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The Alchemyst

Michael Scott

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The Apothecary

Maile Meloy

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This Dark Endeavor

Kenneth Oppel · 298 pages

When his twin brother falls ill in the family's chateau in the independent republic of Geneva in the eighteenth century, sixteen-year-old Victor Frankenstein embarks on a dangerous and uncertain quest to create the forbidden Elixir of Life described in an ancient text in the family's secret Biblioteka Obscura.

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The First Escape

G.P. Taylor · 280 pages

At St. Dunstan's School for Wayward Children, life is trouble for fourteen-year-old identical twins Sadie and Saskia Dopple and ther friend Erik Ganger, but when a mysterious woman adopts Saskia and takes her to a mansion filled with secrets and threats, Sadie and Erik escape the orphanage to save her.

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The Spiderwick Chronicles: Volume I: Book 1: The Field Guide; Book 2: The Seeing Stone

Holly Black · 128 pages

When Mallory and Jared attempt to rescue Simon from goblins, they use a magical stone which enables them to see things that are normally invisible. ---------- **German-language description** Irgendwie spukig ist das verwinkelte viktorianische Haus, in das die Zwillinge Jared und Simon mit ihrer Schwester Mallory einziehen. Merkwürdige Dinge geschehen, kleine Bosheiten, die allesamt Jared

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The Wind Singer

William Nicholson · 352 pages

An extremely amazing look into the life of two twin brothers and sisters who are expected to do everything at their school in the most perfect manner until the sister cant cope with it anymore...................

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Hollow Earth

Carole E. Barrowman, John Barrowman · 326 pages

Possessing extraordinary powers, including the ability to bring artwork to life, twelve-year-old twins Matt and Emily are sought by villains trying to access the terrors of Hollow Earth, a place where demons and mythological beasts lie trapped for eternity.

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The Alchymist's Cat

Robin Jarvis · 240 pages

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The Shadow Cipher

Laura Ruby · 476 pages

In an alternate history of New York, three kids try to solve a modern-world puzzle and complete a treasure hunt laid into the streets and buildings of the city.

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Demons of the Ocean

Justin Somper · 330 pages

When twins Connor and Grace's ship is wrecked in a storm and Connor is rescued by pirates, he believes that Grace has been taken aboard the mythical Vampirate's ship, and he is determined to find her.

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The Akhenaten Adventure

P.B. Kerr · 355 pages

Meet John and Philippa Gaunt, twelve-year-old twins who one day discover themselves to be descended from a long line of djinn. All of a sudden, they have the power to grant wishes, travel to extraordinary places, and make people and objects disappear. Luckily, the twins are introduced to their eccentric djinn-uncle Nimrod, who will teach them how to harness their newly found power. And not a momen

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Quintessence

David Walton · 320 pages

"Imagine an Age of Exploration full of alchemy, human dissection, sea monsters, betrayal, torture, religious controversy, and magic. In Europe, the magic is thin, but at the edge of the world, where the stars reach down close to the Earth, wonders abound. This drives the bravest explorers to the alluring Western Ocean. Christopher Sinclair is an alchemist who cares only about one thing: quintessen

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The Field Guide

Holly Black, Tony DiTerlizzi · 107 pages

When the Grace children go to stay at their Great Aunt Lucinda's worn Victorian house, they discover a field guide to fairies and other creatures and begin to have some unusual experiences.

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The Wishing Spell

Chris Colfer · 448 pages

Frustrated by all the happy goofy representations of fairy tales? (Note: Chris began the concept for this book in his late high school years, which were much earlier than the copyright date of 2012.) Well, so was Chris. So, he decided to mix them up a little. This book has several of the standard fairy tale characters, such as Red Riding Hood, the witch who liked to eat children (Hansel & Gretel),

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Molly Moon, Micky Minus, & the Mind Machine

Georgia Byng · 405 pages

With the, sometimes reluctant, help of her long-lost twin brother Micky Minus, Molly uses her telepathic powers to try and save the world from the maniacal Princess Fang and her evil mind machine.

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Fullmetal Alchemist, Vol. 1

Hiromu Arakawa · 192 pages

**Breaking the laws of nature is a serious crime!** In an alchemical ritual gone wrong, Edward Elric lost his arm and his leg, and his brother Alphonse became nothing but a soul in a suit of armor. Equipped with mechanical “auto-mail” limbs, Edward becomes a state alchemist, seeking the one thing that can restore his and his brother’s bodies...the legendary Philosopher’s Stone. Alchemy: the

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The Adventures of Vin Fiz

Clive Cussler · 167 pages

Bestselling adult novelist Clive Cussler conjures up a hypnotic, charmingly nostalgic tale about a pair of ten-year-old twins who get their wish to explore the wide world beyond their parents' California farm. Soaring cross-country through the sky in the enchanted Vin Fiz, Casey?s model of a Wright Brothers biplane.

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Middlegame

Seanan McGuire · 492 pages

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The Monster

Garth Nix, Sean Williams · 304 pages

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The Potion Diaries

Amy Alward · 400 pages

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The Door to Time

Pierdomenico Baccalario · 222 pages

After moving from London to an old mansion on the English coast, eleven-year-old twins Jason and Julia discover that their new home has twisting tunnels, strange artifacts from around the world, and a mysterious, locked door.

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Fullmetal Alchemist: To Each His Own Bonds

Makoto Inoue · 200 pages

During a recent visit with their former teacher Izumi Curtis, the Elric brothers discover the existence of a particular book--a book so dangerous that it remains against the law to even print it! Curious, Edward and Alphonse set out to locate this unique and rare tome. On their journey they encounter a young Ishballan child and his foster mother. Seeing them reminds the brothers of their own mothe

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Many Waters

Madeleine L'Engle · 310 pages

Sandy and Dennys have always been the normal, run-of-the-mill ones in the extraodinary Murry family. They garden, make an occasional A in school, and play baseball. Nothing especially interesting has happened to the twins until they accidentally interrupt their father's experiment. Then the two boys are thrown across time and space. They find themselves alone in the desert, where, if they belie

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Fullmetal Alchemist, Vol. 9

Hiromu Arakawa, Akira Watanabe · 208 pages

Ed, Al and Winry return to Central Command, but only bad news greets the Fullmetal Alchemist and his friends. Lieutenant Colonel Maes Hughes has been murdered - and Second Lieutenant Maria Ross is the prime suspect! While Maria awaits an uncertain fate in jail, the living suit of armor bearing the soul of serial killer "Berry the Chopper" breaks free of the military and goes on a rampage. Now, the

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