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121. Among the Barons
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Shadow children volume 4.
Average Rating:
5 stars
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In a future world of false identities, government lies, and death threats, Luke feels drawn to the younger brother of the boy whose name Luke has taken.
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Serafina (Robert Beatty) volume 1.
Average Rating:
4.3 stars
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In 1899, a twelve-year-old rat catcher on North Carolina's Biltmore estate teams up with the estate owner's young nephew to battle a great evil and, in the process, unlocks the puzzle of her past.
123. Under locker and key
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MAX (Allison Hymas) volume 1.
Average Rating:
3.7 stars
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Eleven-year-old Jeremy Wilderson teams up with his rival crime fighter to stop the stealing spree that's wreaking havoc on Scottsville Middle School.
124. Among the betrayed
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Series:
Shadow children volume 3.
Average Rating:
5 stars
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The suspense is nerve-racking! Margeret P. Haddix is an amazing author!
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Thirteen-year-old Nina is imprisoned by the Population Police, who give her the option of helping them identify illegal "third-born" children, or facing death.
125. Among the impostors
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Shadow children volume 2.
Average Rating:
4.8 stars
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In a future where the law limits a family to only two children, third-born Luke has been in hiding for the entire twelve years of his life, until he enters boarding school under an assumed name and is forced to face his fears.
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Harry Potter (Original series) volume 3.
Average Rating:
4.8 stars
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During his third year at Hogwarts School for Witchcraft and Wizardry, Harry Potter must confront the devious and dangerous wizard responsible for his parents' deaths.
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Harry Potter (Original series) volume 2.
Average Rating:
4.8 stars
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When the Chamber of Secrets is opened again at the Hogwarts School for Witchcraft and Wizardry, second-year student Harry Potter finds himself in danger from a dark power that has once more been released on the school.
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Harry Potter (Original series) volume 1.
Average Rating:
4.8 stars
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Rescued from the outrageous neglect of his aunt and uncle, a young boy with a great destiny proves his worth while attending Hogwarts School for Wizards and Witches.
129. The dastardly deed
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League of beastly dreadfuls volume 2.
Average Rating:
5 stars
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Anastasia has barely managed to escape the nefarious clutches of C.R.U.D. when they are brought to the undergrown Cavelands, where she finds out she is Caveland royalty and her family figures into a centuries old scandal that began with the disappearance of her grandfather.
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League of beastly dreadfuls volume 1.
Average Rating:
4.8 stars
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Anastasia, nearly eleven, is snatched from her elementary school and sent to live at a former insane asylum with two great-aunts she had never met after being told that her parents died in a tragic vacuum cleaner accident.
131. The Unwanteds
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The Unwanteds volume 1.
Average Rating:
4.6 stars
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I thought this book was a lot like Harry Potter in that there was a school for magic. Alex is an unwanted. That means that he is supposedly not needed in his own family or city. So when he and is twin brother turned thirteen, they were sent to become one of three kinds of people: a wanted, a necessary, or an unwanted. That was the day when Alex was separated from his wanted brother for being an unwanted. But when he was sent to be eliminated, (killed) he found himself in the magical land of Arteme where he is free to lean the arts and magic.
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In a society that purges thirteen-year-olds who are creative, identical twins Aaron and Alex are separated, one to attend University while the other, supposedly Eliminated, finds himself in a wondrous place where youths hone their abilities and learn magic.
132. The cloud searchers
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Amulet (Kazu Kibuishi) volume 3.
Average Rating:
4.9 stars
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Emily, Navin and their crew of resistance fighters charter an airship and set off in search of the lost city of Cielis. there they hope to find held from the Guardian Council's powerful Stonekeepers. It's a mission that Alledia's survival depends on, and time is running out -- Emily's got to find Cielis before the Elf King finds her.
133. The stonekeeper
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Amulet (Kazu Kibuishi) volume 1.
Average Rating:
4.5 stars
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Emily's and Narvin's mother is kidnapped and dragged into a strange and magical world where, it seems, the children's great-grandfather has been before. It's up to the children to set things right and save their mother's life.
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Amulet (Kazu Kibuishi) volume 2.
Average Rating:
4.8 stars
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After chasing the monster that kidnapped their mother, Emily and Navin find themselves in a magical world of man-eating demons and shadowy enemies, where they must learn to control an amulet given to them by their grandfather.
Emily and her brother Navin head for Kanalis to find an antidote for the poison that is killing their mother.
135. A wrinkle in time
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Time quintet volume 1.
Average Rating:
4.1 stars
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For me as a kid, it was a little hard to get through the first couple chapters, but after that I was hooked all the way through! Meg Murry lives with her Mom and brothers struggling in school with grades and bullies. One night there was a knock on the door and a strange little woman named Mrs. Whatsit entered the room. She was trying to get out of the storm and was smothered in blankets she didn't know she stole. A few days later Meg and her little brother Charles were taking a walk through the fores when meg meets a boy from her school. He accompanied them deeper into the woods and found where Mrs. Whatsit and her friends live in an old abandoned cottage. From there the children were launched into another world with their quire friends to find Meg's long lost Father.
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Meg Murry and her friends become involved with unearthly strangers and a search for Meg's father, who has disappeared while engaged in secret work for the government.
136. Mark of the plague
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Blackthorn key volume 2.
Average Rating:
5 stars
Notes:
better than the first!
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As the plague decimates London in 1665 and an assassin threatens the apothecary's life, apprentice Christopher Rowe and his faithful friend Tom, following a trail of puzzles, riddles, and secrets, risk their lives to untangle the heart of a dark conspiracy.
137. The Blackthorn key
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Blackthorn key volume 1.
Average Rating:
4.2 stars
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The blackthorn key is one of the best well written books I've ever read! Usually I don't like books set in the sixteen and seventeen hundreds, but theis book was a big exeption. There is a little bit of blood and violence, but i think that makes for a good story.
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In 1665 London, fourteen-year-old Christopher Rowe, apprentice to an apothecary, and his best friend, Tom, try to uncover the truth behind a mysterious cult, following a trail of puzzles, codes, pranks, and danger toward an unearthly secret with the powerto tear the world apart.
138. Matilda
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Average Rating:
5 stars
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This book was really funny and not quite believable. Matilda is and extraordinarily smart child for her age, but most people ignore her. But when she goes to school for the first time, she finds herself in trouble with an evil headmistress.
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Matilda applies her untapped mental powers to rid the school of the evil, child-hating headmistress, Miss Trunchbull, and restore her nice teacher, Miss Honey, to financial security.
139. Among the hidden
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Shadow children volume 1.
Average Rating:
4.3 stars
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This book has a sad, but determined ending but I feel like this is just the beginning of a long exiting story: Luke is an illigal third child. His parents do the best they can to hide him while living a normal life. But soon Luke gets involved in a quest to be free with his new friend, Jen.
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In a future where the Population Police enforce the law limiting a family to only two children, Luke has lived all his twelve years in isolation and fear on his family's farm, until another "third" convinces him that the government is wrong.
140. Sparkers
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Average Rating:
4 stars
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Heartbreak and tension are packed in these pages as the characters watch people they love die around them from a mysterious plague sweeping the land. When Marah and her new friend Azariah stumble across the cure they go through extreme measures to hide it from the oppressive government and distribute it.
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"Marah, an underclass 'sparker' in a society ruled by magicians, works with her friend Azariah to find a cure for a mysterious disease that turns its victims' eyes black"--