adventure fiction

When a dam fails and rushing waters sweep away their adult supervisors, five middle schoolers on a white-water rafting adventure are left alone with few supplies and the opportunity to forge powerful bonds as well as develop dangerous disagreements.

Twelve-year-old Rika Lovelace-Rose has been having trouble expressing her feelings about her parents' divorce and her absent mother. When she gets in trouble for vandalism again, her father sends her from Colorado to Trinidad, where she's to spend the summer with her maternal grandmother. As soon as she arrives, things feel different on the island and she meets a group of kids her age that seem to have magical abilities. When she finds a grimoire that speaks to her, she learns she is a witch and that her mother is being held captive. Embracing her heritage and magical abilities, she joins with her new friends to take on the fearsome jumbie king in a harrowing maze.

A crime wave has hit Archer's Grove and Maddison disovered the secret in her father's past, and a cold case has changed from "missing" to murder.

"Midoriya is excited for his first team-up mission until he learns that his team includes the explosive Bakugo. The pro hero they've been matched with is also a real wild card. Can this makeshift team cooperate, or will Midoriya's first mission be his last?"--.

Chris and Carrie Kingsolver have the location of the lost tresure ship San Telmo, and are off to find it with Professor Griffin and two sketchy grad students, meanwhile, Maddison's dad has dragged her off to Nebraska to consult a detective about the disappearance of an old college friend, and the FBI is going door to door.

"When Timothy learns crooks have used robot parts from tech celebrity Ellis Heron, he's excited to stop whoever stole from the famous inventor. But what if Heron's robot dance squad hides another sinister secret?"--.

"When the prophesied hero dies one day before the world needs saving, 13-year-old Julian Kee is randomly chosen as a last-minute replacement. With absolutely no world-saving skills whatsoever, he must nonetheless lead his friends into the Underworld to retrieve a magical rock that can save their world. The problem is that the ruling council of the Underworld objects to their quest, and the rock can only be obtained by passing through a series of terrible trials, including navigating an unsolvable maze, enduring unspeakable tortures in the dungeons of the council's citadel, and facing a really cute bunny. And is the Underworlder who cheerfully volunteers to risk her life to help them simply a girl with a very kind, selfless heart, or is she really a spy for the council?"--Back cover.

"Twins Myles and Beckett face off against Lord Teddy Bleedham-Drye, the Duke of Scilly, who has been plotting revenge against them since they humiliated him"--Provided by publisher.

Nineteen-year-old French sailor Edmond Dantes is unjustly imprisoned on his planned wedding day, and after fourteen years of solitary confinement, a daring escape, hidden riches on the island of Monte Cristo, and a new identity bring him closer to a reunion with his love, Mercedes, and revenge upon his accusers.

When the dark magical force within him challenges his effort to forge new alliances and build a defense against a new threat, Nikolai Lantsov, the young king of Ravka, embarks on a journey to his country's most magical places to vanquish it.