Book 3 of the Alex Rider Adventures
by Anthony Horowitz (5th+)
Alex was enjoying himself and having a nice break from M16 when again they called on him to come back to work. After solving a case and stopping a bad guy, Alex finds out that the guy had many friends who now want Alex dead. So, M16 sends Alex away on another mission. This mission takes him to America where he is to work with the CIA. When he gets there, they tell Alex that they are going to a place called Skeleton Key in Cuba to do some surveillance on a man named General Alexai Sarov. They are sending in two undercover agents as a vacationing couple but they need Alex to act as their son so they can get past the Cuban airport. Alex doesn’t believe that surveillance is all they are going to Cuba for but he goes along for the vacation time and because he really has no other choice. But in a tragic turn of events, Alex finds himself all alone once again, kidnapped by Sarov, and trying to save the world. Can Alex find out what Sarov’s plans are before something bad happens? Find out when you read the Alex Rider adventure Skeleton Key.
Book 7 of the Shadow Children series
by Margaret Peterson Haddix (5th+)
Luke was one of the third children who secretly joined the Population police in order to try and bring them down so that third children could be free. He has been working for a long time in the stables of the Population Police but finds that he is now being transferred and asked to do unthinkable things. He is on the run again and just when he thinks it is all over for him, he hears news that the Population Police may have been overthrown and third children might now be free. Is it true or is it another Population Police trap? Find out when you read Among the free, the last book of the Shadow Children series by Margaret Peterson Haddix.
Book 6 of the Shadow Children series
by Margaret Peterson Haddix (5th+)
In the middle of the night the population police show up at Niedler School, forcing all of the students into trucks and telling them that they are going to work for the government from now on in order to get food. Matthias and Percy along with the young Alia are among this group of students. They know that they must get away but an accident leaves them injured and stranded. Matthias is the only one who can get help but he soon finds himself an unwilling member of the Population Police. Can he stick it out and use his newfound position to help the cause of the third children and their road to freedom? Read book 6 of the Shadow Children series, Among the Enemy, to find out.
by Joseph Bruchac (5th+)
Ned Begay is a sixteen-year-old Navajo is desperately wishes to join the United States in the war against the Japanese, World War II. A person is not allowed to join until they are seventeen but Ned sneaksaround that and joins the Marine Corp. At a time when Indians are being sent to boarding schools and forces to forget everything abouttheir families including their language, it is a surprise when he findsout that he has been recruited into the Marine Corp for that particularlanguage, Navajo. Ned is to become a code talker, a top-secret positionthat no one must actually know he is doing. His job will be to communicateimportant messages back and forth during the war in the Navajo language,which has not yet been broken by the Japanese. Ned soon finds himself right in the thick of the fighting with gunfire, mortars, and extremely long months of fighting on every side. He finds himself on various different islands of Japan including Guadalcanal and Iwo Jima. Read this veryintriguing story of Ned Begay. Ned may be a fictional character but theevents that take place and the code talkers were real. This is a greatnarrative of the events taking place in World War II and the role the Navajo code talkers held during it.
by Gordon Korman (4th+)
Griffin Bing has a plan. He and his friends are going to have a sleepover in a haunted house to prove that they are not scared of anything. Things aren’t going very well until they come across an old desk with a secret hidden in the back. They find an old Babe Ruth baseball card. Wondering if it is worth anything, Griffin and his friend take the baseball card to a collector named S. Wendell Palomino, or Swindle as they soon come to name him. Mr. Palomino tells them the card is not worth anything but that he would give them a deal on it. But Griffin and his friends soon find out that Swindle has done just that, swindle them. That card is worth a fortune. Now they have to come up with a way to get it back. There way involves burglary, angry guard dogs, and very high tech security. Can they pull it off without getting caught? Read Swindle by Gordon Korman to find out.
by Justin Somper (book 3) 5th
Conner and Grace find themselves separated in this third Vampirate book. Conner has returned to The Diablo, angry with his friends at the Pirate Academy. Grace has returned to The Nocturne to help care for Lorcan. Both are following their own journeys but may once again find themselves
together after everything plays out. Lorcan is not getting better and so Grace and the Captain take him to a healer know as Mosh Zu. Grace and Lorcan stay with Mosh Zu at a place called Sanctuary while Lorcan heals. Conner finds himself in another scheme with Captain Wrath. But this scheme goes greatly wrong and Conner is no longer sure he wants to be a pirate. Will Grace follow in Mosh Zu’s footsteps and become a healer? Will Conner leave pirating and if so, what will he do? Read the Blood Captain to find out.
Book 5 of the Shadow Children series
by Margaret Peterson Haddix (5th+)
Trey has always been the least brave of all of his friends and he knows it. He spent the first thirteen years of his life hidden away in a room. But when his friends need his help he realizes that he has to step up and become brave for them. Becoming brave includes impersonating a Population Police officer after it is believed that his friend Lee has been arrested. Everything is falling apart and it is not looking good for anyone who is a third child. Can Trey do it? Can he be brave enough to help his friends and perhaps help find a way for all third children to be safe? Find out when you read Among the Brave, the fifth book in the Shadow Children series by Margaret Peterson Haddix.
Book 3 of the Alex Rider Adventures
