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
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Susan Cooper
This digest version of the acclaimed Dark Is Rising fantasy follows Will Stanton, who on his eleventh birthday learns that he is the last-born of the Old Ones, and begins a quest for the six magical Signs. Reprint.
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A world without heroes
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Brandon Mull
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, Surroth
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Leviathan
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Scott Westerfeld
It's 1914 and Europe is on the precipice of war--the German Clankers and British Darwinists are armed with futuristic weaponry and biotechnology; in the midst of the chaos, Alek, a royal and potential threat to the throne, and Deryn, a common Darwinist, meet on the run and forge an uneasy alliance that will dramatically change the course of the Great War and their lives.
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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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