In this partially-illustrated early chapter book, a young girl who is fascinated by sharks gets a chance to see one in real life while taking sailing lessons.
Action and adventure fiction
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Author:Saint-Onge, Danielle, Szpirglas, JeffSummary: - Author:Bond, LarrySummary:
Witnessing a torpedo attack on a Vietnamese merchant ship by a Chinese nuclear sub, USS North Dakota captain Jerry Mitchell helps to forge a tenuous new alliance with Western Pacific nations in a covert submarine campaign aimed at...
- Author:Hauka, Donald J.Summary:
How can an enterprising newspaper reporter sell his Babji dolls when there’s a beheaded street youth, a Rave Messiah battling a berserk “God Squad,” and a conniving new editor to deal with? Especially when he’s suffering all the...
- Author:Marlin, JenSummary:
Max and Sofia's summer vacation gets wild when they stumble upon an abandoned sailboat that magically transports them to a different corner of the world to help other kids save seals from an oil spill.
- Author:London, Jack, Stevenson, Robert Louis, Kipling, RudyardSummary:
Three timeless stories that will whisk you into exotic lands and unforgettable adventures.
- Author:Korman, GordonSummary:
Accused of ruining a champion dog's career after an unfortunate incident at a mall show, Luthor is sent to the pound, prompting a skeptical Griffin to hatch a daring plan involving a sinister saboteur, a reclusive trainer, and large...
- Author:Gleason, C. M.Summary:
In the tradition of Clive Cussler comes the first novel in an exciting series of thrilling adventure, high-stakes international threats, and lost treasures.... Moscow, 1560: A lost Byzantine library...last seen in the possession of...
- Author:Golden, ChristopherSummary:
They live as outcasts, hated and feared by the very humanity they protect. They are mutants, born with strange and wonderful powers that set them apart from the rest of the human race. Under the tutelage of Professor Charles Xavier,...
- Author:McCullough, ColleenSummary:
It's August 1969 in Holloman, Connecticut, and police captain Carmine Delmonico is away on vacation. Back at home, two anonymous male corpses turn up, and are soon connected to four other murder victims. Luckily, Carmine decides to...
- Author:Cork, Stephen D.Summary:
Major Jennifer O’Shane is ordered by the President on a top secret assignment to INTERPOL and the Central Command of the U.S. military to take on a crime syndicate of unimaginable scale. The mission: destroy a giant international human...
- Author:Miller-Schroeder, PatriciaSummary:
Can Shinoni and Keena, two Ice Age teens separated from their tribes, overcome their differences to outwit their pursuer and survive the unforgiving wilds? The climate is changing, game is disappearing, and two peoples of the Ice Age...
- Author:Dickner, NicolasSummary:
Où l'on raconte l'histoire d'une jeune fille qui désire repousser les limites de l'expérience humaine, d'un hacker qui veut optimiser la circulation mondiale des bananes et des coussins, d'une employée de la GRC qui rêve d'en finir une...
- Author:Ross, RektokSummary:
Sam is dreading senior ski weekend, having to watch over her brother. When their SUV crashes into a snowbank, Sam and her friends find themselves stranded in the mountains with cell phone coverage long gone and temperatures dropping....
- Author:Bélanger, Pierre-LucSummary:
Un jeune homme, Cédric Poitras, accumule les mauvais coups depuis son entrée au secondaire : cours séchés, vols à l’étalage, alcool… rien ne semble l’arrêter. À bout de nerfs, ses parents l’expédient chez son grand-père paternel,...
- Author:Johnson-Shelton, Nils, Frey, JamesSummary:
Endgame is here. Earth Key has been found. Two keys--and nine Players--remain. The keys must be found, and only one Player can win. Queens, New York. Aisling Kopp believes the unthinkable: that Endgame can be stopped. But before she can...
- Author:Paulsen, GarySummary:
After taking pictures of drug dealers disembarking from a small plane, two tenagers find themselves on a flight that may force them to make their first jump much sooner than they expect.
- Author:James, NickSummary:
A devastated Earth's last hope is found in Pearls: small, mysterious orbs that fall from space and are capable of supplying enough energy to power entire cities. Battling to control the Pearls are the Skyship dwellers-political...
- Author:Johansen, IrisSummary:
Forensic sculptor Eve Duncan journeys to an African jungle to help families torn apart by a violent attack, but a deeper, more sinister plot is unfolding, and Eve could get caught in the middle of it.
- Author:Storm, JoSummary:
Hannah must rely on her survival instincts to endure a brutal ice storm and save her family. At first, when a massive ice storm traps fourteen-year-old Hannah and her family in a remote cabin, it feels like a game to practise the...
- Author:Boissery, BeverleySummary:
2009 Word Guild Award — Winner, Young Adult Fiction In the aftermath of the 1838 rebellion in Lower Canada, Sophie Mallory’s father is wrongfully convicted of treason and sentenced to life imprisonment in Australia. But there is no...
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