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Tween Reads eBook and eAudio edition - April 2020
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The City of Ember
by Jeanne DuPrau
What it's about: Many hundreds of years ago, the city of Ember was created by the Builders to contain everything needed for human survival. It worked…but now the storerooms are almost out of food, crops are blighted, corruption is spreading through the city and worst of all—the lights are failing. Soon Ember could be engulfed by darkness…
What happens: But when 12 year ol friends, Lina and Doon, discover fragments of an ancient parchment, they begin to wonder if there could be a way out of Ember. Can they decipher the words from long ago and find a new future for everyone? Will the people of Ember listen to them?
Series alert: This is the first of a trilogy with a prequel novel also available.
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The Graveyard Book
by Neil Gaiman
Introducing: Nobody Owens, known to his friends as Bod. He, is a perfectly normal boy. Well, he would be perfectly normal if he didn't live in a graveyard, being raised and educated by ghosts, with a solitary guardian who belongs to neither the world of the living nor the world of the dead.
What happens: There are dangers and adventures for Bod in the graveyard: the strange and terrible menace of the Sleer; a gravestone entrance to a desert that leads to the city of ghouls; friendship with a witch, and so much more.
But it is in the land of the living that real danger lurks, for it is there that the man Jack lives, and he has already killed Bod's family.
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The Letter for the King
by Tonke Dragt
What happens: It is the dead of night. Sixteen-year-old Tiuri must spend hours locked in a chapel in silent contemplation if he is to be knighted the next day. But, as he waits by the light of a flickering candle, he hears a knock at the door and a voice desperately asking for help.
Netflix alert: Netflix just released this as a series.
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The Heroes of Olympus : The Complete Series
by Rick Riordan
What happens: When Jason, Piper and Leo crash-land at Camp Half-Blood, they have no idea what to expect. Apparently this is the only safe place for children of the Greek Gods . . .Despite the monsters roaming the woods and demigods practising archery with flaming arrows and explosives - some things just have to be taken on trust. But now rumours of a terrible curse - and a missing hero - are flying around camp. And it seems Jason, Piper and Leo are the chosen ones to embark on a terrifying new quest. And when Percy Jackson wakes up with no memory of his past, it's clear things are only just beginning . . .
Series alert: This is the series following on from Percy Jackson and the Olympians.
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The Darkdeep
by Allyson Braithwaite Condie
What happens: When a bullying incident sends 12-year-old Nico Holland over the edge of a cliff into the icy waters of Still Cove, where no one ever goes, friends Tyler and Ella – and even 'cool kid' Opal – rush to his rescue ... only to discover an island hidden in the swirling mists below. Shrouded by dense trees and murky tides, the island appears uninhabited, although the kids can't quite shake the feeling that something about it is off.
Their suspicions grow when they stumble upon an abandoned houseboat with an array of curiosities inside: odd-looking weapons, unnerving portraits, maps to places they've never heard of and a glass jar containing something completely unidentifiable. As the group delves deeper into the unknown, their discoveries – and their lives – begin to intertwine in weird and spooky ways. Something ancient has awakened ... and it knows their wishes and dreams – and their deepest secrets.
Do they have what it takes to face the shadowy things that lurk within their own hearts?
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The Iron Trial
by Holly Black
What happens: Call has been told his whole life that he should never trust a magician. And so he tries his best to do his worst – but fails at failing. Now he must enter the Magisterium. It's a place that's both sensational and sinister. And Call realises it has dark ties to his past and a twisty path to his future.
Series alert: This is the start of a five-book series of fantasy novels, one book for each year of Calls life between twelve and seventeen.
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Maleficent : Mistress of Evil
by Elizabeth Rudnick
Horned fairy Maleficent and her goddaughter Princess Aurora question the family ties that bind them as they are pulled in opposite directions by forces outside of their control.
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Contact your librarian for more great books for ages 10-13!
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