Category: Adventure
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Storybound by Emily McKay
“I’m not him, you know. The character from the books. I’m not a hero. I’m not even particularly nice.” “I know,” I say, but Kane is already gone. Alone in the room, I turn back to the mirror. Slowly I lower my hand, letting the washcloth drop into the sink. There, on my chest, is…
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The Shadow Prince by David Anthony Durham
Five deadly tests, Only one shadow Prince. “I stepped into the Royal Audience chamber. For the briefest moment, I saw them: the pharaoh, the falcon-headed god, the goddess with a sun disc headdress, the prince, and the other court officials. I should have been trembling in awe from my head right down to my…
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The unexplainable disappearance of Mars Patel By Sheela Chari
“Missing kids, spy drones, A mysterious tech billionaire, and a team of misfit misfits on a mission to their Friends.” “Kids are disappearing from HG Wells Middle School, and the adults don’t seem to care. When Mars Patel’s friend Aurora goes missing, he and the rest of his detention crew band together to…
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They Never Came Back – Caroline B. Cooney
“At summer school, nothing much happens-usually. But this day is different. In a busy school cafeteria, a teenage girl is confronted by a classmate who questions her very identity. He explains to the students who have crowded around that the girl has an uncanny resemblance to his cousin, who was taken away by Social Services…
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Big Water
In the year 1882, in the city Parkdale lives a seventeen-year-old girl named Christina. When Christina’s twin brother dies of consumption she decides to run away. In Owen Sound she boards the steamship, Asia. She plans to travel to The Soo to find work away from home. But when a violent storm hits, and the…
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