After a class trip to a floating zoo where animals are mistreated and Savannah's missing pet monkey is found in a cage, Long Island sixth-grader Griffin Bing and his band of misfits plan a rescue.
Adventure and adventurers
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Author:Korman, GordonSummary: -
Author:Voigt, CynthiaSummary:Fredle, a young mouse cast out of his home, faces dangers and predators outside, makes some important discoveries and allies, and learns the meaning of freedom as he struggles to return home.
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Author:Haggard, H. RiderSummary:When three adventurers, Bastin, Bickley, and Arbuthnot, are marooned on a South Sea island, they discover an ancient crystal sepulchre. Inside are two Atlanteans who have been in a state of suspended animation for 250,000 years! One of...
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Author:Jacques, BrianSummary:Continuing their adventures through space and time, Ben and his faithful dog, Ned, find themselves in the Mediterranean region in 1703, befriended by a troupe of traveling entertainers and relentlessly pursued by ruthless Barbary slave...
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Author:Gordon, RoderickSummary:When Will Burrows and his friend Chester embark on a quest to find Will's archaeologist father, who has inexplicably disappeared, they are led to a labyrinthine world underneath London, full of sinister inhabitants with evil...
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Author:Paulsen, GarySummary:Francis Tucket's life has been exciting ever since his family headed to Oregon in a wagon train. First he was kidnapped by Pawnee Indians. Then Mr. Grimes, a one-armed mountain, man rescued him and taught him wilderness survival...
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Author:Paulsen, GarySummary:Francis, Lottie, and Billy survive a series of hair-raising adventures while on their way west to the Oregon Trail, where they hope to find the Tucket family.
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Author:Jenkins, EmilySummary:Six stories relate the adventures of three best friends, who happen to be toys.
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Author:Jenkins, EmilySummary:Six stories relate further adventures of three best friends, who happen to be toys, as they encounter a fearsome (possible) shark, enjoy a dance party, and deal with rejection by The Girl, who is growing up.
- Author:Lasenby, JackSummary:
The Seddon Street gang are back. School is closed and Denny, Polly, Bob, Pete and Joe have been packed off to Uncle Ted's farm. There's plenty to do riding, spying and exploring. As they poke their noses where they're not...
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Author:Paulsen, GarySummary:For the last few years, 13-year-old Tag Jones has been running the family bait shop on the sandy Bermuda beach. He has been helping earn money ever since his father died in a scuba diving accident while searching for a legendary Spanish...
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Author:Clement-Davies, DavidSummary:Relying on true courage and true love, as well as some surprising connections to the Arthurian legends, a young Welsh teenager named Rhodri embarks on a quest to remove an ancient curse from Great Britain during the reign of Richard the...
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After his last run-in with the fairies, Artemis Fowl's mind was wiped of memories of the world belowground. Any goodness is now gone and the young genius reverts to his criminal lifestyle. Evil pixie, Opal Koboi is back, and is...
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Author:Schlitz, Laura Amy.Summary:When Flory the night fairy's wings are accidentally broken and she cannot fly, she has to learn to do everything differently.
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Nancy Drew investigates some suspicious accidents at a friend's newly-purchased inn and uncovers a clever gang of robbers involved in the theft of government property.
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Author:Paulsen, GarySummary:William Little Bear Tucker and Sarah love to explore the caverns of the Sacramento Mountains, but are they clever enough to find an exit from both the maze-like cave and the dangerous men lurking in the darkness one afternoon?
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Author:Crocker, CarterSummary:After orphaned twelve-year-old Michael Pine, who seems headed for trouble, meets old Lem Gulliver, he finds new purpose as protector of the Lilliputians who live in Lem's back garden, even if that means saving them from one another...
- Author:King, AleronSummary:
Getting eaten alive is the worst! Stabbings, maimings, and corrosive black magic are not that great either, but you really don't want to be a wolf treat! That is the kind of hands on, “teeth on,” education you get when you are summoned...
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Author:Baity, CameronSummary:When twelve-year-old Phoebe Plumm and her father are abducted by his employer, The Foundry, a corporation holding a monopoly on metal production and technology, and taken to a savage world of living metal that is rising up against its...
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Author:Patterson, JamesSummary:While on a mission to Antarctica to save the world from global warming, fourteen-year-old Maximum Ride and the other members of the Flock--a band of genetically modified children who can fly--are pursued by their creator, the Uber-...
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