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Author
Series
Faerie Wars chronicles volume 5
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Stubborn and feisty Mella, the half-faeire half-human daughter of Lord Henry and Queen Holly Blue, has the power to determine the fate of both the faerie and "analogue world" when she travels to the country of Haleklind and discovers rebel forces preparing for war.
2) Brain Jack
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
349 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In a near-future New York City, fourteen-year-old computer genius Sam Wilson manages to hack into the AT&T network and sets off a chain of events that have a profound effect on human activity throughout the world.
Author
Series
Faerie Wars chronicles volume 3
Language
English
Description
While simultaneously trying to prevent and prepare for war between the Faeries of the Night and Faeries of the Light, Queen Holly Blue is kidnapped from her Uncle Hairstreak's home by human Henry Atherton and learns she must face another, far greater enemy.
4) Leviathan
Author
Series
Leviathan trilogy volume 1
Language
English
Description
In an alternate 1914 Europe, fifteen-year-old Austrian Prince Alek, on the run from the Clanker Powers who are attempting to take over the globe using mechanical machinery, forms an uneasy alliance with Deryn who, disguised as a boy to join the British Air Service, is learning to fly genetically-engineered beasts.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"A family divided. A galaxy at war. A sacrifice in blood to unite them all."--Page 4 of cover.
The planets are preparing for war-- and four people will determine the fate of the universe. With a revolution brewing, Rhee is faced with a choice: make a deal with her enemy, Nero, or denounce him and risk losing her crown. Framed assassin Alyosha has one goal in mind: kill Nero. But to get his revenge, Aly may have to travel back to the very place he...
6) Behemoth
Author
Series
Leviathan trilogy volume 2
Language
English
Description
Continues the story of Austrian Prince Alek who, in an alternate 1914 Europe, eludes the Germans by traveling in the Leviathan to Constantinople, where he faces a whole new kind of genetically-engineered warships.
Author
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Seventeen-year-old heiress Averie Winston travels with her guardian to faraway Chiarrin, a country her father's army has occupied, and once she arrives and is reunited with her fiance, she discovers that her notions about politics, propriety, the military, and even her intended have changed.
8) Goliath
Author
Series
Leviathan trilogy volume 3
Language
English
Description
Alek and Deryn encounter obstacles on the last leg of their round-the-world quest to end World War I, reclaim Alek's throne as prince of Austria, and finally fall in love.
Author
Series
Publisher
Eos
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
346 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
After a deadly attack on her home, fifteen-year-old Princess Branwen meets a mystical woman in white who prophesies that Branwen will save her homeland from falling to the Saxons.
10) Vortex
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"While serving as a superhuman government weapon during World War III, teenager Tom Raine's loyalties are tested by corruption and nefarious enemies"--
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperTeen
Pub. Date
[2010]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
344 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Branwen has accepted the role of Chosen One, and now, with a growing army including her half-owl half-human friend Rhodri and the dashing yet maddening Iwan, she must overcome terrifying odds if she is to succeed in saving Wales from the Saxon invaders.
12) Insignia
Author
Series
Insignia trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books
Pub. Date
[2012]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
446 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Tom, a fourteen-year-old genius at virtual reality games, is recruited by the United States Military to begin training at the Pentagon Spire as a Combatant in World War III, controlling the mechanized drones that do the actual fighting off-planet.
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen
Pub. Date
2010.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
309 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In a parallel world where humans and dragons live in a state of cold war, seventeen-year-old Kay and her dragon friend, Artegal, struggle to find a way to show that dragons and humans can co-exist.
14) Edenville Owls
Author
Publisher
Sleuth Philomel
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
194 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Bobby, living in a small Massachusetts town just after World War II, finds himself facing many new challenges as he tries to pull together his coachless basketball team, cope with new feelings for his old friend Joanie, and discover the identity of the mysterious stranger who seems to be threatening his teacher.
Author
Series
Vietnam volume 2
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
187 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Some things are worth fighting for. Of all his friends, Ivan is the only one looking forward to war. That's because Ivan has never backed down from a fight--especially when it comes to fighting for what's right. He has protected his friends from bullies for years. And now, as war erupts in Vietnam, Ivan wants nothing more than to fight for his country, just as his father did in World War II. Enlisting in the United States Army, Ivan is trained to...
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
In January 1937, as Sophia FitzOsborne continues to record in her journal, the members of Montmaray's royal family are living in luxurious exile in England but, even as they participate in the social whirl of London parties and balls, they remain determined to free their island home from the occupying Germans despite growing rumors of a coming war that might doom their country forever.
Author
Series
Vietnam volume 3
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
183 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Rudi is a newly drafted United States Marine in Vietnam, and he likes being part of a squad--but the way some of his fellow soldiers behave toward their officers, the Vietnamese, and the war itself, is starting to trouble him.
19) Crossing stones
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2009.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
184 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
In their own voices, four young people, Muriel, Frank, Emma, and Ollie, tell of their experiences during the first World War, as the boys enlist and are sent overseas, Emma finishes school, and Muriel fights for peace and women's suffrage.
Author
Series
Helium-3 novels volume 2
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
328 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Crater Trueblood, doubting the justice of the war he fights and the evil of enemies he was trained to hate, brings Crescent, an apparently female Crowhopper, to Moontown as his prisoner but soon both are fugitives, fleeing prejudice and cruelty in hostile territory.
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