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Rick Riordan
PERCY JACKSON AND THE WRATH OF THE TRIPLE GODDESS
September 2024, Disney-Hyperion, 288 pp
Percy Jackson, now a high school senior, needs three recommendation letters from the Greek gods in order to get into New Rome University. He earned his first one by retrieving Ganymede’s chalice. Now ...
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Rick Riordan
PERCY JACKSON AND THE CHALICE OF THE GODS
September 2023, Disney-Hyperion, 256 pp
The original heroes from The Lightning Thief are reunited for their biggest challenge yet: getting Percy to college when the gods are standing in his way. After saving the world multiple times, Percy...
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William Alexander
AMBASSADOR
September 2015, Margaret K. McElderry Books/Simon & Schuster, 256 pp
Gabe Fuentes is in for the ride of his life when he becomes Earth’s ambassador to the galaxy in this alien sci-fi adventure from the National Book Award–winning author of Goblin Secrets. Gabe Fuentes...
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William Alexander
NOMAD
September 2016, Margaret K. McElderry Books/Simon & Schuster, 288 pp
When we last left Earth’s ambassador, Gabe Fuentes, he was stranded on the moon. Things don’t get better after he gets rescued by another young diplomat. The Outlast—a ruthless and spacefaring civiliz...
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Rick Riordan
THE SUN AND THE STAR
May 2023, Disney-Hyperion, 480 pp
The best-selling author behind Percy Jackson and the Olympians will soon be returning to Percy Jackson's world, this time in a book focused on Nico di Angelo, the son of Hades who first appeared way b...
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Mimi Yu
Empress of Flames
August 2021, Gollancz/Hachette UK, 496 pp
As the late-Emperor's first-born, Princess Lu knows the throne rightfully belongs to her. She also can't forget her promise to shapeshifter Nok, the boy she loves, to win justice for his now powerless...
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Hilary Wagner
NIGHTSHADE CHRONICLES
LORDS OF TRILLIUM
Book 3 – March 2014, Holiday House, 250 pp
Deep beneath a modern metropolis lies the Catacombs, a kingdom of remarkable rats of superior intellect. Following the Bloody Coup, the once peaceful democracy has become a dictatorship, ruled by deca...
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Andy Rash
ARCHIE THE DAREDEVIL PENGUIN
Fall 2015, Viking/Penguin, 32 pp
A humorous read-aloud about a daredevil penguin with a secret fear. There’s a fish-fry on Iceberg 9 and all Archie’s friends are swimming over. But Archie’s afraid of the water and the strange creatu...
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Mimi Yu
THE GIRL KING
January 2019, Bloomsbury Children’s, 432 pp
With three revolving points-of-view, this diverse, epic, richly-imagined Asian fantasy is set against a world of ancient magic and political intrigue. Assertive Lu has always expected to be named her...
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Laura Williams McCaffrey
MARKED
February 2016, Clarion/HMH, 368 pp
Sixteen-year-old Lyla lives in a bleak, controlling society where only the brightest and most favored students succeed. When she is caught buying cheats in an underground shadow market, she is tattooe...
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Mary E. Lambert
DISTRESS SIGNAL
October 2020, Scholastic, 272 pp
In this edge-of-your-seat survival story, four classmates are stranded in a desert wilderness after a flash flood separates them from the rest of their grade. Can they make it to safety? Lavender’s c...
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David Kreizman
THE UNEXPLAINABLE DISAPPEARANCE OF MARS PATEL
October 2020, Candlewick, 304 pp
When his friends begin disappearing, eleven-year-old Mars Patel uncovers a mystery that will take him to the stars…and beyond.The first novel in a series written by Sheela Chari based on the award-win...
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Isaiah Campbell
THE STRUGGLES OF JOHNNY CANNON
October 2014, Simon & Schuster, 336 pp
The sequel to TROUBLES finds Johnny embroiled in a Mafia blood feud as he searches for his happy ending....
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Isaiah Campbell
THE TROUBLES OF JOHNNY CANNON
October 2015, Simon & Schuster, 296 pp
In 1961 Alabama, a Superman obsessed 12-year-old, Johnny Cannon, has to dodge the CIA, outwit the Klan, and escape from Cuba to prove his Pa didn’t sabotage the Bay of Pigs invasion. THE TROUBLES OF J...