FICTION SERIES 4-20-16
in the Murray Avenue Library
SERIES / AUTHOR / BOOKS / DESCRIPTION100 Cupboards / Wilson / 1-2 / FANTASYTwelve-year-old Henry lived with his adopted parents, Phil and Ursula, who were kidnapped a short while before the beginning of the book. Then when he has to move in with his aunt and uncle, Henry finds out that he originated from a world beyond the cupboards. Way Beyond.
39 Clues / Multiple authors / 1-11 / MYSTERYThe series is about 39 clues to a family's secret 500-year-old history left in a will by Grace Cahill, the last matriarch of the most powerful family in the world. The people mentioned in her will have the choice of inheriting one million dollars instantly or competing to win the fortune by collecting all the clues. Orphans Amy and Dan Cahill attend their grandmother's funeral and are swept into a worldwide search.
39 Clues: Cahills vs. Vespers / Multiple authors / 1, 3-6 / MYSTERYThe Clue Hunt is over, but now there's a new danger to the Cahill clan, an enemy that was established before the siblings ever split: the Vespers. When they kidnap members of the Cahill family, the clue contestants must band together to find them and get them back.
5th Wave / Yancey / 1-2 / SCIENCE FICTIONThis YA series follows 16-year-old Cassie Sullivan as she tries to survive in a world devastated by the waves of alien invasions that have devastated the Earth's population and knocked humankind back to theStone Age.
Abhorsen / Nix / 1-4 / FANTASYWelcome to the world of the Old Kingdom, where only the Abhorsen can keep the living safe from the dead.
Accidentally / Papademetriou / 2-4 / REALISTICSeventh grader Amy Flowers is a fish-out-of-water at super-snooty Allington Academy. Amy is doing her best to fit in at her new school, but Fiona and the rest of the League aren't making it easy for her. If she can pass their tests, she'll be part of the in crowd, but what will she have to give up to fit in? Part of the Candy Apple series.
Adam Canfield / Winerip / 1-3 / CRIME/DETECTIVE While serving as co-editors of their school newspaper, middle-schoolers Adam and Jennifer expose school scandals and injustices with their investigative reporting.
Adventures of Kate / Barron / 1-3 / FANTASYThe stories follow a heroic teenage girl named Kate as she travels to a distant galaxy to save the life of her astronomer grandfather in Heartlight, goes back in time to a lost Native American tribe in The Ancient One, and ultimately down to the very bottom of the sea in The Merlin Effect. This fantasy adventure series weaves together mystery, mysticism, and magic.
Al Capone at Alcatraz / Choldenko / 1-2 / HISTORICAL FICTIONSet in the 1930s, the series is narrated by 12-year-old Moose Flanagan, the son of an Alcatraz guard. Because his family is required to live on the island, Moose finds himself having some interesting connections with Capone, one of the most notorious criminals of the time who served five years in prison there.
Alcatraz / Sanderson / 2-3 / FANTASY/ADVENTURE On his 13th birthday, foster child Alcatraz Smedry gets a bag of sand in the mail-his only inheritance from his father and mother. He soon learns that this is no ordinary bag of sand. It is quickly stolen by the cult of evil Librarians who are taking over the world by spreading misinformation and suppressing truth. Alcatraz must stop them, using the only weapon he has: an incredible talent for breaking things.
Alex Rider / Horowitz / 1-3, 5-10 + companion / CRIME/DETECTIVE This series is about the adventures of a reluctant teenage spy named Alex Rider. The books focus on Alex’s escapades in the world of espionage. Teen spy fiction at its pulse-pounding best!
Alice / Naylor / various / REALISTICAlice McKinley lost her mother at young age. Despite her adoration for her father and older brother, Lester, she faces a life of awkward stages, embarrassing moments, traumatic experiences, and everything in between.
Amulet / Kibuishi / 1-7 / GRAPHIC NOVELThe series follows the adventures of Emily Hayes, who after moving to her great-grandfather's house in the town of Norlen, discovers and wears the magical amulet that uses magical powers. After entering the fictional world of Alledia with her younger brother, Navin and their mother, Karen, they befriend the allies and set off to defeat the villainous Elf King.
Angel/Life of Angelica Cookson Potts / Whytock / 1-3 / REALISTICThis series follows the adventures of 14-year-old Angel, food-loving cooking enthusiast and worried weight watcher, who has a flair for the dramatic and a penchant for good-humored self-deprecation.
Anne of Green Gables / Montgomery / 1-3, 5-6 / REALISTICThe series recounts the adventures ofAnne Shirley, an 11-year-old orphan girl who is mistakenly sent to Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert, a middle-aged brother and sister who had intended to adopt a boy to help them on their farm inPrince Edward Island.
Antsy Bonano / Shusterman / 1-3 / REALISTICThe series is about a fourteen-year-old boy named Anthony Bonano. Anthony's nickname of Antsy suits him well: he's impulsive, talkative, and full of ideas and schemes.
Anybodies / Bode / 1-3 / FANTASYThe trilogy begins with eleven-year-old Fern who learns she was switched at birth and that she is a member of "The Anybodies" -- a rare breed of human with powers to change shape.
Apothecary / Meloy / 1-3 / FANTASYThe trilogy opens in 1952 when the Scott family has just moved from Los Angeles to London. Here, fourteen-year-old Janie meets a mysterious apothecary and his son, Benjamin Burrows – a fascinating boy who’s not afraid to stand up to authority and dreams of becoming a spy.
Artemis Fowl / Colfer / 1-8 +
companion / SCIENCE FICTION/FANTASYThis series introduces a teenage criminal mastermind, Artemis Fowl II as an anti-hero and the fairies' enemy. But as the series progresses, he assists the Fairies in resolving conflicts with worldwide ramifications, with Artemis' character developing and changing throughout the chronology.
Arthur / Crossley-Holland / 1-3 / LEGENDThis trilogy takes a new look at the King Arthur legends, showing a medieval boy's development from a page to a squire and finally to a knight. Alongside this advance, the medieval Arthur faces issues such as his prospective betrothal and inheritance. Meanwhile, he has the "Seeing Stone" through which observes the remarkably parallel early life of King Arthur, several hundred years before.
Ascendance trilogy / Nielsen / 2-3 / FANTASYIn this series, a 14-year-old orphan named Sage is revealed to be Jaron, the missing Prince of Carthya. After Jaron ascends to the throne, he has to lead his nation through a destructive war.
Ash Mistry Chronicles / Chadda / 1-2 / FANTASYAsh Mistry hates India, which is a problem since his uncle has brought him and his annoying younger sister Lucky there to take up a dream job with the mysterious Lord Savage. But Ash immediately suspects something is very wrong with the eccentric millionaire. Soon, Ash finds himself in a desperate battle to stop Savage's masterplan – the opening of the Iron Gates that have kept Ravana, the demon king, at bay for four millennia.
Atherton / Carman / 1-2 / SCIENCE FICTIONDr. Harding is the futuristic mad scientist responsible for creating Atherton: a three tiered satellite world orbiting the fallen Earth. But those who live on Atherton don’t know Earth exists or their role in trying to save it. Edgar, a gifted climber, is the first to discover the first of many startling revelations to come: the three tiered world of Atherton is collapsing. A dangerous world of strange creatures and hidden powers with a history locked inside the mind of a mad scientist, Atherton is much more than it appears at first glance.
Austin Family / L’Engle / 1, 5 / REALISTICIn this YA series, Vicky Austin experiences the difficulties and joys of growing up. She encounters love for the first time, but also experiences grief.
Avalon, Web of Magic / Roberts / 1-3 / FANTASYIn this series, Emily Fletcher, Adriane Charday, and Kara Davies, three very different girls-turned-mages(mages are highly skilled "magic users"), band together to protect and findAvalon, the very source of allmagic.
The Bartimaeus trilogy / Stroud / 1-3 / FANTASYThis seriesfollows the career of a teenage magicianNathaniel,and Bartimaeus, a 5,000-year-old djinni, a spirit of approximately mid-level power, whom he has summoned and nominally controls.
Bartlett / Hirsch / 1-3 / ADVENTUREA series about explorers Bartlett, Jacques le Grand, and their apprentice, Gozo, who plunge into adventures and solve the riddles of the people encountered on their great voyages of discovery.
Baseball Card Adventures / Gutman / 1-12 / SPORTS/SCIENCE FICTIONThe booksfeature aboy, Joe Stoshack, who can travel throughtimewhen he touches oldbaseball cards.[2]When he holds a baseballcard, he is transported to the year that card was made and somewhere near theballplayeron the card. Later he discovers that this power also works on very oldphotographs. He tries to use this power wisely, and he attempts to changehistoryseveral times, but it is always something different from his original goal.
Beacon Street Girls / Bryant / 1-16 / REALISTICThis series is about a group of 7th grade girls with seemingly different backgrounds and interests who form a secret girls’ club complete with a Bill of Rights meant to support and empower each other, and detailing such rules as, “we won’t be, like, obnoxious or anything.” Utilizing the first-person perspective of each of its five main characters, there is a veritable potpourri of ethnicities and traits for young readers to identify with.
Beautiful Creatures / Garcia / 1-4 / PARANORMAL ROMANCEMysterious, suspenseful, and romantic,this Southern gothic romance series introduces a secret world hidden in plain sight. A world where impossible, magical, life-altering events happen. Sometimes life-ending.
Belle Prater / White / 1-2 / REALISTICThe story is about 12-year-old Gypsy and her aunt, Belle Prater, who mysteriously disappears one morning. When Gypsy's unusual cousin Woodrow--"Belle Prater's boy—comes to town, she quickly befriends him in the hopes that she'll find out more about his mother's disappearance.
Beyonders / Mull / 1-3 / FANTASY/ADVENTUREThis series follows the exploits of a slightly neglected, 13-year-old boy, Jason Walker,who is transported to a strange world called Lyrian, where he joins a group of rebels to fight against the malicious wizard emperor, Surroth.
The Black Stallion / Farley / various / REALISTICThe Black Stallion, known as the Black or Shêtân, is the title character from this bestselling series about the stallion and his young owner, Alec Ramsay. The series chronicles the story of an Arab sheikh's prized stallion after he comes into Alec's possession, although later books furnish the Black's backstory.
Blackhope Enigma / Flavin / 1-2 / FANTASYThis multi-layered adventure is based around a painting, The Mariner's Return to Arcadia, by mysterious Renaissance artist Fausto Corvo. When Sunni Forrest accidentally finds herself transported to the heart of the Blackhope enigma, she and her friend Blaise must overcome its dangers to find their way home.
Bliss Bakery / Littlewood / 1-3 / FANTASYThe Bliss Cookery Booke is an ancient, leather-bound volume of enchanted recipes—and the Bliss family’s biggest secret. Rose and her siblings are forbidden from using the Booke, but all that changes when their mysterious “Aunt” Lily comes to town. A few Love Muffins and a few dozen Cookies of Truth couldn’t cause too much trouble . . . could they?
Blue Bloods / De la Cruz / 1-4 / PARANORMAL This is a series ofvampirenovels set in Manhattan,New York, and follows its characters through numerous adventures involving romance, loyalty, mystery, and war.
Bone / Smith / 1-9 / GRAPHIC NOVELIn this series, three modern cartoon cousins —greedy Phoncible P. "Phoney" Bone, goofycigar-smoking Smiley Bone, and everymancharacter Fone Bone— get lost in a pre-technological valley, spending a year there making new friends and out-running dangerous enemies.
Book of Ember / DuPrau / 1-4 / FANTASYThe four Books of Ember tell the story of a city where it’s always dark. There is no sun, no moon, and no light at all unless the electricity is on. And the electricity is beginning to fail…
Books of Bayern / Hale / 1-4 / FAIRY TALESThe series opens with a beautiful retelling of a Grimm brothers’ fairy tale, as the author takes a classic and makes it her own, weaving in countless details of two unknown kingdoms and the characters–both good and bad–who fill them.The other books in the series follow these side characters from the original story and give them new depth of their own in the kingdom of Bayern.
The Books of Beginning / Stephens / 1-2 / FANTASYKate, Michael, and Emma have passed from one orphanage to another in the ten years since their parents disappeared to protect them, but now they learn that they have special powers--and a fearsome enemy--and embark on a prophesied quest to find a magical book.
Books of Elsewhere / West / 2-4 / FANTASYThis series begins follows the adventures of eleven-year-old Olive Dunwoody as she travels to Elsewhere: the world inside the antique paintings on the walls of the old stone house on Linden Street. Danger and mystery are around every corner as Olive encounters evil magic, talking cats, and a small boy trapped inside the painted world.
Borrowers / Norton / 1-2 / FANTASYThis series is about tiny people who live in the homes of big people and "borrow" things to survive while keeping their existence unknown.
The Boy Sherlock Holmes / Peacock / 1-4 / CRIME/DETECTIVE In this series ofmysteries featuring the famous fictional detective, a young Sherlock Holmes has a mystery to solve. Along the way, we discover what Sherlock was like as a young man, and what it was like to grow up different in Victorian London.
Boy/Girl Battle / Naylor / 2-10 / REALISTICThe series is centered around the four Hatford boys: Jake, Josh, Wally, and Peter, and the Malloy girls: Eddie, Beth, and Caroline. The Malloys are temporarily staying in a house across the river from the Hatfords. The boys decide to try and drive the Malloys out of town by making their lives miserable. Unfortunately for them, the girls aren't the type to sit back and let them get away with that.
The Brain / Chatterton / 1-2 / MYSTERY/HUMOR The stories follow the adventures of Theo Brain, the world’s youngest super sleuth.
Brian’s Saga / Paulsen / 1-4 / ADVENTUREWhen Brian Robeson’s plane crashes in the Canadian wilderness, he must learn to survive living off the land, with his hatchet as his only tool. The series continues to follow Brian through his adventures living in the wilderness.
Brixton Brothers / Barnett / 1, 3-4 / CRIME/DETECTIVE Twelve-year-old seventh-grader Steve Brixton (an only child) is obsessed with the Bailey Brothers, a pair of sibling sleuths who solve crimes in a mystery book series. By using the tactics of his fictional heroes (with varying degrees of success), Steve inadvertently becomes America’s top sleuth. Steve, with his chum Dana and his ace wits, solves any dangerous, impossible, and action-packed mystery for a small fee of two hundred dollars a day plus expenses.
Candy Apple / Multiple authors / various / REALISTICA series for girls about the ups and downs of middle school life as the protagonists deal with parents, best friends, tryouts, afterschool activities, homework, popularity, first crushes, etc.
Caretaker Trilogy / Klass / 1-3 / SCIENCE FICTIONIn a space-time-bending game of survival, Jack discovers he’s been sent from the future to save the planet--its oceans and rainforests. But in this ecological thriller series of fantasy and environmental thrills, it’s a race against time—and the Dark Army.
Casson Family / McKay / 1-5 +
prequel / REALISTICMeet the Cassons, an eclectic family of artists living in modern day England. Eve names her children from a paint chart and teaches juvenile delinquents to draw. Bill lives in London and rents a stylish flat away from his four children, whom he blithely does not understand.In this series,the characters learn tough life lessons andeverything is chaos (mostly the fun kind).
The Cay / Taylor / 1-2 / HISTORICAL FICTION This is the story of a boy's life-threatening adventure at sea in 1942 after his freighter, the Hato, is torpedoed by a German submarine. In his quest for survival, the boy must overcome his racial and cultural prejudices, as well as a serious physical disability in this Robinson Crusoe setting.
Chaos Walking / Ness / 1-3 / SCIENCE FICTIONThis series is set in a dystopian world where all living creatures can hear each other's thoughts in a stream of images, words, and sounds called Noise.The three novels feature two children, Todd Hewitt and Viola Eade, who encounter various moral issues and high stakes as the planet around them erupts into war.
Chasing Vermeer / Balliett / 1-3 / MYSTERY This series is about middle school classmates who must work together to solve mysteries surrounding great works of art: a Vermeer painting, a Frank Lloyd Wright house and a Calder sculpture. Intriguing clues keep the reader determined to solve the mysteries before the threesome does.