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Book cover for "The shores beyond time"
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Average Rating:
5 stars
Description:
Having barely made it through the battle at the Centauri system with their lives, Liam and Phoebe awake on a mysterious ship in the middle of a dead universe. The ship bears the markings of a human starliner that disappeared decades ago--but even more disturbing than that is the massive alien machine floating in the starless space before them. A machine long abandoned but now showing signs of life. A machine that has begun speaking to Liam in a voice...
Book cover for "Double identity"
Star rating for Double identity
Average Rating:
5 stars
Description:
Thirteen-year-old Bethany's parents have always been overprotective, but when they suddenly drop out of sight with no explanation, leaving her with an aunt she never knew existed, Bethany uncovers shocking secrets that make her question everything she thought she knew about herself and her family.
Book cover for "Origins of Olympus"
Star rating for Origins of Olympus
Average Rating:
5 stars
Notes:
4.5. much better than the previous three.
Description:
"A deadly plague has struck Olympus and is slowly aging and killing the Olympians. Emily can only stand by and watch as those she loves fade and die. But in one last desperate attempt to save those she loves, she journeys back to Earth to face the CRU, then back in time to confront Cronus, leader of the Titans and father of the gods"--
Book cover for "Invictus"
Star rating for Invictus
Average Rating:
4.5 stars
Description:
"A group of time-traveling teens races through history to try to stop time and the multiverse from unraveling"--
Book cover for "Peter and the secret of Rundoon"
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Average Rating:
5 stars
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Fearing that the sinister Lord Ombra was not destroyed, Peter and Molly travel to the land of Rundoon, which is ruled by the evil King Zarboff.
Book cover for "Wish girl"
Star rating for Wish girl
Average Rating:
5 stars
Description:
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.

67. Caught

Book cover for "Caught"
Star rating for Caught
Series:
The missing volume 5.
Average Rating:
5 stars
Description:
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.
Book cover for "The false prince"
Star rating for The false prince
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Average Rating:
4.8 stars
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In the country of Carthya, a devious nobleman engages four orphans in a brutal competition to be selected to impersonate the king's long-missing son in an effort to avoid a civil war.
Book cover for "Roller girl"
Star rating for Roller girl
Average Rating:
4.6 stars
Description:
A graphic novel adventure about a girl who discovers roller derby right as she and her best friend are growing apart. "A graphic novel adventure about a girl who discovers roller derby right as she and her best friend are growing apart"--
Book cover for "The oceans between stars"
Star rating for The oceans between stars
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Average Rating:
5 stars
Description:
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.
Book cover for "The bronze key"
Star rating for The bronze key
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Magisterium volume 3.
Average Rating:
4.9 stars
Description:
Things have been better for Callum Hunt since the evil Constantine Madden was "officially" destroyed, even his relations with his father have improved, so he is happy to get back to the Magisterium for his Bronze Year to continue his magical studies--but when one of the students is murdered, Call and his friends, Tamara and Aaron, must track down the killer, without revealing the fact that Call is Madden reborn.
Book cover for "Renegades"
Star rating for Renegades
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Randoms volume 3.
Average Rating:
4.8 stars
Description:
After many ups and downs, Zeke and his friends work together in a final effort to stop the evil Phands from taking over the galaxy.
Book cover for "The trap"
Star rating for The trap
Average Rating:
3.3 stars
Notes:
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.
Description:
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.

74. Torn

Book cover for "Torn"
Star rating for Torn
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The missing volume 4.
Average Rating:
4.7 stars
Description:
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.
Book cover for "The authoritative Calvin and Hobbes"
Star rating for The authoritative Calvin and Hobbes
Average Rating:
5 stars
Notes:
Funny, imaginative, and colorful book
Description:
A large-format treasury of cartoons featuring the mischievous six-year-old Calvin and his stuffed tiger Hobbes
Book cover for "The hunt for dark infinity"
Star rating for The hunt for dark infinity
Series:
13th reality volume 2.
Average Rating:
5 stars
Description:
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.
Book cover for "Dreamtreaders"
Star rating for Dreamtreaders
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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.
Description:
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.
Book cover for "Last day on Mars"
Star rating for Last day on Mars
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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.
Description:
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.
Book cover for "Sabotaged"
Star rating for Sabotaged
Series:
The missing volume 3.
Average Rating:
4.5 stars
Description:
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.

80. Found

Book cover for "Found"
Star rating for Found
Series:
The missing volume 1.
Average Rating:
4.6 stars
Description:
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.