The following books are all located in the Juvenile Fiction section of the Library.

Series Books

Booth, Martin
"Alchemist's Son" series
Doctor Illuminatus
Dreaming of Samarkand
Pip and her twin brother, Tim, awaken an alchemist's son from a centuries-long slumber when their family moves to an old English country estate, & he enlists them in the fight against an evil alchemist who seeks to create a homunculus.

Colfer, Eoin
"Artemis Fowl" series
Artemis Fowl
Arctic Incident
Eternity Code
As the last in a line of criminal masterminds, a 12-year-old boy-genius plans to build his family fortune by holding a fairy for ransom.

Collins, Suzanne
Gregor the Overlander
Gregor the Overlander and the Prophecy of Bane
When eleven-year-old Gregor & his two-year-old sister are pulled into a strange underground world, they trigger an epic battle involving men, bats, rats, cockroaches, & spiders while on a quest foretold by ancient prophecy.

Haddix, Margaret Peterson
Among the Barons
Among the Betrayed
Among the Brave
Among the Hidden
Among the Imposters
In a future where the Population Police enforce the law limiting a family to only two children, Luke has lived all his twelve years in isolation and fear on his family's farm, until another "third" convinces him that the government is wrong.

Hunter, Erin
"Warriors" series
Into the Wild
Fire and Ice
Forest of Secrets
Dangerous Path
Darkest Hour
For generations, four clans of wild cats have shared the forest. When their warrior code is threatened by mysterious deaths, a house cat named Rusty may turn out to be the bravest warrior of all.

Jones, Diana Wynn
"Chronicles of Chrestomanci " series
Charmed Life
Lives of Christopher Chant
Magicians of Caprona
Witch Week
Conrad's Fate
Mixed Magics
Gwendolen Chant and her brother Cat find the Chrestomancie Castle family's magic powers difficult to counter with the inferior powers of the Coven Street witches.

Nimmo, Jenny
"Children of the Red King" series
Midnight for Charlie Bone
Griffin's Castle
Charlie Bone's life with his widowed mother and two grandmothers undergoes a dramatic change when he discovers that he can hear people in photographs talking.

Nix, Garth
"Keys to the Kingdom" series
Mister Monday
Grim Tuesday
Drowned Wednesday
Arthur's life is saved by a key shaped like the minute hand of a clock, but bizarre creatures from another realm are determined to take the key even if it means killing him.

Pierce, Tamora.
Alanna : the First Adventure
In the Hand of the Goddess
Woman Who Rides Like a Man
Lioness Rampant
Eleven-year-old Alanna, who aspires to be a knight even thou she is a girl, disguises herself as a boy to become a royal page.

Pullman, Philip
"The Dark Materials" series
Golden Compass
Subtle Knife
Amber Spyglass
Accompanied by her daemon, Lyra Belacqua sets out to prevent her best friend & other kidnapped children from becoming the subject of gruesome experiments in the Far North.

Rodda, Emily
"Deltora Quest" series
Forests of Silence
Lake of Tears
City of the Rats
Dread mountain
Shifting
Maze of the Beast
Valley of the lost
The evil Shadow Lord is planning to take over the land of Deltora & enslave all its people. In order to stop him16-year old Lief & former palace guard, Barda, must find all seven stones from the magic belt of Deltora.

Stroud, Jonathan
"Bartimaeus Trilogy" series
Amulet of Samarkand
Golem's Eye
Nathaniel, a magician's apprentice, summons up the djinni, Bartimaeus, & instructs him to steal the Amulet of Samarkand from the powerful magician Simon Lovelace.

Alexander, Lloyd
"Chronicles of Prydain" series
Book of Three
Taran, Assistant Pig-Keeper to a famous oracular sow, sets out on a hazardous mission to save Prydain from the forces of evil.

Crossley-Holland, Kevin
Seeing SStone
In late twelfth-century England, a thirteen-year-old boy named Arthur recounts how Merlin gives him a magical seeing stone.

Farmer, Nancy
Sea of Trolls
After Jack becomes apprenticed to a Druid bard, he and his little sister Lucy are captured by Viking Berserkers & taken to the home of King Ivar the Boneless & his half-troll queen.

Funke, Cornelia Caroline
Inkheart
Meggie finds out that her father can "read" fictional characters to life when one of those characters kidnaps them.

Jacques, Brian
Redwall series
Redwall
When the peaceful life of ancient Redwall Abbey is shattered by the arrival of the evil rat Cluny & his villainous hordes, Matthias, a young mouse, determines to find the legendary sword of Martin the Warrior which, he is convinced, will help Redwall's inhabitants destroy the enemy.

Morton-Shaw, Christine
Riddles of Epsilon
After moving with her parents to a remote English island, fourteen-year-old Jess attempts to dispel an ancient curse by solving a series of riddles, aided by Epsilon, a supernatural being.

Pratchett, Terry.
Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents
A talking cat, intelligent rats, and a strange boy cooperate in a Pied Piper scam until they try to con the wrong town & are confronted by a deadly evil rat king.

Sage, Angie
Magyk
After learning that she is the Princess, Jenna is whisked from her home & carried toward safety by the Extraordinary Wizard.

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