adventure fiction

Two hunderd years after the Master of Evil was driven out of the Alkyll lands, ten-year-old Apprentice Lord of Darkness and her silly crew try to cause a bit of chaos, but when the Master of Evil returns the ragtag gang begin to realize they may not be as evil as they thought.

"Young nightspirit Willa discovers an ancient, powerful magic deep in the forest in the enchanting companion to Robert Beatty's instant #1 New York Times best-seller, Willa of the Wood"--.

"Some suspected supervillains have stolen outer-space tech! To learn why, Timothy Dinoman will visit a mountain fortress, a giant blimp, and a diner with excellent pancakes. He'll even meet a really cute cat"--.

Landry Walker and Eric Jones' Pepper Page Saves the Universe is a middle-grade futuristic superhero story about a shy comic book girl-geek becoming her own superhero inspiration! The year is 2421. Awkward and shy, Pepper buries herself in the universe of the classic fictional superhero Supernova to avoid dealing with the perils of the 9th grade. But then fate intervenes when Pepper encounters a strange cat named Mister McKittens and stumbles into a volatile science experiment run by a sinister substitute teacher named Doctor Killian. Pepper is flung into another dimension, bringing her face to face with an order of cosmic beings who declare her to be the steward of their great power, champion of harmony in the universe, protector of worlds present and past. Now, in the 21st Century, Pepper finds that she herself is the real Supernova. But as Pepper soon learns, escapist fantasy and reality are two very different things.

Determined to run away from her home in the Valley, an area controlled by the tyrannical Night Coats, Alidade stumbles upon a magical hideaway that belongs to the long-lost peacekeepers known as the Mapmakers, and accidentally brings to life a magical creature who is meant to protect the Valley.

"Set in the shadows of the Spanish Inquisition, Jose and the Pirate Captain Toledano is the coming-of-age story of Jose Alfaro, a powerful bond with the mysterious Pirate Captain Toledano"--.

"Roommates Skunk and Badger head out on a rock-finding expedition that becomes much more dangerous than they ever expected"--.

"More than anything, Amelia wants to follow in her aviator mother's footsteps and learn to fly airships. But her grieving father, Commander Erroway, has forbidden her from stepping inside a cockpit since her mother disappeared on a doomed flight. When disaster strikes and Amelia is cast adrift and alone on the flagship of Commander Erroway's fleet, she eventually crash lands in a distant country. Taken in by Fin and Huxley, two inventor brothers who live with their mother deep in the uncharted Juniper forest, Amelia is determined to fix her airship and fly home. But along the way, Amelia discovers that home is not always where the heart is, and that sometimes being lost is the first step to finding your way"--.

An unlikely band of heroes finds trouble in the port city of Waterdeep.

When a newborn bat named Shade but sometimes called "Runt" becomes separated from his colony during migration, he grows in ways that prepare him for even greater journeys.