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Magic tree house. Original series volume 6
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Eight-year-old Jack, his seven-year-old sister, Annie, and Peanut the mouse ride in a tree house to the Amazon rain forests, where they encounter giant ants, flesh-eating piranhas, hungry crocodiles, and wild jaguars.
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Maximum Ride volume 4
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While on a mission to Antarctica to save the world from global warming, fourteen-year-old Maximum Ride and the other members of the Flock-- a band of genetically modified children who can fly-- are pursued by their creator, the Uber-Director, who wants to auction them off to the highest bidder.
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Black stallion (Walter Farley) volume 2
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When he finds poison in the Black's stable, Alec suspects someone is trying to kill his beloved stallion. But just as he's puzzling over the clues, something even more disturbing happens. An Arab chieftain shows up and reclaims the Black.
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c2004
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Is this just an ordinary old man with extraordinary tales to tell? Perhaps ... or maybe they aren't tales at all. With each page you turn, hearing of his dreams, you might just begin to wonder if they are dreams at all, or perchance tales from an amazing life still being lived by an unassuming, little man with a cane.
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Mysterious Benedict Society volume 1
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After passing a series of mind-bending tests, four children are selected for a secret mission that requires them to go undercover at the Learning Institute for the Very Enlightened, where the only rule is that there are no rules.
6) Confessional
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Liam Devlin of "The Eagle has Landed" and the beautiful Tanya Voroninova are the only two people who can stop the assassin from completing his mission to kill the Pope within the week.
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William Goldman's beloved novel has sold over one million copies. A movie, released twenty years ago, perfectly captured the spirit of the book and has introduced new fans to its pages ever since. In 1941 a young boy lies bedridden from pneumonia. His perpetually disheveled and unattractive father, an immigrant from Florin with terribly broken English, shuffles into his bedroom carrying a book. The boy wants to know if it has any sports. His father...
9) Dragon rider
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Dragon rider volume 1
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After learning that humans are headed toward his hidden home, Firedrake, a silver dragon, is joined by a brownie and an orphan boy in a quest to find the legendary valley known as the Rim of Heaven, encountering friendly and unfriendly creatures along the way, and struggling to evade the relentless pursuit of an old enemy.
10) Airframe
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Three passengers are dead. Fifty-six are injured. The interior cabin virtually destroyed. But the pilot manages to land the plane... At a moment when the issue of safety and death in the skies is paramount in the public mind, a lethal mid-air disaster aboard a commercial twin-jet airliner bound from Hong Kong to Denver triggers a pressured and frantic investigation. Airframe is a nonstop reading: the extraordinary mixture of super suspense and authentic...
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Dirk Pitt adventures volume 13
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In 1856, a British clipper ship sinks after a storm while transporting convicts to an Australian penal colony. After horrible carnage on a raft, the pitiful survivors, among them Betsy Fletcher and Jess Dorsett, are washed up on a solitary island, where they discover an immense source of diamonds and found a powerful and welthy dynasty. One hundred forty years later, Maeve Fletcher, one of their descendants, is stranded on an island in Antarctica...
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Mysterious Benedict Society volume 2
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Reynie, Kate, Sticky, and Constance, all graduates of the Learning Institute for the Very Enlightened and members of the Benedict Society, embark on a scavenger hunt that turns into a desperate search for the missing Mr. Benedict.
14) White Fang
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c2011, c2003
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Born in the wilds of the freezing cold Yukon, the wolf cub White Fang soon learns the harsh laws of nature, growing fiercer and more independent in his struggle to survive. Yet buried deep inside him are distant memories of affection and love. Can he learn to trust man again?
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Maximum Ride volume 1
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After the mutant Erasers abduct the youngest member of their group, the "bird kids," who are the result of genetic experimentation, take off in pursuit and find themselves struggling to understand their own origins and purpose.
17) The Stranger
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Appears on list
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A young Algerian, Meursault, afflicted with a sort of aimless inertia, becomes embroiled in the petty intrigues of a local pimp and, somewhat inexplicably, ends up killing a man. Once he's imprisoned and eventually brought to trial, his crime, it becomes apparent, is not so much the arguably defensible murder he has committed as it is his deficient character. In the story of an ordinary man who unwittingly gets drawn into a senseless murder on a sun-drenched...
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I survived volume 11
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In this book of the I survived series, one boy will struggle to stay alive as the great city of Chicago burns.
A young boy struggles to stay alive as the great city of Chicago burns on a fateful day in 1871.
Oscar Starling races to stay ahead of the flames as Chicago burns to the ground.
19) Red storm rising
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When Moslem fundamentalists destroy a key Soviet oil complex, the Russians initiate a plan of diplomatic trickery for their seizure of Persian Gulf oil.
20) Night over water
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Pan American Flying Clipper lands in England at the outbreak of World War II with a group of desperate passengers.