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Author
Series
Beyonders volume 1
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Jason Walker is transported to a strange world called Lyrian, where he joins Rachel, who was also drawn there from our world, and a few rebels, to piece together the Word that can destroy the malicious wizard emperor, Maldor.
Author
Series
Abarat volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
Candy Quackenbush of Chickentown, Minnesota, is the only person who can stop the evil Mater Motley who, now that the hour of midnight has come, is prepared to unleash the end of the world.
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Four linked stories of discovery and survival begin with a Paleolithic-era girl who makes the first written signs, continue with Anna, who people call a witch, then a mad twentieth-century poet who watches the ocean knowing the horrors it hides, and concluding with an astronaut on the first spaceship from Earth sent to colonize another world.
Author
Series
Stravaganza volume 1
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
While sick in bed with cancer, Lucien begins making journeys to Belleza, a place in a parallel world that resembles Venice, Italy, and becomes caught up in the political intrigues surrounding the Duchessa who rules the city.
Author
Series
Stravaganza volume 3
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Sky joins Georgia and the other Stravagante, "who travel between worlds and do what is required," when he leaves London for Giglia, a city similar to Renaissance Florence, and becomes involved in ancient feuds and palace intrigue.
8) Gateway
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
While passing through the Arch in St. Louis, Missouri, a Chinese American teenager is transported to a parallel world where she is given a dangerous assignment.
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.
10) Interworld
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
At nearly fifteen years of age, Joey Harker learns that he is a Walker, able to travel between dimensions, and soon joins a team of different versions of himself, each from another dimension, to fight the evil forces striving to conquer all the worlds.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Language
English
Formats
Description
Fourteeen-year-old Sunni, her stepbrother Dean, and an art-student friend trace the footsteps of a labyrinth built in Blackhope Tower by a mysterious and brilliant sixteenth-century artist, and suddenly find themselves trapped inside his enchanted painting, trying desperately to get out.
Author
Series
Pendragon volume 10
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Each of the Travelers returns home to learn the truth about their origins before being reunited for a final, ineveitable confrontation with Saint Dane, whose efforts to control Halla are destroying its very foundations.
13) Eternity's wheel
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
It has been two years since Joseph Harker first Walked between dimensions, met the alternate forms of himself, and formed a team to protect the Altiverse in the struggle between the vicious forces of magic and science--and now, injured, he has returned to his own dimension, bringing danger with him.
Author
Series
Time quintet volume 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
Polly's visit to her grandparents in Connecticut becomes an extraordinary experience as she encounters old friends and mysterious stangers and finds herself traveling back in time to play a crucial role in a prehistoric confrontation.
15) City of stars
Author
Series
Stravaganza volume 2
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Georgia, who loves horses as much as she hates her bullying stepbrother, buys a figurine of a winged horse and finds it has magical powers that transport her from present-day London to the sixteenth-century world of Talia where, in the city of Remora, similar to Sienna, Italy, she finds danger and intrigue as well as friendship and a chance to perfect her riding skills.
16) City of secrets
Author
Series
Stravaganza volume 4
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Matt, painfully dyslexic and insecure, discovers that he can travel between worlds after being transported to Talia, where he joins Luciano and other Stravaganti in trying to prevent the di Chimici family's breakthrough into our world.
Author
Series
Stravaganza volume 6
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
When desperately unhappy Laura, who secretly performs self-mutilation, finds her talisman and transports to Fortezza, a parallel world that resembles the Italian Renaissance city-state of Lucca, she faces battles on the field and of the heart.
18) Unremembered
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
A girl, estimated to be sixteen, awakens with amnesia in the wreckage of a plane crash she should not have survived and taken into foster care, and the only clue to her identity is a mysterious boy who claims she was part of a top-secret science experiment.
Author
Series
Stravaganza volume 5
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Feeling inferior to her talented twin brother, teenaged Isabel is transported to a parallel world that resembles the Italian Renaissance city-state of Ravenna, where she tries to save the city from attack by the fierce Gate people.
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