Iacopo Bruno

Finley McPhee is an ordinary thirteen-year-old living outside a small town in northern Scotland--until he meets Aiby Lily and is caught up in the deadly, centuries-old fight for ownership of the Enchanted Emporium, where genuinely magical items are safely stored.

2) Mesmerized: how Ben Franklin solved a mystery that baffled all of France

Author

Rockliff, Mara

Pub. Date

2015.

Language

English

Description

Discover how Benjamin Franklin's scientific method challenged a certain Dr. Mesmer's mysterious powers in a whimsical look at a true moment in history.

3) The door to time

Author

Baccalario, Pierdomenico

Series

Ulysses Moore volume 1

Pub. Date

2006.

Language

English

Description

After moving from London to an old mansion on the English coast, eleven-year-old twins Jason and Julia discover that their new home has twisting tunnels, strange artifacts from around the world, and a mysterious, locked door.

4) I scream, you scream!: scary tales

Author

Series

Pub. Date

2013.

Language

English

Description

Amusement park-loving Samantha receives a ticket to a very special ride that takes her on a heart-stopping adventure along with her equally terrified companion.

5) Bartali's bicycle: the true story of Gino Bartali, Italy's secret hero

Author

Hoyt, Megan

Pub. Date

[2021]

Language

English

Description

Publisher Annotation: Gino Bartali pedaled across Italy for years, winning one cycling race after another, including the 1938 Tour de France. Gino became an international sports hero! But the next year, World War II began, and it changed everything. Soldiers marched into Italy. Tanks rolled down the cobbled streets of Florence. And powerful leaders declared that Jewish people should be arrested. To the entire world, Gino Bartali was merely a champion...

6) Swamp monster

Author

Series

Pub. Date

2015.

Language

English

Description

Veterans Day- Picture Books

Twins Lance and Chance LaRue are seeking a pet in the swamp near their Texas shack when they happen upon an egg and bring it home to hatch, but the creature's mother finds them, determined to rescue her little one.

7) Sergeant Reckless: the true story of the little horse who became a hero

Author

McCormick, Patricia

Pub. Date

[2017]

Language

English

Appears on list

Description

The inspiring true story of Reckless, the brave little mare that became a marine. This is the first picture book from award-winning novelist Patricia McCormick, sumptuously illustrated by acclaimed artist Iacopo Bruno. When a group of US Marines fighting in the Korean War found a bedraggled little mare, they wondered if she could be trained to as a packhorse. They had no idea that the skinny, underfed horse had one of the biggest and bravest hearts...

8) The story collector

Author

Tubb, Kristin O'Donnell

Series

Story collector volume 1
A New York Public Library book

Pub. Date

2018.

Language

English

Description

A fictional account of eleven-year-old Viviani Joffre Fedeler, who was born and raised in the New York Public Library, and her older brothers and best friend Eva, who all try and find out if the library is haunted.

9) Good night, zombie

Author

Series

Thrills and Chills (Halloween) - JF

Pub. Date

2013.

Language

English

Appears on list

Description

Meet Carter, Esme, and Arnold, three students accidentally locked together inside an almost deserted school. They are not friends. They scarcely know each other. But In the basement, a mysterious night janitor waits. And outside, moving in the mist, dark shapes shuffle closer.

10) A crystal of time

Author

Series

School for Good and Evil volume 5

Pub. Date

[2019]

Language

English

Description

In this fifth installment in Soman Chainani's New York Times bestselling School for Good and Evil fantasy series, the past will come back to haunt the present. A false king has seized Camelot's throne, sentencing Tedros, the true king, to death. While Agatha, narrowly escapes the same fate, Sophie is caught in King Rhian's trap. With her wedding to Rhian approaching, she's forced to play a dangerous game as her friends' lives hang in the balance....

11) Quests for glory

Author

Series

School for Good and Evil volume 4

Pub. Date

[2017]

Language

English

Description

The students at the School for Good and Evil thought they had found their final Ever After when they vanquished the malevolent School Master. Now, on their required fourth-year quests, the students face obstacles both dangerous and unpredictable, and the stakes are high: success brings eternal adoration, and failure means obscurity forever. For their quests, Agatha and Tedros are trying to return Camelot to its former splendor as queen and king. For...

12) One-eyed doll

Author

Series

Pub. Date

2014.

Language

English

Description

Malik and his sister, Tiana love to hunt for hidden treasure and are about to discover a small locked box buried behind a deserted house.

13) One true king

Author

Series

School for Good and Evil volume 6

Pub. Date

[2020]

Language

English

Description

"In this sixth and final installment, Camelot's crown--and the fate of the Endless Woods--are up for grabs. Beyond Good and Evil. Beyond Ever Afters. The tale of Sophie and Agatha comes to a dramatic conclusion. Prepare yourself for the End of Ends."--

14) The school for good and evil

Author

Fantastical Fiction - MID
If You Like Harry Potter, Read These *Youth Books*
If You Like Keeper of the Lost Cities, Read These!
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Series

School for Good and Evil volume 1

Language

English

Appears on these lists

Description

Best friends Sophie and Agatha are going to the School for Good and Evil.

15) The cathedral of fear

Author

Adler, Irene

Series

Sherlock, Lupin, and me volume 4
Sherlock Lupin and me volume 4

Pub. Date

[2016]

Language

English

Description

In March 1871 Irene's family moves from London to Evreux in Normandy, but after a strange woman warns her that her mother is in danger, Irene calls upon her friends Arsène Lupin and Sherlock Holmes for help and soon the three young detectives are caught up in the search for an ancient relic said to be in a secret crypt beneath the streets of Paris--a Paris which is torn apart by war and currently ruled by the Commune.

16) Mister Max: the book of lost things.Bk. 1

Author

Voigt, Cynthia

Series

Mister Max volume 1

Pub. Date

2013.

Language

English

Appears on list

Mystery Fiction - JF

Description

"When Max's parents leave the country without him, he must rely on his wits to get by, and before long he is running his own--rather unusual--business"--

17) A world without princes

Author

Series

School for Good and Evil volume 2

Pub. Date

[2014]

Language

English

Description

If You Like Wings of Fire, Read These!

When best friends Sophie and Agatha return to a fairy tale world, they find that old enemies are no longer fighting, but a war begins to brew as an enemy arises from within.

18) Iron hearted Violet

Author

Barnhill, Kelly

Pub. Date

2012.

Language

English

Appears on list

Description

"Princess Violet is plain, reckless, and quite possibly too clever for her own good. Particularly when it comes to telling stories. One day she and her best friend, Demetrius, stumble upon a hidden room and find a peculiar book. A forbidden book. It tells a story of an evil being--called the Nybbas--imprisoned in their world. The story cannot be true--not really. But then the whispers start. Violet and Demetrius, along with an ancient, scarred dragon,...

19) The Ability

Author

Vaughan, M. M

Series

The Ability volume 1

Pub. Date

[2013]

Language

English

Description

While Chris and five other twelve-year-olds learn to make the most of their mental abilities in a secret, government-run school last used in 1977, twins Ernest and Mort are studying under someone with much more sinister motives.

20) The book of secrets

Author

Voigt, Cynthia

Series

Mister Max volume 2

Pub. Date

[2014]

Language

English

Description