The academy
Author: T.Z. Layton
Year: 2025
ISBN: 9781464267109
Abstract: Born and raised in a small town, Leo K. Doyle has never seen the ocean or stepped foot on a plane. But Leo is a star soccer player with big dreams in life. Rock-star, Olympic gold, dragon-slaying dreams. While Leo longs to make the pros one day, he has no idea how to achieve this goal--until a professional scout pays a chance visit to one of Leo's games and extends an invitation to try out for the London Dragons youth squad, known as The Academy. Leo is stunned. The London Dragons isn't just any old soccer team. It's a world-famous English Premier League team. Soon Leo is off to a whole new country, embarking on the greatest adventure of his life. The downside? Only eleven players can make the team. Eleven out of two hundred of the very best youth players on the planet. Along with the grueling competition, Leo must also face a bully intent on torpedoing his summer, a roomie who doesn't know how to have fun, a terrifying camp director, and, most of all, Leo's own lack of formal training and the fear he will never succeed. By the end of the summer, Leo will become a much better player and forever changed by his experience. But will he be good enough to make the Academy? -- Publisher description.
City spies
Author: by James Ponti
Year: 2020
ISBN: 9781534414921
Abstract: "Sara Martinez is a hacker. She recently broke into the New York City foster care system to expose her foster parents as cheats and lawbreakers. However, instead of being hailed as a hero, Sara finds herself facing years in a juvenile detention facility and banned from using computers for the same stretch of time. Enter Mother, a British spy who not only gets Sara released from jail but also offers her a chance to make a home for herself within a secret MI6 agency. Operating out of a base in Scotland, the City Spies are five kids from various parts of the world. When they're not attending the local boarding school, they're honing their unique skills, such as sleight of hand, breaking and entering, observation, and explosives. All of these allow them to go places in the world of espionage where adults can't. Before she knows what she's doing, Sara is heading to Paris for an international youth summit, hacking into a rival school's computer to prevent them from winning a million euros, dangling thirty feet off the side of a building, and trying to stop a villain...all while navigating the complex dynamics of her new team. No one said saving the world was easy..."--Amazon.com.
The dark times of Nimble Nottingham
Author: Ryan James Black
Year: 2025
ISBN: 9780593698082
Abstract: "Set during World War II, a twelve-year-old orphan who accidentally unleashes a shadow monster onto the streets of London must team up with unlikely allies to hunt it down"-- Provided by publisher.
Diamond Willow
Author: Helen Frost
Year: 2011
ISBN: 9780312603830
Abstract: In a remote area of Alaska, Willow helps her father with their sled dogs when she is not at school, wishing she were more popular, all the while unaware that the animals surrounding her carry the spirits of dead ancestors and friends who care for her.
I am Rebel
Author: Ross Montgomery
Year: 2025
ISBN: 9781536246803
Abstract: Rebel is a good dog, and he loves his simple, perfect life on the farm with his owner, Tom, until one day the war comes too close. Now Tom is determined to join the rebellion to defeat the King's men. But Rebel knows war is dangerous, and he will stop at nothing to save the human he loves.
I survived the Battle of Gettysburg, 1863
Author: by Lauren Tarshis ; illustrated by Scott Dawson
Year: 2013
ISBN: 9780545459365
Abstract: It's 1863, and Thomas and his little sister, Birdie, have fled the farm where they were born and raised as slaves. Following the North Star, looking for freedom, they soon cross paths with a Union soldier. Everything changes: Corporal Henry Green brings Thomas and Birdie back to his regiment, and suddenly it feels like they've found a new home. Best of all, they don't have to find their way north alone -- they're marching with the army. But then orders come through: the men are called to battle in Pennsylvania. Thomas has made it so far ... but does he have what it takes to survive Gettysburg?
The last kids on Earth : the graphic novel
Author: Max Brallier ; art by Brian Churilla ; adapted by Scott Peterson ; co-inker, Victor Alpi ; colors by Gonzalo Duarte
Year: 2024
ISBN: 9780593622179
Abstract: After the monster apocalypse happened, 13-year-old Jack Sullivan builds a team so he can slay Blarg, an eerily intelligent monster, in a graphic novel version of the New York Times best-selling series.
Leonard (my life as a cat)
Author: Carlie Sorosiak
Year: 2021
ISBN: 9781536207705
Abstract: While no cat can be called ordinary, Leonard is definitely no ordinary cat. In fact, he is an alien, sent on an earthly sabbatical and mistakenly given the body of a rather scruffy stray. Rescued by animal lover Olive, Leonard does his best to study the humans he hoped to join while contending with the indignities of hair balls, kitty litter, and a compulsion to shred the curtains. And as he collects experiences - shared cheese sandwiches, jokes, and confidences with kind, lonely Olive - Leonard finds himself unexpectedly caught up in one of the most human emotions of all: love. The trouble? He needs to get to his pickup spot two thousand miles away by the end of the month or he will be stuck on Earth as a cat forever. Full of funny observations and the warmth of friendship, this is a tender meditation on what it means to be human.
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Out of my mind : [a novel]
Author: Sharon M. Draper
Year: 2012
ISBN: 9781416971719
Abstract: A brilliant, impatient fifth-grader with cerebral palsy, considered by many to be mentally retarded, discovers a technological device that will allow her to speak for the first time.
The screaming staircase
Author: Jonathan Stroud
Year: 2013
ISBN: 9781423164913
Abstract: Follows three young operatives of a Psychic Detection Agency as they battle an epidemic of ghosts in London.
Spy school
Author: Stuart Gibbs
Year: 2013
ISBN: 9780605608801
Abstract: Twelve-year-old Ben Ripley leaves his public middle school to attend the CIA's highly secretive Espionage Academy, which everyone is told is an elite science school.
Where the red fern grows
Author: Wilson Rawls ; with an introduction by Clare Vanderpool
Year: 2016
ISBN: 9780440412670
Abstract: A young boy living in the Ozarks achieves his heart's desire when he becomes the owner of two redbone hounds and teaches them to be champion hunters.