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Beetle boy (The battle of the beetles. #1.)
By M. G Leonard. 2016
Darkus's dad has disappeared, but his new friend, a giant beetle called Baxter, is some consolation. Together, boy and beetle…
set out to solve the mystery of his father's disappearance. But Lucretia Cutter, a fashion designer with a penchant for beetle jewellery, is dead set against their success. Summer Reading Challenge 2017. "Followed by "Beetle queen'. Grades 5-8. 2016.The Bermuda Triangle incident (Unexplained Ser.)
By Terrance Dicks. 1997
Matt Stirling unofficially helps his father with his work for the Department of Paranormal Studies. When a plane carrying several…
important diplomats vanishes over the Bermuda Triangle, they both go to investigate. Is it the famous curse of the Bermuda Triangle, or is there more to the disappearance? Grades 5-8.The stream
By Brian Clarke. 2000
Apart from a few protesters, the announcement of an industrial park in a depressed rural area is widely welcomed, it…
promises new jobs and new hope for those who live there. A few miles away, in a small valley with a stream running through it, the management of a farm passes from father to son after years of wrangling between them about the way it should be run. Over time, unnoticed by anyone, these two events begin to take their toll on the valley and the surrounding land. Winner of the 2000 BP Natural World Book Prize. 2000.Zorgamazoo
By Robert Paul Weston. 2008
Imaginative and adventurous Katrina eludes her maniacal guardian to help Morty, a member of a vanishing breed of zorgles, with…
his quest to uncover the fate of the fabled zorgles of Zorgmazoo as well as of other creatures that seem to have disappeared from the earth. Grades 4-7. Winner of the 2010 Silver Birch Award for Fiction. 2008.The dark deeps: the hunchback assignments II (The hunchback assignments ; #2)
By Arthur G Slade. 2010
Modo, teenage spy and temporary shape-shifter, is plunged once more into the world of international espionage. This time he's on…
the trail of a mysterious underwater creature and he's not alone. Sequel to "The hunchback assignments" (EB75089). Followed by "Empire of ruins". Grades 5-8. Some descriptions of violence. 2010. (The hunchback assignments ; 2)The hunchback assignments (Hunchback assignments (New York, N.Y.) #1.)
By Arthur G Slade. 2009
In Victorian London, fourteen-year-old Modo, a shape-changing hunchback, becomes a secret agent for the Permanent Association, which strives to protect…
the world from the evil machinations of the Clockwork Guild. Grades 5-8. Some descriptions of violence. Followed by "The dark deeps" (EB75415). 2009. (The hunchback assignments ; 1)Raging river (Take it to the extreme. #1.)
By Pam Withers. 2003
When Jake gets the opportunity to be part of the crew for an eight-day whitewater rafting trip along the Cattibone…
River, he jumps at it, seeing a chance to be promoted to a river guide. When the trip starts to go horribly wrong, Jake must team up with his rival, Peter, to find help for the group. Grades 3-6. 2003.The silver door (Cat's eye corner. book II)
By Terry Griggs. 2004
Olivier is perusing a most unusual book called Enquire Within Upon Everything. Not only is this book an encyclopaedia of…
arcane and fascinating information, but strange things begin to emerge from its pages: a wisp of puckish smoke, a ghost named Peely Wally who refuses to believe that he is a ghost; and a tiny Chinese "ink" monkey who snatches up Olivier's pen friend, Murray Schaefer. Olivier pursues the ink monkey and a new adventure begins. Sequel to "Cat's eye Corner". Grades 4-7. 2004. (Cat's eye corner ; 2)Things are looking Grimm, Jill (Orca young readers)
By Dan Bar-El. 2006
Jill, the spoiled but brave sister of King Jack, has been made a Royal Guard-in-training by Sir Humpty Dumpty. After…
receiving a distress letter from F.G., she sets off to save the women of the neighbouring kingdom of Grimm from a mysterious affliction. With the help of a new friend, Mary (who is very contrary), Jill unravels the mystery while rescuing such fairy tale heroines as Rapunzel, Snow White, Cinderella and Gretel. Grades 2-4. Winner of the 2008 Silver Birch Express Award. 2006.The lost sketch (Adventure net. #1)
By Andrea Spalding, David A. E Spalding. 1999
The story of Rick and Willow and the marvellous discovery they make during an Ontario canoe trip. After stumbling across…
an abandoned boxcar, Rick and Willow find a sketch on a wooden shingle. Rick is convinced that it's worthless -- but Willow knows better. Grades 3-6. 1999.Willa's new world
By Barbara Demers. 1999
Fifteen-year-old Willa lost most of her family in the London plague in 1795. Her uncaring uncle ships her to York…
Factory on Hudson's Bay, not expecting her to survive the trip, but Willa makes it to the new world and survives the hardships of the fort. Something unexpected happens and Willa finds herself on a journey again to a new outpost far away, accompanied by her First Peoples friends who open her eyes to a truly new world. Grades 5-8. 1999.The sower of tales
By Rachna Gilmore. 2005
The story pods produce tales for the villagers that keep them strong, but Calantha suddenly notices that they aren't growing.…
Amid rumours of war with neighbouring King Ulric, she sets out to find the mythical Sower of Tales, who charges Calantha to rescue the seeds from Ulric's sorcerer Odhran, or destroy them. Some descriptions of violence. Grades 5-8. 2005.Where the sky begins
By Jill Creighton. 1992
When twelve-year-old Jenkin's brother is in an accident and has to be taken to the hospital in a helicopter, Jenkin…
and his younger brother and sister head into the bush to find their father at his fishing camp. While on their way through the wilderness the children are pursued by their well-intentioned, but frightening, Uncle Donny. Grades 4-7. 1992.The Glenwood treasure
By Kim Moritsugu. 2003
After her marriage breaks down, shy schoolteacher Blithe Morrison takes refuge for the summer with her parents in the affluent…
Toronto neighbourhood of Rose Park. Blithe's return home evokes memories of her lifelong sibling war with Noel, her golden-boy older brother, now a diplomat posted in England. But when Blithe befriends a lonely eleven-year-old girl, and takes on a local history research project, she uncovers truths about a long-rumoured buried treasure that forever alter her perceptions of her family, her friends and herself. 2003.Nowhere wild
By Joe Beernink. 2015
When a flu pandemic turns the world upside down, teenagers Izzy and Jake flee to the wilderness where they must…
try to survive in order to save themselves, and each other. For junior high readers and older. 2015.The 100-year-old man who climbed out the window and disappeared
By Jonas Jonasson, Rod Bradbury. 2012
After a long and eventful life, Allan Karlsson ends up in a nursing home, believing it to be his last…
stop. The only problem is that he’s still in good health. A big celebration is in the works for his 100th birthday, but Allan really isn’t interested, so he decides to escape. He climbs out the window in his slippers and embarks on a hilarious, unexpected journey. Bestseller. 2012. Uniform title: Hundraåringen som klev ut genom fönstret och försvann.The battle of the Labyrinth (Percy Jackson & the Olympians. #4.)
By Rick Riordan. 2008
When demonic cheerleaders invade his high school, Percy Jackson hurries to Camp Half Blood, from whence he and his demigod…
friends set out on a quest through the Labyrinth, while the war between the Olympians and the evil Titan lord Kronos draws near. Sequel to "Titan's curse" (EB74453). Some descriptions of violence. Grades 5-8. 2008. (Percy Jackson & the Olympians ; 4)The wolf wilder
By Katherine Rundell. 2016
Feodora and her mother live in the snowbound woods of Russia, in a house full of food and fireplaces. Ten…
minutes away, in a ruined chapel, lives a pack of wolves. Feodora's mother is a wolf wilder, and Feo is a wolf wilder in training. A wolf wilder is a person who teaches tamed animals to fend for themselves, to fight, and to be wary of humans. When the murderous hostility of the Russian Army threatens her very existence, Feo is left with no option but to go on the run. This is a Bookbuzz 2018 title. Grades 3-6. 2016.The Hunger Games
By Suzanne Collins. 2009
In a future North America, where the rulers of Panem maintain control through an annual televised survival competition pitting young…
people from each of the twelve districts against one another, sixteen-year-old Katniss's skills are put to the test when she voluntarily takes her younger sister's place. For junior and senior high readers. 2009.Jake Atlas and the tomb of the emerald snake (Jake Atlas. #1.)
By Rob Lloyd Jones. 2017
Jake's and Pan's lives take a dramatic turn the day they discover the truth about their boring mum and dad.…
When the family go to Cairo on holiday, Jake and Pan's parents mysteriously vanish and it's up to the twins to find them. They must team up with shady tomb robbers, master high-tech gadgets and locate a lost tomb. Grades 3-6. Followed by "Jake Atlas and the hunt for the feathered god". 2017.