By Kazu Kibuishi
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.
By Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson
The
president of Kprshtskan is plotting to infiltrate the science fair at
Hubble Middle School in Maryland in order to take over the United States
government, but when Toby Harbinger, an ordinary student, makes up his
mind finally to win the fair, the terrorists' plans go awry.
By Kimberly Baker
Using a bogus name, the
League of Picklemakers, sixth-grader Ben and three recruits start a
prank-pulling club and receive funding from their middle school's PTA.
The Strange Case of Origami Yoda
By Tom Angleberger
Sixth-grader Tommy and his friends describe their interactions with a paper finger puppet of Yoda, worn by their weird classmate Dwight, as they try to figure out whether or not the puppet can really predict the future. Includes instructions for making Origami Yoda.
The Mysterious Benedict Society
By Trenton Lee Stewart
After passing a series of mind-bending tests, four children are selected for a secret mission that requires them to go undercover at the Learning Institute for the Very Enlightened, where the only rule is that there are no rules.
We the Children
By Andrew Clements
Sixth-grader Ben Pratt's life is full of changes that he does not like--his parents' separation and the plan to demolish his seaside school to build an amusement park--but when the school janitor gives him a tarnished coin with some old engravings and then dies, Ben is drawn into an effort to keep the school from being destroyed.
Storm Runners
By Roland Smith
Sixth-grader Tommy and his friends describe their interactions with a paper finger puppet of Yoda, worn by their weird classmate Dwight, as they try to figure out whether or not the puppet can really predict the future. Includes instructions for making Origami Yoda.
The Mysterious Benedict Society
By Trenton Lee Stewart
After passing a series of mind-bending tests, four children are selected for a secret mission that requires them to go undercover at the Learning Institute for the Very Enlightened, where the only rule is that there are no rules.
We the Children
By Andrew Clements
Sixth-grader Ben Pratt's life is full of changes that he does not like--his parents' separation and the plan to demolish his seaside school to build an amusement park--but when the school janitor gives him a tarnished coin with some old engravings and then dies, Ben is drawn into an effort to keep the school from being destroyed.
Storm Runners
By Roland Smith
Twelve-year-old
Chase Masters travels the country with his father, a "storm runner,"
but he is tested in ways he never could have imagined when he and a new
friend are caught in a hurricane near St. Petersburg, Florida.
By Gordon Korman
Homeschooled
by his hippie grandmother, Capricorn (Cap) Anderson has never watched
television, tasted a pizza, or even heard of a wedgie. But when his
grandmother lands in the hospital, Cap is forced to move in with a
guidance counselor and attend the local middle school. While Cap knows a
lot about tie-dyeing and Zen Buddhism, no education could prepare him
for the politics of public school.
By John Flanagan
When fifteen-year-old Will is rejected by battleschool, he becomes the
reluctant apprentice to the mysterious Ranger Halt, and winds up
protecting the kingdom from danger.
By Michelle Paver
6,000
years in the past, twelve-year-old Torak and his guide, a wolf cub, set
out on a dangerous journey to fulfill an oath the boy made to his dying
father--to travel to the Mountain of the World Spirit seeking a way to
destroy a demon-possessed bear that threatens all the clans.
By Gary Paulsen
After a plane crash,
thirteen-year-old Brian spends fifty-four days in the wilderness,
learning to survive with only the aid of a hatchet given him by his
mother, and learning also to survive his parents' divorce.
By Will Hobbs
Rick, a fourteen-year-old foster child, escapes from a juvenile
detention facility near Las Vegas and travels to Canyonlands National
Park in Utah where he meets a bird biologist working on a project to
reintroduce condors to the wild.
By Anthony Horowitz
After the death of the uncle who had been his guardian,
fourteen-year-old Alex Rider is coerced to continue his uncle's
dangerous work for Britain's intelligence agency, MI6.
By Nathan Hale
Nathan Hale, the author's historical namesake, was America's first spy, a
Revolutionary War hero who famously said 'I only regret that I have but
one life to lose for my country" before being hanged by the British. In
the Nathan Hale's Hazardous Tales series, author Nathan Hale channels
his namesake to present history's roughest, toughest, and craziest
stories in the graphic novel format.
By Ellen Emerson White
An eighteen-year-old Marine records in his journal his experiences in
Vietnam during the siege of Khe Sanh, 1967-1968. Includes a history of
Vietnam, war timeline, glossary, and related military information.
By Elisa Lynn Carbone
In
1895, after his mother's death, twelve-year-old Nathan moves with his
father and grandfather to Pea Island off the coast of North Carolina,
where he hopes to join the all-black crew at the nearby lifesaving
station, despite his father's objections.
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