The colossus rises
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Peter Lerangis
The day after 12-year-old Jack McKinley is told he has only months to live, he awakens on a mysterious island where a secret organization promises to save his life—with one condition: he and his three friends must retrieve seven long-lost magical orbs from amid the ruins of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, and only when they are combined can the friends' lives be saved. First stop: The Colossus of Rhodes. 150,000 first printing.
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Frostborn
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Lou Anders
Preferring to spend his time playing a favorite fantasy board game rather than preparing to take over his family's farm in Norrøngard, Karn teams up with half-giantess Thianna and flees into the woods to escape a dragon, an undead warrior and other fantastical adversaries. Simultaneous eBook.
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Pegasus : the flame of Olympus
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Kate O'Hearn
Thirteen-year-old Emily's life is transformed when Pegasus, the mythological winged horse, crashes onto the roof of her building during a New York City blackout and takes her to Olympus where she faces monsters, a corrupt governmental agency, and the quest to keep the Olympic flame burning
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The iron trial
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Holly Black
Warned away from magic all of his life, Callum endeavors to fail the trials that would admit him to the Magisterium only to be drawn into its ranks against his will and forced to confront dark elements from his past. By the best-selling co-author of the Spiderwick Chronicles and the best-selling author of the Infernal Devices series. Simultaneous eBook. 100,000 first printing.
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Loki's wolves
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Kelley Armstrong
Matt Thorsen is a direct descendent of the order-keeping god Thor, and his classmates Fen and Laurie Brekke are descendents of the trickster god Loki, so when Ragnarok—the apocalypse—threatens, the human descendents of the gods must fight monsters to prevent the destruction of the world. 100,000 first printing.
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Gregor the Overlander
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Suzanne Collins
When eleven-year-old Gregor and his two-year-old sister are pulled into a strange underground world, they trigger an epic battle involving men, bats, rats, cockroaches, and spiders while on a quest foretold by ancient prophecy
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The Dark Is Rising
by Susan Cooper
On the Midwinter Day that is his eleventh birthday, Will Stanton discovers an astounding gift -- that he is the last of the Old Ones, immortals who fight to keep the powers of evil, the Dark, from taking over the world. At once, he is plunged into a quest for the six magical Signs that will one day aid the Old Ones in the final battle between the Light and the Dark. But the Dark has already sent out the Rider -- evil cloaked in black, mounted on a midnight stallion -- and has far worse in store. Will must find the six great signs -- wood, bronze, iron, water, fire, and stone -- before the Dark begins its dreadful rise.
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The Last Ember: The Aerimander Chronicles Book 1 by Lily Berlin DoddA New York Times Bestseller Impossible Creatures meets The Mysterious Benedict Society in this epic, fast-paced upper-middle grade fantasy full of dragon-like creatures, heroic hijinks, battle-forged friendships, and sharp humor. Aerimanders are extinct. Or so the government would have you think. Centuries ago, the Kingdom of Glaucus decreed the destruction of these dangerous, dragon-like creatures whose deadly flame could level entire cities and upend world orders. But when twelve-year-old Eva Alexander, a wealthy chemistry student in the city of Porttown, walks into a fashionable department store and walks out (accidentally) with the world's last aerimander egg, everything changes...Because there's one question no one dares to ask: What happens when the egg hatches?
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Impossible Creatures
by Katherine Rundell
Christopher discovers the Archipelago, a world where mythological creatures were secreted away by magic long ago, but those creatures are now dying, and it is up to Christopher and Mal, a girl from the Archipelago, to save both of their worlds.
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The Sea of Trolls
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Nancy Farmer
After Jack becomes apprenticed to a Druid bard, he and his little sister Lucy are captured by Viking Berserkers and taken to the home of King Ivar the Boneless and his half-troll queen, leading Jack to undertake a vital quest to Jotunheim, home of the trolls. 150,000 first printing. $150,000 ad/promo.
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The shadow thieves
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Anne Ursu
As all her friends begin to get sick with an illness the doctors cannot cure, Charlotte turns to her cousin, Zee, for guidance and suddenly ends up on a journey to a magical and perilous underworld in order to find the only solution that will work to save everyone they know and love from certain doom. Reprint.
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