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| Hero.com: Rise of the Heroes |
Briggs, Andy |
YA BRIGGS |
Toby, Pete, Lorna, and Emily are just average kids—until they stumble upon a Web site called Hero.com and download powers that turn them into superheroes. At first, flying, teleporting, and shooting lasers from their eyes seems like nothing but fun. But when the supervillain Doc Tempest kidnaps Toby and Lorna’s mom, things take a darker turn.
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| Peril on the Sea |
Cadnum, Michael |
YA CADNUM |
| In the tense summer of 1588, eighteen-year-old Sherwin Morris, after nearly perishing in a shipwreck, finds himself aboard the privateer Vixen, captained by the notorious and enigmatic Brandon Fletcher who offers him adventure and riches if Sherwin would write and disseminate a flattering account of the captain's exploits. |
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| Sebastian Darke: Prince of Pirates |
Caveney, Philip |
YA CAVENEY |
| Having concluded that he will never be a jester, half-elvish seventeen-year-old Sebastian sets out with his friends to seek buried pirate treasure but someone--or something--is following them. |
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| The Silver Blade |
Gardner, Sally |
YA GARDNER |
| As the Revolution descends into the ferocious Reign of Terror, Yann, now an extraordinary practioner of magic, uses his skills to confound his enemies and help spirit refugees out of France, but the question of his true identity and the kidnapping of his true love, Sido, expose him to dangers that threaten to destroy him. |
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| Freefall |
Gordon, Roderick |
YA GORDON |
| As fourteen-year-old archaeologist Will and his friends plummet down a subterranean pore, they face deadly creatures and discover a strange fungal shelf, which not only reveals artifacts from ancient civilizations, but clues to a lost land at the end of the Earth. |
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| Double or Die: A James Bond Adventure |
Higson, Charles |
YA HIGSON |
| Teenage James has forty-eight hours to rescue a kidnapped professor and to keep a powerful weapon from falling into the wrong hands. |
| Boston Jane: An Adventure |
Holm, Jennifer |
YA HOLM |
| Schooled in the lessons of etiquette for young ladies of 1854, Miss Jane Peck of Philadelphia finds little use for manners during her long sea voyage to the Pacific Northwest and while living among the American traders and Chinook Indians of Washington Territory. |
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| Crocodile Tears |
Horowitz, Anthony |
YA HOROWITZ |
| Alex Rider does battle with a charity broker con artist who has invested millions of dollars in a form of genetically modified corn that can release an airborne strain of virus capable of knocking out an entire country in one day. |
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| Bloodline |
Moran, Katy |
YA MORAN |
Warring kingdoms, bloody feuds, and a boy’s battle for survival. Step back into the Dark Ages with this riveting epic adventure. While traveling through early seventh-century Britain trying to stop an impending war, Essa, who bears the blood of native British tribes and of the invading Anglish, makes discoveries that divide his loyalties.
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| Starclimber |
Oppel, Kenneth |
YA OPPEL |
| As members of the first crew of astralnauts, Matt Cruse and Kate De Vries journey into outer space on the Starclimber and face a series of catastrophes that threaten the survival of all on board. |
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| Maximum Ride: The Angel Experiment |
Patterson, James |
YA PATTERSON |
| After the mutant Erasers abduct the youngest member of their group, the "bird kids," who are the result of genetic experimentation, take off in pursuit and find themselves struggling to understand their own origins and purpose. |
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| Crusade |
Wilson, John |
YA WILSON |
| When the Crusaders attack the city of Béziers in 1209, two boys from different backgrounds barely escape from the mayhem with their lives and they flee while plotting to uncover a secret that could change the world. |
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| Into Thin Air |
Krakauer, John |
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| Journalist Krakauer, standing on the summit of Mt. Everest, saw nothing that "suggested that a murderous storm was bearing down." He was wrong. The storm, which claimed five lives and left countless more in guilt-ridden disarray, would also provide the impetus for this epic account of the May 1996 disaster. |
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| Into the Wild |
Krakauer, John |
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| In April 1992, a young man from a well-to-do family hitchhikes to Alaska and walks alone into the wilderness north of Mt. McKinley. Four months later, his decomposed body is found by a moose hunter. How Chris McCandless came to die is the unforgettable story of "Into the Wild." |
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