Archive for the ‘Series’ Category
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days
Amulet, 2009
Fiction, Graphic Novel
ISBN: 0810983915
224 pages
Synopsis
It’s summer vacation, the weather’s great, and all the kids are having fun outside. So where’s Greg Heffley? Inside his house, playing video games with the shades drawn. …
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Tithe
McElderry, 2004
Fantasy Fiction
ISBN: 0689867042
336 pages
Synopsis
Sixteen-year-old Kaye is a modern nomad. Fierce and independent, she travels from city to city with her mother’s rock band until an ominous attack forces Kaye back to her childhood home. There, amid the industrial, blue-collar New Jersey backdrop, Kaye soon finds herself an unwilling pawn in an ancient power struggle between two rival faerie kingdoms — a struggle that could very well mean her death. …
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Dreamhunter
Square Fish, 2009
Fantasy Fiction
ISBN: 0312535716
384 pages
Synopsis
Laura comes from a world similar to our own except for one difference: It is next to the Place, an unfathomable land that fosters dreams of every kind and is inaccessible to all but a select few, the dreamhunters. These are individuals with the ability to catch larger-than-life dreams and relay them to audiences in the magnificent dream palace. People travel from all around to experience the benefits of the hunters’ unique visions. …
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The Cabinet of Wonders
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008
Fantasy Fiction
ISBN: 0374310262
272 pages
Synopsis
Petra Kronos has a simple, happy life. But it’s never been ordinary. She has a pet tin spider named Astrophil who likes to hide in her snarled hair and give her advice. Her best friend can trap lightning inside a glass sphere. Petra also has a father in faraway Prague who is able to move metal with his mind. He has been commissioned by the prince of Bohemia to build the world’s finest astronomical clock. Petra’s life is forever changed when, one day, her father returns home – blind. …
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Heck-Where Bad Kids Go
Random House Books For Young Readers, 2008
Fantasy
ISBN: 0375840753
304 pages
Synopsis
When Milton and Marlo Fauster die in a marshmallow bear explosion, they get sent straight to Heck, an otherworldly reform school. Milton can understand why his kleptomaniac sister is here, but Milton is—or was—a model citizen. Has a mistake been made? Not according to Bea “Elsa” Bubb, the Principal of Darkness. She doesn’t make mistakes. She personally sees to it that Heck—whether it be home-ec class with Lizzie Borden, ethics with Richard Nixon, or gym with Blackbeard the Pirate—is especially, well, heckish for the Fausters. Will Milton and Marlo find a way to escape? Or are they stuck here for all eternity, or until they turn 18, whichever comes first? …
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House of Many Ways
HarperCollins, 2008
Fantasy
ISBN: 0061477958
416 pages
Synopsis
It’s been almost twenty years, but Jones is finally back into the wonderful fantasy world of Howl—Howl’s Moving Castle (1986), Castle In The Air (1991)—and although Howl, Sophie and Calcifer play important roles in this book, the spotlight is on a young girl named Charmain. Grown up privileged with an overprotective mother, Charmain loves nothing but books. …
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Emily The Strange: The Lost Days
HarperCollins, 2009
Fantasy
ISBN: 0061452297
264 pages
Synopsis
Sitting on a park bench in a strange town called Blackrock, Emily has no recollection of who she is and why she’s there. This little town is so odd. There is only one tree, and everything has been painted beige. Realizing that she must have amnesia for some inexplicable reason, Emily begins a journey to regain her identity. However, she quickly realizes that there’s more to this situation than first meets the eye, even though she can’t seem to quite put her finger on exactly why. Now, she must try to regain her memory and discern why this town is so odd because it must have something to do with why she’s there in the first place. She relays the whole story through a personal diary, complete with Polaroid’s, illustrations, lists, and descriptions of all the events that take place. …
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