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The Night Wanderer by Drew Hayden Taylor

Mon, 12 May 2008 23:03:00 GMT

***When a mysterious young man arrives to stay in the middle of the night, sixteen year old Tiffany does not take much notice. She has her own problems. Her mother recently left her father for another man, her father and her are fighting and she is n

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City of Ember by Jeanne DuPrau

Sat, 08 Mar 2008 21:39:00 GMT

***Lina Mayfleet and Doon Harrow live in the city of Ember, where lightbulbs are the only source of light. They are surrounded on each side by total darkness and because they have no way of creating a movable light (i.e. a flashlight), no one h

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Theodosia and the Serpents of Chaos by R.L. LaFevers

Sat, 12 Jan 2008 12:13:00 GMT

***Theodosia Throckmorton (Theo for short), the young daughter of the curator of the Museum of Legends and Antiquities in London, is very busy these days. The year is 1906, and the world’s western powers are busily excavating the treasure

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Pirate's Passage by William Gilkerson

Thu, 06 Sep 2007 15:10:00 GMT

Young Jim’s life is about to change due to the abrupt arrival of an old sea dog named Captain Charles Johnson. And a good thing too, as the family inn has hit rough times. The pressure to sell to the wealthy community bullies, the Mo

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Hamish X and the Cheese Pirates of the Arctic by Sean Cullen

Sun, 05 Aug 2007 23:28:00 GMT

Life is looking pretty dreary for the orphans of the Windcity orphanage and cheese factory. They work excruciating shifts producing the most foul cheese on the earth (2 ounces make you hallucinate. 3 ounces will kill you) and to top it all of they mu

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