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Adventure Stories

Breen, M.E. Darkwood
A clever and fearless orphan endures increasing danger while trying to escape from greedy, lawless men and elude the terrifying “kinderstalks” - animals who steal children – before discovering her true destiny.
            
Elliott, Patricia. The Pale Assassin
In early 1790’s Paris, as the French Revolution gains momentum, young and sheltered Eugenie finds it difficult to tell friend from foe as she and the royalist brother she relies on become the focus of a sinister spymaster with a long-held grudge against their family.
 
Fagan, Deva. Fortune's Folly
Ever since her mother died and her father lost his shoemaking skills, Fortunata has survived by pretending to tell fortunes, but when she is tricked into telling the fortune of a prince, she is faced with the impossible task of fulfilling her wild prophecy to save her father’s life.
 
Gardner, Sally. The Silver Blade
As the revolution descends into the ferocious Reign of Terror, Yann, a magician, uses his skills to confound his enemies and help spirit refugees out of France.   But the question of his true identity and the kidnapping of his true love, Sido, expose him to dangers that threaten to destroy him.
 
Unlike his news-reporter father and art-historian mother, who find living in the ancient war-torn country of Balabad endlessly interesting, 12 year-old Oliver, homesick for New York City, feels very much out of his element until he gets caught up in a centuries-old mystery involving stolen artifacts and buried treasure.
 
Firestar’s three grandchildren, Hollypaw, Lionpaw, and Jaypaw, struggle to restore faith in StarClan as Sol works to tear apart the bonds between Clans, and turn them away from their warrior ancestors.
 
Ketchum, Liza. Newsgirl
In the spring of 1851, San Francisco is booming. 12 year-old Amelia has just arrived with her family and they are eager to make a new life. But the mostly male town is not that hospitable to females and Amelia decides she will earn more money as a boy. Cutting her hair and donning a cap, she joins a gan of newsboys, selling Eastern newspapers for a fortune.
 

MacLean, Sarah. The Season

Showing no interest in the sumptuous balls, lavish dinner parties, and country weekends enjoyed by the rest of early 19th-century London society, 17 year-old Lady Alexandra Stafford seeks adventure as she investigates the puzzling murder of the Earl of Blackmoor, father of devilishly handsome Gavin.

 
Maes, Nicholas. Laughing Wolf
It is the year 2213, and a mysterious plague has broken out. Fifteen year-old Felix Taylor is the last person on Earth who knows the Latin language. He also has time travel skills, and must use them to transport himself back to Roman Times, circa 71 BC, to retrieve a flower which is the only possible cure. 
 
Mitchell, Jack. The Ancient Ocean Blues     
Given a dangerous mission, Marcus Oppius Sabinus risks a shipwreck, enslavement, and a pirate attack in order to spy on and undermine Cicero’s supporters so that Julius Caesar can continue his power grab.
 
Running and gunning, Vash keeps his trademark wits and savvy fully loaded with both barrels blazing as his enemies draw nearer and his friends hang dangerously in the balance. As the sun sets on this climactic final fight, will it be happy trails for Vash or will it end in a blaze of bullet-riddled glory?
 
Patterson, James. Max: A Maximum Ride Novel
When millions of fish start dying off the coast of Hawaii and something is destroying hundreds of ships, the government enlists the Flock – a band of genetically modified children who can fly – to help get to the bottom of the disaster before it’s too late.
 
Connecticut middle-schooler  Jake and his older sister Kady are transported by a Mayan artifact to a strange world inhabited by a mix of people from long-lost civilizations who are threatened by prehistoric creatures  and an evil alchemist, the Skull King.
 
When a high profile pirate is slain, the Pirate Federation takes decisive action and begins training up a ship of dedicated vampire hunters led by Captain Li and pirate prodigy Connor Tempest.   Meanwhile, Connor’s twin sister Grace enjoys a bittersweet reunion with their mother and learns some important and shocking news that will leave the twins facing a very uncertain future.
 
Wilks, Mike. Mirrorscape
In a world where all pleasures are severely restricted, Melkin Womper is apprenticed to a master painter where he discovers the Mirrorscape, a world inside paintings, and becomes entangled in a war between the restrictive Fifth Mystery and the rebels fighting to stop them.
 

Yancey, Richard. Alfred Kropp: The Thirteenth Skull

Teen misfit Alfred Kropp, the last descendant of Sir Lancelot, is once again in danger as he tries to uncover who is behind a top secret project call SOFIA, while eluding a new enemy who seems determined to kill him.
 
 

compiled by Phil Levering, December 2009

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