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Alexander, Lloyd | Iron Ring |
A young king meets many fantastical creatures on his life–changing journey. |
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Barlow, Steve | Tales of the Dark Forest series |
Follow the exciting and hilarious adventures of Will and Rose fighting evil in the Dark Forest. |
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Barron, T.A. | Merlin series |
Follow the adventures of a young boy discovering himself after being washed ashore without any memory of his past. |
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Boniface, William | The Extraordinary Adventures of Ordinary Boy: Hero Revealed |
Ordinary Boy, the only resident o Superopolis without a superpower, uncovers and foils a sinister plot to destroy the town. |
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Buckley, Michael | The Sisters Grimm (series) |
Orphans Sabrina and Daphne Grimm are sent to live with an eccentric grandmother that they have always believed to be dead and discover a world where fairy tale characters are real. |
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Carman, Patrick | Dark Hills Divide (trilogy) |
When she finds the key to a secret passageway leading out of the walled city of Bridewell, 12-year-old Alexa realizes her lifelong wish to explore the mysterious forests and moutains beyond that wall. |
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Christopher, John | Tripods trilogy |
it all begins when fourteen-year-old Laurie and his family attempt to flee England when the Tripods descend from outer space and begin brainwashing everyone with their hypnotic Caps. |
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Colfer, Eoin | Artemis Fowl series |
Stories of a boy genius and his stolen fairies. |
| Collins, Suzanne | Gregor the Overlander series |
When eleven-year-old Gregor and his two-year-old sister are pulled into a strange underground world, they trigger an epic battle involving men, bats, rats, cockroaches, and spiders while on a quest foretold by an ancient prophecy. |
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Coville, Bruce | Jennifer Murley’s Toad Aliens Ate my Homework |
The adventurous story of a 5th grader and her talking toad. |
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Dickinson, Peter | The Ropemaker |
A group of girls must find the ancient magician to restore the protective magic. |
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Downer, Ann | Hatching Magic |
When a 13th century wizard confronts 21st century Boston while seeking his pet dragon, he is followed by a rival wizard and a very unhappy demon, but 11-year-old Theodora Oglegthorpe may hold the secret to setting everything right. |
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Haddix, Margaret P. (YA) | Among the Hidden (Shadow Children series) |
Meet a 12 year old "third" in a world where families are limited to two children. |
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Hale, Shannon | Princess Academy |
While attending a strict acedemy for girls, Miri discovers unexpected talents that she ends up needing to save her classmates. |
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Hennesy, Carolyn | Mythic Misadventures series (Pandora Gets…) |
Thirteen year old Pandy is hauled before Zeus and given six months to gather all the evils that were released when the box she brought to school as her annual project was accidentally opened. |
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Hunter, Erin | Warriors (series) |
Follow the adventures of several generations of warrior cat clans. |
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Jacques, Brian |
REDWALL series |
Follow the adventures of all the animals living at the ancient Redwall Abbey. |
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Jean, Mark |
Puddlejumpers |
12-year-old Ernie is the chosen one to save the Puddlejumpers, little people who live in a world below the puddles, and lead them into battle against their mortal enemies. |
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Landry, Derek |
Skulduggery Pleasant |
When 12-year-old Stephanie inherits her weird uncle's estate, she must join forces with Skulduggery Pleasant, a skeleton mage, to save the world from the Faceless One. |
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Langston, Jane | The Time Bike |
A boy receives a mysterious time travel bike from India. |
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Lethcoe, Jason | Mysterious Mr. Spines series |
In 1921, fourteen year old Edward gets caught up in a conflict between the Guardian of Woodbine--the place of the dead--and the Groundlings, the Jackal's agent of corruption on Earth, and sets out on an important quest using his newly sprouted wings. |
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Lewis, C.S. | Chronicles of Narnia series |
Follow children’s adventures to another world. |
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Lowry, Lois (YA) | The Giver (and companion books) |
In this society of the future, all children are given their lifetime assignments at the age of 12. Jonas is chosen to receive memories of a hidden past… and terrible truths about the world he lives in are revealed. |
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MacHale, D.J. |
Pendragon (series) |
Bobby Pendragon is a seemingly normal 14-year-old boy…who is going to save the world. Before he can object, he is swept off to an alternative dimension known as Danduron, a territory inhabited by strange beings, ruled by a magical tyrant, and plagued by dangerous revolution. |
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Nelson, O.T. | The Girl Who Owned a City |
When a plague sweeps over the earth killing everyone except children under twelve, ten-year-old Lisa organizes a group to rebuild a new way of life. |
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Nimmo, Jenny | Children of the Red King (Charlie Bone) series |
Charlie Bone discovers that he can hear the thoughts of people in photographs which prompts his relatives to try to take advantage of him and send him to evil Bloor Academy where he gets swept up in an age-old battle. |
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Prineas, Sarah | The Magic Thief series |
A young thief is drawn into a life of magic and adventure after picking the pocket of the powerful wizard Nevery Flinglas, who has returned from exile to attempt to reverse the troubling decline of magic in Wellmet City. |
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Pullman, Philip (YA) | His Dark Materials Trilogy (Golden Compass, etc.) |
The fate of a parallel universe is in the hands of three children. |
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Roberts, Willo Davis | The Girl with the Silver Eyes |
A 10–year–old girl, who has always looked different from other children, discovers that she not only has unusual powers but that there are others like her. |
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Rowling, J.K. | Harry Potter series |
Follow the adventures of Harry and his friends in an alternate world of wizards and magic. |
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Skurzynski, Gloria | Virtual War |
Follow a virtual war in a future that discourages any human contact. |
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Sleator, William | Marco's Millions |
Marco's love for travel and for his younger sister Lilly, who has pyschic powers, leads him to journey to other universes, gaining the ability to go wherever he wishes without growing old. |
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Snyder, Zilphia | The Unseen |
Feeling angry and out-of-place in her large family, Xandra finds a magical key to a world of ghostly, sometimes frightening, phantoms that help her see herself and her sibling more clearly. |
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Stewart, Paul | Edge Chronicles series |
Join thirteen-year-old Twig on his adventures in a new fantastic world. |
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Stroud, Jonathan | Bartimaeus Trilogy |
Follow the adventures of Nathaniel a magician's apprentice and his djinni Bartimaeus. |
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Tolkien, J.R. | The Hobbit |
Biblo Baggins, a respectable Hobbit from the world of Middle Earth, gets chosen by a wandering wizard named Gandoff to embark on an adventure from which he may never return. |
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Waugh, Sylvia | Space Race |
A father and son are to be separated because the father must leave earth. |
summaries copied or adapted from WLS catalog
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©Briarcliff Manor Public Library
This website was created by Amy B.G. Kaplan
(abgkaplan@westchesterlibraries.org)
Last revised February 14, 2010
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