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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Nanook & Pryce	Larry Day	Parka-clad friends Nanook and Pryce and their dog Yukon encounter many different types of ocean life and adventure on an unexpected voyage.	OL13600028W
The awakening	Michael Owen Carroll	Ten years after the disappearance of superhumans--both heroes and villains--thirteen-year-olds Danny and Colin begin to develop super powers, making them the object of much unwanted attention.	OL13736791W
World of Adventure Trio	Gary Paulsen	In three stories--Escape from Fire Mountain; Hook 'Em, Snotty!; and Danger on Midnight River--the characters meet danger at every turn in the great outdoors and learn to face their fears head on. Fro…	OL14850131W
Theodosia and the Eyes of Horus	R. L. La Fevers	Eleven-year-old Theodosia's ability to detect black magic raises her suspicions about a magician known as the Great Awi Bubu, while Henry, home for the spring holidays, discovers an artifact at the M…	OL15025451W
Roxie and the hooligans	Phyllis Reynolds Naylor	Roxie Warbler, the niece of a famous explorer, follows Uncle Dangerfoot's advice on how to survive any crisis when she becomes stranded on an island with a gang of school bullies and a pair of murder…	OL15061534W
Muppet Treasure Island	Ellen Weiss	The muppets are back into action with the book based on the movie based on a novel written by Robert Louis Stevenson. Kermit the Frog and his colleagues go on warfare against a ruthless pirates. They…	OL15162816W
Alexandre Dumas's The three musketeers	Jan Fields	In seventeenth-century France, young d'Artagnan initially quarrels with, then befriends, three musketeers and joins them in trying to outwit the enemies of the king and queen.	OL15300110W
Return to Quag Keep	Andre Norton,Jean Rabe	Many people might not know that Andre Norton wrote the first novel based in the Dungeons and Dragons Universe. That book was "Quag Keep." Now Andre with role-playing icon Jean Rabe has returned to te…	OL16019100W
Swindle	Gordon Korman	After unscrupulous collector S. Wendell Palamino cons him out of a valuable baseball card, sixth-grader Griffin Bing puts together a band of misfits to break into Palomino's heavily guarded store and…	OL16046141W
Tulku	Peter Dickinson	A thirteen-year-old boy escapes from slaughter by the Boxers in China and joins forces with an English botanist and her escort, traveling with them to Tibet where the power of Buddhist monks transfor…	OL1858359W
Choose Your Own Adventure - The Worst Day of Your Life	Edward Packard	The reader's choices determine the course of a boy's trip to spend time working on his uncle's pig farm while his family visits Hawaii.	OL30107W
The three musketeers [adaptation]	Vincent Buranelli	A simple retelling of the adventures of a young peasant involved with three musketeers in the service of King Louis XIII of France.	OL4480781W
Artemis Fowl	Eoin Colfer	Artemis Fowl is the first of a series of semi-realist novels produced by Eoin Colfer. They document the adventures of a precocious prodigal child of the criminal empire, Artemis Fowl. In this book, a…	OL5725956W
Pirates!	Celia Rees	In 1722, after arriving with her brother at the family's Jamaican plantation where she is to be married off, sixteen-year-old Nancy Kington escapes with her slave friend, Minerva Sharpe, and together…	OL5730488W
Thunderbirds	Kate Egan	Fourteen-year-old Alan Tracy, aided by science-whiz Fermat, clever Tin-Tin, and secret agent Lady Penelope Creighton-Ward, sets out to protect his family and the future of their business from a maste…	OL6042501W
Ghost Canoe	Will Hobbs	After a sailing ship breaks up on the rocks off Washington's storm-tossed Cape Flattery, Nathan McAllister, the fourteen-year-old son of the lighthouse keeper, refuses to believe the authorities, who…	OL74001W
Grk takes revenge	Joshua Doder	187 p. ; 20 cm	OL8053362W
Ark Angel	Anthony Horowitz	The sniper's bullet nearly killed him. But Alex Rider managed to survive...just in time for more trouble to come his way. When kidnappers attempt to snatch a fellow patient from the exclusive hospita…	OL84766W
Cave of the Dark Wind	Ridley Pearson,Dave Barry,Ridley Pearson	While Peter is away from the island, James and the other Lost Boys find a forbidden cave feared by the Mollusk tribe as the lair of a creature known only as The Goat Taker. Soon the boys, along with …	OL8786323W
The puppet master	Charlie Small	A continuation of the purported journal of a young adventurer, who becomes a marionette under the control of an evil Puppet Master while trying to reach home in time for tea.	OL9334442W