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1) Tanglewreck
Author
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Silver sets out to find the Timekeeper--a clock that controls time--and to protect it from falling into the hands of two people who want to use the device for their own nefarious ends.
2) 11 birthdays
Author
Series
Willow Falls series volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
After celebrating their first nine same-day birthdays together, Amanda and Leo, having fallen out on their tenth and not speaking to each other for the last year, prepare to celebrate their eleventh birthday separately but peculiar things begin to happen as the day of their birthday begins to repeat itself over and over again.
3) Half magic
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Faced with a dull summer in the city, Jane, Mark, Katharine, and Martha suddenly find themselves involved in a series of extraordinary adventures after Jane discovers an ordinary-looking coin that seems to grant wishes.
4) The shadows
Author
Series
Books of Elsewhere volume 1
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
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Description
When eleven-year-old Olive and her distracted parents move into an old Victorian mansion, Olive finds herself ensnared in a dark plan involving some mysterious paintings, a trapped and angry nine-year-old boy, and three talking cats.
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
As her mother prepares to be a contestant on the 1980s television game show, "The $20,000 Pyramid," a twelve-year-old New York City girl tries to make sense of a series of mysterious notes received from an anonymous source that seems to defy the laws of time and space.
Author
Series
Artemis Fowl (Graphic novels) volume 1
Pub. Date
2012, c2010
Language
English
Description
Teenaged criminal mastermind Artemis Fowl must save the underwater fairy metropolis of Atlantis from danger, while battling a psychological affliction known as the Atlantis Complex.
Author
Series
Magic tree house. Original series volume 20
Pub. Date
©2000
Language
English
Description
The magic tree house whisks Jack and Annie away to Australia where they must save some animals from a wildfire.
12) 100 cupboards
Author
Series
100 cupboards volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
After his parents are kidnapped, timid twelve-year-old Henry York leaves his sheltered Boston life and moves to small-town Kansas, where he and his cousin Henrietta discover and explore hidden doors in his attic room that seem to open onto other worlds.
Author
Series
Time quintet volume 3
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
The youngest of the Murry children must travel through time and space in a battle against an evil dictator who would destroy the entire universe.
14) Otto grows down
Author
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
When time goes backwards, granting six-year-old Otto his wish that his attention-stealing baby sister was never born, it keeps going backwards, and Otto finds himself getting younger and younger.
15) Ghost letters
Author
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
While exploring the area around his grandfather's home Gil discovers a bottle that carries messages into the past, finds a genie in a letter, and three letters that were never delivered but would have changed the course of history.
16) Spellbound
Author
Series
Books of Elsewhere volume 2
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Olive finds herself drawn to the grimoire of the witches who built her house and tries to use its spells to uncover the house's magic and control the cats themselves, but the book is more wicked than it seems.
17) The second spy
Author
Series
Books of Elsewhere volume 3
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
After plummeting through a hole in her backyard and finding herself once again in the room of mysterious jars, eleven-year-old Olive unwittingly releases two of Elsewhere's biggest, most cunning, most dangerous forces.
Author
Pub. Date
[2015].
Language
English
Description
"Inspired by the question, "What are they doing right at this moment on the other side of the world?" this book focuses on natural and human events happening all over the world in the same second. Talking about the world and how it's so different in places but also so similar and shared, so incredible and surprising, the books takes us to New York, Chicago, Mexico, Portugal, Angola, Turkey, Greece, Italy, Hungry, Brazil, and South Africa, among others....
19) One minute
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
In simple text and illustrations, the author explains all the things that can happen in a minute--both good and bad.
Author
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
When a medieval princess appears out of a rusty box bought at a yard sale, fourteen-year-old tomboy Casey Peabody and her family are stuck with her royal snobbiness until the young wizard who had trapped her there figures out the spell to send her home.
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