So you might have to look in the children's section, but these books are worth the trip.
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Ender's Game Andrew "Ender" Wiggin is at Battle School, training for the next war against the alien "Buggers." His commanders think that he is "the one"- the one who will save mankind-but what does Ender think? |
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Artemis Fowl Artemis Fowl, boy genius, doesn't want to save the world. He just wants gold and lots of it, but he will have to outsmart LEPrecon (Lower Elements Police Reconnaisance) officer and fairy, Holly Short, to get it. |
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The Dark is Rising
(Book 2 in The Dark is Rising Series) |
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Boy: Tales of Childhood Author of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Matilda, Roald Dahl tells the story of his own childhood in England. |
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The Outsiders It is hard growing up, and Ponyboy has enough to figure out without a murder on his hands. |
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A Wrinkle in Time Meg and Charles Wallaces' father was working on a secret government project when he disappeared. Now it is up to Meg, Charles, and their friend Calvin to travel through the tesseracts, or wrinkles in time, and rescue their father. |
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Ella Enchanted Ella is cursed with the gift of obedience, but she manages to defy her step-mother, finishing school, and even ogres on her way to happily ever after. The most charming retelling of Cinderella to date. |
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The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe
(Book 2 in The Chronicles of Narnia) |
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The Hero and the Crown Aerin, the daughter of a northern witch woman, feels like an outsider in her father's court. However, when she discovers the secret to killing dragons, she can no longer hide from her destiny. |
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The Witch of Blackbird Pond In her small Puritan community, Kit sticks out like a topical bird trapped in a flock of sparrows, and after she befriends Hannah, the old woman who lives by Blackbird Pond, her neighbors begin to wonder, is Kit a witch as well? |
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The Little Prince Stranded in the Sahara Desert after experiencing engine failure, a French aviator comes across an odd yellow-haired boy, the Little Prince, who tells him the strange but beautiful story of how he has travelled across the universe looking for a friend. |
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