Kenneth Oppel
1) Skybreaker
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 16
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Matt Cruse, a student at the Airship Academy, and Kate de Vries, a young heiress, team up with a gypsy and a daring captain, to find a long-lost airship, rumored to carry a treasure beyond imagination.
2) Airborn
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Airborn adventures volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 15
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Matt, a young cabin boy aboard an airship, and Kate, a wealthy young girl traveling with her chaperone, team up to search for the existence of mysterious winged creatures reportedly living hundreds of feet above the Earth's surface.
4) Starclimber
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 15
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As members of the first crew of astralnauts, Matt Cruse and Kate De Vries journey into outer space on the Starclimber and face a series of catastrophes that threaten the survival of all on board.
5) Half brother
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 13
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In 1973, when a renowned Canadian behavioral psychologist pursues his latest research project--an experiment to determine whether chimpanzees can acquire advanced language skills--he brings home a baby chimp named Zan and asks his thirteen-year-old son to treat Zan like a little brother.
6) Darkwing
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 14
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Dusk, the world's first bat, must lead his colony to safety in a time of changing species.
7) Sunwing
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 11
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Continues the adventures of Shade, a young bat, as he searches for his father and struggles to prevent the evil jungle bat Goth from wiping out the sun.
8) The nest
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5
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"When wasps come to Steve in a dream offering to fix his sick baby brother, he thinks all he has to do is say yes. But yes may not mean what Steve thinks it means"--
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For as long as he can remember, Paul has looked after his younger, weaker brother Sam. But when Sam leaves home to work as a research assistant in Watertown, he disappears into the dark folds of the city's noxious slum. When Paul goes looking for Sam in Watertown, he learns a dark secret: something in the water is changing the residents of Watertown, transforming them into something inhuman. But can Paul reach Sam before the dark waters get to him...
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A train gets waylaid in the middle of nowhere, and Luke and his dad find themselves with four hours to kill before it's fixed. Just enough time for a trip to the mysterious, decrepit old museum on the edge of town. A short story from Guys Read: Other Worlds, edited by Jon Scieszka.
11) Firewing
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Griffin is just a newborn bat when he falls through an underground fissure into the most dangerous of all places, the Underworld-the land of the dead. Though his father, the heroic Shade, will try to rescue him, Griffin bravely sets off on his own adventure to find the Tree that will take him home. Will he make it? This companion to Silverwing and Sunwing is mesmerizing, full of extraordinary details and vibrant imagery.
12) Silverwing
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Shade, a young silverwing bat, is the runt of his colony. Determined to show how brave he is, Shade breaks one of the ancient rules that governs the bats. As punishment, owls burn the bats' roost, forcing them to migrate earlier than normal. While on the trip south to the Hibernaculum, Shade becomes separated from his flock during a rain storm. His destination is millions of wing beats away. Now he must find a way to make the journey on his own. Along...
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A train gets waylaid in the middle of nowhere, and Luke and his dad find themselves with four hours to kill before it's fixed. Just enough time for a trip to the mysterious, decrepit old museum on the edge of town. A short story from Guys Read: Other Worlds, edited by Jon Scieszka.
14) Bloom
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Overthrow volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 10
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"The first book in a can't-put-it-down, can't-read-it-fast-enough action-thriller trilogy that's part Hatchet, part Little Shop of Horrors! The invasion begins--but not as you'd expect. It begins with rain. Rain that carries seeds. Seeds that sprout--overnight, everywhere. These new plants take over crop fields, twine up houses, burrow below streets. They bloom--and release toxic pollens. They bloom--and form venus-fly-trap like pods that swallow...
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When his twin brother falls ill in the family's chateau in the independent republic of Geneva in the eighteenth century, sixteen-year-old Victor Frankenstein embarks on a dangerous and uncertain quest to create the forbidden Elixir of Life described in an ancient text in the family's secret Biblioteka Obscura.
16) Hatch
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Overthrow volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 13
Description
Fans left desperate for more at the end of Bloom will dive into this second book of the Overthrow trilogy--where the danger mounts and alien creatures begin to 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 first success, the rain begins again. This rain brings eggs....
17) Thrive
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Overthrow volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 13
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After the aliens begin their invasion of Earth, a rebel faction contacts Anaya and proposes a plan that would allow humans, hybrids, and cryptogens to coexist peacefully, though it is unclear if all hybrids will agree.
18) The Boundless
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 11
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Aboard "The Boundless," the greatest train ever built, on its maiden voyage across Canada, teenaged Will enlists the aid of a traveling circus to save the train from villains.
19) Inkling
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 7
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When an inkblot, who can write, listen, learn, and draw, jumps out of Mr. Rylance's sketchbook, Ethan believes he may be the answer to their problems and names him Inkling.