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• Deep Water

  Key, Watt,

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  When a dive off the coast of Alabama goes horribly wrong, twelve-year-old Julie and one of her father's scuba clients struggle to survive after reaching an abandoned oil rig.

• Storm Runners

  Smith, Roland, 1951-

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  Twelve-year-old Chase Masters travels the country with his father, a "storm runner," but he is tested in ways he never could have imagined when he and a new friend are caught in a hurricane near St. Petersburg, Florida.

• The Reluctant Assassin

  Colfer, Eoin

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  In Victorian London, Albert Garrick, an assassin-for-hire, and his reluctant young apprentice, Riley, are transported via wormhole to modern London, where Riley teams up with a young FBI agent to stop Garrick from returning to his own time…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Ice Drift

  Taylor, Theodore, 1921-2006

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  Two Inuit brothers must fend for themselves while stranded on an ice floe that is adrift in the Greenland Strait.

• Last Day on Mars

  Emerson, Kevin,

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  While waiting to leave Mars before it burns up just like the Earth before it, Liam and his friend Phoebe discover some facts about time and space and realize that the human race is just one of the races trying to survive in space.

• The Forbidden Stone

  Abbott, Tony, 1952-

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  Wade, Lily, Darrell, and Becca fly from Texas to Germany for the funeral of an old family friend. But instead of just paying their respects, they wind up on a dangerous, mind-blowing quest to unlock an ancient, guarded secret that could…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Whiz Mob and the Grenadine Kid

  Meloy, Colin,

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  After witnessing a troupe of pickpockets pull off an incredible robbery in a busy Marseille square, Charlie Fisher agrees to protect one of the thieves if they teach him their ways, leading him into a world of adventure with global stakes.

• Deadweather and Sunrise

  Rodkey, Geoff, 1970-

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  Thirteen-year-old Eggbert, a planter's son on a pirate-infested Caribbean island chain, is on the run from a wealthy and powerful villain trying to kill him for his connection to a hidden treasure.

• Hook's Revenge

  Schulz, Heidi,

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  Captain Hook's swashbuckling daughter must avenge her infamous father's death at the jaws of the Neverland crocodile.

• The Big Dark

  Philbrick, W. R. (W. Rodman),

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  When something knocks out everything electrical at midnight on New Year's Eve, the world is plunged into chaos, including the town of Harmony, New Hampshire, where Webster Bragg, a vicious survivalist, sees an opportunity to dominate his…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Skeleton Tree

  Lawrence, Iain, 1955-

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  Chris and Frank's sailing vessel sinks and they are stranded alone in the wilds of Alaska. They don't like each other at all, but to survive they must build a relationship.

• Take Me to the River

  Hobbs, Will

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  When North Carolina fourteen-year-old Dylan Sands joins his fifteen-year-old cousin Rio in running the Rio Grande River, they face a tropical storm and a fugitive kidnapper.

• The Thief Lord

  Funke, Cornelia Caroline

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  Two brothers, having run away from the aunt who plans to adopt the younger one, are sought by a detective hired by their aunt, but they have found shelter with--and protection from--Venice's "Thief Lord."

• Convergence

  Lee, Stan, 1922-

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  Follows the experiences of a Chinese-American teen who is thrown into the middle of an epic global chase involving the release of twelve magical superpowers.

• Peter Nimble and His Fantastic Eyes

  a Story

  Auxier, Jonathan

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  Raised to be a thief, blind orphan Peter Nimble, age ten, steals from a mysterious stranger three pairs of magical eyes, that lead him to a hidden island where he must decide to become a hero or resume his life of crime.

• Ninth Ward

  Rhodes, Jewell Parker

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  In New Orleans' Ninth Ward, twelve-year-old Lanesha, who can see spirits, and her adopted grandmother have no choice but to stay and weather the storm as Hurricane Katrina bears down upon them.

• Chomp

  Hiaasen, Carl

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  When the difficult star of the reality television show "Expedition Survival" disappears while filming an episode in the Florida Everglades using animals from the wildlife refuge run by Wahoo Crane's family, Wahoo and classmate Tuna Gordon…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Lab

  Heath, Jack, 1986-

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  When Agent Six, a member of The Deck, a group fighting against their corrupt society, discovers that he is the product of an illegal experiment by the evil Lab, he takes dangerous steps to discover the truth about himself.

• Scorpia Rising

  Horowitz, Anthony, 1955-

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  When the world's deadliest terrorist organization, Scorpia, stirs up trouble in the Middle East, it is up to fourteen-year-old MI6 agent Alex Rider to thwart their plans.

• Moonshadow

  Rise of the Ninja

  Higgins, Simon, 1958-

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  It's the dawn of an age of peace in medieval Japan. But a power-hungry warlord is plotting to plunge the nation into a deadly civil war. Enter Moonshadow, the newest agent for the Grey Light Order, a secret brotherhood of ninja spy…Read moreRead more of this annotation