Children & Young Adults Fiction - Action & Adventure

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Grasshopper Jungle

Andrew Smith

A 2015 Michael L. Printz Honor BookWinner of the 2014 Boston Globe-Horn Book Award for Fiction"Raunchy, bizarre, smart and compelling." --Rolling Stone“Grasshopper Jungle is simultaneously creepy and hilarious. Reminds me of Kurt Vo...

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Published: Mar 2015

Thea Stilton and the Frozen Fiasco: A...

Thea Stilton

One of the Thea Sisters' favorite authors, a famouse mystery writer, has disappeared! To find him, the five mice travel to his native Iceland. Together they traverse the stunning landscape and reconstruct the plot of the author's late...

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Published: May 2017

Thea Stilton and the Tropical Treasur...

Thea Stilton

While the Thea Sisters are on a tropical vacation in the Bahamas, they stumble upon an old pirate map! It's related to a local legend. Could it lead to treasure?! The five mice venture onto the sparkling Caribbean Sea to follow the ma...

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Published: Nov 2015

The Burning Bridge (The Ranger's Appr...

John Flanagan

For years, the Kingdom of Araluen has prospered, with the evil lord Morgarath safely behind the impassable mountains. For years, its people have felt secure. but the scheming hand of the dark lord has not been idle. . . . on a special...

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Published: Jun 2007

Summer of the Monkeys

Wilson Rawls

The last thing a fourteen-year-old boy expects to find along an old Ozark river bottom is a tree full of monkeys. Jay Berry Lee's grandpa had an explanation, of course--as he did for most things. The monkeys had escaped from a traveli...

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Published: Dec 1998

Tiger (The Five Ancestors, Book 1)

Jeff Stone

Twelve-year-old Fu and his temple brothers Malao, Seh, Hok, and Long don't know who their parents were. Raised from infancy by their grandmaster, they think of their temple as their home and their fellow warrior monks—their "te...

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Published: Mar 2006

The Paper Bag Princess (Classic Munsc...

Robert N. Munsch

The Princess Elizabeth is slated to marry Prince Ronald when a dragon attacksthe castle and kidnaps Ronald. In resourceful and humorous fashion, Elizabethfinds the dragon, outsmarts him, and rescues Ronald--who is less than pleasedat ...

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Published: Feb 1992

My Teacher Fried My Brains (My Teache...

Bruce Coville

Brains are sizzling in the seventh grade...The first day of seventh grade is probably the worst day of Duncan Dougal's life. He knows that things are really bad when he finds an alien's hand in a Dumpster and then gets plugged into an...

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Published: Jun 2005

Carl's Afternoon in the Park

Alexandra Day

Carl, the baby, and a new puppy spend an eventful afternoon in the park, riding on a carousel, romping in the flowers, and visiting a children's zoo.The Carl board books are sure to be baby's best friends!Titles in this series:Carl Go...

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Published: Oct 1992

Taran Wanderer (The Chronicles of Pry...

Lloyd Alexander

The Newbery-winning fantasy series now available in gorgeous new paperback editions! Since The Book of Three was first published in 1964, young readers have been enthralled by the adventures of Taran the Assistant Pig-Keeper and his q...

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Published: May 2006

The High King (The Chronicles of Pryd...

Lloyd Alexander

The Newbery-winning fantasy series now available in gorgeous new paperback editions! Since The Book of Three was first published in 1964, young readers have been enthralled by the adventures of Taran the Assistant Pig-Keeper and his q...

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Published: May 2006

The Mirror's Tale: A Further Tales Ad...

P. W. Catanese

Everyone has heard the story -- the dwarves, the talking mirror, the evil witch. But this tale doesn't belong to Snow White anymore....Bert and Will, the twin sons of the baron of Ambercrest, are best friends. They do everything toget...

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Published: May 2006

The Knight and the Dragon (Paperstar ...

Tomie dePaola

What happens when a sheepish knight and a not-so-fierce dragon fight for the very first time? Well, it's no ordinary battle since the knight has to go to the castle library to learn about dragon-fighting and the dragon must dig throug...

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Published: Feb 1998

The Whipping Boy

Sid Fleischman

A Prince and a Pauper Jemmy, once a poor boy living on the streets, now lives in a castle. As the whipping boy, he bears the punishment when Prince Brat misbehaves, for it is forbidden to spank, thrash, or whack the heir to the thro...

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Published: Apr 2003

Stage Fright on a Summer Night (Magic...

Mary Pope Osborne

Jack and Annie travel in their magic tree house to Elizabethan London, where they become actors in a production of A Midsummer Night's Dream and try to rescue a tame bear.

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Published: Mar 2002

Twister on Tuesday (Magic Tree House,...

Mary Pope Osborne

In the third book of the American history cluster, Jack and Annie are whisked to a midwestern prairie in the 1870s. They visit a one-room schoolhouse and learn about the hard life of the pioneers. When they return to the magic tree ho...

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Published: Mar 2001

Lost Treasure of the Emerald Eye (Ger...

Geronimo Stilton

Who Is Geronimo Stilton? That's me! I run a newspaper, but my true passion is writing tales of adventure. Here on Mouse Island, my books are all best-sellers! What's that? You've never read one? Well, my books are full of fun. They a...

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Published: Feb 2004

The Curse of the Cheese Pyramid (Gero...

Geronimo Stilton

Who Is Geronimo Stilton? That's me! I run a newspaper, but my true passion is writing tales of adventure. Here on Mouse Island, my books are all best-sellers! What's that? You've never read one? Well, my books are full of fun. They a...

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Published: Feb 2004

The Search for Sunken Treasure (Geron...

Geronimo Stilton

Holey cheese, what an adventure! I was off to the Ratlapagos Islands with my family in search of a long-lost buried treasure. But oh, how I hate traveling! Being on a ship in the middle of the sea wasn't my idea of a fabumouse time...

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Published: Jun 2006

Into the Abyss (Tom Swift Young Inven...

Victor Appleton

TOM IS IN DEEP-SEA TROUBLE...Tom. Bud, and Yo are on the S.S. Nestor, a Swift Enterprises research vessel, to witness Mr. Swift testing his submersible, the Verne-1. Mr. Swift plans to use the Verne-1 to place a network of seismometer...

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Published: Jun 2006

Poppy (The Poppy Stories)

Avi

King of the NightAt the very edge of Dimwood Forest stood an old charred oak where, silhouetted by the moon, a great horned owl sat waiting. The owls name was Mr. Ocax, and he looked like death himself. With his piercing gaze, he surv...

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Published: Jan 1999

Baby Island

Carol Ryrie Brink

When a ferocious storm hits their ship, young Mary and Jean become stranded on a deserted island. They're not the only survivors; with them are four babies. Immediately the sisters set out to make the island a home for themselves and ...

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Published: Oct 1993

Back to School (Always Trouble Somewh...

Wanda E. Brunstetter

Rachel's back in school in Lancaster County! And that's where trouble finds her once again! Except this time, trouble is spelled O-R-L-I-E. That's the name of the new boy--the freckle-faced kid with a nasty cowlick--who has an o...

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Published: Jul 2007

The Wonderful Flight to the Mushroom ...

Eleanor Cameron

In print since the 1950's, the Mushroom Planet series is back with a new design by illustrator Kevin Hawkes. Don't miss the adventures of Chuck and David, two boys who travel to the alien planet Basidium in their homemade spaceship. ...

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Published: Oct 1988

Catching Fire: Movie Tie-In Edition: ...

Suzanne Collins

Catching Fire, the second book in the New York Times bestselling Hunger Games series, is now available with all-new cover art from the feature film!The second book in the international bestselling Hunger Games series is now a feature ...

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Published: Oct 2013

Big Egg (Step-Into-Reading, Step 1)

Molly Coxe

One morning Hen wakes up and finds a gigantic egg in her nest. Whose ege canit be? Here's a hint, Hen--it doesn't belong to that wily Fox!

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Published: Mar 1997

The Snail and the Whale

Julia Donaldson

This is the tale of a tiny snail and a great big whale. The snail may be small, but she has huge dreams of seeing the world. So she hitches a ride on a friendly whale's back to see amazing sights. Icebergs and volcanoes, storms and...

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Published: Apr 2006

The Four-Story Mistake (The Melendy Q...

Elizabeth Enright

Into the Four-Story Mistake, an odd-looking house with a confused architectural history, move the Melendy family -- Mona, Rush, Randy, Oliver, Father, and Cuffy, the housekeeper. Though disappointed about leaving their old brownstone ...

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Published: Jan 2008

The Saturdays (The Melendy Quartet)

Elizabeth Enright

Meet the Melendys! The four Melendy children live with their father and Cuffy, their beloved housekeeper, in a worn but comfortable brownstone in New York City. There's thirteen-year-old Mona, who has decided to become an actress; twe...

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Published: Jan 2008

Hail! Hail! Camp Dragononka #17: Supe...

Kate McMullan

It's the last day of the school year, so it must be time for Wiglaf and all his friends at Dragon Slayers' Academy to go home and enjoy the lazy hazy days of a medieval summer. Ummm, not quite. Not when Mordred the gold-hungry headm...

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Published: Jul 2006
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