Action & Adventure - Kids Fiction

Dear Diary, When Bess asked George and me to be counselors at her old camp, I thought I was in for a relaxing week. But trouble always finds me. I heard about a camper who had drowned in the lake years ago and dismissed...

Eerey Tocsin In The Cryptoid Zoo. "One of the privileges of writing a review column is being able to break your own reviews. You see, this is a column devoted to modern day pulp fiction and this title is certainly not that. It is...

Written and illustrated by Natalia G. Toreeva, the creative new children's book Greg and the Sea Monster will delight your little ones with its thrilling watery adventures. Join Greg and his friends on their exciting journey as they learn an important lesson about loyalty...

The Scarecrow of Oz is the ninth book in the Land of Oz series and tells of Cap'n Bill and Trot journeying to Oz and, with the help of the Scarecrow, overthrowing the cruel King Krewl of Jinxland. Lyman Frank Baum was an American...

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is the first book in the Land of Oz series although Baum did not originally intend for Oz to be a series. The story chronicles the adventures of Dorothy Gale in the Land of Oz, after being swept away...

Robin Hood by J. Walker McSpadden is the classic tale of the man who robbed from the rich to give to the poor. Escape to Sherwood Forest and join the Fellowship of the Greenwood with these tales of the celebrated archer and gentleman thief....

A parallel universe, a crystal cave, a talking mastodon, and one tough granny.The World Jumper has misfired and inventor-in-training Angus Clark finds himself in a primitive, snowy village with no running water, no electricity, and enormous animals that haven't roamed the earth for thousands...

A parallel universe, a pirate ship, a talking bird, and one seriously eccentric captain.After a laboratory mishap, inventor-in-training Angus Clark finds himself aboard the Fearsome Flea. The pirate crew mistakes the middle schooler for his alter ego, a dirty, rude cannon boy. Clever Angus...

Much has changed in the sky-city of Quentaris. With the Archon dead, dark forces have come into play. New faces are appearing, familiar ones vanishing, and the horrid Florian has claimed the throne. Then, as Quentaris slips quietly through a vortex into the watery...

This graphic novel re-telling of Kathy Hoopmann's best-selling Blue Bottle Mystery brings the much-loved fantasy story to life for a new generation of readers. The hero is Ben, a boy with Asperger Syndrome (AS). When Ben and his friend Andy find an old bottle...

After the death of his father, the seventeen-year-old orphan David Balfour discovers the existence of an uncle, and sets off in search of him. His uncle Ebenzer is far from welcoming, however, and David, after barely escaping with his life, finds himself kidnapped and...

The Charlie Tractor books are family-oriented, beautifully illustrated stories created for beginner readers and all children two to ten years old. The adventures of Charlie Tractor are happy, simple, heart-warming stories designed to hold the child's attention, teach a fun fact or two, and...

The Falcon's Call From the moment Dara of Westwood spied the Silver Headed Raptor nesting in Rundeval Peak, the precocious redheaded twelve-year-old girl was enchanted. The youngest daughter of the Master of the Wood lived in ramshackle Westwood Hall, in the independently-minded Westwood estate...

Lady Lenodara of Westwood, called the Hawkmaiden - Dara, to her friends - has had an adventurous life: she tamed a falcon when she was twelve, learned she had magical Talent, discovered that she had a natural aptitude as a beastmaster, won her witchstone...

Aya and Papaya are back The sun rises and Aya is awake. She remembers that today is a very special day so quickly jumps out of bed to put on her favourite pink boots that she always wears on special days.Aya and her best...

"Roald Dahl sometimes shared a tonal kinship with Ogden Nash, and he could demonstrate a verbal inventiveness nearly Seussian... His] stories work better in audio than in print." -The New York Times Willy Wonka's famous chocolate factory is opening at last But only five...

Any other eleven-year-old kid might flip past a hand-drawn picture if they found it in a textbook. But not Drew Daley. When he discovers a detailed drawing tucked away in his science book, his entire life changes. He finds himself seeing everything differently and...

Set in Australia, nine-year-old JENNY lived in the small seaside town of Coogee Beach. While playing on the beach she trips over a beautiful vase. Not knowing it is the Great Vase of Ra, Jenny takes the vase home to surprise her Mum, but...

The Forest is a story about a girl named Misty who disobeys her mother and follows her dog Bruno into a mystical forest, only to find that she cannot get out. Reynard the wolf and his forest friends try to help her find her...

Imaginative, but na?e, Catherine Morland tries to uncover the secrets of the gothic castle Northanger Abbey.Author: Jane AustenISBN-10: 1607541505ISBN-13: 9781607541509Publisher: Windmill BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/30/2009Pages: 64Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.17lbsSize: 7.50h x 4.90w x 0.30dAccelerated Reader:Reading Level: 5.6Point Value: 1Interest Level: Middle GradeQuiz #/Name: 129848 / Northanger...

Paul E. Harvey, Jr., spins a delightful tale in his first children's book about a crafty little Leprechaun who leaves his precious pot of gold in order to fulfill a very important and secret mission. Cunning little Shamus loves nothing more than to spend...

When middle school-aged Clayton, who's crazy about everything King Tut, decides to wander the museum exhibit by himself, he is more than surprised to run into the Boy King himself. The two compare what it's like being a teenager today versus thousands of years...

When Minnie and Moo are mistaken for bank robbers, will they escape the long arm of the law?Author: Denys CazetISBN-10: 1606860224ISBN-13: 9781606860229Publisher: Turtleback BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/28/2007Pages: 47Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.45lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.10w x 0.40dAccelerated Reader:Reading Level: 2.2Point Value: 0.5Interest Level: Lower GradeQuiz #/Name: 109415...

From best-selling author Michael Grant comes the highly anticipated, terrifying, and mind-bending second book in the BZRK trilogy. The entire BZRK cell--including Noah and Sadie--has been left in pieces after the last round of battle with the Armstrong Twins, conjoined brothers who plot to...

Young Malcolm MacPhail has already had his audience in the hall of the richly clad widow -- mother of the mad laird, Stephen Stewart. Malcolm has gained the laird's trust -- and with all the honesty of his heart he will do nothing against...

Citizen Chauvelin, of the Committee of Public Safety, presents citizen Fouquier-Tinville, the Public Prosecutor, with the most extraordinary claim: "The dangerous English spy known to the world as the Scarlet Pimpernel," he says, "is now safely under lock and key. He must be transferred...

WILL MR. KING LET THE LITTLEST PEPPER GET MARRIED?You remember The Five Little Peppers, don't you?Yes, those Peppers! Ben and Polly and Joel and Davie . . . and of course the youngest, Phronsie. You met them in one of the most famous children's...

Best for the youngest audiences, this is an adequate treatment of the theme for those whose shelves lack it." - Kirkus Reviews Sir Tim and Sara go to the park together. Sara spends time playing with her friend Max. How does that make Tim...

Every student at Superhero School is good at something, but Henry--though popular with the kids for his humor and pranks--wonders if he's really superhero material.Author: Thierry RobberechtISBN-10: 1605371408ISBN-13: 9781605371405Publisher: ClavisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/26/2012Pages: 30Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.70lbsSize: 10.10h x 8.50w x 0.30dReview Citation(s): School Library Journal...

Her real name is Mariah, but she has asthma and a hoarse voice, so everyone calls her Wheezy. Wheezy is an abandoned child, left at her grandfather's trailer by parents who simply disappear one day (Wheezy thinks they were taken by aliens). When her...

Tom Swift has enthralled generations of children with his amazing adventures. So return to a simpler time, put away your cynicism, and dust off your sense of wonder, because you're off on a series of grand adventures! Include here are Tom Swift and His...

Ozma of Oz, published on July 29, 1907, was the third book of L. Frank Baum's Oz series. It was the first in which Baum was clearly intending a series of Oz books. Where at the end of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Dorothy's...

Meet the Legendary Pok駑on Kyurem and see what pops out of two different books as the Dragon-type Pok駑on takes to the skies of your room as either Black Kyurem or White Kyurem! In these colorful and engaging pop-out books, the focus is all about...

32 page book with 3 Pok駑on Black & White episodes on DVD and custom molded headphones. Choose your favorite starting Pok駑on! Choose your favorite starter Pok駑on from Pok駑on Black Version and Pok駑on White Version for a multimedia Pok駑on experience in a book! Kids can...

An unabridged, unaltered edition to include all twenty chapters with footnotes -Author: Gene Stratton-PorterISBN-10: 1603866590ISBN-13: 9781603866590Publisher: Merchant BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/23/2014Pages: 178Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.65lbsSize: 9.61h x 6.69w x 0.38dAccelerated Reader:Reading Level: 6.3Point Value: 13Interest Level: Middle GradeQuiz #/Name: 25228 / Freckles

A framing story is told in the first person by Darrell Standing, a university professor serving life imprisonment in San Quentin State Prison for murder. Prison officials try to break his spirit by means of a torture device called "the jacket". Yet even then...

Gray-eyed Dorothy Vaughan and her dear, childhood friend Richard Heywood . . . they are beyond the simple joys of making play houses and caring for wild animals. She is 17, he, 19 . . . and new stirrings make feelings they can barely...

. . . .But his verse is strictly private: "His mind would dwell much upon love and friendship in the imaginary abstract, but of neither had he had the smallest immediate experience." That is, until he meets Annie Melville, who takes service as a...

Martin Eden is the tale of a sailor who educates himself. Eden has a wicked crush on college-educated society girl Ruth Morse, and thinks that he can get her by becoming one of the literati . . . we all know what happens in...

Said to be on the bookshelf of C.S. Lewis, At the Back of the North Wind by George MacDonald is the story of a young farm boy, Diamond, who is naturally connected to goodness and nature -- he was even named after a horse....

Malcolm always thought the librarian at the Franklin County Library was cranky. She constantly shushed him and insisted the library was haunted. Boy was she right When Malcolm and Dandy have school reports to research, Malcolm's library book keeps disappearing and returning to the...

Malcolm's dad thinks it's time Malcolm and his best friend Dandy get out of the basement lab and started doing the things that other 10-year-old boys enjoy. So, they are going camping--in October The best part of camping at Lake Itchyburr is the Legend...

Malcolm and his best friend Dandy aren't like other 10-year-old boys. Malcolm would rather avoid his older sister, experiment in his lab, and read his science magazines than play sports. In one magazine, he comes across an advertisement for an Ecto-Handheld-Automatic-Heat-Sensitive-Laser-Enhanced Specter Detector. Its...

Introducing Sarah Sullivan Wearing a sparkly "S" crown, she is Super Silly and Sweet In this first book of the Sarah Sullivan Series, Bedtime for Sarah Sullivan is about the magical hour that happens every night at bedtime, when kids "try" to go to...

Matt Stribling is stuck spending another vacation with his brilliant, yet scatterbrained archaeologist father. When Matt arrives to find the place turned upside down and his father missing, he's not immediately worried. But a cryptic message and strange footprints quickly persuade Matt that all...

Scooby, Shaggy, Daphne, and Fred head to Egypt to surprise Velma on her archaeological dig at the Great Sphinx of Giza. But the surprise is on them when an ancient curse left by the legendary Queen Cleopatra comes to life. Spotlight editions are printed...

DR. DOOM has captured Pepper, Rhodey and other employees closest to Tony Stark and given him a simple ultimatum -- turn over the one weapon Doom needs to destroy the Fantastic Four in four hours, or his friends' lives are forfeit Iron Man has...

"Never are there such departures as from the dock at Honolulu. The great transport lay with steam up, ready to pull out. A thousand persons were on her decks; five thousand stood on the wharf. Up and down the long gangway passed native princes...

Five super-powered teens battle a warlord to save an endangered creature. Appeals to fans of comic books, The Teen Titans, and Avatar the Last Airbender. From their treehouse headquarters come five young champions and their wise teacher. Brawny Cha is a mountain of muscle....

When the sun goes out, a brave astronaut must save the galaxy Enjoy video game level excitement with cool characters on an action packed quest What would you do if the sun went out? The brave astronaut Topo leaves his space station to save...