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J Barr       Dave Barry & Ridley Pearson. PETER AND THE STARCATCHERS 2004.
Soon after Peter sets sail from England aboard the ship Never Land, he befriends Molly, a young Starcatcher, whose mission is to guard a trunk of magical stardust from a greedy pirate and the inhabitants of a remote island. The first book in the trilogy.

J Bosc       Pseudonymous Bosch. THE NAME OF THIS BOOK IS SECRET. 2007.
Two 11 year-old misfits try to solve the mystery of a dead magician and stop the evil Dr. L and Ms. Mauvais who are searching for the secret of immortatlity.

J Funk        Cornelia Funke. INKHEART. 2003.
The first book in the Inkheart trilogy: Meggie and her father, Mo, have a peculiar talent, they can read fictional characters out of books. Capricorn, a villainous character from Inkheart, abducts Meggie and Mo and tries to get them to read out an even more odious character.

J Funk       Cornelia Funke. THE THIEF LORD. 2002.
Orphaned brothers Prosper and Bo, having run away from their cruel aunt And uncle, decide to hide out in Venice where they fall in with the Thief Lord and his band of underage thieves.

J Gord       Roderick Gordon & Brian Williams. TUNNELS. 2008.
Will Burrows and his dad are obsessed with digging and archeology. When his dad goes missing Will starts digging and discovers a secret underground society called “The Colony.” Before he can find his dad Will is captured by the society’s rulers, The Styx.

J Hale       Shannon Hale. RAPUNZEL’S REVENGE. 2008.
Rapunzel is raised in a grand villa with towering walls. She dreams of life with a different mother than Gothel, the woman she calls mom. When she discovers her mother is really Kate, a slave, she escapes the villa to find out the truth.

J Helg       Joseph Helgerson. HORNS AND WRINKLES. 2006.
Along a magic-saturated stretch of the Mississippi River, 12 year-old Claire and her bullying cousin Duke are drawn into an adventure involving Bodacious Deepthink the Great Rock Troll, a fairy and a group of trolls searching for their fathers.

J Land       Derek Landy. SKULDUGGERY PLEASANT. 2007.
When Stephanie inherits the house of her eccentric uncle, she meets one of his dearest friends, Skulduggery Pleasant, who just happens to be a living skeleton detective. Together they embark on an adventure to discover her uncle’s killer.

J Pear       Ridley Pearson. The KINGDOM KEEPERS. 2005.
Finn Whitman, an Orlando teen, is hired to be hologrammed as a Disney World guide but soon finds himself being transported into the Magic Kingdom at night to help fight a group of Disney villains, led by Maleficent, who want to take over Disney World.

PERCY JACKSON AND THE OLYMPIANS SERIES by Rick Riordan

J Rior       The Lightning Thief. 2005.
Percy Jackson has just found out that he is the son of Poseidon, the god of the sea, and now his mom is sending him to a camp for demigods for the summer. Things get more exciting when he and his friends travel across the country to try and mend a feud between the gods. The first book in the series.

J Sage       Angie Sage. MAGYK. 2005.
The first book in the Septimus Heap series: Septimus is the 7th son of the 7th son but on the day he was born he was kidnapped by the family’s midwife. On the very same day Mr. Heap returns home with an abandoned baby girl, Jenna. Neither Septimus or Jenna know their true identities or the unique future that lies ahead of them.

J Selz       Brian Selznick. THE INVENTION OF HUGO CABRET. 2007.
When 12 year-old Hugo, an orphan living and repairing clocks within the walls of a Paris train station in 1931, meets a mysterious toy seller and his goddaughter, his undercover life and his biggest secret are in peril.

J Stew        Paul Stewart. BEYOND THE DEEPWOODS: Edge Chronicles #1.
Twig was raised by Woodtrolls but he wasn’t one of them. When he learns he was adopted he strikes out on his own to find out who he really is. When he wanders into the Deepwoods he has one adventure after another until he finally discovers where his destiny lies.

J Stew        Paul Stewart. THE CURSE OF THE NIGHT WOLF. 2007.
Soon after Victorian messenger Barnaby Grimes is attacked by a huge beast while crossing London’s rooftops, he becomes entangled in a mystery involving medicine, patients, and furs.

J Wilk        Carole Wilkinson. DRAGON KEEPER. 2005.
During the Han Dynasty of ancient China, a slave girl becomes the Imperial dragon keeper when she rescues an ailing dragon. They embark upon a dangerous journey across China to protect the stone that is vital to the dragon’s legacy.

CHILDREN OF THE LAMP SERIES by P.B. Kerr

J Kerr        The Akhenaten Adventure. 2004.
When 12 year old twins John and Philippa discover they are members of a powerful family of djinn, they are sent to their Uncle Nimrod for djinn training and embark on a fabulous adventure to Cairo.

J Kerr        The Blue Djinn of Babylon. 2006.
When a magical incantation book goes missing, John and Philippa are sent to find it. When Philippa is trapped by the Blue Djinn, John must use his strength and cunning to free her.

J Kerr        The Cobra King of Kathmandu. 2007.
John, Philippa and their fellow djinn, Buck, hope to locate the lost talisman of the Cobra King, which may hold the secret behind a number of mysterious deaths.

J Kerr        The Day of the Djinn Warriors. 2008.
John and Philippa’s father has been cursed with a rapid-aging charm and their mother is dangerously close to becoming the Blue Djinn. They must pool their resources the cure their father and rescue their mother from a terrible fate.

J Kerr        The Eye of the Forest. 2009.
Djinn twins John and Philippa, along with their Uncle Nimrod, travel to the Amazon jungle to try and recover a stolen collection of rare Incan artifacts.

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