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3) Snakehead
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
1st American ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 14
Physical Desc
388 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
While working with the Australian Secret Service on a dangerous mission, teenaged spy Alex Rider uncovers information about his parents.
Author
Publisher
Miramax Books/Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
2004
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 9
Physical Desc
267 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
In futuristic Satellite City, fourteen-year-old Cosmo Hill escapes from his abusive orphanage and teams up with three other people who share his unusual ability to see supernatural creatures. .
Author
Series
Publisher
Speak
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Reluctant teenage spy Alex Rider, on a routine mission at the Wimbledon tennis championships, gets caught up in Chinese gangs, illegal nuclear weapons, and the suspect plans of his Russian host, General Sarov.
6) Stormbreaker
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
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.
7) The singing
Author
Series
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st Candlewick Press ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 24
Physical Desc
470 p. : map ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
The bard Maerad and her brother Hem hold the key to the mysterious Singing, and they must overcome terrible obstacles before they can unite and unlock the Tree of Song, release the music of the Elidhu, and defeat the Nameless One.
8) Ark angel
Author
Series
Publisher
Speak
Pub. Date
2007, c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 12
Physical Desc
326 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
After recovering from a near fatal gunshot wound, teenage spy Alex Rider embarks on a new mission to stop a group of eco-terrorists from sabotaging the launch of the first outer space hotel.
9) Point blank
Author
Series
Publisher
Speak
Pub. Date
2006, c2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 8
Physical Desc
274, 17 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Alex continues his work as a spy for the British MI6, investigating an exclusive school for boys in the French Alps.
10) Russian roulette
Author
Series
Alex Rider volume 10
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Presented with an unexpected assignment, Alex Rider's greatest nemesis, Yassen Gregoravich, recalls his life and the path that led him to become an assassin while his one-time friend, Alex's uncle, became a spy.
11) Eagle Strike
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
After a chance encounter with assassin Yassen Gregorovich, teenage spy Alex Rider investigates pop star Damian Cray, whose new video game venture hides sinister motives involving Air Force One, nuclear missiles, and the drug trade. .
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Co
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 12
Physical Desc
330 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. + 1 CD-ROM (4 3/4 in.)
Language
English
Description
Edgar, an eleven-year-old orphan, finds a book that reveals significant secrets about Atherton, the strictly divided world on which he lives, even as geological changes threaten to shift the power structure that allows an elite few to live off the labor of others.
13) Gallant
Author
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Olivia Prior has grown up at the grim Merilance School for Girls with no no past except for her one treasure, her mother's journal, so when a letter arrives inviting her to come home to ruinous manor, Gallant, she seizes the chance to find out about her family.
15) Shadow and bone
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Orphaned by the Border Wars, Alina Starkov is taken from obscurity and her only friend, Mal, to become the protegee of the mysterious Darkling, who trains her to join the magical elite in the belief that she is the Sun Summoner, who can destroy the monsters of the Fold.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2002
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 7
Physical Desc
p. cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1938, with the help of a doctor and her elderly, horse-thieving father, a seventeen-year-old orphan steals thirteen horses from Chickalookee, Florida's doomed rodeo, and finds a family in the process.
Author
Series
Pellinor volume 1st
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2006, c2002
Edition
1st U.S. pbk. ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 24
Physical Desc
xiii, 492 p. : map ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
A manuscript from the lost civilization of Edil-Amarandah chronicles the experiences of sixteen-year-old Maerad, an orphan gifted in the magic and power of the Bards, as she escapes from slavery and begins to learn how to use her gift to stave off evil.
18) The wizard heir
Author
Publisher
Hyperion Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2008, c2007
Edition
1st Hyperion Paperbacks ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 17
Physical Desc
458 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Seph, an orphaned and untrained wizard who is unable to control his growing powers, is sent to a secluded boys' school in Maine where the headmaster promises to train him in magic and initiate him into his mysterious order of wizards.
19) A map of days
Author
Series
Miss Peregrine's peculiar children volume 4
Publisher
Dutton Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
Miss Peregrine, Emma and her peculiar friends are back in Florida with Jacob Portman. They discover a subterranean bunker that belonged to Jacob's grandfather, Abe. Clues to Abe's double life as a peculiar operative start to emerge, revealing secrets long hidden in plain sight. Jacob begins to learn about the dangerous legacy he has inherited - truths that were part of him long before he walked into Miss Peregrine's time loop.
20) Liesl & Po
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
c2011
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
307 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
A magical mix-up has tremendous consequences for Liesl, an orphan who has been locked in an attic; Will, an alchemist's runaway apprentice; and Po, a ghost, as they are pursued by friend and foe while making an important journey.