Series Books at Matthew

Henson Middle School A Comprehensive Guide

By Mr Fitzgerald

A Series of Unfortunate Events

by Lemony Snickett

Three orphans, Voilet, Claus and Sunny have just lost their parents in a fire. Consequently, a banker named Mr. Poe takes charge of the children and leaves them with the nearest relative, Count Olaf. The children, however, suspect that Olaf is not even a relative. Olaf and his cronies become the villains of the series, as the three children try desperately to escape.

1 The Bad Beginning

2 The Reptile Room

3 The Wide Window

4 The Miserable Mill

5 The Austere Academy

6 The Ersatz Elevator

7 The Vile Village

8 The Hostile Hospital

9 The Carnivorous Carnival

10 The Slippery Slope

11 The Grim Grotto

12 The Penultimate Peril

13 The End

Alex Rider By Anthony Horowitz

When his guardian dies in suspicious circum-stances, fourteen year old Alex Rider finds his world turned upside down. Within days he's gone from schoolboy to superspy. Forcibly recruited into MI6 (a spy agency), Alex has to take part in grueling SAS training exercises. Then, armed with his own special set of secret gadgets, he's off on his first mission to uncover the truth.

1 Stormbreaker

2 Point Blank

3 Skeleton Key

4 Eagle Strike

5 Scorpia

6 Ark Angel

7 Snakehead

8 Crocodile Tears

9 Scorpia Rising

A l p h a s By Lisi Harrison

Billionaire business

mogul Shira Brazille

founded super-exclusive

Alpha Academy on

exotic Alpha Island to

nurture the next

generation of

exceptional dancers,

writers, musicians, and

inventors. It’s a dream

come true for one

hundred lucky girls, but

at any given time, for

any behavior deemed to

be more beta than

alpha, those who don’t

measure up will be sent

home.

1 Alphas

2 Movers and Fakers

3 Belle of the Brawl

4 Top of the Feud Chain

Anne of Green Gables By Lucy Montgomery

Anne Shirley is

the plucky, imaginative,

red-haired orphan. Her

parents die when she is

baby, and so she spends

the first 11 years of her

life going between homes

and orphanages, with no

one really wanting to

keep or to love her. By a

mistake, she is brought to

Avonlea--instead of a

boy--to be adopted by

Matthew and Marilla

Cuthbert, a pair of

farmers who never

thought they would be

raising a girl in their old

age.

1 Anne of Green Gables

2 Anne of Avonlea

3 Anne of the Island

4 Anne of Windy Poplars

5 Anne’s House of Dreams

Artemis Fowl By Eoin Colfer

Artemis Fowl is a 12-year-old genius. His father, a criminal mastermind gone legal, has been kidnapped by the Russian Mafia during his first endeavor to become an honest business man. His ship, transporting thousands of cans of soda sinks, and the Fowls lost their billionaire status. With his mother in a delirious world, Artemis attempts to regain that money that they lost. A criminal himself, Artemis manages to get hold of a copy of the fairy book full of their secrets to help him on his fantastic quest.

1 Artemis Fowl

2 The Arctic Incident

3 The Eternity Code

4 The Opal Deception

5 The Lost Colony

6 The Time Paradox

7 The Atlantis Complex

8 The Last Guardian

The Bartimaeus Trilogy by Jonathan Stroud

An ambitious apprentice called Nathaniel is learning his first lessons in the art of magic. The setting is London, at a time when society is broadly divided into magicians and commoners. Magicians are all powerful and hold the reins of power including the Government. A rogue magician, Simon Lovelace is planning to overthrow the current Prime minister and grab power for himself. Nathaniel, who has been dabbling in magic far too advanced to an apprentice under the name of John Mandrake, summons Bartimaeus, a djinn (genie). Bartimaeus plays an important role throughout the book and introduces readers to the “Other Worlds” populated by afrits, djinn, imps, foliots, marids and other magical creatures.

1 The Amulet of Samarkand

2 The Golem’s Eye

3 Ptolemy’s Gate

Beacon

Street Girls by Annie Bryant

Charlotte, who lives with

her widower father, starts the

seventh grade in a new school

in Brookline, Mass. When she's

assigned to sit at the lunch table

with Katani, Maeve, and Avery,

she quickly forms stereotypical

opinions of them. Charlotte's

awkwardness with them brings

disaster until a writing

assignment and a sleepover

start to turn the worst of

enemies into best friends.

1 Worst Enemies/Best Friends

2 Bad News/Good News

3 Letters From the Heart

4 Out of Bounds

5 Promises, Promises

6 Lake Rescue

7 Freaked Out

8 Lucky Charm

9 Fashion Frenzy

10 Just Kidding

11 Ghost Town

12 Time’s Up

13 Green Algae and Bubble Gum

Wars

14 Crush Alert

15 The Great Scavenger Hunt

16 Sweet Thirteen

Bluford High by Paul Lagan, Anne Schraff, Peggy Kern, Karyn Langhorne

Folan, Ben Alirez, and DM Blackwell

Set in modern urban America, each novel addresses complex topics relevant to the lives of today’s youth: family, friendship, trust, isolation, violence, and peer pressure.

1 Someone to Love Me

2 No Way Out

3 Until We Meet Again

4 A Matter of Trust

5 Blood Is Thicker

6 Secrets in the Shadows

7 Lost and Found

8 Summer of Secrets

9 Shattered

10 Brothers in Arms

11 The Fallen

12 The Bully

13 Payback (The Gun)

14 Search for Safety

15 Schooled

16 Breaking Point

17 The Test

18 Pretty Ugly

The four Books of Ember tell the story of a city where it’s always dark. There’s no sun, no moon, no light at all unless the electricity is on. And the electricity is beginning to fail. A curious pair of 12-year-olds, Doon and Lina, are determined to save the underground city.

1 The City of Ember

2 The People of Sparks

3 The Prophet of Yonwood

4 The Diamond of Darkhold

Charlie Bone by Jenny Nimmo

Charlie Bone had an average life until he realized that he could hear the words and thought of people in photographs. Charlie’s Grandma Bone recognizes that his new talent comes from his ancestor, the Red King, and sends him off to Bloor’s Academy for gifted children; but not before Charlie hears about a missing child and decides to find her. Once Charlie arrives a Bloor’s he finds that some of his classmates have equally mysterious powers.

1 Midnight for Charlie Bone

2 Charlie Bone and the Time Twister

3 Charlie Bone and the Invisible Boy

4 Charlie Bone and the Castle of Mirrors

5 Charlie Bone and the Hidden King

6 Charlie Bone and the Beast

7 Charlie Bone and the Shadow

8 Charlie Bone and the Red Knight

Chasing Yesterday By Robin Wasserman

J.D. may not know the truth about

her past, but she knows she's in danger,

and she can't shake the dark visions

haunting her dreams. She won't be safe

until she figures out who she is and where

she came from. She can trust no one, not

even herself--especially not herself.

Because it turns out there's one thing even

more terrible than forgetting her past:

remembering. 1 The Awakening

2 The Betrayal

3 The Truth

John and Philippa are 12-year-old twins with a remarkably beautiful mother, and a very rich, not very handsome father. One day at their home in New York, their wisdom teeth appear simultaneously. Then they both have the same dream in which their Uncle Nimrod tells them to come to London. He tells them that they are djinni (genies). They begin their adventure of a lifetime, from Cairo, Egypt to London, England, from pink Ferrari sport cars to camels. The twins’ adventures are filled with excitement as they undergo training in the use of their newly discovered powers, but are also fraught with danger, as they battle the evil tribes of the djinn, to preserve the balance between good and evil in the world.

1 The Ahkenaten Adventure

2 The Blue Djinn of Babylon

3 The Cobra King of Kathmandu

4 The Day of the Djinn Warriors

5 The Eye of the Forest

6 The Five Fakirs of Faizabad

The Chronicles of

Narnia by C.S. Lewis

Almost 900 years after Aslan created the land, the banished White

Witch returns to Narnia and establishes her evil rule. Peter, Susan, Edmund

and Lucy arrive through the wardrobe to find a land of Endless Winter. They

meet up with talking creatures who have remained faithful followers of Aslan

and, apart from Edmund, journey to join up with Aslan to battle against the

Witch and her army. As a result of Edmund's treachery, however, nothing less

than the death of Aslan is required to set things aright.

1 The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

2 Prince Caspian: The Return to Narnia

3 The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

4 The Silver Chair

5 The Horse and His Boy

6 The Magician's Nephew

7 The Last Battle

The Chronicles of

Vladimir Tod By Heather Brewer

Vladimir’s father was a vampire, but his mother was human, and they died three years ago in a mysterious accident. Now Vlad has only his friend Henry and his Aunt Nelly, his mother’s best friend who is raising him, to confide in. He has a hunger for blood, although he’s been trained since he was young to be “normal” and not to act on his desires. Vlad soon realizes that his father had a history he didn’t know about when his English teacher vanishes mysteriously, and strange things start to happen.

1 Eighth Grade Bites 2 Ninth Grade Slays 3 Tenth Grade Bleeds 4 Eleventh Grade Burns 5 Twelfth Grade Kills

Circle of

Magic By tamora Pierce

Four elements of power, four mages-in-training

learning to control them. In Book 1 of the Circle of Magic

Quartet, gifted young weaver Sandry is brought to the

Winding Circle community. There she meets Briar, a former

thief with a way with plants; Daja, an outcase gifted at

metalcraft; and Tris, whose connection with the weather

unsettles everyone, including herself. The four misfits are

taught how to use their magic, but when disaster strikes, it's

up to Sandry to weave together four different kinds of power

to save herself, her friends, and Winding Circle.

1 Sandry’s Book

2. Tris’s Book

3 Daja’s Book

4 Briar’s Book

Circle

Opens By tamora Pierce

Lady Sandrilene fa

Toren knows all about unusual

magic--she herself spins and

weaves it like thread. But when

she witnesses a boy dancing a

spell, even she is confounded.

To her dismay she gets news

of a mysterious murderer

stalking a clan of local

merchants. The killer employs

the strangest magic of all: the

ability to reduce essence to

nothingness. As the murders

mount and the killer grows

bolder, Sandry's teaching

takes on a grave purpose. It

becomes clear to everyone

that the killings can only be

stopped by the combined

magic of two people: the young

teacher and her even younger

student.

1 Magic Steps

2 Street Magic

3 Cold Fire

4 Shatterglass

Cirque du Freak by Darren Shan

My name is Darren Shan. I’m a half-vampire. When a freak show came to town, my best friend, Steve Leopard, got tickets and we went. It was great, really spooky and weird. But the weirdest part came after the show…Suddenly my days as a human were over. My nights as a vampire’s assistant had begun.

1 A Living Nightmare

2 The Vampire's Assistant

3 Tunnels of Blood

4 Vampire Mountain

5 The Vampire Prince

6 Trials of Death

7 Hunters of the Dusk

8 Allies of the Night

9 Killers of the Dawn

10 The Lake of Souls

11 Lord of the Shadows

12 Sons of Destiny

C l I q u e by Lisi Harrison

Wealthy Massie is determined to exclude middle-class Carrie from her clique at a very exclusive private school in Westchester, New York, but after Massie steals her only friend, Claire strikes back.

1 The Clique

2 Best friends for Never

3 Revenge of the wannabes

4 Invasion of the boy snatchers

5 The Pretty Committee Strikes Back

6 Dial L for loser

7 Its Not Easy Being Mean

8 Sealed with a Diss

9 Bratfest at Tiffany's

10 P.S. I Loath You

11 Boys 'R' Us

12 Charmed and Dangerous: The Rise of

the Pretty Committee

13 Cliquetionary

Daniel X By James Patterson

Daniel X, who has no other last name, has the best superpower

ever: The power to create. He can create real objects, including people,

with only his mind. In addition, he has super-speed (he outran a truck

travelling at 100 miles per hour) and super-strength (he can flip a car in a

somersault). He is also granted an extra long memory.

When he was 3 years old, Daniel's parents were brutally murdered by a

praying mantis-like alien called the Prayer, who came in search of the List

of Alien Outlaws on Earth. When Daniel's parents wouldn't hand it over, the

Prayer killed them. Daniel survived only by transforming into a tick and

grasping onto the Prayer's dreadlock hair as he fled from the burning

house. Twelve years after the murder of his parents, fifteen-year-old Daniel

X has taken up the task of his parents as Defender of Earth.

1 Dangerous Days of Daniel X

2 Watch the Skies

3 Demons and Druids

4 Game Over

Dead Is… By Marlene Perez

Welcome to Nightshade, California—a small town full of secrets. It’s home to the psychic Giordano sisters, who have a way of getting mixed up in mysteries. During their investigations, they run across everything from pom-pom-shaking vampires to shape-shifting boyfriends to a clue-spewing jukebox. With their psychic powers and some sisterly support, they can crack any case!

1 Dead is the New Black

2 Dead is a State of Mind

3 Dead is so Last Year

4 Dead is Just a Rumor

5 Dead is Not an Option

6 Dead is a Battlefield

These books are the

personal diary of 14-year old

Nikki Maxwell. They

feature drawings, doodles

and comic strips that

chronicle the daily drama of

her life in and outside of

middle school.

Rachel Renee Russell said

that this series was inspired

by her own middle school

experiences as well as her

two daughters.

1 Tales From a Not-So-Fabulous Life

2 Tales From a Not-So-Popular Party Girl

3 Tales From a Not-So-Talented Pop Star

4 Tales From a Not so Graceful Ice Princess

5 Tales From a Not So Smart Miss Know-It-All

Edge Chronicles by Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell

The Edge is a bizarre world filled with weird creatures (wood-trolls, slaughterers, gyle goblins, monstrous creatures, flesh-eating trees, maruding hordes of ferocious beasts) and altered physics (certain types of rocks and wood float, powering sailing ships that fly). Hiding from sky pirates, Twig strays from the path in the Deepwoods forest and encounters one weird creature and gruesomely dangerous situation after another, all the while trying to find a place where he can belong.

1 Beyond the Deepwoods

2 Stormchaser

3 Midnight over Sanctaphrax

4 Curse of the Gloamglozer

5 Last of the Sky Pirates

6 Vox

7 Freeglader

8 The Winter Knights

9 Clash of the Sky Galleons

10 The Immortals

The book tells the story of a young farm boy named Eragon, who finds a mysterious stone in the mountains. A dragon he later names Saphira hatches from the stone, which was really an egg. When the evil King Galbatorix finds out about Eragon and his dragon, he sends his servants, the Ra'zac, after them in an effort to capture them. Eragon and Saphira are forced to flee from their hometown, and decide to search for the Varden, a group of rebels who want to see the downfall of Galbatorix.

1 Eragon

2 Eldest

3 Brisingr

4 Inheritance

Fablehaven by Brandon Mull

Fablehaven is a secret nature preserve protecting the beings of myth and legend from the outside world. The series begins as 13-year-old Kendra and 11-year-old Seth Sorenson are traveling to their Grandpa and Grandma Sorenson's house while their parents are away on a 17-day Scandinavian cruise. She and Seth drink the magical milk which opens their eyes to see a whole new, mystical world full of the magical beings of Fablehaven.

1 Fablehaven 2 Rise of the Evening Star 3 Grip of the Shadow Plague 4 Secrets of the Dragon Sanctuary 5 Keys to the Demon Prison

Gatekeepers by Anthony Horowitz

Rejected by his only living relative, betrayed to the police by a supposed friend, Matt Freeman chooses to serve a probationary sentence on an English farm near York rather than in a juvenile detention center. Shortly after he arrives at Hive Hill --- the farm owned by his sinister guardian --- a thoroughly terrified Matt discovers that he can’t escape either the farm or the mysterious destiny facing him. These books have it all --- mystery, suspense, conspiracies, occult elements and science fiction.

1 Raven’s Gate

2 Evil Star

3 Nightrise

4 Necropolis

Guardians of Ga’hoole by Kathryn Lasky

Deep in the forest of Tyto, nestled into the arms of the fir trees, the Barn Owls dwell. Soren is born into their tranquil kingdom. But evil Lurks in the owl world, evil that threatens to shatter Tyto’s peace and change the course of Soren’s life forever.

9 The First Collier

10 The Coming of Hoole

11 To Be a King

12 The Golden Tree

13 The River of Wind

14 Exile

15 The War of the Ember

1 The Capture

2 The Journey

3 The Rescue

4 The Siege

5 The Shattering

6 The Burning

7 The Hatchling

8 The Outcast

H a r d y B o y s by Franklin Dixon

The Hardy Boys are fictional teenage brothers and amateur detectives. They live in the fictional town of Bayport with their father, detective Fenton Hardy, their mother, Laura Hardy, and their Aunt Gertrude. Frank, the elder brother, is 18, and his younger brother Joe is 17. The Hardy Boys' cases often are linked to the confidential cases their detective father is working on. He sometimes asks them for help, while at other times they stumble upon villains and incidents that are connected to his cases.

The Hardy Boys can be

read in any order!

This series chronicles the adventures of the young wizard Harry Potter and his best friends Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger, all of whom are Students at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Harry is battling the evil wizard Lord Voldemort, who killed Harry’s parents in his quest to conquer the wizarding world and control non-magical people.

1 The Philosopher's Stone

2 The Chamber of Secrets

3 The Prisoner of Azkaban

4 The Goblet of Fire

5 The Order of the Phoenix

6 The Half-Blood Prince

7 The Deathly Hallows

Heroes of Olympus By Rick Riordan

This is the sequel series to the Percy Jackson books. After the events of The Last Olympian, Gaea is waking up and the giants are also coming back to life. Zeus was embarrassed by needing the demigods to defeat Kronos so he insists that the gods can defeat the giants alone, despite the fact that giants can only be defeated by demigods and gods cooperating. The Greek and Roman camps must work together to defeat evil in these action-packed adventures.

1 The Lost Hero

2 The Son of Neptune

3 The Mark of Athena

HIVE By Mark Walden

H.I.V.E. is a top

secret school hidden inside a

still active volcano. Only

children who have already

been seen to have some

villainous skill are accepted

to the school. Otto Malpense

is a thirteen year old criminal

genius, who has been

handpicked along with

others-the smartest, most

athletic, technologically

advanced kids in the world to

be part of H.I.V.E. In the first

book Otto has entered the

school, he discovers that it is

not all what it seems, and

sets out to unfold the

mystery behind the school

and its organization.

1 HIVE: Higher Institute of

Villainous Education

2 The Overlord Protocol

3 Escape Velocity

4 Dreadnought

Britney Crosby thinks her cousin Ethan is pretty weird – and she happens to be right. Ethan won’t stop tormenting Britney with an old ventriloquist’s dummy. And the puppet has plans for Britney, too. Next, someone will be offered a vacation at a popular “scream park”. An entire week for free? You’d have to be a real dummy to refuse that. But some guests aren’t allowed to escape Horrorland after just six days and seven frights….

1 Revenge of the living dummy

2 Creep from the deep

3 Monster Blood for Breakfast!

4 Scream of the Haunted Mask

5 Dr.Maniac vs. Robby Schwartz

6 Who's your mummy?

7 My friends call me monster

8 Say cheese and die-screaming!

9 Welcome to camp slither

10 Help! We have strange powers!

11 Escape from Horrorland

12 The streets of panic park

13 When the ghost dog howls

14 Little shop of hamsters

15 Heads, You Loose!

16 Weirdo Halloween

17 The wizard of ooze

18.Slappy New Year

19.The horror at Chiller House

20Claws!

21 The Haunted Mask lives!

22 Happy holidays from dead house

Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

The first book introduces sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen, who lives in a futuristic world in the country of Panem, formerly the United States. The country is totally controlled by the government who dwell in the Capitol, situated in the Rocky Mountains. The Hunger Games are a yearly televised event where the Capitol chooses one boy and one girl from each district to fight to the death. The Hunger Games exist to demonstrate not even children are above the Capitol’s power. Katniss’ mission is to fight back against the dominating Capitol any way she can.

1 The Hunger Games

2 Catching Fire

3 Mockingjay

Immortals By tamora Pierce

The orphan

Daine applies for a job

that takes her and her

trusty pony Cloud from

her birthcountry of Galla

to the kingdom of Tortall.

Here she finds a new life

and a new family, and

learns that she has the

magical ability known as

"Wild Magic," which

enables her to speak to

animals, heal them, and

take their shape as well

as bend them to her will.

1 Wild Magic

2 Wolf Speaker

3 The Emperor mage

4 The Realms of the Gods

Inkheart By Cornelia Funke

Teenager Meggie Folchart’s life changes

dramatically when she realizes that she and her father,

a bookbinder named Mo, have the unusual ability to

bring characters from books into the real world when

reading aloud. Mostly set in Northern Italy and

the parallel world of the fictional Inkheart book, the

central story concerns the magic of books, their

characters and creatures, and the art of reading.

1 Inkheart

2 Inkspell

3 Inkdeath

Jack Sparrow: Pirates

of the Caribbean by Rob Kidd

The story of Jack Sparrow starts here! Teenage stowaway Jack Sparrow has assembled a motley crew and they’re on the quest of a lifetime. Their goal: to locate and procure the legendary Sword of Cortés, which will grant them unimaginable power. But will this ragtag team of adventurers survive their first mission or will they succumb to the power of the sea, vicious pirates, ancient curses, and the stormy threat of nature itself?

1 The Coming Storm

2 The Siren Song

3 The Pirate Chase

4 The Sword of Cortes

5 The Age of Bronze

6 Silver

7 City of Gold

8 Timekeeper

Kane Chronicles By Rick Riordan

The main characters, Carter and Sadie Kane, discover that they are descendants of two Pharaohs. They learn that the legendary beings of Egyptian mythology still exist and have always existed, including shabti, Egyptian magicians, the House of Life, and the Egyptian gods and goddesses, who begin to live inside Cater and Sadie.

1 The Red Pyramid

2 The Throne of Fire

3 The Serpent’s Shadow

Keys to the Kingdom by Garth Nix

Arthur was

supposed to die,

until a mysterious

visitor brought him a

strange Key that

opens a house that

only he can see.

Arthur doesn’t know

what’s inside the

house…but he

knows that his life

and the lives of

countless others

depend on his

finding out.

1 Mister Monday

2 Grim Tuesday

3 Drowned Wednesday

4 Sir Thursday

5 Lady Friday

6 Superior Saturday

7 Lord Sunday

Kidnapped by Gordon Korman

From the very first page, the action is nonstop in this breathless thriller, the first book in Korman’s Kidnapped series. Meg, 11, is abducted on her way home from school. Her brother, Aiden, 15, works with the FBI to find her and deliver the ransom money. In the meantime, Meg fights back with muscle and wit, even managing to sneak out an SOS letter. The hurtling plot, with mysterious meetings and high-tech surveillance, shifts between the two kids’ viewpoints.

1 The Abduction

2 The Search

3 The Rescue

Kingdom Keepers By Ridley Pearson

Many nights,

Finn has been appearing

in Disney parks as a

hologram, while he is

asleep. Finn realizes that

these are no dreams,

and are actually

happening. While in the

empty park one night, he

meets Wayne, an older

cast member and one of

the original creators of

the Disney theme parks.

Wayne tells Finn that he

must find the other kid

holograms and arrive at

the park at the same

time or else Disney is in

danger from being

overrun.

1 Disney After Dark 2 Disney at Dawn 3 Disney in Shadow 4 Power Play

Land of Eylon by Patrick Carman

Alexa Daley lives in a land where the people are afraid, so afraid that they’ve built a huge wall around their city. Moreover, the roads themselves are walled, so that travelers can go from one town to another without ever seeing the countryside. This then, is the land of The Dark Hills Divide, the land of Eylon, where stones are set against an unseen (and unknown) evil that lurks in the dark forests of the distant hills.

1 The Dark Hills Divide 2 Beyond the Valley of Thorns 3 The Tenth City 4 Into the Mist

The Last Apprentice by Joseph Delaney

The series is about a seventh son of a seventh son, Thomas J. Ward, who can see and sense creatures of the dark and other things that others cannot. He is apprenticed to train as a "Spook" so he may learn how to deal with the dark, and protect ordinary folk from “ghouls, boggarts, and all manner of wicked beasties.”

1 Revenge of the Witch

2 Curse of the Bane

3 Night of the Soul Stealer

4 Attack of the Fiend

5 Wrath of the Bloodeye

6 Clash of the Demons

7 Rise of the Huntress

8 Rage of the Fallen

Companion Book:

The Spook’s Tale

The Last Dragon

Chronicles by Chris D’Lacey

The books follow a college student, David Rain, as he discovers the existence of living clay dragons in the house he lodges at. The main character is an author whose stories magically come true and he gets his inspiration from his writing dragon, Gadzooks. In Fire Star, he made Gollygosh, a natural healing dragon. Another one of his dragons is G’reth, a wishing dragon made by his friend Lucy.

1 The Fire Within

2 Icefire

3 Firestar

4 The Fire Eternal

5 Dark Fire

6 Fire World

7 Fire Ascending

Last of the Jedi By Jude Watson

This series

follows the life of Obi-

Wan Kenobi, following

the events of Revenge

of the Sith until he

finds an ex-Padawan,

Ferus Olin. The books

focus on a little band of

surviving Jedi.

6 Return of the Dark Side

7 Secret Weapon

8 Against the Empire

9 Master of Deception

10 Reckoning

1 The Desperate Mission

2 The Last Journey

3 Underworld

4 Death on Naboo

5 A Tangled Web

The little town of Burnt Culvert has a

problem. Storms like never before are arising. This

is the beginning of the end. Foo is falling. Evil is

seeping into the world, Leven and Winter's romance

is beginning to be obvious, and dreams are not as

they should be. Twisted minds overpower Foo.

Strange things are beginning to happen in the

world. Clouds are territorial; buildings walk to the

opposite side of the street; and weird bugs are

carrying people off. Everyone is jittery. Only Leven

Thumps can save the day.

1 Leven Thumps and the Gateway to Foo

2 Leven Thumps and the Whispered Secret

3 Leven Thumps and the Eyes of Want

4 Leven Thumps and the Wrath of Ezra

5 Leven Thumps and the Ruins of Alder

Lord of the Rings by J.R.R Tolkien

The Dark Lord Sauron forged the One Ring in the fires of Mount Doom thousands of years ago. He used it to wield his influence over the leaders of Middle Earth. But during a great battle the king Islidur cut off Sauron’s ring bearing finger, destroying the Dark Lord (in body if not in soul) and claiming the Ring as his own. Islidur lost the Ring in a river where it lay untouched for thousands of years until a creature called Gollum came across it and kept it for 500 years. Then one day a hobbit called Bilbo Baggins found the Ring and, ignorant of its origin, returned it to his home in The Shire. After 2,500 years in exile, Sauron has returned to Mordor, where he is building an army and bending all his will on recovering the One Ring – and so the story begins.

1 The Fellowship of the Ring

2 The Two Towers

3 The Return of the King

Prequel: The Hobbit

Maximum Ride by James Patterson

Maximum ride is a fourteen-year-old girl with wings who is the result of some experiments at a secret lab to inject avian (bird) genes into humans. Max and her companions were kept in cages and subject to repeated scientific experiments during their life at the School (as the lab was called); they were eventually freed by one of the lab scientists named Jeb. Jeb whisked them away to his mountain home and raised and educated then; but Jeb suddenly disappeared two years ago and the flock has been on its own since then.

1 The Angel Experiment

2 School’s Out – Forever

3 Saving the World and Other

Extreme Sports

4 The Final Warning

5 Max

6 Fang

7 Angel

8 Nevermore

Maze Runner By James Dashner

When a group of boys pull Thomas out of a metal box, the only

thing he can remember is his name. The boys and Thomas are stuck in the

Glade which is surrounded by four giant stone walls with doors that close

each night to protect the boys from vicious creatures called Grievers.

Outside the walls is the maze, and runners go out each day to map the

changes made to the maze each day. As Thomas struggles to adjust to this

bizarre life, something unprecedented happens. A girl is sent to the maze

uttering the words “The end is near” before falling into a comatose state. The

boys discover that an organization called WICKED is behind all the

madness. WICKED is testing the boys, and as conditions in the glade start

to deteriorate, Thomas, Teresa, and the rest of the Gladers must work

together to solve the maze and escape with their lives.

1 Maze Runner 2 Scorch Trials 3 Death Cure Prequel:The Kill Order

Midnight at the Library by: Damien Graves

Damien Graves has spent many years searching for the most spine-chilling stories in existence. Now, at last, he has chosen to share with you the best of his collection... Welcome to where your darkest dreams meet with the unhappiest of endings. Welcome to The Midnight Library.

1 End Game

2 Liar

3 Shut Your Mouth

4 I Can See You

5 The Deadly Catch

The Midnighters by Scott Westerfeld

Fifteen year old Jessica moves to Oklahoma with her mom. She looks like she belongs with the in-crowd, but the most isolated outsiders, the Midnighters (Rex, Des, Melissa, and Jonathan) are also fascinated by the newcomer as they sense she shares the Focus that only occurs for those born at midnight. Jessica awakens are midnight and notices everyone else seems frozen in time. She explores this magical twenty-fifth hour in the day only to learn that ancient creatures roam the town and the Midnighters also travel this other worldly zone.

1 The Secret Hour

2 Touching Darkness

3 Blue Noon

Morpheus Road By D.J. MacHale

Marshall Seaver is being haunted. Sixteen-year-old

Marshall discovers that something beyond our world is after

him. The eerie clues pile up quickly, and when people start

dying, it’s clear whatever it is is huge.

Marshall has no idea what’s happening to him, but

he’s soon convinced that it has something to do with his best

friend Cooper, who’s been missing for over a week. Together

with Coop’s sister, Marsh searches for the truth about what

happened to his friend, ultimately uncovering something bigger

than he could ever have imagined.

1 The Light

2 The Black

3 The Blood

Mother-Daughter Book Club By Heather Vogel Frederick

The books center around the lives of

four very different girls who become

best friends all because their mothers

decided to start a book club. They meet

and discuss all kinds of drama in their lives. 1 The Mother-Daughter Book Club

2 Much Ado About Anne

3 Dear Pen Pal

4 Pies and Prejudice

5 Home for the Holidays

Mysteries at our

National Parks by Gloria Skurzynski

Welcome to the heart-pounding adventures of brother-and-sister sleuths, 12-year old Jack and 11-year-old Ashley Landon. Traveling with their mother, Olivia, a wildlife biologist, and their father, Steven, a nature photographer, the kids visit many of the country’s magnificent National Parks where they always seem to stumble upon a puzzle that only they can solve. From confronting environmental challenges like the effect of snowmobiles in Alaska's Denali park and speedboaters injuring manatees in Florida's Everglades, to encountering dangerous wildlife like grizzly bears in Montana's Glacier National Park or wild white mustangs in Utah’s Zion, the Landon’s adventures will keep you on the edge of your seat while learning about our country’s natural heritage and the role we all have in understanding and protecting it for the future.

1 Wolf Stalker

2 Over the Edge

3 Valley of Death

4 Escape from Fear

5 Running Scared

6 The Hunted

7 Cliff-Hanger

8 Ghost Horses

9 Deadly Waters

10 Buried Alive

11 Night of the Black

12 Bear Out of the Deep

Nancy Drew by Carolyn Keene

Nancy Drew is a fictional 18-year-old amateur sleuth. She lives in the fictional town of River Heights with her father, attorney Carson Drew, and their housekeeper, Hannah Gruen. Nancy's mother died when she was three. Nancy does not have a job or go to school, and spends her time solving mysteries, some of which she stumbles upon and some of which begin as cases of her father's. Nancy is often assisted in solving mysteries by her two closest friends, Bess Marvin and George Fayne, and also occasionally by her boyfriend, Ned Nickerson.

Nancy Drew books can be

read in any order!

P e n d r a g o n by: D.J. MacHale

Bobby Pendragon was living the life of a normal14 year old buy, until his Uncle Press appeared with a mission: protect all of time and space from a demon named Saint Dane, a cold-blooded villain who wants nothing less than the dismantling of humanity. The only force standing in Saint Dane’s way is mysterious group of people called travelers, and Bobby is surprised to discover that he is one of them.

1 Merchant of Death 2 The Lost City of Fear 3 The Never War 4 The Reality Bug 5 Black Water 6 The Waters of Zadaa 7 The Quillan Games 8 The Pilgrims of Raybe 9 Raven Rise 10 The Soldiers of Halla

Percy Jackson and the

Olympians by Rick Riordan

Percy Jackson discovers that he is the son of Poseidon, god of the sea. He learns that the legendary beings of Greek mythology still exist and have always existed, including monsters, Cyclopes, Titans, and the Greek Gods, including the twelve Olympians themselves who dwell in Olympus, which is now situated on the Mythical 600th floor of the Empire State Building.

1 The Lightning Thief

2 The Sea of Monsters

3 The Titan’s Curse

4 The Battle of the Labyrinth

5 The Last Olympian

Check out the Heroes of Olympus series when you finish this one!

Peter and the Starcatchers by Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson

In this prequel to the story of Peter Pan, Peter and his ragtag group of orphans are placed on the leaky, poorly-run ship known as "The Never Land", to be deposited on the island of Rundoon. Rundoon is governed by a barbaric king, whose acts of torture and abuse— such as the time he fed his father to his pet snake —are well-known throughout the empire. As the orphans travel the wide seas in a leaky vessel infested with rats, take abuse by the second-in-command, Slank, and are served meals that are still alive and moving, they are not sure if their fate under such a tyrant would be worse than their lot on "The Never Land", or perhaps an improvement. They look to Peter for help.

1 Peter and the Starcatchers

2 Peter and the Shadow Thieves

3 Peter and the Secret of Rundoon

4 Peter and the Sword of Mercy

Ranger’s Apprentice by: John Flanagan

The series follows the adventures of Will, an orphan who is taken as an apprentice Ranger, as he strives to keep the Kingdom of Araluen safe from invaders, traitors, and threats. He is joined on his adventures by his mentor Halt and His best friend Horace. The story takes place in a fictional medieval world based on European medieval times.

1 The Ruins of Gorlan 2 The Burning Bridge 3 The Icebound Land 4 The Battle for Skandia 5 The Sorcerer of the North 6 The Siege of Macindaw 7 Erak’s Ransom 8 The Kings of Clonmel 9 Halt’s Peril 10 The Emperor of Nihon-Ja 11 The Lost Stories

R e d w a l l By Brian Jacques

Only the lost sword of

Martin the Warrior can save

Redwall Abbey from the

evil rat Cluny and his

greedy horde. The young

mouse Matthias (formerly

Redwall's most awkward

novice) vows to recover the

legendary weapon. In the

course of his quest,

Matthias forges strong ties

with various local animals.

As much as the magic of

the sword, it is the help of

these new friends that

enables Matthias to defeat

Cluny once and for all.

1 Redwall

2 Mossflower

3 Mattimeo

4 Mariel of Redwall

5 Salamandastron

6 Martin the Warrior

7 The Bellmaker

8 Outcast of Redwall

9 The Great Redwall Feast

10 Pearls of Lutra

11 The Long Patrol

12 Marlfox

13 Legend of Luke

14 A Redwall Winter's Tale

15 Lord Brocktree

16 Taggerung

17 Triss

18 Loamhedge

19 Rakkety Tam

20 High Rhulain

Sammy Keyes Mysteries by Wendelin Van Draanen

Sammy Keyes is a seventh

grader that figures out mysteries in

no time flat. She can talk her way

out of any sticky situation and sneak

around town without being seen. 1 Sammy Keyes and the Hotel Thief

2 Sammy Keyes and the Sisters of Mercy

3 Sammy Keyes and the Runaway Elf

4 Sammy Keyes and the Curse of Mustache Mary

5 Sammy Keyes and the Hollywood Mummy

6 Sammy Keyes and the Cold Hard Cash

Secrets of the Immortal

Nicholas Flammel By Michael Scott

He holds the secret that can end the world.

The truth: Nicholas Flamel was born in Paris on September 28, 1330. Nearly

700 years later, he is acknowledged as the greatest Alchemyst of his day. It is said that

he discovered the secret of eternal life.

The records show that he died in 1418.

But his tomb is empty.

The legend: Nicholas Flamel lives. But only because he has been making the

elixir of life for centuries. The secret of eternal life is hidden within the book he protects—

the Book of Abraham the Mage. It's the most powerful book that has ever existed. In the

wrong hands, it will destroy the world. That's exactly what Dr. John Dee plans to do when

he steals it. Humankind won't know what's happening until it's too late. And if the

prophecy is right, Sophie and Josh Newman are the only ones with the power to save

the world as we know it.

Sometimes legends are true.

And Sophie and Josh Newman are about to find themselves in the middle of the greatest

legend of all time. 1 The Alchemyst

2 The Gamician

3 The Sorceress

4 The Necromancer

5 The Warlock

6 The Enchantress

Shadow Children by Margaret Peterson Haddix

The story is about a futuristic country which suffers food shortages due to a drought and the effects of the government’s attempts to control resources as a way to solidify its power. The Population Police enforce the government’s Population Law, killing or imprisoning “shadow children”, who are any third child in a family.

1 Among the Hidden 2 Among the Imposters 3 Among the Betrayed 4 Among the Barons 5 Among the Brave 6 Among the Enemy 7 Among the Free

Sherlock Files

by Tracy Barrett

American kids living in London with their parents, Xena and Xander are not just the descendants of Sherlock Holmes. They have his notebook of unsolved cases, and they’re not afraid to use it, even if their lives are in danger

1 The 100-Year-Old Secret

2 The Beast of Backslope

3 The Case that Time Forgot

Young Sherlock Holmes by Shane Peacock

1 Eye of the Crow

2 Death in the Air

3 Vanishing Girl

4 The Secret Fiend

Sherlock Holmes, just thirteen, is a

misfit. His mother is the daughter of an upper-

class family, his father a poor Jew. Their

marriage flouts tradition and makes them social

outcasts in the London of the 1860s; and their

son, Sherlock, bears the burden of their

rebellion. Friendless, bullied at school, he

belongs nowhere and has only his wits to help

him make his way.

Skeleton Creek By Patrick Carman

Strange things are happening in Skeleton Creek . . . and Ryan and Sarah are trying to get to the heart of it. But after an eerie accident leaves Ryan housebound and forbidden to see Sarah, their investigation takes two tracks: Ryan records everything in his journal, while Sarah uses her videocam to search things out. . .and then email the clips for Ryan to see.

In a new, groundbreaking format, the story is broken into two parts -- Ryan's text in the book, and Sarah's videos on a special website, with links and passwords given throughout the book.

1 Skeleton Creek

2 Ghost in the Machine

3 The Crossbones

4 The Raven

The books follow the adventures of the skeleton detective, Skulduggery Pleasant and a teenage girl, Stephanie Edgeley (Valkyrie Cain) along with other friends. The central story arc concerns Valkyrie’s struggle to stop evil forces threatening the world and to finally find justice for her late uncle’s death.

1 Skulduggery Pleasant 2 Playing with Fire 3 The Faceless Ones 4 Dark Days 5 Mortal Coil

Song of

the Lioness By tamora Pierce

Alanna of Trebond

wants to be a knight of the

realm of Tortall, in a time when

girls are forbidden to be

warriors. Rather than give up

her dream, she and her

brother--who wants to be a

mage, not a knight--switch

places. She becomes Alan;

Thom becomes a student

wizard in the school where she

would have learned to be a

lady.

The quartet is about her

struggle to achieve her goals

and to master weapons,

combat, polite behavior, her

magic, her temper, and even

her own heart. It is about

friendships--with the heir to the

throne, the King of Thieves, a

wise and kindly knight--and her

long struggle against a

powerful enemy mage.

1 Alanna: The First Adventure

2 In the Hand of the Goddess

3 The Woman who Rides like a Man

4 Lioness Rampant

Spiderwick Chronicles by Tony DiTerlizzi and Holly Black

The books take place in Maine where 9-year-old twins Jared and Simon and their 13-year-old sister Mallory move to the decrepit Spiderwick Estate with their mother, Helen. They discover a secret library hidden in the house, and later discover Arthur Spiderwick’s Field Guide to the Fantastical World Around You in a chest in the attic, providing them with information on faeries.

1 The Field Guide

2 The Seeing Stone

3 Lucinda’s Secret

4 The Ironwood Tree

5 The Wrath of Mulgarath

Companion Book: Care and Feeding of Sprites

Tiger’s Curse By Colleen Houck

The last thing Kelsey

Hayes thought she’d be doing

this summer was trying to

break a 300-year-old Indian

curse. With a mysterious white

tiger named Ren. Halfway

around the world. But that’s

exactly what happened. Face-

to-face with dark forces,

spellbinding magic,

and mystical worlds where

nothing is what it seems,

Kelsey risks everything to

piece together an ancient

prophecy that could break the

curse forever.

Tiger’s Curse is the

exciting first volume in an epic

fantasy-romance that will leave

you breathless and yearning

for more.

1 Tiger’s Curse

2 Tiger’s Quest

3 Tiger’s Voyage

4 Tiger’s Destiny

Theodosia and the

Serpents of Chaos By R.L. LaFevers

When Theo’s mother returns from her latest archaeological

dig bearing the Heart of Egypt—a legendary amulet belonging to

an ancient tomb—Theo learns that it comes inscribed with a curse

so black and vile that it threatens to crumble the British Empire

from within and start a war too terrible to imagine. Intent on

returning the malevolent artifact to its rightful place, Theo devises

a daring plan to put things right. But even with the help of her

younger brother, a wily street urchin, and the secret society known

as the Brotherhood of the Chosen Keepers, it won’t be easy….she

quickly finds herself pursued down dark alleys, across an ocean,

through the bustling crowds of Cairo, and straight into the heart of

an ancient mystery. Theo will have to call upon everything she’s

ever learned in order to prevent the rising chaos from destroying

her country—and herself! 1 Theodosia and the Serpents of Chaos

2 Theodosia and the Staff of Osiris

3 Theodosia and the Eyes of Horus

4 Theodosia and the Last Pharaoh

39 Clues by Various Authors

The Cahills are the most powerful family the world has ever known. Grace Cahill, the matriarch of the family, has just dies and left a challenge in her will for her surviving relatives. They can either take one million dollars or the first in a series of Clues that will reveal the source of the family’s power. It’s Cahill versus Cahill in a race to beat the competition and be the first to assemble all 39 Clues.

1 Maze of Bones

2 One False Note

3 The Sword Thief

4 Beyond the Grave

5 The Black Circle

6 In Too Deep

7 The Viper’s Nest

8 The Emperor's Code

9 Storm Warning

10 Into the Gauntlet

11 Vespers Rising

SERIES TWO: Cahills vs. Vespers

1 A King’s Ransom

2 The Dead of Night

3 Shatterproof

4 Trust No One

Tunnels by Roderick Gordon and Brian Williams

Will Burrows is a

14-year-old archeologist

who stumbles upon a

subterranean civilization

called The Colony. Will,

his brother Cal, and

friend Chester flee The

Colony and set out to

find Will’s father in the

Deeps, a place even

deeper in the earth than

The Colony.

1 Tunnels

2 Deeper

3 Freefall

4 Closer

Twilight by Stephanie Meyer

Seventeen-year-

old Bella meets an

exquisitely

handsome boy at

school for whom she

feels an

overwhelming

attraction and who

she comes to realize

is not wholly human.

1 Twilight

2 New Moon

3 Eclipse

4 Breaking Dawn

Uglies By Scott Westerfeld

Uglies is set in a world in which everyone has an operation

when they turn sixteen, making them supermodel beautiful. Big

eyes, full lips, no one fat or skinny. You might think this is a good

thing, but it’s not. Especially if you’re one of the Smokies, a bunch

of radical teens who’ve decided they want to keep their own faces.

The books

ask engaging questions about the meaning of beauty, individuality,

and betrayal. 1 Uglies

2 Pretties

3 Specials

4 Extras

It tells the story of a boy named Gregor and his adventures in a land, called the “Underland”, hidden under New York City. The Underland is inhabited by humans, who love in the stone city of Regalia, along with various giant versions of such creatures as bats, cockroaches, rats, and spiders. The series involves many topics relating to war, including biological warfare, genocide, and military intelligence.

1 Gregor the Overlander

2 Gregor and the Prophecy of Bane

3 Gregor and the Curse of the Warmbloods

4 Gregor and the Marks of Secret 5 Gregor and the Code of Claw

The Unicorn

Chronicles

By bruce Coville

The first book, Into the Land of Unicorns, introduces the main character, Cara Hunter, and her grandmother, Ivy Morris. Ivy sends Cara into the world of Luster, by way of an amulet, where she must find the Old One, Queen Arabella Skydancer, and give her a message sent by Ivy. The second book, Song of the Wanderer, is about Cara’s journey back to Earth to fetch her grandmother back to Luster. Upon arriving back on Earth, she encounters Beloved, who is determined to have Cara’s amulet that transports her between the two worlds.

1 Into the Land of the Unicorns

2 Song of the Wanderer

3 Dark Whispers

4 The Last Hunt

V a m p i r a t e s by Justin Somper

Twins, Connor and Grace, never dreamed that there was any truth to the Vampirate shanty their father sang to them before he died, but that was before the two were shipwrecked and separated from each other. For Connor, who is taken aboard a pirate ship, there's the chance to learn to swordfight, but for Grace, aboard a mysterious ship of vampire pirates, the danger is great. What will it take for them to find each other?

1 Demons of the Ocean

2 Tide of Terror

3 Blood Captain

4 Black Heart

5 Empire of Night

6 Immortal War

Witch and Wizard by James Patterson

This is the astonishing

testimonial of Wisty and Whit

Allgood, a sister and brother

who were torn from their family

in the middle of the night,

slammed into prison, and

accused of being a witch and a

wizard. Thousands of young

people have been kidnapped;

some have been accused;

many others remain missing.

Their fate is unknown, and the

worst is feared—for the ruling

regime will stop at nothing to

suppress life and liberty, music

and books, art and magic...and

the pursuit of being a normal

teenager.

1 Witch and Wizard

2 The Gift

3 The Fire

Wolves of Beyond by Kathryn Lasky

A wolf mother has given

birth, but the warm bundle

snuffling next to her brings only

anguish. The pup, otherwise

healthy, has a twisted leg, and

the mother knows what the

harsh code of the pack

demands. Her pup will be

taken from her and abandoned

on a desolate hill. The pack

cannot have weakness - the

wolf mother knows that her pup

is condemned to die.

But along in the

wilderness, the pup, Faolan,

does not perish. This is his

story - a story of survival, of

courage, and of love

triumphant. This is Faolan's

story, the wolf pup who rose up

to change forever the Wolves

of the Beyond.

1 Lone Wolf

2 Shadow Wolf

3 Watch Wolf

4 Frost Wolf

5 Spirit Wolf

Young James Bond by Charlie Higson

This series explains

the origin of Agent 007.

In 1933, thirteen-year-old James Bond arrives at Eton College for boys for the first time to continue his schooling. There he meets an American bully and his arms dealing father, Lord Randolph Hellebore. While on Easter break, Bond's adventure continues in the Highlands of Scotland . Teaming up with Red Kelly, James finally reaches a castle and a loch and discovers a deadly secret.

1 SilverFin

2 Blood Fever

3 Double or Die

4 Hurricane Gold

5 By Royal Command

Young Samurai by Chris Bradford

Stranded in c.17th Japan after his

father and crew are slaughtered by ninja

pirates, Jack is rescued by the legendary

sword master Masamoto Takeshi. Taken to

his martial arts school, Jack trains to

become a samurai warrior, where he strives

to become the first foreign samurai in a time

when outsiders are not welcomed in Japan.

1 Way of the Warrior

2 Way of the Sword

3 Way of the Dragon

4 Ring of Earth

5 Ring of Water

6 Ring of Fire

7 Ring of Wind

8 Ring of Sky