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
Year: 2021
ISBN: 9781534414921
Abstract: A teenage hacker joins a secret MI6 youth spy team, trading juvenile detention for international missions. She tackles Paris summits, rival schools, and dangerous villains while adapting to her new team.
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.
From the mixed-up files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
Author: written and illustrated by E.L. Konigsburg
Year: 2013
ISBN: 9780689711817
Abstract: Having runaway with her younger brother to live in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, twelve-year-old Claudia strives to keep things in order in their new home and to become a changed person and a heroine to herself.
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. But war is brewing, and now Tom is determined to join the rebellion to defeat the greedy king and his vicious soldiers. But it's Rebel's job to protect Tom, even from things much bigger than a small farm dog. So Rebel sets out on a journey that takes him far from home, meeting many more animals and people than he knew there were in the world. All to save the human he loves most." -- [Page two] of book jacket
I Survived the Battle of Gettysburg, 1863 (I Survived #7) (7)
Year: 2013
ISBN: 9780545459365
Abstract: In 1863, during the Civil War's pivotal Battle of Gettysburg, an eleven-year-old boy's life is forever changed as he faces the bloodiest battle on American soil.
The Last Kids on Earth. The Graphic Novel
Year: 2024
ISBN: 9780593622179
Abstract: A thirteen-year-old boy and his friends battle monsters to survive the apocalypse and become heroes.
Leonard (my life as a cat)
Author: Carlie Sorosiak
Year: 2021
ISBN: 9781536207705
Abstract: An alien accidently takes the form of a stray cat and must choose whether to return to his planet or stay with his new human friend Olive.
Out of My Mind (The Out of My Mind Series)
Year: 2012
ISBN: 9781416971719
Abstract: This book is about an 11-year-old girl with cerebral palsy who is determined to let everyone know that she is not mentally challenged.
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.