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1) Artemis Fowl
Author
Series
Artemis Fowl series volume 1
Language
English
Appears on list
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.
Author
Series
Order of Black Hollow Lane volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Emmy's adventure continues when she returns to school and has to deal with a sinister organization, a missing father, and secrets she's not sure with whom she can trust.
6) Skellig
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
1999.
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
182 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Unhappy about his baby sister's illness and the chaos of moving into a dilapidated old house, Michael retreats to the garage and finds a mysterious stranger who is something like a bird and something like an angel.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Formats
Description
With the powers they acquire from a spinster who is studying to be a witch, three English children have a series of exciting and perilous adventures traveling on a flying bed that takes them to a London police station, a tropical island, and back in time to the seventeenth century.
Author
Series
Madeline (Ludwig Bemelmans) volume 4
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[1961]
Physical Desc
56 pages : illustrations ; 32 cm
Language
English
Description
When the Ambassador moves to London, the twelve little girls go to visit his son, Madeline has an adventure on a horse, and the horse returns to Paris with the girls.
10) Dead man walking
Author
Series
Ishmael Jones novels volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A rogue agent has come in from the cold and wants to spill his secrets. The Organisation wants Ishmael to find out if Frank Parker is who he says he is, what he really knows, and why he has emerged from the shadows after all this time. Ishmael heads to Ringstone Lodge in Yorkshire where Parker is being held to find that an atmosphere of fear and suspicion prevails. As he and his fellow residents are menaced by a series of alarming and inexplicable...
Author
Series
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
440 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Unhappy Penelope Lumley is trapped in unhappy Plinkst! Even the beets for which Plinkst is inexplicably famous fail to grow in this utterly miserable Russian village. Penelope anxiously counts the days and wonders how she will ever get back to England in time to save all the Ashtons--including herself and the Incorrigible children, although their precise location on the family tree is still a mystery--from their accursed fate. Her daring scheme to...
12) Greenwitch
Author
Series
Dark is rising sequence volume 3
Language
English
Description
Jane's invitation to witness the making of the Greenwitch begins a series of sinister events in which she and her two brothers help the Old Ones recover the grail stolen by the Dark.
Author
Language
English
Description
When orphaned Mary Lennox comes to live at her uncle's great house on the Yorkshire moors, she finds it full of secrets. At night, she hears the sound of crying down one of the long corridors. Outside, she meets Dickon, a magical boy who can talk to animals. Then one day, Mary discovers the most mysterious wonder of all -- a secret garden, walled and locked, which has been forgotten for years and years. With the help of two unexpected companions,...
Author
Series
Green Knowe chronicles volume 1
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
2002.
Physical Desc
183 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Tolly comes to live with his great-grandmother at the ancient house of Green Knowe and becomes friends with three children who lived there in the seventeenth century.
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