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Author
Series
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Back in London, fifteen-year-old twins Sophie and Josh Newman must determine whom they can and cannot trust as they search for both Scatty and an immortal who can teach Josh the magic of fire, while Doctor Dee and Machiavelli continue to seek power.
2) Half bad
Author
Series
Half bad trilogy volume 1
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
In modern-day England, where witches live alongside humans, Nathan, son of a White witch and the most powerful Black witch, must escape captivity before his seventeenth birthday and receive the gifts that will determine his future.
Author
Series
Bartimaeus trilogy volume 3
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Dangerous adventures continue for the djinni Bartimaeus and his master, seventeen-year-old Nathaniel, a powerful magician who is serving as England's minister of information.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
This is a wonderful episode from the world of Philip Pullman's bestselling trilogy, His Dark Materials. In Lyra's Oxford the reader shares the huge excitement of discovering a small bundle of material that has somehow slipped between Lyra's universe and our own.
Author
Series
Steampunk chronicles volume 1
Publisher
Harlequin Teen
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Finley, who has a beastly alter ego inside of her, joins Duke Griffin's army of misfits to help stop the Machinist, the criminal behind a series of automaton crimes, from carrying out a plan to kill Queen Victoria during the Jubilee.
7) Half wild
Author
Series
Half bad trilogy volume 2
Language
English
Description
In a modern-day England where two warring factions of witches live amongst humans, seventeen-year-old Nathan has come into his own unique magical Gift, but he is on the run with the Hunters close behind, and they will stop at nothing until they have captured Nathan and destroyed his father.
8) Cuckoo song
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Formats
Description
In post-World War I England, eleven-year-old Triss nearly drowns in a millpond known as "The Grimmer" and emerges with memory gaps, aware that something's terribly wrong, and to try to set things right, she must meet a twisted architect who has designs on her family.
9) Half lost
Author
Series
Half bad trilogy volume 3
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
On the run again after the decimation of the Alliance of Free Witches and constantly pursued by the Council's Hunters, Nathan Byrn organizes a bold strategy involving the missing half of Gabriel's amulet to save the rebels from total defeat.
10) Pastworld
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Children's Books
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
In 2050, while visiting Pastworld, a Victorian London theme park, teenaged Caleb meets seventeen-year-old Eve, a Pastworld inhabitant who has no knowledge of the modern world, and both become pawns in a murderer's diabolical plan that reveals disturbing truths about the teenagers' origins.
Author
Language
English
Description
"There is often trouble of a mythical sort in Bath. The booksellers who police the Old World keep a careful watch there, particularly on the entity that inhabits the ancient hot spring. This time trouble comes from the discovery of a sorcerous map, leading left-handed bookseller Merlin into great danger, requiring a desperate rescue attempt from his sister, the right-handed bookseller Vivien, and art student Susan Arkshaw, who is still struggling...
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
When she returns home after two years, Fever finds that her Scriven mother's creation, New London, the city on wheels, is nearly complete and ready to fight the nomad tribes of Britain--and Fever must journey to the north to find the ancient birthplace of the Scriven mutants and solve the mystery of her own past.
13) Dream on
Author
Series
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Romance, secrets, and new dream-world dangers follow Liv Silver into Book II of The Silver Trilogy"--
Author
Language
English
Description
Six years ago, sisters Evelyn and Philippa Hapwell were swept away to a strange and beautiful kingdom called the Woodlands, where they lived for years. But ever since they returned to their lives in post-WWII England, they have struggled to adjust. Ev desperately wants to return to the Woodlands, and Philippa just wants to move on. When Ev goes missing, Philippa must confront the depth of her sister's despair and the painful truths they've been running...
15) Demonglass
Author
Series
Hex Hall novels volume 2
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
After learning that she is capable of dangerous magic, Sophie Mercer goes to England with her father, friend Jenna, and Cal hoping to have her powers removed, but soon she learns that she is being hunted by the Eye--and haunted by Elodie.
Author
Series
Shadow Project adventures volume 1
Publisher
Balzer + Bray
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
A young English thief stumbles on, and subsequently is recruited for, a super-secret operation that trains teenagers in remote viewing and astral projection techniques in order to engage in spying.
17) Wayfarer
Author
Series
Faery rebels volume 2
Publisher
HarperTeen
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Linden, the youngest faery of the Oak, teams with a human named Timothy, a cousin of Paul and Peri, to search other places for faeries who might be persuaded to save the Oakenfolk from dying out.
18) Fever Crumb
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic, Inc
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Fever Crumb has been adopted and raised by Dr. Crumb, a member of the Order of Engineers, where she serves as an apprentice. At a time when women are not seen as reasonable creatures, Fever is unusual, the only girl to serve in the Order. Soon, though, she must say goodbye to Dr. Crumb in order to assist archaeologist Kit Solent with a top secret project involving a mysterious room that once belonged to Auric Godshawk, the last of the Scriven overlords,...
19) Passenger
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Jack and Conner are drawn back to Marbury to rescue other friends and attempt to destroy the lens that transports them to the alternate world.
20) The Deep
Author
Series
Ingo chronicles volume 3
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
When the ferocious shape-shifting Kraken awakes after thousands of years and threatens the Mer, Sapphire agrees to help them by going with her brother Conor and their friend Faro into the Deep to lull the monster back to sleep.
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