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Can You Survive Storm Chasing?
Elizabeth Raum - You Choose Books
Format: Paperback
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Youre a meteorology student fascinated by storms. But Mother Nature can be unpredictable. Situations can quickly turn deadly when extreme weather is involved. What do you do when, Youre in a van full of people and a tornado suddenly appears to be headed right for you? A hurricane gains... |
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Time Voyage
Steve Brezenoff - Return to Titanic
Format: Book
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On the first day of their spring break, best friends Tucker and Maya discover a Special Collection of Titanic artifacts at the local museum. But the artifacts have more power than they know. When they touch a magic ticket, Tucker and Maya find themselves transported 100 years in the past... |
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Shipwreck Island
S A Bodeen - Feiwel and Friends
Format: Print book
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After Sarah's dad remarries, he and her stepmom decide to take the whole family on a special vacation in order to break the ice and have everyone get to know one another. They'll fly to Tahiti, charter a boat, and go sailing for a few days. It'll be an adventure, right? Wrong. Dead wrong. |
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Soldier Dog
Sam Angus - Feiwel and Friends
Format: Print book
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With his older brother gone to fight in the Great War, and his father prone to sudden rages, 14-year-old Stanley devotes himself to taking care of the family's greyhound and puppies. Until the morning Stanley wakes to find the puppies gone.Determined to find his brother, Stanley runs away... |
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Stranded
Jeff Probst - Puffin Books
Format: Print book
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A New York Times Bestseller!As seen on The Today Show, Rachael Ray, and Kelly and Michael.From the Emmy-Award winning host of Survivor, Jeff Probst, with Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life co-author, Chris Tebbetts, comes a brand new family adventure... |
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A Horse Called Hero
Sam Angus - Feiwel & Friends; First Ed 1st Printing edition
Format: Hardcover
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On the brink of World War II, a family forced out of their London home flees to the country. Wolfie and his older sister Dodo are devastated to leave behind everything theyve ever known, but they begin settling into their new life.One day, they come across an orphaned fowl, which... |
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The Stowaways
Meghan Marentette - Pajama Press
Format: Hardcover
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The Stowaways aren't like the other Weedle mice. They are inventive and curious, they go on adventures, and they are much too clever for their own good. In fact, everyone knows that Grampa Stowaway was killed in a trap on one of his adventures. So, who would want to associate with a family... |
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Stay Alive #1: Crash
Joseph Monninger - Scholastic Inc.
Format: Paperback
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Stranded in the middle of nowhere, you have to fight to survive!When the members of Junior Action News Team crash land in the Alaskan backwoods, one thing is clear: not everyone is going to survive. No cell phones. No internet. Their supplies are limited, as is their knowledge of the wilderness.... |
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The Copernicus Legacy: The Forbidden Stone
Tony Abbott - Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Format: Print book
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Bestselling author Tony Abbott's epic new middle grade series, the Copernicus Legacy, begins with The Forbidden Stone, a thrilling adventure packed with puzzles, intrigue, and action. Fans of Rick Riordan and Ridley Pearson will love this first book in an exciting series that takes... |
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The Jupiter Pirates: Hunt for the Hydra
Jason Fry - HarperCollins Publishers
Format: Hardcover
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Treasure Island meets Battlestar Galactica in book one of the swashbuckling sci-fi adventure series SLJ called "space opera in the classic style" in a starred review, from New York Times bestselling author Jason Fry. The relationship between Tycho Hashoone, his twin sister, Yana,... |
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House of Secrets
Chris Columbus - Balzer + Bray
Format: Hardcover
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Hailed as "a breakneck, jam-packed roller coaster of an adventure" by J. K. Rowling, this New York Times bestseller is the first installment in the explosive tween fantasy series by famed Hollywood director Chris Columbus (of Harry Potter fame) and bestselling author Ned Vizzini... |
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Fourmile
Watt Key - Farrar Straus Giroux
Format: Print book
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Twelve-year-old Foster knows in his gut that Dax Ganey, the man dating his widowed mother, is a bad seed. Then a mysterious stranger arrives at their Alabama farm, a former Army Ranger in Iraq rambling across the country, and Foster believes he has found an ally against Dax. The stranger... |
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Deadweather and Sunrise: The Chronicles of Egg, Book 1
Geoff Rodkey - G. P. Putnam's Sons
Format: Print book
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A stunning middle-grade debut--full of heart, humor, and nonstop action It's tough to be thirteen, especially when somebody's trying to kill you. Not that Egg's life was ever easy, growing up on sweaty, pirate-infested Deadweather Island with no company except an incompetent tutor and a pair... |
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Villain School: Good Curses Evil
Stephanie S. Sanders - Bloomsbury USA Childrens
Format: Hardcover
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Rune Drexler, Big Bad Wolf Jr., and Countess Jezebel Dracula are students at Master Dreadthorns School for Wayward Villains. Its like military school for the children of famous villains its where you learn to be bad. But Rune is failing at his villainous studies, so when he lands himself... |
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Castle of Shadows
Ellen Renner - Clarion Books
Format: Hardcover
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Ever since the Queen mysteriously disappeared and the King went mad five years ago,
eleven-year-old Princess Charlie has lived a wild and mostly unsupervised life in the
country of Quale - until now. With the discovery of an unfinished letter in the Queens
handwriting, Charlie embarks... |
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Fake Mustache: Or, How Jodie O'Rodeo and her Wonder Horse
Tom Angleberger - Amulet Books
Format: Print book
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Award-winning author Tom Angleberger flexes his comic muscle in this hairy adventure story with twists at every turn.Regular kid Lenny Flem Jr. is the only one standing between his evil-genius best friend - Casper, a master of disguise and hypnosis - and world domination. It all begins... |
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Peter Nimble and His Fantastic Eyes
Jonathan Auxier - Harry N. Abrams
Format: Hardcover
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Peter Nimble and His Fantastic Eyes is the utterly beguiling tale of a ten-year-old blind orphan who has been schooled in a life of thievery. One fateful afternoon, he steals a box from a mysterious traveling haberdashera box that contains three pairs of magical eyes. When he tries the first... |
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Hatchet
Gary Paulsen - Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Format: Print book
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After a plane crash, thirteen-year-old Brian spends fifty-four days in the Canadian wilderness, learning to survive with only the aid of a hatchet given him by his mother, and learning also to survive his parents' divorce. |
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Fish
Gregory Mone - Scholastic Press
Format: Print book
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The exciting adventure of a resourceful boy who discovers his hidden gift as a fortune-hunting pirateFish--nicknamed for his incredible swimming abilities--is a twelve-year-old boy from a poor farming family. After taking a job as a courier for his uncle, Fish is waylaid by pirates, who steal... |
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The Wonderful Wizard of Oz: 100th Anniversary Edition
L. Frank Baum - Reilly & Lee
Format: Book
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One of the true classics of American literature, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz has stirred the imagination of young and old alike for over four generations. Originally published in 1900, it was the first truly American fairy tale, as Baum crafted a wonderful out of such familiar items as a cornfield... |
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Wild Life
Cynthia DeFelice
Format: Hardcover
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Erik is preparing for his first-ever hunting trip when he learns that his parents are being deployed to Iraq. A few days later, Erik is shipped off to North Dakota to live with Big Darrell and Oma, grandparents he barely knows. When Erik rescues a dog thats been stuck by a porcupine,... |
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Escape by Night: A Civil War Adventure
Laurie Myers - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover
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Ten-year-old Tommy and his sister Annie are intrigued by the new soldiers arriving in their Georgia town. Since the Civil War started, wounded men waiting to be treated at the local church-turned-hospital have been coming in by droves. When Tommy sees a soldier drop his notebook, he sends... |
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The Name of this Book Is Secret
Pseudonymous Bosch - Little, Brown Books for Young Readers; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Warning: this description has not been authorized by Pseudonymous Bosch. As much as he'd love to sing the praises of his book (he is very vain) , he wouldn't want you to hear about his brave 11-year old heroes, Cass and Max-Ernest. Or about how a mysterious box of vials, the Symphony... |
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Gregor The Overlander
Suzanne Collins - Scholastic Press; First Edition
Format: Hardcover
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This irresistible first novel tells the story of a quiet boy who embarks on a dangerous quest in order to fulfill his destiny -- and find his father -- in a strange world beneath New York City.When Gregor falls through a grate in the laundry room of his apartment building, he hurtles... |
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The Magic Thief
Sarah Prineas - HarperCollins
Format: Library Binding
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In a city that runs on a dwindling supply of magic, a young boy is drawn into a life of wizardry and adventure. Conn should have dropped dead the day he picked Nevery's pocket and touched the wizard's locus magicalicus, a stone used to focus magic and work spells. But for some reason he did not.... |
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Scat
Carl Hiaasen - Knopf Books for Young Readers
Format: Library Binding
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Bestselling author and columnist Carl Hiaasen returns with another hysterical mystery for kids set in Florida's Everglades. Bunny Starch, the most feared biology teacher ever, is missing. She disappeared after a school field trip to Black Vine Swamp. And, to be honest, the kids in her class... |
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The Outlandish Adventures of Liberty Aimes
Kelly Easton - Wendy Lamb Books
Format: Library Binding
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Everyone has a destiny. Sometimes it takes an adventure to find it.Liberty Aimes has spent all of her ten years captive in her parents' crooked house on Gooch Street. Her spry father, Mal Aimes, is a crook who sells insurance, while her overweight mother sits at home in front of the TV, demanding... |
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Savvy
Ingrid Law - Puffin Books
Format: eBook
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A vibrant new voice . . . a modern classic.For generations, the Beaumont family has harbored a magical secret. They each possess a "savvy" - a special supernatural power that strikes when they turn thirteen. Grandpa Bomba moves mountains, her older brothers create hurricanes and spark... |
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The Runaway Dolls (The Doll People, 3)
Ann M Martin - Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Format: Paperback
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Best friends Annabelle Doll and Tiffany Funcraft have stumbled upon an unexpected visitor, a new doll named Tilly May. Shes arrived in a mysterious package...but she looks so familiar. Could she be Annabelles long-lost baby sister? Itll take a runaway adventure to find out for sure. Are the dolls... |
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The Mousehunter
Alex Milway - Little Brown & Co.
Format: Hardcover
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In Emiline's world, there are thousands of species of mice, some rarer than others. Mousehunters travel the world collecting the rarest and most special breeds, from the wily and deadly Sharpclaw Mouse to the dog-sized Elephant Mouse and the quick-as-lightning Comet Mouse.For Emiline,... |
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Highway Robbery
Kate Thompson - Greenwillow Books
Format: Print book
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The rider sprang off as light as a cat and pulled the reins over the horse's head. Then he marched straight over to me and put them into my hand. "Hold the mare for me, lad. And when I come back, I'll give you a golden guinea." A dark stranger leaves his magnificent... |
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The Candy Shop War
Brandon Mull - Shadow Mountain; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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What if there were a place where you could get magical candy? Moon rocks that made you feel weightless. Jawbreakers that made you unbreakable. Or candy that gave animals temporary human intelligence and communication skills. Imagine what your pet would say! Four young friends, Nate,... |
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Treasure Island
Robert Louis Stevenson - Palazzo
Format: Print book
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When an old sea captain arrives at the Admiral Benbow inn, with a mysterious sea chest and fearful talk of a man with one leg, the scene is set for one of the most popular adventure stories of all time. Robert Louis Stevenson described Treasure Island as "a book about a map, a treasure,... |
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Seaborne #1: The Lost Prince
Matt Myklusch - Egmontusa
Format: Hardcover
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When thirteen-year-old Dean Seaborne's latest spy mission for the Pirate King takes him to the mythical island of Zenhala, his life changes as he fights to prove that he is the island's long-lost prince. |
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