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Barron, T. A.
Heartlight
Kate and her grandfather use one of his inventions to travel faster than the speed of light on a mission to save the sun from a premature death. Companion books: The Ancient Ones and The Merlin Effect.
272 p. 1990
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Buckley-Archer, Linda
The Time Travelers
Ignored by his father and sent to Derbyshire for the weekend, twelve-year-old Peter and his new friend, Kate, are accidentally transported back in time to 1763 England where they are befriended by a reformed cutpurse. Book One in the Gideon Trilogy. This book is also called Gideon the Cutpurse.
404 p. 2007
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Bunting, Eve
The Lambkins
After being kidnapped by the lonely widow of a brilliant geneticist, Kyle finds himself shrunk to doll-size and living with three other children in a dollhouse from which there seems to be no escape.
180 p. 2005
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Butts, Nancy
The Door in the Lake
After vanishing without a trace one night during a camping trip, 12-year-old Joey reappears two years later showing no signs of having aged and carrying memories of a strange light in the sky.
159 p. c1997
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Carroll, Michael Owen
The Awakening
Ten years after the disappearance of superhumans--both heroes and villains--thirteen-year-olds Danny and Colin begin to develop super powers, making them the object of much unwanted attention. This is the first book of the Quantum Prophecy series.
264 p. 2007
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Christopher, John
When the Tripods Came
Fourteen-year-old Laurie and his family attempt to flee England when the Tripods descend from outer space and begin brainwashing everyone with their hypnotic Caps. Book 1 of the Tripods series.
151 p. 1988
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Clayton, Emma
The Roar
In an overpopulated world where all signs of nature have been obliterated and a wall has been erected to keep out plague-ridden animals, twelve-year-old Mika refuses to believe that his twin sister was killed after being abducted, and continues to search for her in spite of the dangers he faces in doing so.
481 p. 2009
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Cockcroft, Jason
Counter Clockwise
With the aid of Bartleby, an enormous Tower of London guard known as a Beefeater, Nathan travels through time to stop his father from changing the past.
202 p. 2009
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Coville, Bruce
I Was a Sixth Grade Alien
When aliens come to Earth on an interplanetary trade mission, sixth-grader Tim makes friends with the ambassador's son and together they uncover a plot to sabotage the mission. First book in the I Was a Sixth Grade Alien series.
153 p. 1999
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Coville, Bruce
My Teacher Is an Alien
Susan Simmons can tell that her new substitute teacher is really weird. But she doesn't know how weird until she catches him peeling off his face and realizes "Mr. Smith" is really an alien.
Sequel: My Teacher Fried My Brains.
123 p. 1989
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Crilley, Mark
Akiko : the Training Master
Fifth-grader Akiko renews her acquaintance with her friends from the planet Smoo when they whisk her away to the Zarga Baffa Training Camp, where she must deal with mud, misery, and a training master who is out to get her.
207 p. 2005
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Daley, Michael J.
Shanghaied to the Moon
Desperate to become a space pilot like his mother, despite his father's opposition, thirteen-year-old Stewart meets an old spacer who offers him the chance to learn AstroNav during a flight to the moon in the year 2065--and reveals some family secrets along the way.
251 p. 2007
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Fardell, John
The 7 Professors of the Far North
Eleven-year-old Sam finds himself involved in a dangerous adventure when he and his new friends, brother and sister Ben and Zara, set off for the Arctic to try and rescue the siblings' great-uncle and five other professors from the mad scientist holding them prisoner. Sequel: The Flight of the Silver Turtle.
217 p. 2005
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Farmer, Nancy
The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm
In 2194 in Zimbabwe, General Matsika's three children are kidnapped and put to work in a plastic mine, while three mutant detectives use their special powers to search for them.
311 p. 1994
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Fox, Helen
Eager
Gavin Bell and his teenage sister Fleur come from a middle-class family. Their much-loved, old-fashioned robot, Grumps, is running down and can't be repaired, so a scientist friend loans them EGR3, an experimental new robot, to help Grumps. Sequel: Eager's Nephew.
280 p. 2004
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Gaiman, Neil
Interworld
At nearly fifteen years of age, Joey Harker learns that he is a Walker, able to travel between dimensions, and soon joins a team of different versions of himself, each from another dimension, to fight the evil forces striving to conquer all the worlds.
239 p. 2007
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Haarsma, P. J.
The Softwire : Virus On Orbis 1
Thirteen-year-old Johnny Turnbull has always known there was something different about him, even before he and two hundred other kids landed on the first ring of Orbis. But once their spaceship lands, he is identified as the first-ever softwire -- a human with the ability to enter and communicate with computers through his mind -- and becomes the focus of intergalactic intrigue. Johnny and the rest of the refugee orphans are put to work in alien factories, and very quickly things go very wrong. When the all-knowing, all-controlling, and technologically perfect central computer starts malfunctioning, suspicious eyes turn to Johnny. Is he the one responsible? Sequels: Betrayal on Orbis 2 and Wormhole Pirates on Orbis 3.
262 p. 2006
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Haddix, Margaret Peterson
Among the Free
When thirteen-year-old Luke Garner unwittingly sets off a rebellion which sweeps the country and ousts the Population Police from power, he quickly realizes that the new regime is corrupt and he may hold the only key to true freedom. Final book in the Shadow Children series.
194 p. 2006
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Hawking, Lucy
George's Secret Key to the Universe
Follows the adventures of a young boy and his neighbor friend as they travel through a computer portal into outer space, where they explore such mysteries as black holes and the origins of the universe, while trying to evade an evil scientist. Sequel: George's Cosmic Treasure Hunt.
297 p. 2007
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Hobbs, Will.
Go Big or Go Home
Fourteen-year-old Brady and his cousin Quinn love extreme sports, but nothing could prepare them for the aftermath of Brady's close encounter with a meteorite after it crashes into his Black Hills, South Dakota, bedroom.
185 p. 2008
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