Children & Young Adults Fiction - Action & Adventure

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The Magic Finger

Roald Dahl

To the Gregg family, hunting is just plain fun. To the girl who lives next door, it's just plain terrible. She tries to be polite. She tries to talk them out of it, but the Greggs go too far, and the little girl turns her Magic Finger...

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Published: Feb 2009

Wondrous Strange

Lesley Livingston

Since the dawn of time, the Faerie have taken. . . . For seventeen-year-old actress Kelley Winslow, faeries are just something from childhood stories. Then she meets Sonny Flannery, whose steel-gray eyes mask an equally steely de...

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Published: Oct 2009

The Alchemyst (Secrets Imrtl Nicholas...

Michael Scott

He holds the secret that can end the world.The truth: Nicholas Flamel was born in Paris on September 28, 1330. Nearly 700 years later, he is acknowledged as the greatest Alchemyst of his day. It is said that he discovered the secret o...

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Published: Jun 2008

Thanksgiving on Thursday (Magic Tree ...

Mary Pope Osborne

The Magic Tree House whisks Jack and Annie back to the eve of the first Thanksgiving. There they meet the Pilgrims as well as Squanto, a Native American who helped them. The story offers an age-appropriate, in-depth picture of what li...

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Published: Sep 2002

Lockdown: Escape from Furnace 1

Alexander Gordon Smith

Furnace Penitentiary: the world's most secure prison for young offenders, buried a mile beneath the earth's surface. Convicted of a murder he didn't commit, sentenced to life without parole, "new fish" Alex Sawyer knows he h...

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Published: Aug 2010

The Wrath and the Dawn

Renee Ahdieh

"A riveting Game of Thrones meets Arabian Nights love story." - US Weekly Every dawn brings horror to a different family in a land ruled by a killer. Khalid, the eighteen-year-old Caliph of Khorasan, takes a new bride e...

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Published: Apr 2016

The Warlock (The Secrets of the Immor...

Michael Scott

In the fifth installment of this bestselling series, the twins of prophesy have been divided, and the end is finally beginning.With Scatty, Joan of Arc, Saint Germain, Palamedes, and Shakespeare all in Danu Talis, Sophie is on her own...

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Published: Apr 2012

The Magician (Secrets Imrtl Nicholas ...

Michael Scott

After fleeing Ojai, Nicholas, Sophie, Josh, and Scatty emerge in Paris, the City of Lights. Home for Nicholas Flamel. Only this homecoming is anything but sweet. Perenell is still locked up back in Alcatraz and Paris is teeming with e...

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Published: Apr 2009

Jake Ransom and the Howling Sphinx

James Rollins

Using his father's watch as a key, Jake intends to return to Calypsos. Instead he's thrust into a strange desert land where he's joined by his friends Marika, Pindor, and Bach'uuk and his sister, Kady. As they try to figure out what ...

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Published: May 2012

Halo

Alexandra Adornetto

Three angels are sent down to bring good to the world: Gabriel, the warrior; Ivy, the healer; and Bethany, a teenage girl who is the least experienced of the trio. But she is the most human, and when she is romantically drawn to a mor...

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Published: Aug 2011

The Enormous Crocodile

Roald Dahl

The Enormous Crocodile is a horrid greedy grumptious brute who loves to guzzle up little boys and girls. But the other animals have had enough of his cunning tricks, so they scheme to get the better of this foul fiend, once and for al...

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Published: Jan 2002

The Siege of Macindaw: Book Six (Rang...

John Flanagan

The kingdom is in danger. Renegade knight Sir Keren has succeeded in overtaking Castle Macindaw and is now conspiring with the Scotti. The fate of Araluen rests in the hands of two young adventurers: the Ranger Will and his warrior fr...

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Published: May 2010

Eon

Alison Goodman

Eon has been studying the ancient art of Dragon Magic for four years, hoping he'll be able to apprentice to one of the twelve energy dragons of good fortune. But he also has a dark secret. He is actually Eona, a sixteen-year-old gir...

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Published: Aug 2010

Theodore Boone: The Abduction

John Grisham

#1 New York Times bestseller John Grisham's next Theo Boone novel, now in paperback!When we last saw Theo Boone, he ensured that justice was served by uncovering evidence that kept a guilty man off of the streets. Hot off this high-pr...

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Published: Apr 2012

Sure Fire

Jack Higgins

For twins Rich and Jade, their lives have just been turned upside down. When their mother is tragically killed in a car crash, their long-lost father, John Chance, appears to collect them at the funeral. He's a bachelor who lives on h...

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Published: Sep 2008

Point Blank (Alex Rider Adventures)

Anthony Horowitz

When an investigation into a series of mysterious deaths leads agents to an elite prep school for rebellious kids, MI6 assigns Alex Rider, fourteen-year-old reluctant spy, to the case. Before he knows it, Alex is hanging out with the ...

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Published: Feb 2006

Skeleton Key (Alex Rider)

Anthony Horowitz

Alex Rider has been through a lot for his fourteen years. He's been shot at by international terrorists, chased down a mountainside, and stood face-to-face with evil. Twice, young Alex has saved the world. And twice, he has almost bee...

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Published: Feb 2006

Adaptation

Malinda Lo

Across North America, flocks of birds hurl themselves into airplanes, causing at least a dozen to crash. Thousands of people die. Fearing terrorism, the United States government grounds all flights, and millions of travelers are stran...

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Published: Sep 2013

Variant

Robison Wells

p Benson Fisher thought that a scholarship to Maxfield Academy would be the ticket out of his dead-end life. He was wrong. Now he's trapped in a school that's surrounded by a razor-wire fence. A school where video cameras monitor hi...

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Published: Aug 2012

Warriors Super Edition: Crookedstar's...

Erin Hunter

p A perilous promise . . . Crookedkit dreams of becoming a great RiverClan leader. Then a mysterious cat appears, whispering promises of greatness and glory—if only Crookedkit will pledge his undying loyalty to his Clan. No cat cou...

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Published: Apr 2012

Mastiff: The Legend of Beka Cooper #3...

Tamora Pierce

This is the third book in the Beka Cooper trilogy, and Beka is a full-fledged Dog now, but it hasn't made her job with the law-enforcing Provost's Guard any easier. On this hunt, she'll need all her resources, from her bare-knuckled f...

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Published: Oct 2012

Dodger

Terry Pratchett

Beloved and bestselling author Sir Terry Pratchett's Dodger, a Printz Honor Book, combines high comedy with deep wisdom in a tale of one remarkable boy's rise in a fantasy-infused Victorian London. Seventeen-year-old Dodger is content...

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Published: Sep 2013

Brian's Winter

Gary Paulsen

In Hatchet, 13-year-old Brian Robeson learned to survive alone in the Canadian wilderness, armed only with his hatchet. He was rescued at the end of the summer. Brian's Winterbegins where Hatchet might have ended: Brian is not rescued...

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Published: Mar 2012

Kingdom of the Golden Dragon

Isabel Allende

Kingdom of the Golden Dragon, the second book of Isabel Allende's page-turning adventure trilogy, follows Alexander Cold, his grandmother, and his irrepressible friend Nadia Santos into a forbidden kingdom in the Himalayas to find the...

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Published: Nov 2009

The Drowned Cities

Paolo Bacigalupi

This thrilling companion to Paolo Bacigalupi's Michael L. Printz Award winner Ship Breaker is a haunting and powerful story of loyalty, survival, and heart-pounding adventure.In a dark future America where violence, terror, and grief ...

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Published: May 2013

Nick of Time

Ted Bell

Nick of Time is the first young reader's book written by bestselling author Ted Bell.In the grand tradition of epic novels like Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island comes a wondrous tale of time travel, adventure, and riches, in w...

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Published: Sep 2009

Noah Barleywater Runs Away

John Boyne

Eight-year-old Noah's problems seem easier to deal with if he doesn't think about them. So he runs away, taking an untrodden path through the forest.Before long, he comes across a shop. But this is no ordinary shop: it's a toyshop, fu...

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Published: Jul 2012

The Last Apprentice: Fury of the Seve...

Joseph Delaney

The thirteenth—and final—book in the internationally bestselling fantasy adventure series that inspired the forthcoming major motion picture Seventh Son. Finally, Tom Ward, the spook's last apprentice, will confront the Fiend for ...

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Published: Apr 2015

Wizard's Holiday: The Seventh Book in...

Diane Duane

Rest and relaxation--that's what Nita thinks she's going to get when she and her partner-wizard Kit go on a wizardly 'cultural exchange' program. But nothing about wizardry--not even vacation--is ever quite that simple!

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Published: Jun 2005

The City of Ember Deluxe Edition: The...

Jeanne DuPrau

Celebrate a modern-day classic with this DELUXE EDITION, which includes an introduction by Jeanne DuPrau and a brand-new story! This highly acclaimed adventure series about two friends desperate to save their doomed city has captivate...

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Published: May 2004
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