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1) Inkling
2) Bloom
3) Airborn
An incredible swashbuckling adventure, set in a world where great airships ply the skies and there are unknown lands and strange creatures still to be discovered. You'll love the characters, and the story has the drive and verve of a Saturday morning serial with.
Reminiscent of Jules Verne and Edgar Rice Burroughs—with a touch of Robert Louis Stevenson—this is adventure writing at its finest. And with its cast of larger-than-life characters,
...4) Skybreaker
High in the sky, far above the normal lanes of travel, drifts a ghost ship carrying unbelievable treasure. Matt Cruse is on the trail of that treasure, with the help of his charming society friend Kate de Vries and a mysterious gypsy girl named Nadira. With them flies Hal Slater, roguish captain of a boldly designed Skybreaker aircraft that can reach heights previously undreamed of. But between Matt and his destination stand ruthless pirates,
...5) Demi-Frère
Demi-frère a remporté, dans sa version originale anglaise, le prix de l'Association canadienne des bibliothèques (CLA), en 2010, à la fois dans les catégories Children et Young Adult. C'était la première fois qu'un même livre gagnait dans les deux catégories simultanément! Une option cinématographique et trois autres prix d'importance sont également venus couronner ce livre d'une grande profondeur psychologique.
Alors que la renommée
...6) Starclimber
Matt Cruse is back in the phenomenal third volume in Kenneth Oppel's bestselling, award-winning series—and this time he's heading for outer space. Airborn and Skybreaker, the first two books in the series, have been among our bestselling and most-honored titles, and we think you'll find this one just as thrilling—if not more so. Featuring an international cast of larger-than-life characters, this is adventure fiction at its finest.
...7) Sunwing
8) Firewing
9) The Nest
Steve just wants to save his baby brother—but what will he lose in the bargain? Kenneth Oppel's (Silverwing, The Boundless) haunting gothic tale for fans of Coraline, is one of the most acclaimed books of the year, receiving six starred reviews. Illustrations from Caldecott Medalist Jon Klassen.
For some...
10) Hatch
First the rain brought seeds. Seeds that grew into alien plants that burrowed and strangled and fed.
Seth, Anaya, and Petra are strangely immune to the plants' toxins and found a way to combat them. But just as they have their...
Max is the cook's dog. And because he is also the king's taster, Max gets to feast on
French Fries!
Rose Pudding!
Cheese Pie!
Pizza!
No wonder Max loves his job. Who wouldn't want to dine on these delicious dishes?
The new king, that's who.
And if the new king has his way, it won't just be their job that the cook and Max lose!
Shade the young silverwing bat may be the runt of his colony, but he's determined to prove himself on the long, dangerous winter migration to Hibernaculum—millions of wingbeats to the south. Too soon, his hopes...
13) Ghostlight
The award-winning author of Airborn delivers a roller-coaster ride of a story about the wakeful and wicked dead.
Rebecca Strand was just sixteen when she and her father fell to their deaths from the top of the Gibraltar Point Lighthouse in 1839....
14) Silverwing
15) Thrive
The alien invasion of Earth is imminent. But maybe not all the aliens are united. A rebel faction has reached out to Anaya, saying there's a way to stop the larger invastion—a way for humans and hybrids and cryptogens to work together. Can they be trusted? Or is this a trap?
It's not even clear if Anaya, Petra,...
16) Other Worlds
Other Worlds, the fourth volume in Jon Scieszka's Guys Read anthology series for tween boys, features ten thrilling new tales of science fiction and fantasy from some of the biggest names in children's literature.
Prepare yourself for ten trips into the unknown, as ten of your favorite writers—Rick Riordan, who has written an all-new and exclusive Percy Jackson tale, Tom Angleberger of Origami Yoda fame, Newbery medalist Rebecca Stead,
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