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1) Artemis Fowl
Author
Series
Artemis Fowl series volume 1
Description
When twelve-year-old evil genius Artemis Fowl tries to restore his family fortune by capturing a fairy and demanding a ransom in gold, the fairies fight back with magic, technology, and a particularly nasty troll.
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Description
Thirteen-year-old Conor awakens one night to find a monster outside his bedroom window, but not the one from the recurring nightmare that began when his mother became ill--an ancient, wild creature that wants him to face truth and loss.
The monster showed up after midnight. As they do. But it isn't the monster that thirteen year old Conor's been expecting. He's been expecting the one from his nightmare, the nightmare he's had nearly every night since...
4) The brave
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
Collin can't help himself--he has a unique condition that leads him to count every letter spoken to him. It's a quirk that makes him a prime target for bullies and a continual frustration to the adults around him, including his father. When Collin is asked to leave yet another school, his dad decides to send him to live in Minnesota with the mother he's never met. She is Ojibwe and lives on a reservation. Collin arrives in Duluth with his loyal dog,...
6) Hungry Jim
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
Jim wakes up hungry, just not for the pancakes his mother is fixing--so his imagination takes over, and he pictures himself as a lion checking out the possibilities for breakfast (including his mother).
7) Wait
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
"A ... picture book about the joys of waiting and taking in what is around you"--
As a boy and his mother move quickly through the city, they're drawn to different things. The boy sees a dog, a butterfly, and a hungry duck while his mother rushes them toward the departing train. It's push and pull, but in the end, they both find something to stop for.
9) The dogs
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Fire
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
Cameron is used to moving at a moment's notice because he and his mother are always running away from his supposedly violent father, but he is disturbed by their latest refuge, a creepy, deserted farmhouse, haunted by bloodthirsty dogs--and when he sees a boy hiding in the barn, and finds an old picture of the same boy, he starts wondering about the possibility of human ghosts.
10) In your hands
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
"A prayer from mother to son that he will always be in safe hands."--
11) Coming home
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
Follows the emotions of a young boy as he waits at an airport for a family member to return home from serving in the military.
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Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
Jason has just learned that his Afghan mother has been living illegally in the United States since his father was killed in Afghanistan. Although Jason was born in the US, it's hard to feel American now when he's terrified that his mother will be discovered--and that they will be separated. When he sees his mother being escorted from her workplace by two officers, Jason feels completely alone. He boards a train with the hope of finding his aunt in...
Author
Series
Young Captain Nemo volume 2
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
Gabriel Nemo has never been your normal, everyday twelve-year-old. As a descendant of the famous Captain Nemo, he's determined to use his Nemotech legacy for good. He and his best friends Peter and Misty spend their days studying at the elite Nemo Institute and in their spare time, run rescue missions in Gabriel's submarine The Obscure. But when a mysterious organization using advanced technology attacks the Institute and kidnaps Gabriel's mother,...
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Series
TombQuest volume 5
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
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Description
Alex and Ren must confront the Death Walkers, The Order, and an army of the dead in an attempt to save themselves, Alex's mother, and the world--and hope that Ammit, the Devourer of Egyptian legend, will be able to separate the guilty from the innocent.
15) I wanna iguana
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2004]
Description
Alex and his mother write notes back and forth in which Alex tries to persuade her to let him have a baby iguana for a pet.
16) Shark night
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2024.
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Description
Liam is helping his mom film a documentary for the Danger Channel. He will be in a giant water tank as a hammerhead shark is lowered in with him--but don't worry, the hammerhead is very gentle, old, and toothless. But as Liam waits in the tank, watching as the shark is lowered in, he realizes... they have the wrong shark!
17) Divided we fall
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Danny Wright, seventeen, joined the Idaho Army National Guard to serve the country as his father had, but when the Guard is sent to an anti-government protest in Boise and Danny's gun accidently fires, he finds himself at the center of a conflict that results in the federal government declaring war on Idaho.
18) The batboy
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Even though his mother feels baseball ruined her marriage to his father, she allows fourteen-year-old Brian to become a bat boy for the Detroit Tigers, who have just drafted his favorite player back onto the team.
19) Joseph Fipps
Author
Publisher
Enchanted Lion Books
Pub. Date
2014, c2012.
Description
"Joseph Fipps is a very energetic little boy, so energetic that sometimes his mother has had enough. Here he gets angry at her and she suggests he find another mother, a walrus mother"--
Author
Series
TombQuest volume 4
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
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Description
Twelve-year-olds Alex and Renata are on the run from the Order, which is on the brink of creating an army of indestructible stone warriors to carry out their evil schemes, and only the Lost Spells which his mother used to bring Alex back to life can stop them--and undoing the powerful magic that created the chaos that is now loose in Egypt might very well kill him.