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101. The last council
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Amulet (Kazu Kibuishi) volume 4.
Average Rating:
4.9 stars
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Emily and her friends think they'll find the help they need in Cielis, but something isn't right. Streets that were once busy are deserted, and the townspeople who are left live in fear. Emily is soon escorted to the Academy where she's expected to compete for a spot on the Guardian Council, a group of the the most powerful Stonekeepers. But as the number of competitors gets smaller and smaller, a terrible secret is slowly uncovered--a secret that,...
102. A wind in the door
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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.
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4 stars
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A unique book about friendship and the changes two girls go through when they enter middle school. And a mysterious boy.
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"New York City middle-schooler Val teams up with a strange boy who lives in an even stranger bookshop to save her best friend who has lost her way in this story about universal friendship"--
104. Lost in the sun
Average Rating:
5 stars
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"As Trent Zimmerman struggles to move past a traumatic event that took place several months earlier, he befriends class outcast Fallon Little, who helps him understand that he can move on"--
105. In over their heads
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Under their skin volume 2.
Average Rating:
4.5 stars
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Twelve-year-old twins Nick and Eryn and their robot stepsiblings, Jackson and Ava, try to save humanity from killer robots.
106. Children of refuge
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Children of exile volume 2.
Average Rating:
5 stars
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In the second book of Children of Exile, Edwy Watanaboneset is sent by his father to Refuge City to be with the siblings he didn't know he had. He didn't get a chance to say goodbye to his newly made friend Rosi or her brother Bobo. In Refuge City, living with his spoiled brother and sister, Edwy knows he has to save them and convinces Kiandra (sister) to help him. He discovers that Rosi was captured for announcing to marketplace that Edwy was missing and asking for help. She escaped from prison and is now running from the alien enforcers torward the border she doesn't know is there. The question is: can Edwy and his friends get there in time?
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Many surprises await twelve-year-old Edwy Watanaboneset when the Freds return him to Cursed Town, including that he has siblings in Refuge City who he will join in boarding school.
107. Island of fire
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The Unwanteds volume 3.
Average Rating:
4.9 stars
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In the third book of The Unwanteds, Alex is the leader in Artime now that former mage Mr. Today was murdered by Alex's twin brother Aaron. All the magic in Artime is gone and all they have left is a clue in poem form and a few buckets of water and a little broth. Two of Alex's friends, Lani and Samheed, are still missing on Warbler island and forced to work as slaves every day. The thorn necklaces embedded in their necks prevent them from speaking to each other. Sky and Crow, two of the silent kids from Warbler island, help decipher the clue and bring back Artime. Now that the magic is back Alex gathers all the living statues on the island and his friends and set out to rescue Lani and Samheed.
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The magical world of Artimé is gone and the Unwanteds are looking to Alex Stowe for answers, but while his twin brother Aaron continues to build his army in Quill, a very dangerous common enemy is revealed.
108. Children of exile
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Children of exile volume 1.
Average Rating:
5 stars
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Rosi and her brother Bobo have lived in Fredtown all their life with their fred-parents. All the kids in the town were taken away from their parents a couple days after birth except for two. Rosi and Edwy were both born on the same day and taken away on the same day of their birth, and no one knows why. Soon it is time for all the kids to be returned to their real parents. Rosi takes charge on the plane to try and comfort the little kids, but it's no use when they land. Edwy asked Rosi if they could look out for each other in their new home; even though she hadn't spoken to him in a year she said yes. When the plane lands, a mob of parents came to pick them out of their seats one by one and Rosi found herself being dragged home by an elderly lady and brought to a near to falling down house. The next day Edwy takes her out into the woods and shows her a burnt village that he found. They get chased b a group of men and Edwy is captured trying to destract them so Rosi could get away. Will she be able to keep her promise?
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A twelve-year-old girl raised in a foster village is returned to her biological parents, and discovers home is not what she expected it to be.
109. 100 cupboards
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100 cupboards volume 1.
Average Rating:
4.8 stars
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Henry York goes to Kansas after his parents are kidnapped while traveling. His uncle Frank, aunt Dotty, and cousons Penny, Henrietta, and Anastasia take him in and Henry temporarily sleeps in the attic. He hears thumping behind his wall and peels back the plaster to see what it is. underneeth there are ninety-nine cupboards, each one different. He and Henreitta figure out how to open a few; in one is a bright yellow light and an ocasional pant leg. In another is the smell of thick wet moss and trees. Once they find a way to go through them an adventure begins.
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After his parents are kidnapped, timid twelve-year-old Henry York leaves his sheltered Boston life and moves to small-town Kansas, where he and his cousin Henrietta discover and explore hidden doors in his attic room that seem to open onto other worlds.
110. Among the free
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Shadow children volume 7.
Average Rating:
5 stars
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In the last book of the Shadow Children series, Luke Garner, an illegal third child works for the population police undercover with friends. He is sent, in the middle of the night, to hand out identification cards. An old lady refuses to cooperate, and when Luke (under the name of Lee) will not shoot her, he runs away and finds a starving city that is also done with the population police and just waiting to die. They help him on his way and Luke makes his way to another city that gives him the astonishing news that the police have been overthrown dew to the rebellion that Luke started when he dropped the gun. But is this new government any better than the old one, and is Luke and all third children really free?
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When thirteen-year-old Luke Garner unwittingly sets off a rebellion which sweeps the country and ousts the Population Police from power, he quickly realizes that the new regime is corrupt and he may hold the only key to true freedom.
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Harry Potter (Original series) volume 5.
Average Rating:
4.8 stars
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Fifteen-year-old wizard Harry Potter struggles with a threatening teacher, problematic house elf, the dread of upcoming final exams, and haunting dreams that hint toward his mysterious past.
112. Under their skin
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Under their skin volume 1.
Average Rating:
4.7 stars
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Twelve-year-old twins Nick and Eryn investigate why their mother and new stepfather are keeping secrets, why they are forbidden to meet their stepsiblings, and most important, why their lives are in danger.
113. Island of silence
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The Unwanteds volume 2.
Average Rating:
4.7 stars
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As the Wanteds, Unwanteds, and Necessaries struggle to adjust to changes in their society, Mr. Today begins training fourteen-year-old Alex to replace him as Artime's leader one day while Alex's disgraced twin, Aaron, connives to take over Quill.
114. Among the enemy
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Shadow children volume 6.
Average Rating:
4.3 stars
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In a society that allows families to have only two children, third child Matthias joins the Population Police to infiltrate their system.
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Serafina (Robert Beatty) volume 3.
Average Rating:
4.8 stars
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The Splintered Heart was thrilling and heartbreaking at the same time. Dark and scary plot, but I loved it!
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When a mysterious threat moves towards Biltmore, bringing with it violent storms and flooding, Serafina must fight to defend all she loves and become everything that she is meant to be.
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The Keepers (Ted Sanders) volume 1.
Average Rating:
5 stars
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Experience the fantastic adventure filled with magical objects, secret sects, and life as we know it on the line! Mixing magic and physics, Ted Sanders has created an epic story that has the feel of classic fantasy but twists it into something new and innovative.
From the moment Horace F. Andrews sees the sign from the bus—a sign with his own name on it—everything changes. The sighting leads him underground, to the House of Answers,
...117. Among the brave
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Shadow children volume 5.
Average Rating:
5 stars
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In a society that allows families to have only two children, a group of third-borns tries to save themselves and others like them.
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Harry Potter (Original series) volume 4.
Average Rating:
4.8 stars
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Fourteen-year-old Harry Potter joins the Weasleys at the Quidditch World Cup, then enters his fourth year at Hogwarts Academy where he is mysteriously entered in an unusual contest that challenges his wizarding skills, friendships and character, amid signs that an old enemy is growing stronger.
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Left Behind (Young adult). The kids volume 2.
Average Rating:
5 stars
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Four former Christian teenagers, faced with the chaos following the Rapture, must decide if they should blame God for abandoning them, or accept Christ's forgiveness
Four young people, Judd, Vicki, Lionel, and Ryan, left alone after God's Rapture comes and takes their families to heaven, struggle to come to grips with their situation and to make the decision to accept Jesus as their savior.
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Serafina (Robert Beatty) volume 2.
Average Rating:
4.6 stars
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In 1899, when an evil threatens all the humans and animals of the Blue Ridge Mountains, twelve-year-old Serafina, rat catcher for the Biltmore estate and the daughter of a shapeshifting mountain lion, must search deep inside herself and embrace the destiny that awaits her.