world where nothing gets lost, and at first Fred thinks no one will be sad here, but he is wrong. When his sister joins him in the upside-down world, the stakes get bittersweet and much higher.
Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer by
Through a series of letters, Sophie Brown, age twelve, tells of her family's move to her Great Uncle Jim's farm, where she begins taking care of some unusual chickens with help from neighbors and friends.
A Royal Guide to Monster Slaying by
Twelve-year-old Rowan knows that she, being older than her twin brother Rhydd by two minutes, is next in line to inherit her Queen mother's throne, but she would rather have Rhydd's destiny of becoming Royal Monster Hunter. Tragedy conspires to send Rowan out of the kingdom on the hunt for the most dangerous monster--a gryphon--together with a feisty baby jackalope and a moody, giant wolf who just barely tolerates Rowan. The future of Rowan's kingdom depends on a successful hunt.
Arlo Finch in the Valley of Fire by
Arlo Finch is a newcomer to Pine Mountain, Colorado, a tiny town of mystery and magic, but he's already attracted the attention of dark and ancient forces. At first he thinks these increasingly strange and frightening occurrences are just part of being in Rangers, the mountain scouting troop where he learns how to harness the wild magic seeping in from the mysterious Long Woods. But he soon...finds himself at the center of a dangerous adventure, where he faces obstacles that test the foundations of the Ranger's Vow: loyalty, bravery, kindness, and truth.
Maya and the Rising Dark by
Twelve-year-old Maya is the only one in her neighborhood who sees strange things like werehyenas stalking the streets and a man made of shadows who plagues her dreams. When her father goes missing, Maya learns that he is the guardian of the veil between our world and the Dark, where the Lord of Shadows has an army waiting. Maya also discovers that she's half orisha and half human and that her neighborhood is considered a safe haven.
Mulan: Before the Sword by
A young girl named Mulan sets out on quest with the Jade Rabbit of legend to search for an antidote for her sister, Xiu, who was bitten by a spider. Mulan learns a shapeshifter named Daji wants Xiu dead because a daughter of the Hua family is prophesied to save the emperor. Mulan works to defeat Daji with the help of immortal healers.
The Magician's Elephant by
When ten-year-old orphan Peter Augustus Duchene encounters a fortune teller in the marketplace one day and she tells him that his sister, who is presumed dead, is in fact alive, he embarks on a remarkable series of adventures as he desperately tries to find her.
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Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book One the Lightning Thief by
Percy, expelled from six schools for being unable to control his temper, learns the truth from his mother that his father is the Greek god Poseidon, and is sent to Camp Half Blood where he is befriended by a satyr and the demigod daughter of Athena who join him in a journey to the Underworld to retrieve Zeus's lightning bolt and prevent a catastrophic war.
The Girl Who Drank the Moon by
Each year, the people of the Protectorate think they must sacrifice an infant to Xan, the witch who lives in the forest. Xan finds the abandoned babies and feels sorry for them, feeding them starlight and delivering them to good homes on the other side of the forest. One year, though, she accidentally gives one baby moonlight, which imbues her with magic. Xan and her friends, Glerk the wise swamp monster and Fyrian, a tiny dragon, decide to raise baby Luna by themselves. However, just as Luna's magic is emerging at her thirteenth birthday, Xan goes to gather the next baby at the same time a young man arrives to kill the witch and end the sacrifices. Glerk and Fyrian try to save Xan, but it is up to Luna to protect those who raised her.
The Flame in the Mist by
Thirteen-year-old Jemma finds herself in a race for her life when she discovers an ancient prophecy that reveals the truth about her past and an unimaginably great and dangerous destiny--to defeat the evil Agromonds and restore peace and sunlight to Anglavia.
The Witch's Boy by
When a Bandit King comes to take the magic that Ned's mother, a witch, is meant to protect, the stuttering, weak boy villagers think should have drowned rather than his twin protects his family and community. Meanwhile, in the woods, the Bandit's daughter puzzles over a mystery that ties her to Ned. The two must find a way to trust each other if they want to stop the oncoming war between their two kingdoms.
Snow White and the Magic Mirror by
Snow White is just TOO nice and always helping other people out. She never has a moment to herself! She asks her magic mirror for advice but will she ever really listen to the answer? Snow White must learn to say no if she's going to live happily ever after...
The Bottle Imp of Bright House by
After his father loses his job, Gabe and his family move into an old apartment building. Hefeels lucky when he is given a bottle holding an imp that can grant wishes. He gets a few things, but then he finds that there's a catch-every time he makes a wish, someone else loses something.
The Cat Who Came in off the Roof by
Mr. Tibble is a reporter whose career is on the brink of disaster for writing too often about cats. After being warned that another cat story will get him fired, Tibble walks outside to find a woman stranded in a tree. He helps her down. Her name, she says, is Miss Minou, and she used to be a cat. Tibble is forced to believe it when Minou feeds him stories about the neighborhood that could only have been overheard by the city's stray cats, Minou's friends. Tibble's career skyrockets with this juicy material and Minou learns how to be human, but a story that reflects badly on a local business lands both Tibble and Minou in trouble.
Bob by
Ten-year-old Livy hasn't visited her grandmother in Australia in five years, and when she returns, she gets the feeling she forgot something from her last visit. She then meets a small green creature named Bob, who reminds Livy that she promised to help him get home, and he's been waiting for her ever since.
The Hidden Oracle by
The god Apollo has been blamed by his father, Zeus, for starting the war between the Greek and Roman demigods. His punishment is to be trapped in the body of a human sixteen-year-old, acne and all, and face a series of trials to prove himself worthy of being a god again. An ancient adversary gets wind of Apollo's punishment and has him followed, forcing the god to go to Camp Half-Blood for aid of the demigods, such as Percy Jackson.
Darkstalker by
Long ago in the SeaWing kingdom, a prince learns he is an animus, with wonderful magic at a terrible price; in the mind of a NightWing dragonet, the future is revealed; and under three full moons and the yes of a NightWing mother and IceWing father, Pyrrhia's most powerful dragon, Darkstalker, hatches from his egg, changing the world forever.
The Wonderling by
At Miss Carbunkle's home for Wayward and Misbegotten Creatures, a fox-like eleven-year-old with no name lives as an orphan in the miserable conditions of "the Home." But when he meets a young bird named Trinket, who finally gives him the name Arthur, he escapes "the Home" with the help of an invention of Trinket's and together they set out on an adventure to see the world for the first time.
Kane Chronicles, the, Book One the Red Pyramid (Kane Chronicles, the, Book One) by
Brilliant Egyptologist Dr. Julius Kane accidentally unleashes the Egyptian god Set, who banishes the doctor to oblivion and forces his two children to embark on a dangerous journey, bringing them closer to the truth about their family and its links to a secret order that has existed since the time of the pharaohs.
Nightingale by
After twelve-year-old Lark, determined to escape her squalid life, steals a magical sword from the Royal Museum, she reluctantly becomes the next Nightingale, destined to vanquish an ancient evil.
His Dark Materials: the Golden Compass (Book 1) by
Eleven-year-old Lyra Belacqua journeys from her home at Oxford University to the frozen North on a quest to save kidnapped children from the evil Gobblers; and then rescue her father from the Panserbjorne, a race of mercenary polar bears who have taken him captive.
Ruby the Red Fairy by
Evil Jack Frost sends the Rainbow Fairies far away, and they must return to Fairyland or it will be gray forever. When Rachel and Kirsty discover Ruby the Red Fairy in the pot at the end of the rainbow, they work together to find Ruby's six colorful sisters.
Come Fall by
nspired by Shakespeare's “A Midsummer Night's Dream,” this story takes an original look at the challenges of middle school and the power of friendship. Three misfit middle school students – Salman, Lue and Blos – are drawn together by a mentoring program and begin to bond when their lives start to fall apart. The children help each other deal with family and school problems that, unbeknownst to them, are caused by Oberon and Titania, the king and queen of Faery, who use the kids in their jealous power struggle.
The Dark City by
Galen, a man of the old Order and a Keeper of relics, and his sixteen-year-old apprentice, Raffi, face many obstacles as they search for a powerful relic that has been hidden for centuries in an effort to stop the devastation that has hit their world.
Over the Moon by
Twelve-year-old Mallie Ramble works as a maid for the wealthy citizens in the valley but lives in Coal Top, an oppressed community ruled over by evil, authoritarian leaders. When her seven-year-old brother is slated to go to the mines, Mallie knows she must do something to change their financial position and keep her brother out of the mine. She hears of an extremely dangerous opportunity open to orphan boys to fly airborne horses and collect gold from distant mountains. She disguises herself as a boy and forms a close bond to her Starbird, Leo, along with her best friend, Adam, and horse trainer, Iggy. As she faces the danger, she learns of an evil plot at the very heart of Coal Top's oppression.
Edgeland by
Wren lives on Edgeland, an island near a whirlpool thirty miles wide and a hundred miles around called the Drain where the dead are sent. Wren dreams of escaping Edgeland and with the help of her friend Alec, Wren plans on looting a boat before it enters the Drain. When the boat--with Wren and Alec onboard--is sucked into the whirlpool, they discover an unimaginable world.
The Dragonet Prophecy by
Clay and the other four MudWing dragonets were stolen from their homes while they were still in their eggs and hidden for years in order to fulfill a prophecy claiming that the dragonets would end the war between the dragon tribes, but not all of the dragonets want their destiny.
The Book of Dust: la Belle Sauvage by
Eleven-year-old Malcolm Polstead listens to everything that happens at his parent's inn on the bank of the Thames. He becomes embroiled in intrigue, however, when he comes across a message which warns of a dangerous substance called Dust. Suddenly, the people he spies on seem to have much different motives, all related to a mysterious and powerful baby girl named Lyra, and Malcolm must do anything to make sure Lyra stays safe from those who want to harm her.
My Diary from the Edge of the World by
Spirited, restless Gracie Lockwood, twelve, of Cliffden, Maine, living in a world where sasquatches, dragons, giants, and mermaids are common, keeps a diary of her family's journey in a used Winnebago as they seek The Extraordinary World in hopes of keeping her little brother, Sam, safe against all odds.
The Circus of Stolen Dreams by
Three years after her younger brother disappeared, Andrea is still sad and feeling lost. After stumbling upon a dreamlike world called Reverie in the woods near her home, she discovers that for the price of a memory, she can escape into tents that offer opportunities like flying and fighting pirates. However, the more time Andrea spends in Reverie, she realizes that not everything is as rosy as it's made out to be and the Sandman who is in control of the circuslike atmosphere, may have sinister plans.
Toby Alone by
When Toby Lolness, the son of a renowned scientist, discovers the dangerous plan of political powerhouse Joe Mitch, he must become a fugitive. Mitch's ruthless plan to keep digging deeper into the Tree will endanger their entire Lilliputian civilization and only Toby can rescue his parents and bring down Mitch.
Bitter Magic by
When twelve-year-old Cisley's mother, who controls real magic, disappears during a magic act, Cisley is left with her cold, distant uncle and a great mystery which will only be solved if she can summon her own magic.
Akata Witch by
Twelve-year-old Sunny lives in Nigeria, but she was born American. Her features are African, but she's albino. She's a terrific athlete, but can't go out into the sun to play soccer. There seems to be no place where she fits in. And then she discovers something amazing—she is a \"free agent\" with latent magical power. Soon she's part of a quartet of magic students, studying the visible and invisible, learning to change reality. But will it be enough to help them when they are asked to catch a career criminal who knows magic too?
The Good Hawk (Shadow Skye, Book One) by
Fifteen-year-old Agatha, who has a Down syndrome-like condition, is a Hawk whose job it is to patrol the walls of her island home, proud of her job despite the bullying she faces. Her friend Jaime, an anxious, self-loathing Angler who hates the sea, has been told to marry a girl—a practice long-forbidden in his clan—from another clan, which seems to coincide with rumors of war. Then the entire clan is enslaved by raiders and Agatha and Jaime must draw on all their individual strengths as they journey to the magical, plague-torn Scottish mainland to find them, facing an ancient magic and dark powers along the way.
The Sasquatch Escape by
Ben Silverstein is visiting his grandfather in Buttonville for the summer when his grandpa's cat brings home what looks to be a baby dragon! Astonished, Ben sees the dragon is wounded, and so he and an adventurous girl named Pearl take it to Dr. Woo's Worm Hospital. On the outside it appears to be an ordinary vet clinic; on the inside, it is a clinic for fantastic imaginary creatures! Accidentally leaving the clinic door unlocked, Ben and Pearl are horrified when they learn the stinky, hairy Sasquatch has escaped--and now Dr. Woo expects them to get the beast back!
Seriously Wicked by
Camellia's adopted mother is a real wicked witch who has now summoned a demon that gets loose and possesses Devon, the cute new boy at school. Suddenly Cam's friends are turning into zombies, Devon is not acting like himself, and a phoenix hidden in the school is set to explode on the night of the Halloween dance. To fix things, Cam resorts to a spell of her own, and desperately hopes that she won't become seriously wicked like her mother.
Warriors: Omen of the Stars #1: the Fourth Apprentice by
Fated to become two of the three cats to attain great powers, Jayfeather and Lionblaze await the arrival of the third cat. Meanwhile, a new ThunderClan apprentices has a sudden dream that she is the third cat.
Paola Santiago and the River of Tears by
In Silver Springs, Arizona, her mother's stories of the monstrous La Llorona are thrilling but unbelievable to science-loving Paola until she and her best friends Dante and Emma take a walk through a cactus field near the Gila River.
The Lost Rainforest #1: Mez's Magic by
Caldera is divided into animals who walk by night and those who walk by day. Mez and her sister are nightwalker panthers who fear daywalkers as creatures of myth and legend. When Mez discovers that she can enter the daylight world, she and an unlikely group of animal friends including a bat, a tree frog, and a monkey, must unravel an ancient mystery, discover the extent of Mez's newly discovered magical powers, and face their greatest fears in order to save their rainforest home.
The Thief Queen's Daughter by
Charles Magnus Ven Polypheme, the Royal Reporter of Serendair, is sent by King Vandemere to the Gated City to identify an item. Inside the Gated City Ven and his friends find a merchant society that sells everything, including dreams. The Queen of Thieves threatens the group, which includes her daughter.
The Cottage in the Woods by
Presents a twist on the classic story of "Goldilocks and the Three Bears" told by young Teddy's governess, who came to work at the Vaughn family cottage shortly before a golden-haired girl, ragged and dirty, entered the home and soon became a beloved foster child until evil characters tried to take her away.
Shadowshaper by
When the murals painted on the walls of her Brooklyn neighborhood start to change and fade in front of her, Sierra Santiago realizes that something strange is going on--then she discovers her Puerto Rican family are shadowshapers and finds herself in a battle with an evil anthropologist for the lives of her family and friends.
