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The Jedera Adventure

Lloyd Alexander · 152 pages

Returning a library book is easy. Unless the book in question is a rare, valuable, very overdue library book. And it must be retumed to the famed library at Bel-Saaba in the North African country' of Jedera. And it's in the hands of Vesper Holly. Who's guaranteed to turn any seemingly simple errand into an exciting adventure. Adventure it is! Feuding desert tribes, rough terrain, slave traders,

Victorian EraAdventureMiddle GradeHistorical Fiction
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Monster on the Hill

Rob Harrell

Graphic Novel & MangaVictorian EraAdventureMiddle Grade
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Tai-Pan

James Clavell · 601 pages

"It is the early 19th century, when European traders and adventurers first began to penetrate the forbidding Chinese mainland. And it is in this exciting time and exotic place that a giant of an Englishman, Dirk Straun, sets out to turn the desolate island of Hong Kong into an impregnable fortress of British power, and to make himself supreme ruler-- Tai-Pan!"--P. [4] of cover.

Victorian EraAdventureMultiple POVHistorical Fiction
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Avatar: The Last Airbender: The Search, Part 1

Gene Luen Yang, Bryan Konietzko, Michael Dante DiMartino · 76 pages

Graphic Novel & MangaAdventureMiddle GradeMultiple POV
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The Convicts

Iain Lawrence · 198 pages

After seeing his father hauled off to debtor's prison, Tom Tin sets out to take revenge on Mr. Goodfellow, the man responsible for his family's misfortunes. But the fog-filled London streets are teeming with sinister characters. Tom encounters a blind man who scavenges the riverbed for treasure--and wants what Tom digs up; Worms, a body snatcher who reveals a shocking surprise; and a nasty gang of

Victorian EraAdventureMiddle GradeHistorical Fiction
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Holes

Louis Sachar · 240 pages

Stanley Yelnats is under a curse. A curse that began with his no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing great-great-grandfather and has since followed generations of Yelnatses. Now Stanley has been unjustly sent to a boys' detention center, Camp Green Lake, where the boys build character by spending all day, every day, digging holes exactly five feet wide and five feet deep. There is no lake at Camp Green

AdventureMiddle GradeMultiple POVRite of Passage
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The Dragon's Eye

Dugald A. Steer · 221 pages

Something that I still could hardly make out was flying round and round th room, I could see wings, scales, and a wisp of smoke rising from its nostrils. I saw it fly over to the other side of the room, positioning it's self directly opposite me. With wings outspread and claws at the ready, it fixed me with its beady eyes and bagan to fly straight at me.

Victorian EraMiddle GradeAdventureHistorical Fiction
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Compass South

Hope Larson

Graphic Novel & MangaAdventureMiddle GradeHistorical Fiction
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Marvel 1602

Neil Gaiman · 248 pages

Marvel 1602 is an eight-issue comic book limited series published in 2003 by Marvel Comics. The limited series was written by Neil Gaiman, penciled by Andy Kubert, and digitally painted by Richard Isanove; Scott McKowen illustrated the distinctive scratchboard covers. The eight-part series takes place in a timeline where Marvel superheroes have been transplanted to the Elizabethan era; faced with

Graphic Novel & MangaAdventureMultiple POVHistorical Fiction
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Alone on a Wide Wide Sea

Michael Morpurgo · 263 pages

The novel has two parts. The first follows Arthur Hobhouse's story, and the second follows the story of his daughter Allie.

AdventureMiddle GradeMultiple POVHistorical Fiction
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The Escape from Home

Avi · 314 pages

Maura O'Connell, 15, and her brother, Patrick, 12, escape Ireland's brutal poverty with only the belongings in their bundles and tickets for ocean passage. Sir Laurence Kirkle, 11, flees a life of privilege to seek justice. When fate brings them ogether, the three join forces in a daring scheme that may lead to freedom and glory...or dire consequences.

Victorian EraMiddle GradeAdventureHistorical Fiction
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The Unsinkable Walker Bean

Aaron Renier · 191 pages

Walker Bean never wanted to be a high-seas pirate waging a pitched battle against the forces of the deep. It just worked out that way. Mild, meek, and a little geeky, Walker is always happiest in his grandfather’s workshop, messing around with his inventions. But when his beloved grandfather is struck by an ancient curse, it falls on Walker to return an accursed pearl skull to the witches who c

Graphic Novel & MangaMiddle GradeAdventureSwashbuckling Adventure
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The Invention of Hugo Cabret

Brian Selznick · 534 pages

ORPHAN, CLOCK KEEPER, AND THIEF, twelve-year-old Hugo lives in the walls of a busy Paris train station, where his survival depends on secrets and anonymity. But when his world suddenly interlocks with an eccentric girl and the owner of a small toy booth in the train station, Hugo’s undercover life, and his most precious secret, are put in jeopardy. A cryptic drawing, a treasured notebook, a stolen

AdventureMiddle GradeHistorical FictionRite of Passage
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Wild Boy

Rob Lloyd Jones · 295 pages

Wild Boy becomes a sideshow freak. Isolated from other children and abused by the cruel master who bought him, Wild Boy becomes an avid observer, developing Sherlock Holmes-like deductive skills. Although he is tormented and insulted, kicked and spat at, his quick mind takes in everything he sees. When a murder occurs at the fair, Wild Boy is accused. Can he use his powers of deduction to save him

Victorian EraMiddle GradeAdventureHistorical Fiction
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Peter Pan

J.M. Barrie · 176 pages

The adventures of the three Darling children in Never-Never Land with Peter Pan, the boy who would not grow up. ---------- ###German-language description: Peter Pan, das ist der Junge, der nie erwachsen wird und auf einer Insel lebt, auf der alles möglich st. Wendy und ihre Brüder können noch nicht ahnen, was sie erwartet, als sie auf der Insel landen: Zusammen mit anderen Kindern geraten s

Victorian EraAdventureMiddle GradeMale Lead
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Captain Swing, Vol. 1

Warren Ellis

Victorian EraGraphic Novel & MangaAdventureHistorical Fiction
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The Case of the Missing Marquess

Nancy Springer · 216 pages

When Enola Holmes, sister to the detective Sherlock Holmes, discovers her mother has disappeared, she quickly embarks on a journey to London in search of her. But nothing can prepare her for what awaits. Because when she arrives, she finds herself involved in the kidnapping of a young marquess, fleeing murderous villains, and trying to elude her shrewd older brothers—all while attempting to piece

Middle GradeVictorian EraAdventureHistorical Fiction
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Warriors Graphic Novel: The Prophecies Begin #1

Erin Hunter

Based on Erin Hunter's Warriors series, this full-color adaptation introduces readers to a captivating world. This first book covers the first two original novels in "The Prophecies Begin: Into the Wild and Fire and Ice"

Graphic Novel & MangaMiddle GradeAdventureRite of Passage
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Asterix in Spain

Rene Goscinny · 48 pages

Graphic Novel & MangaAdventureMiddle GradeHistorical Fiction
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Thursday's Child

Noel Streatfeild · 265 pages

Story of irrepressible Margaret Thursday, an orphan determined to go far, and the friends she makes along the way.

Victorian EraMiddle GradeHistorical FictionAdventure
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The Throne of Fire: The Graphic Novel

Orpheus Collar, Rick Riordan · 160 pages

Presents a graphic adaptation of the novel in which Carter and Sadie, offspring of an Egyptologist, embark on a worldwide search for the Book of Ra, but the House of Life and the gods of chaos are determined to stop them.

Graphic Novel & MangaMiddle GradeAdventureMultiple POV
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Midnight Is a Place

Joan Aiken · 303 pages

In northern England in 1842, fourteen-year-old Lucas leads a lonely, monotonous existence in the house of his unpleasant guardian until the unexpected arrival of an unusual little girl presages a series of events that completely change his life.

Victorian EraMiddle GradeAdventureHistorical Fiction
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Behemoth

Scott Westerfeld · 485 pages

Continues the story of Austrian Prince Alek who, in an alternate 1914 Europe, eludes the Germans by traveling in the Leviathan to Constantinople, where he faces a whole new kind of genetically-engineered warships.

AdventureMultiple POVMiddle GradeSwashbuckling Adventure
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Kidnapped

Robert Louis Stevenson · 278 pages

KIDNAPPED is an adventure story that has become the model for any thriller of escape and suspense. Set in 1751, the flight of David Balfour and Alan Breck across the Highlands of Scotland is based on real events. Though he wrote the book to make money, while living as an invalid in Bournemouth. Stevenson was proud of it; he inscribed a presentation copy with the couplet. Here is the one sound

AdventureHistorical FictionMiddle GradeRite of Passage

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