Fantasy, Science Fiction, & Adventure

Life is boring when you live in the real world, instead of starring in your own book series. Owen knows that better than anyone, what with the real world's homework and chores. But everything changes the day Owen sees the impossible happen--his classmate Bethany climbs out of a book in the library. It turns out Bethany is half-fictional, so she can jump into any book she wants . . . and she can take anyone with her -- including Owen!! 

*Continue the adventure with the entire Story Thieves series!* 

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12-year-old Sophie has never quite fit into her life. She doesn't fit in at school, where she has skipped multiple grades, but she's not comfortable with her family either. And Sophie has a secret--she's a Telepath, someone who can read minds. But the day Sophie meets Fitz, a mysterious boy, she learns she's not alone. He's a Telepath too, and it turns out the reason she has never felt at home is that, well...she isn't. Fitz opens Sophie's eyes to a shocking truth, and almost instantly she is forced to leave behind her family for a new life in a place that is vastly different from what she has ever known.

*Continue the adventure with the entire Keeper of the Lost Cities series!* 

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From the author of The One and Only Ivan, The One and Only Bob, and Crenshaw. 

Byx is the youngest member of her Dairne pack. Believed to possess remarkable abilities, her mythical doglike species has been hunted to near extinction in the war-torn kingdom of Nedarra. After her pack is hunted down and killed, Byx fears she may be the last of her species. The Endling. So Byx sets out to find safe haven, and to see if the legends of other hidden dairnes are true. Along the way, she meets new allies - both animals and humans alike - who each have their own motivations for joining her quest. And although they begin as strangers, they become their own kind of family -one that will ultimately uncover a secret that may threaten every creature in their world.

*Continue the adventure with the entire Endling series!* 

Available as an eBook and audiobook through the Lynbrook Public Library. Click HERE for Access & Info! 

After celebrating their first nine, same-day birthdays together, Amanda and Leo, stopped celebrating together after having a fight on their 10th birthday. They haven't spoken since. Now that they are about to turn 11, they prepare to celebrate their birthday separately . . . but peculiar things begin to happen as the day of their birthday begins to repeat itself over and over again! 

*Also by Wendy Mass: A Mango Shaped Space, The Candy Makers, Every Soul a Star, and Pi in the Sky.*

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Can a robot survive in the wilderness?  When robot Roz opens her eyes for the first time, she discovers that she is all alone on a remote, wild island. She has no idea how she got there or what her purpose is--but she knows she needs to survive. After battling a violent storm and escaping a vicious bear attack, she realizes that her only hope for survival is to adapt to her surroundings and learn from the island's unwelcoming animal inhabitants. As Roz slowly befriends the animals, the island starts to feel like home--until, one day the robot's mysterious past comes back to haunt her. 

*You can also read the sequel, The Wild Robot Escapes*

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It’s a little strange for 11-year-old Ellie when her mother brings home a boy who looks to be about 13 but dresses like Ellie’s grandfather. But it’s a shocker when Ellie realizes that the kid is her grandfather, a scientist who has suddenly succeeded in reversing the aging process. Now sleeping in their den and newly enrolled in Ellie’s middle school, Grandpa connives with her to sneak into his old lab and swipe what he needs to continue his research. Meanwhile, Ellie comes to admire the grandfather she has barely known, listens to his stories of famous scientists, and discovers her own passion for science.  

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Eleven-year-old Wyatt and his friend Augie aren't looking for a fight. They're having the best summer of their lives hanging out in the fort they built in the woods, fishing and hunting, cooking over a campfire, and sleeping out. But when two older boys mess with the fort--and with another kid who can't fight back--the friends are forced to launch Operation Doom, with unexpected results for all concerned, in this novel about two funny and very real young heroes.

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Jason, Piper, and Leo, three students from a school for "bad kids," find themselves at Camp Half-Blood, where they learn that they are demigods and begin a quest to free Hera, who has been imprisoned by Mother Earth herself. 

*Also try other series by Rick Riordan, including: Percy Jackson & The Olympians, The Kane Chronicles, Magnus Chase & The Gods of Asgard*

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Before the monster apocalypse, Jack Sullivan was an ordinary thirteen-year-old orphan. Now he's a butt-kicking hero with a tricked-out tree fort. But Jack learns that he'll need more than razor Frisbees to beat the big baddie Blarg--he'll need friendship. 

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