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Author
Series
Ascendance volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Young King Jaron has taken the throne of Carthya, but after enemies attempt to assassinate him, and a neighboring kingdom threatens invasion, he finds that he has no friends in the palace, not even his bride-to-be, princess Amarinda--and his regents think it would be better for Carthya if he just disappeared again.
3) Weasels
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 31 cm
Language
English
Description
When a group of weasels plot to take over the world, they encounter some technical difficulties.
4) Adaptation
Author
Series
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
386 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In the aftermath of a series of plane crashes caused by birds, seventeen-year-old Reese and her debate-team partner, David, receive medical treatment at a secret government facility and become tangled in a conspiracy that is, according to Reese's friend, Julian, connected with aliens and UFOs.
5) Randoms
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
485 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"A twelve-year-old boy is chosen to join a four-person applicant team to work towards membership in the Confederation of United Planets, and stumbles across conspiracies resembling science fiction he's been a fan of his entire life"-- Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Vengekeep prophecies volume 2
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
375 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Jaxter Grimjinx finds himself caught in a conspiracy when he is tapped for a mission by the notorious clan of thieves known as the Shadowhands.
Author
Series
Blood and tea volume 1
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Arthie Casimir, a criminal mastermind, transforms her tearoom into an illegal bloodhouse for vampires, but when her establishment is threatened, she forms an unlikely alliance and assembles a misfit crew to infiltrate vampire society and uncovers a world-threatening conspiracy.
Author
Series
Witchlings volume 3
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
425 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Seven and Thorn still have not found a way to cure the hex that turned their friends into stone, magic seems to be working backwards, every new witchling at the Black Moon Ceremony is a spare--and the Hill Society blames the Spares and wants to prevent them from using magic.
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
439 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"It is 1937, and Laura Ann Langston lives in an America divided - between those who work the mystical arts and those who do not. Ever since the Great Rust, a catastrophic event that blighted the arcane force called the Dynamism and threw America into disarray, the country has been rebuilding for a better future. And everyone knows the future is industry and technology - otherwise known as Mechomancy - not the traditional mystical arts. Laura disagrees....
10) Test
Author
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
298 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
In the security-obsessed, elitist United States of the near future, where a standardized test determines each person's entire life, a powerful man runs a corrupt empire until seventeen-year-old Ann and other students take the lead in boycotting the test.
Author
Series
Hypnotists volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
232 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Jackson Opus is descended from two powerful hypnotist bloodlines, but he has just begun to realize that he can control other peoples' actions with sometimes frightening results--especially when the head of the Sentia Institute plans to use Jackson for his own benefit.
12) Nemesis: #1
Author
Series
Project nemesis volume 1
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
443 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
As the Anvil, an enormous asteroid, threatens to end all life on Earth, sixteen-year-old Min begins to uncover a lifetime of lies, a sinister conspiracy involving all students in her sophomore class in Fire Lake, Idaho.
Author
Series
Heir chronicles volume 4
Publisher
Hyperion Books
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
455 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Racing against time, Jonah and Emma, who possess unique magical gifts, work to uncover the truth about Thorn Hill, a peaceful commune that the Wizard Guild claims is a hotbed of underguild terrorists.
Author
Series
Defy volume 2
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2015
Physical Desc
289 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
King Damian and his trusted guard, Alexa, focus on rebuilding Antion after years of war and strife, but the citizens are reluctant to trust their new king, and when a new threat arises, including an assassination attempt, Alexa must protect the king she loves and uncover the enemy before it is too late.
15) Boy X
Author
Series
Publisher
Chicken House/Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
274 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
When twelve-year-old Ash McCarthy wakes up after his father's funeral, he finds that he has been kidnapped to an island off the coast of Costa Rica, caught in the middle of a secret and deadly project named Kronos in which his mother is somehow involved, and he must find a way to save them both--and the only person he is sure he can trust is a Spanish girl his own age named Isabel.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
377 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
At the elite Essex Academy Cal Ware, a poor, queer kid from Mississippi, is an outsider, but when he learns about a secret society on campus, he thinks that he may have found a way to reinvent himself--but as the initiation rituals grow riskier he must decide who to trust and how far he is willing to go to belong.
17) Stay dead
Author
Publisher
Christy Ottaviano Books/Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
312 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Entrusted with a key by her dying mother, sixteen-year-old Milan pretends she perished along with her mother as she navigates freezing conditions, outsmarts assassins, and unravels a deadly conspiracy to save herself and others.
Author
Series
Milkweed Meadow volume 2
Publisher
Charlesbridge
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
199 pages : black and white illustrations, illustrated endpapers ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"A group of turkeys arrives in Milkweed Meadow planning to put on a dazzling stage performance, but Butternut the rabbit has learned that the play is not what the meadow animals are expecting--and she calls on her human friend, Thalia, to help her expose the turkeys' plan and try to save the meadow"--Provided by publisher.
A group of turkeys arrives in Milkweed Meadow planning to put on a dazzling stage performance, but Butternut the rabbit has learned...
19) Moongarden
Author
Series
Plotting the stars volume 1
Publisher
Pixel+Ink
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
361 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Crumbling under the pressure at her elite school on the moon, misfit Myra Hodger discovers a lab full of toxic plants and uses her botanical magic to weed out its secrets, but quickly discovers some will do anything to take those secrets to the grave.
Author
Series
Guardians of Ga'hoole volume 13
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
202 p. : ill., maps ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
While Coryn and his companions journey to a wintery realm where mysterious owls live, the king becomes the target of an assassination plot and it is up to Primrose and Eglantine to save him.