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Elanor Everest is a ten-year-old rock climber who has always wanted some kind of adventure in her life. Climbing expeditions outside of her home in Riverdale, Canada with her best friend Myra, just aren’t the same as actual adventures, according to her. Her life revolves around her climbing team, and being on the team becomes even more important when she hears about a competition that might just take her to her dream for climbing� Mount Everest. Ellie will work her hardest to try and win. And she can definitely handle the bullies on her team that might stand in her way, especially a mean girl named Sophia. But her plans for the competition are interrupted when Ellie’s family forces her on a vacation to New York City. While the rest of the Nationals Team learns new techniques, Ellie is stuck visiting boring places like the Empire State Building. To make matters worse, while looking out onto the city from the head of the Statue of Liberty, Ellie discovers that her family is nowhere to be found. She can’t find them anywhere. Ellie has no idea how to navigate by herself around the city. With her little money and a flashlight, she almost starves to death looking for food, and can’t find a place to sleep at night. Will she find her family and get home in time for the competition? Will her years of training - all those days spent at the gym that could have been used for other things, all the times where her muscles hurt to much to sit up - go to waste? Or will she be stuck in New York forever.

Ender is a ten-year-old, half-Enderman, treasure hunter. Ender is on a journey for treasure, but an evil genius is also looking for the treasure. Ender’s journey takes her through the dense jungle, into the grasslands, through the cold arctic and into a mountain range. Ender faces many challenges, such as having to fight monsters, along her journey. Also, someone is trying to sabotage Ender’s journey! One of Ender’s friends has a secret - a secret that if not found out soon, will cause disaster to strike Ender and her friends. Ender thinks she knows who is keeping a secret, but is she right? Will Ender become rich? Or will the evil genius steal the treasure for his own evil purposes?

“They’re watching us, they're always watching us.” The simple fact that he didn’t like being watched is what set Michael apart from everyone else. Michael didn’t want to be different but he couldn't help it; it was just the way he was - different. The city Michael lives in is a very unusual one by most anyone's standards. Michael and his whole city are lizard human hybrids, so as the reader can imagine, the city looks very different from the real world. Plus, there's a wall -- or actually a building -- surrounding the city. As the number of cameras on the city begins to dwindle, Michael starts to look for answers about the cameras, about how he and the city got there, and about what's beyond the wall. But when the library and his schoolteachers have no answers for him, he decides to take matters into his own hands. Michael needs answers and he is willing to go an incredible distance or face many problems to get them. Problems and obstacles repeatedly test his determination as he searches through the watchers’ base to find his answers. When Michael finds out some rather unsettling info, he immediately heads back home to warn the city. Though he speaks the truth and has all good intentions, the people don’t believe him; he can't convince anyone of what he has learned. Eventually, he’s forced to go to the city council and request an evacuation of the city to save everyone's lives.

The apocalypse has come. Sky is an orphan from Boston and the year is 2020. Sky has blond hair and the bluest eyes you’ll ever see. Even though she’s an orphan, by the time she was fourteen, she looked like a Forever 21 model. Sky thought she was living a pretty normal life. The orphanage was terrible, but she knew it was the best option for an orphan. The day the wave came was the day that Sky thought would be the best day of her life: It was the day she was supposed to leave the orphanage. But instead she had to run to the middle of the country so that the giant tsunami wouldn’t wipe her out. Sky and her friend, Taylor, find a house and buy it for themselves. Over time, Sky is targeted by a Hacker gang who wants her to join. Will Sky be able to escape he hackers? Will she have the life she dreamed of when she was an orphan? Or will she be stuck without any family forever?

Jamie and Brooke Bearson are twins living in a magical land, called Imagica, ruled by the three sisters, Gold, Silver, and Bronze. Each sister rules one section of the kingdom. Jamie and Brooke dwell in the Silver section, in Jade Mansion. Every year Imagica holds a drawing. Four children are picked from each kingdom to fight around the Vortex. The Vortex is a giant hole; no one knows where it leads or ends. On the day of the drawing, Jamie is picked to fight. Brooke is forced to face a decision: Should she volunteer to go to the Vortex with her sister so they can be together? Or should she stay home and risk losing her twin? The even bigger question is, what is on the other side of the Vortex? If Brooke and Jamie fall in, what will they find? Will their cook, Mrs. Behellmer, be right? Is there actually something beneath the Vortex?

Christopher lives with just his dad in a little house on the edge of a town. Hills, dunes and caves surround the town. Christopher is a pretty average kid. He goes to school, he does his chores and on weekends he relaxes and watches TV. His friends are the Jensen boys. They invite him to dinner each Sunday and take Christopher to church  One day Christopher sees a picture of his mom and immediately is determined to find her. He goes to Paris with the Jensen boys to try to find clues about where his mother is. Christopher faces incredible obstacles and overcomes challenges that most kids would never believe possible. During his journey, storms and bad events happen  Meanwhile, Christopher’s dad is very calm about letting Christopher go. He believes in Christopher and his trustworthy friends. He will make any sacrifice that is possible to get his wife back and letting his son be happy again. For Christopher, his options are give up or be courageous and find his mom. What will he find on his journey? Will he find his mother?  

Do you know it feels like to risk your life everyday for others? That is what Ben, a CIA agent, has to do. Ben is thirty-four years old and the year is 2032. A terrorist has blown up the Washington Monument. Ben interrogates the bomber and he finds out that the bomber works for SPYDER, an evil organization. He also finds out that SPYDER is going to launch missiles to all CIA locations. Ben and his partner Erica need to go on a mission to stop SPYDER but they cannot tell anyone. Ben needs to find out where SPYDER is, who their leader is and how to stop them. Will Ben and Erica succeed? Will Ben and Erica get captured? Will they come back alive?      

     Pacer is in a knot. Pacer loves to yoyo, and he is really good. But there is a bully. His name is Bill McCarthy, and he is really good too. Bill can do up to fifty tricks. Bill is in eighth grade. Really, Bill is a hundred times better than Pacer. Pacer’s school has yoyo competitions at recess held by this kid named Leo, who’s in seventh grade. Pacer always tries to win, but usually always loses, mostly because he always gets paired up with Bill. Pacer wants to get better at yo-yoing, so he decides to get a coach. Things are going great, but then Pacer’s coach gets sick. And not just any sick, he has a disease, and that disease is one of the worst diseases. When Pacer learns that his coach is sick, Pacer goes crazy. Pacer just wants to win the yoyo competitions, but without help, what will he do? Will sixth grade be the worst year of his life like Bill said it would on the first day of school? Or will Pacer find a way to win the finals in the yoyo competitions without help?

Rob Gronkowski has been kidnapped. Where could he be? The Patriots are 17-0 going into the Super Bowl to play the Green Bay Packers, who are undefeated as well. The Patriots are confident, going into the game with a very positive attitude, thinking that they are going to win the Super Bowl. But after the team receives the shocking news that their star tight end, Rob Gronkowski, is missing, their confidence changes. Rob is one of the team’s best players, and without him they will have less of a chance to win. With the Super Bowl only a few days away, the Patriots are still without Rob, and need some answers in time for Super Bowl 50 in Gillette Stadium. Tom and his teammates, Danny and Julian, try looking for Rob, but they can’t find him. Will the Patriots find Rob in time and be able to win the Super Bowl?

Lauren Goldby is mute. Whenever she talks, her mouth stays shut, and instead, she talks with her hands. But for her, being mute doesn’t get in her way. Running is much more important to her, so she just blocks out everything else, and focuses on what it is she wants to do. She is on a cross-country running team in her home in Vermont, where she moved with her family when she was in first grade. Things are going great there, and she has a best friend, Chloe Kern, who Lauren thinks is the bravest person in the world. Lauren’s goal is to make it to regionals, and there is a good chance she will, so she thinks. One day, at running practice, she feels an urge to prove herself to Casey Williams, an eleven-year-old boy, who takes advantage of her being mute by being mean to her, and knowing that she will not be able to respond to the rude things that he says. Casey gets annoyed with her, and Lauren’s determination to show what she can do overpowers her good sense, because as she attempts to outrun him during a free-run, she breaks her leg, very badly. Lauren’s leg takes a while to get better, and as it heals, she gets restless, and wants to run. If Lauren wants to run in regionals, she needs to train, and if she wants to train, her leg needs to come out of her cast. Will Lauren’s dreams be run down by her leg in a cast, or will she achieve her goal?

  Do you know what it feels like to be poor and without a mom? Well, thirteen-year-old Julia does. Julia’s mom died of cancer when Julia was three. She has been living life with her Aunt Eliza and Eliza’s two-year-old dog, Jasper, in a broken down house on 26 Sullivan Lane, Jackson, Alabama. Julia’s father works every day of the week at a toothpaste factory, yet they’re still running low on money. Julia goes to Jackson Middle School and she gets bullied for her poorness. Julia has not seen her father in a long time because he works so much, and she struggles to keep her emotions in. Aunt Eliza is helping in every way that she can. One night Aunt Eliza calls up Julia’s father and asks if he would come over and surprise Julia. He agrees and they made a date that he would come over. As Julia waits for her father’s arrival, she worries about meeting him and wonders how her family will survive. Can Julia help her family get the money they need?

Timmy is the last one standing of his kind. Timmy is the cutest little jelly that roams the earth. He is a green blob of jelly that has no legs and no arms. His lifestyle is very basic. He wakes up and goes on the streets and roams around and does nothing all day. He cannot talk English so he has trouble communicating with the humans that are around him. The conflict of the story starts because Timmy wants legs. He cannot find a way to get any legs, partly because he cannot talk English. Another part of the problem is that Timmy is so small, he cannot be seen in the crowd of people that is always around him. Timmy does not even try to talk to people because every single time that he does, people laugh at him. Timmy cannot find a possible answer to how to get legs. Will Timmy be successful at finding his legs or will he fail his biggest dream?

Kira has always been an ordinary girl. She is 11 years old, and has a best friend named Marlie. Kira lives in a cozy house on Remi Street, with two loving parents, a sweet brother named Brandon, and a annoying sister named Zoe. She loves her friends, and loves her school and can hardly wait for a trip to Europe that her parents planned, that she has been dreaming of for her entire life. Nothing could be better. But when she goes on the incredible trip to Europe with her parents, she ends up in a completely different situation than she imagined. The boat her family is traveling on splits up into three pieces. Kira is trapped on one section of the tiny ship, all alone. She has nothing. She drifts off by herself and starts losing hope. After a while, she ends up in Italy, with no place to live. She searches the streets for any sign of hope and for someone who will care of her for a while. When she finally gets a temporary home and a school, she realizes that she needs to find her family because they mean so much to her.. All she wants is to not be teased at her temporary school, happiness with what she has,, and her family back but she can’t get any of those things without her parents. Will Kira ever survive in Italy and will she get her normal life back?

Have you ever lived in one place for all of your life, then found out that you’re moving? Well that’s pretty much what happened to Brody. Brody is a 56 year old dog (8 in human years) and he has lived every second of his life in the grassy hills of Switzerland. Brody loves his little home in Switzerland with his owner Michael. But once Michael dies in a tram crash, Brody knows that things will have to change. After Michael’s death Brody has to live with Brittany, a sweet and talented girl that will completely turn his life around. Brody moves to New York City, a place he never thought he would go to. In New York Brody is being neglected by Brittany and they have no connection at all. Brody spends countless days inside their new apartment just sleeping and feeling more alone than ever. Will Brody bond with Brittany and learn to live in the city? Will he return home and have a normal life with Brittany or will he stay in the city living a boring life forever? He misses Michael very much but most of all, he wants to go home and live in Switzerland when Brittany’s college ends.  

Can your life change in one moment? Andrew Enzo is a rookie F1 driver for McLaren automotive. Everyone loves him. He is humble and he has the mindset of a champion. He is at the peak of his career. Everything seems to be going his way Until something life changing happens to him. He has a very rough crash and ends up injured and in the hospital. He is anxious to get back on the track, but the doctor tells him that he needs to rest for quite a bit of time. Will Andrew overcome his fear after his accident? Will he never race again? Will he win again?

Sabrina Evil is no evil child; she is an unusual child. She is a shy girl, but lives in a bold life. She lives with her parents on a private island in the Pacific Ocean. Sabina’s parents are spies. She has many questions about her parents and her life in her head, but there is no one to answer them. Her parents are very secretive; leaving Sabrina feeling curious yet scared about her parents. Sabrina has friends, but none of her friends understand how it feels to have spies as parents. She is always alone. What Sabrina really wants is to know her parents better. When Sabrina finds her father's notebook, it changes her whole life. Sabrina has grown to work independently, but in order to figure more about her parents and the notebook, it’s going to take courage and help from others. Sabrina is a unique child and when she finds out that she is going to be a spy, Sabrina’s excited. Could her spy career help her find out about her parents?

Fang thought that he would live a pretty normal life. Well, normal enough for a orphan ogre that lives on the streets. But when the four most important human generals come to Ogreville, his entire life changes. Before the generals had come, the humans had ruled the monsters in an evil dictatorship. But when Fang kills the generals as a move against the humans, a rebellion forms. As punishment for killing the generals however, Fang has been put in The Tournament of Death. So instead of being able to help the rebels, he is struggling for survival against monsters that in other circumstances would have been his friends. Fang is torn between winning the tournament and escaping to help with other monster fight the humans for their freedom. Will the rebels defeat the humans and will Fang survive the tournament? Or will the humans win against the rebels and keep their dictatorship over the monsters?

World War lll has started in the year 4457. A revolution is unfolding. People are getting killed at massive rates. There are bombings everywhere. World War lll all started when Russia nuked Canada. North America had space-age technology so North America took the war to space. Rex, a soldier, is a good person. He can be humored easily. He can make a lot of friends in a short time. His parents died when he was nine in a nuclear explosion. He has been living on his own ever since. Now, Rex knows he has to try to stop the war. If he gets killed, he will be happy to die in service. But the war has been going on for several years. Rex entered when he was 21. Now he is 23. Is he going to live or not?

Ella Jefferson lives in Santa Carla, California. One day, two strangers appear out of nowhere in the woods behind Ella’s house. They are twins Jacob and Miah. They are different and out of this world. Literally. In other words, they are aliens. The twin aliens tell Ella the story of how they ended up in California. Their spaceship crashed because a bad guy called Ode was chasing them. Ode wanted to capture them because if he was able to show the aliens to the scientists, the scientists would reward him with a big amount of money. The two aliens long to get back to their home, planet Drooz, and be out of danger. But they’ve looked everywhere around town and they can’t find the key to their spaceship. The aliens learn how to get around by looking at the ways of others, and, with Ella, try lots of new things along the journey to find the key. But will they even find the key? If they don’t will they not be able to get back home? Will Ode capture the twins?

Ashley Dapetson and Larry Frankelaide haven’t always hated each other... They do most things that normal students do. These two kids take tests, love recess, and hate homework. Other than the fact that they hate each other, they think their lives are going to be the same as anyone else’s. They are normal sixth graders at a normal school, or so they thought. Just when Ashley thinks she and Larry will never speak to each other again, they both end up in a strange passage that no one else seems to notice. Ashley doesn’t want to be stuck in a secret passageway with someone she hates. What could be at the end? Every day there’s something different at the end of the passage. One day it’s a maze with interesting riddles, another day it’s a beach with a mystifying sunset.

Ashley doesn’t know what to expect in terms of what will happen in her future. It seems she and Larry’s lives are magical and somehow they suspect that someone has been messing with them. Will their whole lives be full of magic, or will they somehow find a resolution? Could anyone else in the school be somehow attached to this? Only the person they’d least expect could pull off creating a passage...