Children & Young Adults Fiction - Action & Adventure

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I Survived the Battle of D-Day, 1944 ...

Lauren Tarshis

In commemoration of the 75th anniversary of D-Day, Lauren Tarshis shines a spotlight on the story of the Normandy landings, the largest seaborne invasion in history and foundation for the Allied victory in World War II.

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Published: Jan 2019

Specials (Uglies Trilogy, Book 3)

Scott Westerfeld

Special Circumstances: The words have sent chills down Tally's spine since her days as a repellent, rebellious ugly. Back then Specials were a sinister rumor -- frighteningly beautiful, dangerously strong, breathtakingly fast. Ordina...

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Published: Sep 2007

The Bad Beginning: Or, Orphans! (A Se...

Lemony Snicket

Dear Reader, I'm sorry to say that the book you are holding in your hands is extremely unpleasant. It tells an unhappy tale about three very unlucky children. Even though they are charming and clever, the Baudelaire siblings lead live...

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Published: May 2007

Matched

Ally Condie

Cassia has always trusted the Society to make the right choices for her: what to read, what to watch, what to believe. So when Xander's face appears on-screen at her Matching ceremony, Cassia knows he is her ideal mate . . . until she...

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Published: Sep 2011

Throne of Glass

Sarah J. Maas

In a land without magic, where the king rules with an iron hand, an assassin is summoned to the castle. She comes not to kill the king, but to win her freedom. If she defeats twenty-three killers, thieves, and warriors in a competitio...

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Published: May 2013

Brian's Return

Gary Paulsen

As millions of readers of Hatchet, The River, and Brian's Winter know, Brian Robeson survived alone in the wilderness by finding solutions to extraordinary challenges. But now that's he's back in civilization, he can't find a way to m...

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Published: May 2001

The Black Pearl

Scott O'Dell

Ramon cannot believe what he has just found in an oyster he's brought up from an underwater cave where the Manta Diablo, the monster devilfish, lurks. Ramon is holding a pearl. Not just any pearl, but the most fabulous gem he or anyon...

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Published: Oct 1977

Etiquette & Espionage (Finishing Scho...

Gail Carriger

It's one thing to learn to curtsy properly. It's quite another to learn to curtsy and throw a knife at the same time. Welcome to Finishing School.Fourteen-year-old Sophronia is a great trial to her poor mother. Sophronia is more inter...

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Published: Oct 2013

Daughter of Smoke and Bone

Laini Taylor

Around the world, black handprints are appearing on doorways, scorched there by winged strangers who have crept through a slit in the sky.In a dark and dusty shop, a devil's supply of human teeth grown dangerously low.And in the tangl...

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Published: Jun 2012

Running Out of Time

Margaret Peterson Haddix

Run For Your Life Jessie lives with her family in the frontier village of Clifton, Indiana, in 1840 -- or so she believes. When diphtheria strikes the village and the children of Clifton start dying, Jessie's mother reveals a shocki...

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Published: Feb 1997

Tomorrow, When the War Began

John Marsden

When Ellie and her friends go camping, they have no idea they're leaving their old lives behind forever. Despite a less-than-tragic food shortage and a secret crush or two, everything goes as planned. But a week later, they return hom...

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Published: Jun 2006

The Queen of Attolia

Megan Whalen Turner

When his small mountains country goes to war with the powerful nation of Attolia, Eugenides the thief is faced with his greatest challenge. He must steal a man, he must steal a queen, and he must steal peace. But his greatest triumph-...

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Published: Jan 2000

Enclave

Ann Aguirre

New York City has been decimated by war and plague, and most of civilization has migrated to underground enclaves, where life expectancy is no more than the early 20s. When Deuce turns 15, she takes on her role as a Huntress, and is p...

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Published: Aug 2012

The Adventures of Vin Fiz

Clive Cussler

ten-year-old twins lacey and Casey Nicefolk have always wanted to fly. but kids can't fly . . . or can they? they can if they know the mysterious sucoh sucop—a man who claims to have an enchanted box that can transform any toy in...

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Published: May 2007

Blizzard of the Blue Moon (Magic Tree...

Mary Pope Osborne

Jack and Annie are off on another Merlin Mission. This time, Merlin has sent them to rescue a beautiful magical creature—the unicorn. But when they land in New York City during the Depression of the 1930s, Jack and Annie are confuse...

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Published: Dec 2007

It's Halloween, You 'Fraidy Mouse! (G...

Geronimo Stilton

It's Halloween on Mouse Island, and it seemed like everyone was out to get me, Geronimo Stilton! My cousin Trap kept pulling scary pranks on me. And then my sister Thea told me I had to write a book about Halloween in less than one da...

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Published: Sep 2004

Outpost (Enclave)

Ann Aguirre

In Ann Aguirre's Outpost, the Freaks from Enclave are back, and this time they're much smarter.Deuce's whole world has changed. Down below, she was considered an adult. Now, topside in a town called Salvation, she's a brat in need of...

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Published: Oct 2013

Thomas the Tank Engine's Hidden Surpr...

Wilbert Vere Awdry

Thomas is going on a special trip to the circus, and there are lots of wonderful things to discover along the way--a beautiful hot air balloon, a playful dolphin, and a barrel of monkeys, just to name a few! Lift and peek behind the m...

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Published: Oct 1999

Just Plain Foolishness (Always Troubl...

Wanda Brunstetter

Welcome back to Lancaster County, and join lovable and outrageously rambunctious eleven-year-old Rachel Yoder, as she learns an important lesson about contentment. Rachel Yoder embarks on a topsy-turvy adventure, as she experiences fe...

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Published: Dec 2008

Tornado (Trophy Chapter Book)

Betsy Cromer Byars

When Pete was a young boy, a tornado struck his family farm, and brought with it a doghouse 'complete with a dog inside! Now another twister is on its way, and as a new family of farmers takes shelter from the howling winds, Pete pass...

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Published: Jan 1997

Stone Fox

John Reynolds Gardiner

A Race Against Time Little Willy's Grandfather is sick, and it's up to Willy to save their farm from tax collectors. Their only hope is the prize money from the National Dogsled Race. But a lot of other people want to win the race, to...

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Published: Mar 1983

Eagle Strike (Alex Rider)

Anthony Horowitz

R When Dismas Hardy agrees to clean up the caseload of recently disappeared attorney Charlie Bowen, he thinks it will be easy. But one of the cases is far from small-timethe sensational clash between National Guard reservist Evan Scho...

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Published: Feb 2006

Midnight on the Moon (Magic Tree Hous...

Mary Pope Osborne

Illustrated in black-and-white. Jack and Annie are whisked forty yearsforward in time and land at an international space station on the moon.There they don space suits and go exploring the lunar surface in search of thefourth object n...

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Published: Oct 1996

Sunset of the Sabertooth (Magic Tree ...

Mary Pope Osborne

Jack and Annie are whisked all the way back to the Ice Age in thiscompelling Magic Tree House time-travel adventure where they meet woollymammoths, cave people...and fierce sabertooth tigers!

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Published: Apr 1996

Viking Ships At Sunrise (Magic Tree H...

Mary Pope Osborne

Jack and Annie are off in search of another story in jeopardy, this time ata monastery in ancient Ireland. Trouble arrives when Vikings land, and Jack andAnnie must find a way to escape!

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Published: Aug 1998

Call Me Francis Tucket (The Francis T...

Gary Paulsen

Alone. Francis Tucket now feels more confident that he can handle almost anything. A year ago, on the wagon train, he was kidnapped from his family by a Pawnee hunting party. Then he escaped with the help of the mountain man, Mr. Grim...

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Published: Oct 1996

Hatchet

Gary Paulsen

LOSTBrian Robertson, sole passenger on a Cessna 406, is on his way to visit his father when the tiny bush plane crashes in the Canadian wilderness. With nothing but his clothing, a tattered windbreaker, and the hatchet his mother had ...

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Published: Jan 2007

Tucket's Gold (The Francis Tucket Boo...

Gary Paulsen

Gary Paulsen's popular Western saga continues in the fourth novel about Francis Tucket.Things look grim for Francis and his adopted family, Lottie and Billy. Without horses, water, or food, they're alone in a prairie wasteland, with t...

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Published: Feb 2001

Pirates!

Celia Rees

Nancy Kington, daughter of a rich merchant, suddenly orphaned when her father dies, is sent to live on her family's plantation in Jamaica. Disgusted by the treatment of the slaves and her brother's willingness to marry her off, she an...

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Published: Sep 2005

The Titan's Curse (Percy Jackson & th...

Rick Riordan

A new prophecy leads to a dangerous quest.When Percy receives an urgent distress call from Grover, he immediately prepares for battle. He knows he'll need his powerful demigod allies, Annabeth and Thalia, at his side; his trusty bronz...

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Published: Oct 2013
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