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Saffy's angel (Casson Family Ser. #Bk. 1)
By Hilary McKay. 2001
After Saffron discovers that she's adopted, life is never quite the same again. Her artistic parents and doting siblings adore…
her, but Saffy wants a piece of her past. So when her grandfather bequests a stone angel to her, Saffy knows she has to find it and stows away to Siena with her new friend. Grades 2-4. 2001.Journey to the river sea
By Eva Ibbotson. 2001
Maia, orphaned at 13 in England, is very unhappy to be staying with distant relatives hundreds of miles up the…
Amazon. She becomes friends with a mysterious English boy who lives with the local Indians. But when they are forced to flee upriver, they are pursued by some very eccentric characters. Grades 3-6. 2001.Warlock (Egyptian novel ; #3)
By Wilbur A Smith. 2001
Stricken with grief after the death of Queen Lostris, Taita becomes a hermit, studies the occult and transforms himself into…
a warlock. He discovers that there has been a divine purpose in his suffering, when he is called upon to save the dynasty of Queen Lostris from the evil that looms over Egypt. Some descriptions of sex. Sequal to "The seventh scroll" (DC14374). 2001. (Egyptian novel ; 3)Rhino fire (Wild things. #4.)
By Elizabeth Laird. 1999
Afra and Joseph are invited to help trap a rare black rhino for relocating in Nakuru Game Park, where they…
meet a local boy who warns them about poachers who are tracking a female rhino and her calf. The poachers will do anything to kill the rhino and saw off her horns. In a dangerous attempt to save her, the children are captured at gunpoint in the path of a fire. Grades 5-8. (Wild things ; 4) 1999.School's out forever: A Maximum Ride Novel (Maximum ride ; #2)
By James Patterson. 2006
After a short stay with an FBI agent, where they attend school and lead a normal life, six genetically altered,…
winged youths head toward Florida and fourteen-year-old Max's ultimate destiny - to save the world, whether she wants to or not. Sequel to "The Angel Experiment" (BR73692). Grades 5-8. 2006. (Maximum ride ; 2)The angel experiment: A Maximum Ride Novel (Maximum ride ; #1)
By James Patterson. 2005
Fourteen-year-old Max and her adopted family - Fang, Iggy, Nudge, the Gasman, and Angel - are part-human, part-bird lab experiments…
pursued by mutant predators. When Angel is kidnapped, Max leads the flock on a cross-country mission to rescue Angel, find their parents, exact revenge, and save the world. Some violence. Grades 5-8. 2005. (Maximum ride ; 1)Birds of prey (The Courtneys of Africa #9)
By Wilbur A Smith. 1997
It is 1667 and the mighty naval war between the Dutch and the English still rages. Sir Francis Courtney and…
his son Hal, in their fighting caravel, are on patrol off Southern Africa, lying in wait for a galleon of the Dutch East India Company returning from the Orient laden with spices, timber and gold. Followed by "Monsoon" (EB69211). (The Courtneys of Africa: prequel ; 1)The last of the Mohicans (Oxford World's Classics Ser.)
By James Fenimore Cooper. 1994
A story of the French and Indian War at Fort William Henry in 1757. Around this historical event, Cooper built…
a fiction based on the adventures of Leatherstocking and his Indian friends. Sequel to "The Deerslayer". 1826.The riddle of the sands: a record of secret service (Oxford popular fiction)
By Erskine Childers. 1995
While on a boating trip, a foppish Foreign Office official and his friend uncover German plans for an invasion of…
England. Originally published to draw attention to pre-World War I German militarism, this book is the first spy thriller to be considered literature, and led to the reorganization of British Naval Intelligence.Shell-shocked: Camp X (Camp X. #4)
By Eric Walters. 2009
Jack and George have assumed new identities and are back at work as special operatives, keeping an eye out for…
suspicious activity at an ammunitions plant. They don't have to wait long before they uncover a plot by German spies to blow up the plant and everyone in it! It's up to the quick-thinking boys to find a way to stop them and stay alive while doing it. Some descriptions of violence. Sequel to "Fool's gold" (EB75298). Followed by "Trouble in paradise". For junior high readers. 2009. (Camp X ; 4)The rule of thre3 (Rule of 3 trilogy. #1.)
By Eric Walters. 2014
When a viral catastrophe causes a global technological shut down, 16 year old Adam realizes that his police captain mother…
and a retired government spy living next door are key to his survival. For junior high and older readers. Followed by "Fight for power". Winner of the 2015 Red Maple Fiction Award. 2014.Ysabel
By Guy Gavriel Kay. 2007
Fifteen-year-old Ned Marriner accompanies his photographer father to France, where he is working on a coffee-table book. As Ned strolls…
along roads walked by Celtic tribes and Roman legions, he discovers a very old story playing itself out in this modern world of iPods and cell phones. On one holy, haunted night of the ancient year, when the borders between the living and the dead are down, Ned, his family, and friends are shockingly drawn into this tale. Some descriptions of violence. For senior high and older readers. 2007.Panther (Surfers.)
By Martin Booth. 1999
Two children, on a family caravan holiday on the edge of Dartmoor, see something black hunting sheep. Convinced it's a…
panther, they set off to track it across the moors. As they hunt the panther, a rescue operation is mounted to find them. Grades 3-6. (Surfers)The phoenix and the carpet (Puffin Classics Ser.)
By E Nesbit. 1904
It's startling enough to have a Phoenix hatch in your house, but even more startling when it reveals that you…
have a magic carpet on the floor! The Phoenix accompanies the children on their adventures through time and space on their extraordinary carpet. Sequel to "Five children and It." Grades 4-7. 1904.The secret of the silver mines (Dylan Maples adventure.)
By Shane Peacock. 2000
Dylan joins his father on an extended trip to the once-thriving silver mining town of Cobalt, Ontario, in the bitter…
middle of winter. A Toronto millionaire has hired Dylan's dad to retrieve a fortune in silver allegedly stolen from his grandfather by a business partner back in the early part of the 20th century. Was the fortune really stolen? If so, where has it been hidden? The only person who knows the truth has not been seen for years. Grades 4-7. Sequel to "The mystery of Ireland's Eye" (EB68430). 2000.Crackdown
By Bernard Cornwell. 1993
Nick Breakspear may look like the perfect Hamlet, but he wanted nothing to do with the theatrical world inhabited by…
his father, Britain's greatest living actor. So he joined the Royal Marines and is now sailing the blue waters of the Bahamas. But dreams of paradise are shattered when he becomes swept into a small but deadly corner of a war against the drug-runners that infest the area. Caught up in a world that denies every truth he believes in, the only defence is to draw on the despised skills of his father's world and fight with reckless courage. 1990.The old man and the sea
By Ernest Hemingway. 1952
An old Cuban fisherman hooks a giant marlin after eighty-five days without a catch. He then fights a losing battle…
with sharks that deprive him of his triumph. Recorded in textbook format. Winner of the 1953 Pulitzer Prize for fiction. 1952.The long patrol: a tale of Redwall (A tale of Redwall)
By Brian Jacques. 1997
Tammo, a daring young hare hungry for adventure, is sent with Russa Nodrey, the wandering red squirrel, to join the…
Long Patrol and defend Salamandastron against the Rapscallion horde. Grades 5-8. 1997. (A tale of Redwall).The magic paintbrush
By Laurence Yep. 2000
The Merlin Conspiracy
By Diana Wynne Jones. 2003
Roddy Hayes is the daughter of two court wizards, travelling all over to take part in ceremonies, while Merlin presides…
over the magical health of the Isles of Blest. Nick Mallory lives on earth but has been on other worlds, and suddenly finds himself in Roddy's. When the current Merlin expires and a new one takes over, only Roddy sees that something is wrong, and that only Nick can help. Some descriptions of violence. Grades 5-8. 2004, c2003.