Anderson, M.T.              The Game of Sunken Places

When two boys stay with an eccentric relative at his mansion in rural Vermont, they discover an old-fashioned board game  that draws them into a mysterious adventure.

Bell, Hilari                          The Prophecy

Guided by the words of a prophecy, Prince Perryndon, who loves books

more than swords, sets out to slay the black dragon that is destroying his kingdom.

Bloor, Edward                            Tangerine

Twelve-year-old Paul, who lives in the shadow of his football hero brother Erik, fights for the right to play soccer despite his near blindness, and slowly begins to remember the incident that damaged his eyesight.

Broach, Elise                                   Masterpiece  

           After Marvin, a beetle, makes a miniature drawing as an eleventh birthday

           present gift for James, a human with whom he shares a house, the two new

           friends work together to help recover a Durer drawing stolen from the

           Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Bruchac, Joseph                  The Dark Pond

After he feels a mysterious pull drawing him toward a dark, shadowy pond in the woods, Armie looks to old Native American tales for guidance about the dangerous monster lurking in the water.

Carroll, Michael     Quantum Prophecy: 01 The Awakening

           Ten years after the disappearance of superhumans - both heroes and villains --

           thirteen-year-olds Danny and Colin begin to develop super powers, making them

           the object of much unwanted attention.

Choldenko, Gennifer    Al Capone Does My Shirts

A twelve-year-old boy named Moose moves to Alcatraz Island in 1935 when guards' families were housed there, and has to contend with his extraordinary new environment in addition to life with his autistic sister.

Clayton, Emma                                    Roar

           Mika and Ellie live in a future behind a wall, safe from the plague of animals beyond.

           Or so they've been told. After one of them vanishes and the other takes part in a

           sinister virtual reality game, they discover their concrete world is built on lies.

Cody, Matthew                               Powerless

           Soon after moving to Noble's Green, Pennsylvania, twelve-year-old Daniel learns that 

           his new friends have super powers that they will lose when they turn thirteen, unless

           unless he can use his brain power to protect them.  

Colfer, Eoin               Half Moon Investigations

Fletcher Moon, nicknamed "Half Moon" because of his shortness, must track a conspiracy or be framed for a crime he did not commit.

Collins, Suzanne    Gregor the Overlander (first in series)

When Gregor falls through a grate in his apartment building, he's hurtled into the dark Underland, a world that is on the brink of war. But his arrival is no accident - a prophecy foretells that Gregor has a role to play in the Underland's uncertain future.

Corder, Zizou    Lion Boy (first in trilogy)

In the near future, a boy with the ability to speak the language of cats, sets out from London to seek his kidnapped parents and finds himself on a Paris-bound circus ship learning to train lions.

Craig, Joe               Jimmy Coates, Assassin?

Genetically altered Jimmy Coates is not your ordinary eleven-year-old. When the British government asks him to kill their policial opponents, he refuses to accept their role for him and goes on the run.

Delaney, Joseph    Revenge of the Witch (first in a series)

In this horror novel, twelve-year-old Tom Ward is the seventh son of a seventh son. He is the apprentice to The Spook, who teaches Tom to keep witches, boggarts and ghosts from harming villagers.

Falls, Kat                                  Dark Life

          When fifteen-year-old Ty, who has always lived on the ocean floor, joins Topside girl

          Gemma in the frontier's underworld to seek and stop outlaws who threaten his home,

          they learn that the government may pose an even greater threat.

Farmer, Nancy                    The Sea of Trolls

In A.D. 793, Jack and his sister Lucy are enslaved by Olaf One-Brow and swept into a hilarious adventure-quest involving a willful mother dragon, a giant spider, a troll-bear and a shape-shifting half-troll.

Grabenstein, Chris                      Crossroads

          When eleven-year-old Zack Jennings moves to Connecticut with his father and new

          stepmother, they must deal with the ghosts left behind by a terrible accident, as well

          as well as another kind of ghost from Zack's past.

Grant, Michael                                 The Call

         A seemingly average twelve-year-old learns that he is destined to gather a team

         of similarly gifted children to try to save the world from a nameless evil, which is

         threatening to reappear after having been imprisoned for three thousand years.

          First in a series.

Grant, Katy                                  Hide and Seek

         In the remote mountains of Arizona where he lives with his mother, stepfather, and

         two sisters, fourteen-year-old Chase discovers two kidnapped boys and gets caught

         up in a dangerous adventure when he comes up with a plan to get them to safety.         

Hahn, Mary Downing                  Closed for the Season

        Two thirteen-year-old boys, Arthur and Logan, set out to solve the mystery of a murder

        that took place some years ago in the old house Logan's family has just moved into. The

        boys' quest takes them to the highest and lowest levels of society in their small

        Maryland town, and eventually to a derelict amusement park that is supposedly closed

        for the season.

Haig, Matt                      Samuel Blink and the Forbidden Forest

          Accompanied by his aunt's Norwegian elkhound, Ibsen, twelve-year-old Samuel

          ventures into a weird forest filled with strange and dangerous creatures to

          rescue his younger sister.

Higgins, Simon                        Moonshadow:Rise of the Ninja

          In medieval Japan, an evil warlord is about to execute his secret plan to plunge the

          nation into chaos. Enter young Moonshadow, the newest agent for the Grey Light

          Order, an elite brotherhood of shinobi (ninja spy warriors).

Hobbes, Will                             Go Big or Go Home

           After a meteorite crashes through the roof of his house, Brady soon discovers that

           that he's able to do strange and wonderful things that shouldn't be possible. At the

           same time, Brady is developing some strange symptoms. Could he be infected with

           long-dormant microbes from space?

Hulme, John                           The Glitch in Sleep

           When Twelve-year-old Becker Drane is recruited by the Seems, a parallel universe

           that runs everything in The World, he must fix a disastrous glitch in the Department

           of Sleep that threatens the ability of everyone to fall asleep.

Korman, Gordon                 Schooled

           In this very funny story, Capricorn (Cap) Anderson has been homeschooled by

           his hippie grandmother, Rain. When Rain is injured in a fall, Cap is forced to attend

           the local middle school. Although he knows a lot about Zen Buddhism, nothing

           has prepared him for the politics of junior high school.

Lupica, Mike                              The Batboy

          When his hometown's Major League Baseball team hires him as a batboy,

          fourteen-year-old Brian believes his dream has come true. during the summer Brian

          strikes up an unlikely friendship with Hank Bishop, a once-popular ballplayer who was

          once banned for using steriods.

Lupica, Mike                                 Travel Team

After he is cut from his travel basketball team, the very same team that his father once led to national prominence, twelve-year-old Danny Walker forms his own team of cast-offs that might have a shot at victory.

McNamee, Eoin                                  Navigator

           Everything in the world was normal for Owen until one day time suddenly started

           to flow backwards because of an ancient rivalry between the Resisters and the

           Harsh.

Morpurgo, Michael               Kensuke's Kingdom

Washed up on an island in the Pacific with his dog Stella, Michael struggles to survive on his own. He can't find food. He can't find water. But just when things are at their worst, Michael realizes that he and Stella are not alone.

Nimmo, Jenny      Midnight for Charlie Bone (first in a series)

When Charlie's grandmother and aunts discover that he can hear people in photographs, they send him to Bloor's Academy for gifted and endowed children. As Charlie adjusts to life at Bloor's, he stumbles upon a mystery that leads him to a better understanding of his family and himself.

Nix, Garth                              Mister Monday

Arthur's life is saved by a key shaped like the minute hand of a clock, but bizarre creatures from another realm are determined to take the key even if it means killing him.

Paulsen, Gary                             The Time Hackers

When someone uses futuristic technology to play pranks on twelve-year-old Dorso Clayman, he and his best friend set off on a supposedly impossible journey through space and time trying to stop the gamesters who are endangering the universe.

Paver, Michelle                                 Wolf Brother

In this page-turning original adventure, set 6,000 years ago, 12-year old Torak and his wolf-cub companion must defeat the evil that stalks their land. Their journey takes them through the deep forest, onto glaciers, and into dangers they never had dreamed of.

Peacock, Shane                           Eye of the Crow

            In 1867, Sherlock Holmes, an impoverished young outcast with a Jewish father and

             highborn mother, visits the scene of a woman's murder, where he meets a wrongly

            accused young Arab and becomes a suspect himself.

Petersen, P.J.                                       Wild River

            Considered lazy and unathletic, twelve-year-old Ryan discovers a heroic side of

            himself when a kayak trip with his older brother goes horribly awry.

Prineas, Sarah                                  The Magic Thief

           Conn's life is forever changed when he tries to pick the pocket of the wizard Nevery

           and instead gets a strong jolt of magic. Instead of punishing the boy, Nevery

           takes Conn under his wing, teaches him magic, and enlists his help in finding the

           person responsible for stealing the city's dwindling magic supply.

Rollins, James              Jake Ransom and the Skull King's Shadow

           Jake and his older sister Kady are transported by a Mayan artifact to a strange world

           inhabited by a mix of people from long-lost civilizations who are threatened by   

           prehistoric creatures and an evil alchemist, the Skull King.

Salisbury, Graham          Night of the Howling Dogs

            Dylan's scout troop goes camping in a remote spot below the volcano on the  

            Big Island of Hawaii. That night an earthquake rocks the camp, and then a wave

            rushes in, sweeping everyone and everything before it.  Dylan and Louie, a tough

            older boy, must team up on a dangerous rescue mission.

Smith, Roland                     The Cryptid Hunters

In this thrilling adventure, thirteen-year-old twins Grace and Marty are sent to live with their anthropologist uncle and discover that he's obsessed with finding cryptids, mysterious creatures believed to be long extinct.

Smith, Roland                            Peak

           The story of a fourteen-year-old boy's attempt to be the youngest person to

           reach the top of Mount Everest is an action-packed adventure filled with tension.

Stewart, Paul     Beyond the Deepwoods (first in a series)

Thirteen-year-old Twig has grown up as the foundling child of a peaceable, none-too-bright pair of wood trolls. He enters a different destiny when he strays off a marked path into the trackless Deepwoods, and encounters many strange and dangerous creatures as he searches for his real father.

Stroud, Jonathan     Heroes of the Valley       

Set in a medieval world that recalls Norse epics, Young Halli Sveinsson of the House of Svein embarks on what he dreams will be a quest for vengeance and glory equal to those of his heroic ancestor, but he quickly comes to realize that legend and lore have little relation to reality.

Walden, Mark    H.I.V.E.: Higher-Institute-of Villainous Education

           Otto Malpense may be a mischievous 13-year-old orphan but he's no super

           villain, which is why when he is kidnapped by Dr. Nero and forced to learn

           villain skills at H.I.V.E., he hatches a plan to escape.

Wilson, N.D.                 Leepike Ridge

            Eleven-year-old Tom, presumed dead after drifting down a river, finds

            himself trapped in a series of underground caves with another survivor

            and a dog, and pursued by murderous treasure-hunters.