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21. Wish girl
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5 stars
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Twelve-year-old Peter has never felt at home with his noisy family, but begins to find the strength to live and to be himself when he discovers a special valley in the Texas Hill Country and meets Annie, a girl dying of cancer who knows and accepts him from the start.
22. Caught
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The missing volume 5.
Average Rating:
5 stars
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When Jonah and Katherine travel to early 1900s Switzerland and Serbia to return Albert Einstein's daughter, Lieserl, to history, her mother Mileva grasps entirely too much about time travel and has no intention of letting her daughter go.
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Chronicle of the dark star volume 2.
Average Rating:
5 stars
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Liam and Phoebe, having barely escaped our exploding sun with their lives, are in stasis for the decade-long journey to the rogue planet Delphi where they hope to meet up with the rest of the human refugees, find help for their injured parents, and pass along the devastating things they discovered on Mars: that someone destroyed their world intentionally, and that that someone might still be after them, trying to finish the job.
24. The trap
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3.3 stars
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Strange, but good all the same. Four kids figure out how to leave their bodies while sleeping, but it's not creepy at all. Lots of friendship and teamwork. First crushes.
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In 1963, when twins Henry and Helen and their best friends, Alan and Nicki, try to find Alan's missing brother, Carl, they stumble into the knowledge of their "subtle forms" that can separate from their physical bodies, and into a criminal's plot to make himself immortal--at any expense.
25. Torn
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The missing volume 4.
Average Rating:
4.7 stars
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Time travelers Jonah and Katherine arrive in 1611 to rescue missing child John Hudson, son of the explorer Henry Hudson, but just as the mutiny on the Discovery is supposed to start, Jonah and Katherine's knowledge of history is tested once again, and they fear that more is at stake than just one boy's life. Author's note includes facts about Henry Hudson's explorations.
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13th reality volume 2.
Average Rating:
5 stars
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After being kidnapped by Mr. Chu, Atticus "Tick" Higginbottom and his friends Paul and Sofia must survive a series of tests in several different Realities.
27. Dreamtreaders
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Dreamtreaders series volume 1.
Average Rating:
4.7 stars
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You might be able to see a connection the battle between god and Satan in the bible and this story, but don't stop reading. That doesn't automatically make this a bad book. Read the synopsis below.
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After discovering that he is a Dreamtreader, one who can enter and explore his own dreams, fourteen-year-old Archer must protect the waking world from the Nightmare Lord, who wreaks chaos in the Dream World.
28. Last day on Mars
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Chronicle of the dark star volume 1.
Average Rating:
5 stars
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Honestly one of the best books I've ever read. All out sci-fi, kids stranded on a foreign planet with a robot about to be sucked into the sun if they don't find a planet right for human life.
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While waiting to leave Mars before it burns up just like the Earth before it, Liam and his friend Phoebe discover some facts about time and space and realize that the human race is just one of the races trying to survive in space.
29. Sabotaged
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The missing volume 3.
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4.5 stars
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Time-travelers Jonah and Katherine are summoned to help another missing child from history, this time Virginia Dare from the Roanoke Colony, but their journey is sabotaged and goes dangerously awry, leaving them in the wrong time period. Includes author's note about the history of Roanoke Colony and Virginia Dare.
30. Found
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The missing volume 1.
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4.6 stars
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When thirteen-year-olds Jonah and Chip, who are both adopted, find out that they were discovered on a plane that appeared out of nowhere, full of babies with no adults on board, they realize that they have uncovered a mystery involving time travel and two opposing forces, each trying to capture them.
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Curiosity House volume 1.
Average Rating:
5 stars
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Orphans Philippa, Sam, Thomas, and Max must find out who stole a valuable artifact in order to save their home, Dumfrey's Dime Museum of Freaks, Oddities, and Wonders.
32. Magyk
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Septimus Heap volume 1.
Average Rating:
4.6 stars
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After learning that she is the Princess, Jenna is whisked from her home and carried toward safety by the Extraordinary Wizard, those she always believed were her father and brother, and a young guard known only as Boy 412--pursued by agents of those who killed her mother ten years earlier.
33. Icebreaker
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Icebreaker trilogy volume 1.
Average Rating:
5 stars
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"Petrel is an outcast on the ancient ship, an icebreaker, that has been following the same course for 300 years. In that time, the ship's crew has forgotten its original purpose and broken into three warring tribes. Everyone has a tribe except Petrol. Nicknamed the Nothing Girl, Petrel has been ostracized ever since her parents were thrown overboard as punishment for a terrible crime. But Petrel is a survivor. She lives in the ship's darkest corners,...
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13th reality volume 1.
Average Rating:
5 stars
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Thirteen-year-old Atticus "Tick" Higginbottom begins receiving mysterious letters from around the world signed only "M.G.," and the clues contained therein lead him on a journey to the perilous 13th Reality and a confrontation with evil Mistress Jane.
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Peter & the Starcatchers volume 1.
Average Rating:
4.9 stars
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Peter, an orphan boy, and his friend Molly fight off thieves and pirates in order to keep the secret safe away from the diabolical Black Stache and his evil associate Mister Grin.
Soon after Peter, an orphan, sets sail from England on the ship Never Land, he befriends and assists Molly, a young Starcatcher, whose mission is to guard a trunk of magical stardust from a greedy pirate and the native inhabitants of a remote island.
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4.9 stars
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An epic fantasy about Luna, a young girl raised by a witch, a swamp monster, and a Perfectly Tiny Dragon, who must unlock the powerful magic buried deep inside her to protect her family.
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4.1 stars
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A textbook used by apprentice wizard Harry Potter in his studies at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, providing descriptions of a wide variety of magical creatures, and offering advice on their care. Proceeds from this book will go to Comic Relief U.K.
38. The roar
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Average Rating:
5 stars
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In an overpopulated world where all signs of nature have been obliterated and a wall has been erected to keep out plague-ridden animals, twelve-year-old Mika refuses to believe that his twin sister was killed after being abducted, and continues to search for her in spite of the dangers he faces in doing so.
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League of beastly dreadfuls volume 3.
Average Rating:
5 stars
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Members of The League of Beastly Dreadfuls venture to the most forbidden back alleys of Nowhere Special seeking an unbreakable glass cabinet that holds the key to Anastasia's missing grandfather.
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Time quintet volume 2.
Average Rating:
4.1 stars
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this book was absolutely amazing! But don't make me explain it.
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With Meg Murry's help, the dragons her six-year-old brother saw in the vegetable garden play an important part in his struggle between life and death.