The Game of Sunken Places by M. T. Anderson

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Texas Lonestar Titles
2005 - 2006
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The Game of Sunken Placesby M. T. Anderson

• When two boys stay with an eccentric relative
  at his mansion in rural Vermont, they discover an
  old-fashioned board game that draws them into a
  mysterious adventure.

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The Wish Listby Eoin Colfer

• Orphan Meg Finns soul becomes the object of
  a battle between the demonic and the divine after
  she is killed in an accidental explosion while
  attempting to rob an elderly man and arrives in
  the afterlife to find the tally on her good and
  evil deeds is dead even.

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Lion Boyby Zizou Corder

• In the near future, a boy with the ability to
  speak the language of cats sets out from London
  to seek his kidnapped parents and finds himself
  on a Paris-bound circus ship learning to train
  lions.

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Iqbal A Novelby Francesco DAdamo

• A fictionalized account of the Pakistani
  child who escaped from bondage in a carpet
  factory and went to help liberate other children
  like him before being gunned down at the age of
  13.

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The Secret Hourby Scott Westerfield

• Upon moving to Bixby, Oklahoma, 15-year-old
  Jessica Day learns that she is one of a group of
  people who have special abilities that help them
  fight ancient creatures living in an hour hidden
  at midnight creatures that seem determined to
  destroy Jess.

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The Sea of Trollsby Nancy Farmer

• After Jack becomes apprenticed to a Druid
  bard, he and his little sister Lucy are captured
  by Viking Berserkers and taken to the home of
  King Ivar the Boneless and his half-troll queen,
  leading Jack to undertake a vital quest to
  Jotunheim, home of the trolls

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Eagerby Helen Fox

• Unlike Grumps, their old-fashioned robot, the
  Bell familys new robot, Eager, is programmed to
  not merely obey but to question, reason, and
  exercise free will.

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The Outcasts of 19 Schuyler Placeby E. L.
Konigsburg

• Upon leaving an oppressive summer camp,
  12-year-old Margaret Rose Kane spearheads a
  campaign to preserve three unique towers her
  granduncles have been building in their back yard
  for over 40 years.

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Travel Teamby Mike Lupica

• After he is cut from his travel basketball
  team the very same team that his father once
  led to national prominence 12-year-old Danny
  Walker forms his own team of cast-offs that might
  have a shot at victory.

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Eastby Edith Pattou

• A young woman journeys to a distant castle on
  the back of a great white bear who is the victim
  of a cruel enchantment.

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The young Man and the Seaby Rodman Philbrick

• After his mothers death, 12-year-old Skiff
  Beaman decides that it is up to him to earn money
  to take care of himself and his father, so he
  undertakes a dangerous trip alone out on the
  ocean off the coast of Maine to try to catch a
  huge bluefin tuna.

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Mortal Engines A Novelby Philip Reeve

• Tom, a third-class apprentice in a distant
  future in which technology has been lost and
  tiered cities move about the Earth on caterpillar
  tracks, often absorbing smaller locales, has many
  dangerous adventures after being pushed off
  London by Thaddeus Valentine, a historian who is
  trying to resurrect an ancient atomic weapon.

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Letters from Wolfieby Patti Sherlock

• Certain that he is doing the right thing by
  donating his dog, Wolfie, to the Armys scout
  program in Vietnam, 13-year-old Mark begins to
  have second thoughts when the Army refuses to say
  when and if Wolfie will ever return

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The Schwa Was Hereby Neal Schusterman

• A Brooklyn eighth-grader nicknamed Antsy
  befriends the Schwa, an invisible-ish boy who is
  tired of blending into his surroundings and going
  unnoticed by nearly everyone.

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The Amulet of Samrakandby Jonathan Stroud

• Nathaniel, a young magicians apprentice,
  becomes caught in a web of magical espionage,
  murder, and rebellion after he summons the djinni
  Bartimaeus and instructs him to steal the Amulet
  of Samarkand from the powerful magician Simon
  Loveland.

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Millicent Min, Girl Geniusby Lisa Yee

• In a series of journal entries, 11-year-old
  child prodigy Millicent Min records her struggles
  to learn to play volleyball, tutor her enemy,
  deal with her grandmothers departure, and make
  friends over the course of a tumultuous summer.

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Truesightby David Stahler

• In a distant frontier world, 13-year-old Jacob
  is uncertain of his future in a community that
  considers blindness a virtue and Seers as
  aberrations.

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Hawksongby Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

• In a land that has been at war so long that no
  one remembers the reason for fighting, the
  shapeshifters who rule the two factions agree to
  marry in the hope of bringing peace, despite
  deep-seated fear and distrust of each other.

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Al Capone Does My Shirtsby Gennifer Choldenko

• A 12-year-old boy moves to Alcatraz Island in
  1935 when guards families were housed there, and
  has to contend with his extraordinary new
  environment in addition to life with his autistic
  sister.

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The Supernaturalistby Eoin Colfer

• In futuristic Satellite City, 14-year-old
  Cosmo Hill escapes from an abusive orphanage and
  teams up with three other people who share his
  unusual ability to see supernatural creatures,
  and together they determine the nature and
  purpose of the swarming blue Parasites that are
  invisible to most humans.