Y
Skelton, Matthew.
Endymion Spring
A young boy
discovers the secret of a strange and mysterious book after the
clasp pierces his skin. Words begin to appear on the empty pages
and the secret unravels before him.
Y
Verrillo, Erica.
Elissa’s Quest
The first book
in the Phoenix Rising trilogy, thirteen-year-old Elissa lives in the
serene village of High Crossing, where she is an apprentice to the
healer Nana, here, she must escape the fate her father has chosen
for her.
Y
Meyer, Stephenie.
Twilight
When 17 year
old Bella leaves Phoenix to live with her father in Forks,
Washington, she meets an exquisitely handsome boy at school for whom
she feels an overwhelming attraction and who she comes to realize is
not wholly human. 498 pages
Y
Scott, Michael.
The Alchemyst
According to
legend, Nicholas Flamel discovered the secret of eternal life from
the powerful book of Abraham the Mage--a book he has protected since
his death in 1418. In the wrong hands, it will destroy the world.
Y
Carman, Patrick.
The Dark Hills Divide
Inquisitive
twelve-year-old Alexa Daley is spending another summer in the walled
town of Bridewell. This year, she is set on solving the mystery of
what lies beyond the walls. Legend says the walls were built to keep
out an unnamed evil that lurks in the forests and The Dark Hills.
Y
McNish, Cliff.
Doomspell
Rachel and her brother Eric are kidnapped by a witch and transported
to another world, where the witch intends to remake Rachel in her
own image, can they rebel against the evil witch?
J
Pullman, Philip.
The
Golden Compass
Accompanied by
her daemon, Lyra Belacqua sets out to prevent her best friend and
other kidnapped children from becoming the subject of gruesome
experiments in the Far North. Book one of a series.
J
Nimmo, Jenny.
Midnight for Charlie Bone
Charlie
Bone's life with his widowed mother and two grandmothers undergoes a
dramatic change when he discovers that he can hear people in
photographs talking. The first in a series.
J
Nimmo, Jenny.
The Snow Spider
Gifts from
Gwyn's grandmother on his ninth birthday open up a whole new world
to him, as he discovers he has magical powers.
J
Sage, Angie.
Magyk (Septimus Heap, Book 1)
Who is
Septimus Heap? A lost child? An ordinary Hero? A powerful wizard?
The Magyk begins here.
J
Ibbotson, Eva.
The Secret of Platform 13
A forgotten
door on an abandoned railway platform is the entrance to a magical
kingdom--an island where humans live happily with mermaids, ogres,
and other wonderful creatures.
J
Carman, Patrick.
The House of Power
Edgar, an
eleven-year-old orphan, finds a book that reveals significant
secrets about Atherton, the strictly divided world on which he
lives, even as geological changes threaten to shift the power
structure that allows an elite few to live off the labor of others.
J
Jarvis, Robin.
Dark Portal
While on a
rescue mission, a few daring mice journey below to the sewers to an
evil world populated by rats who peel mice before eating them and
worship the Dark Lord.Book one in the Deptford Mice Trilogy.
SCI FI
Tolkien, J.R.R.
The
Hobbit
The adventures
of the well-to-do hobbit, Bilbo Baggins, who lived happily in his
comfortable home until a wandering wizard granted his wish. Now his
adventures take him to strange and dangerous places. Can he survive
outside of the Shire?
