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2) Sapphique
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
After his escape from the sentient prison, Incarceron, Finn finds that the Realm is not at all what he expected, and he does not know whether he is to be its king, how to free his imprisoned friends, or how to stop Incarceron's quest to be free of its own nature.
4) Artemis Fowl
Author
Language
English
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Description
When a twelve-year-old evil genius tries to restore his family fortune by capturing a fairy and demanding a ransom in gold, the fairies fight back with magic, technology, and a particularly nasty troll.
5) Genius Camp
Author
Series
Smartest kid in the universe volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Twelve-year-old Jake McQuade-the smartest kid in the universe-goes to a camp for geniuses, where he goes up against the Virtuoso quantum computer, the smartest machine in the universe"--
Author
Series
Softwire volume 1
Publisher
Candlewick
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
When twelve-year-old Johnny and his sister arrive on Orbits in a space ship of orphans, he finds he has a unique ability to communicate with computers.
8) Maximum ice
Author
Series
Publisher
Bantam
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
After a 250-year space voyage, a crew of gypsies find Earth nearly covered with a layer of a crystal called Ice and most inhabitants living in underground corridors.
Author
Series
Softwire volume 2
Publisher
Candlewick
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
On his second rotation of service, Johnny Turnbull uses his ability as a human softwire to communicate with the Samirans and free them from their enslavement.
Author
Series
Bromeliad trilogy volume 1-3
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
After generations of existing in the human-sized world, a group of four-inch-high nomes discover their true nature and origin, with the help of a black square called Thing.
11) The always war
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
In a war-torn future United States, fifteen-year-old Tessa, her childhood friend Gideon, now a traumatized military hero, and Dek, a streetwise orphan, enter enemy territory and discover the shocking truth about a war that began more than seventy-five years earlier.
Author
Series
Softwire volume 3
Publisher
Candlewick
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
At the start of their third rotation of service, Johnny Turnbull, his sister Ketheria, and their friends face pirates who seem to know Johnny and want him to deliver a mysterious message.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Evan Ryder was once a field agent for a black-ops arm of the Department of Defense. Now she works for Parachute, a cutting-edge quantum-computing firm whose private espionage network exceeds any government spy agency. But her mission remains the same: seek out and destroy Omega, a fanatical global cult intent on destroying democracy. The fight against Omega has already cost Evan dearly but she will not stop until she has torn out the conspiracy by...
Author
Series
Softwire volume 4
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
As the Scion's guardian, Johnny Turnbull is expected to begin training as a Space Jumper, a role he promised his girlfriend Max he would never take on, and which might not be enough to save his sister and friends when Orbis is threatened.
15) Raiders' ransom
Author
Series
Raiders' ransom volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
In 22nd-century Great Britain, where climate change has caused vast flooding, the piratical Reavers kidnap the Prime Minister's daughter and thirteen-year-old Lilly Melkun, an English fisher-girl, takes her seacat on a daring rescue attempt, with a mysterious talking jewel from a past computer age tucked in her belt as ransom.
16) The ice orphan
Author
Series
Rewilding report volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
"It's been 925 summers since the Jemen introduced zyme, a bioluminescent algae, into the world's ocean and unwittingly triggered an Ice Age that has consumed most of the planet. All but a handful of Jemen flew to the stars, but before they left, they recreated several extinct species that had thrived in the last Ice Age. After almost a thousand summers, the archaic hominins that struggle along the edges of massive glaciers are dwindling. All they...
Author
Series
My life volume 9
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Derek Fallon receives an exciting new gift--a laptop! But there's a catch: it has no Wi-Fi so he can't use it for gaming. If he wants to play computer games, he'll have to learn how to code them himself. Another unforgettable adventure awaits in Book 9 of the My Life series, this time involving tech and coding!
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
At the start of his second adventure, Artemis is at boarding school in Ireland when he receives an urgent video e-mail from Russia. In it is a plea from a man who has been kidnapped by the Russian Mafia--a man Artemis had thought never to see again: his beloved father. Artemis must join forces with the fairies instead of battling them if he wants to save one of the few people in the world he loves.
Author
Publisher
Graywolf Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"In the early years of the Iraq war, a severely burned boy appears on a remote rock formation in the Akkad valley. A shadowy, powerful group within the US government speculates: Who is he? Where did he come from? And, crucially, what does he know? In pursuit of that information, an interrogator is summoned from his prison cell, and a hideous and forgotten apparatus of torture, which extracts "perfect confessions," is retrieved from the vaults. Over...
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