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Author
Series
The Unwanteds volume 7
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
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Description
"Head mage Alexander Stowe and his friends successfully fended off the latest threat to their magical world of Artimé with the help of a surprise ally. But old enemies have secretly been plotting against them. Now Alex must lead his people in a final epic battle, one they can't hope to win alone"--
Author
Series
The Unwanteds volume 5
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
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Description
Alex and his friends from Artimé are stranded on a newly-discovered island, and they are not alone, while in Quill, his twin Aaron's power base grows as he joins with an unlikely ally in a risky plan to finally conquer Artimé.
Author
Series
Fowl twins volume 1
Pub. Date
2019
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
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Children's Special Topics: New e-Audiobooks November 2021
Children's Special Topics: New e-Books November 2021
Children's Special Topics: New e-Books November 2021
Description
Eleven-year-old twins Miles and Beckett Fowl enjoy adventure and mayhem while helping a troll escape nefarious forces that want his magic.--
Author
Series
The Unwanteds volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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Children's Awards: California Young Reader Medal (Intermediate Grades 3-5)
Children's Read Alikes: Harry Potter
Children's Read Alikes: Hunger Games
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Children's Read Alikes: Harry Potter
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Description
In a society that purges thirteen-year-olds who are creative, identical twins Aaron and Alex are separated, one to attend University while the other, supposedly Eliminated, finds himself in a wondrous place where youths hone their abilities and learn magic.
Author
Series
Fowl twins volume 2
Publisher
Disney Hyperion
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Appears on these lists
Children's New Books: October 2021 Middle Grade Fiction
Children's Special Topics: New e-Books November 2021
Children's Special Topics: New e-Books November 2021
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Description
Taking the Fowl jet without permission before it mysteriously explodes over Florida, the Fowl twins are placed under house arrest until Myles's questions about what really happened lead to an astonishing abduction.
Author
Language
English
Description
"Fraternal twin brothers Peter and Michael McDowell have spent a lifetime competing for success and affection before that competition turned into an all-out war and made the brothers mortal enemies. While both Peter and Michael have grown into successful adults, they never managed to leave behind the animosity that took root in their childhood. With the collapse of his career and his marriage, Peter sees no other option than to move into the lake...
Author
Series
The Unwanteds volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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Description
As the Wanteds, Unwanteds, and Necessaries struggle to adjust to changes in their society, Mr. Today begins training fourteen-year-old Alex to replace him as Artime's leader one day while Alex's disgraced twin, Aaron, connives to take over Quill.
Author
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
"This bittersweet middle grade novel follows the ghost of Denis Egan as he teams up with his living twin brother to solve the mystery of his death."--
Author
Series
The Unwanteds volume 4
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
Divided by their society into Wanted and Unwanted at thirteen, estranged twin brothers Aaron and Alex have both run into trouble--as mage of Artime, Alex must defend the island from attack, while Aaron continues to scheme to take over the islands and get rid of the Unwanteds altogether.
10) Nightrise
Author
Series
Gatekeepers (Anthony Horowitz) volume 3
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
As fourteen-year-old telepathic twins struggle to escape the clutches of the Nightrise Corporation, one of them travels through dreams to a time when the evil Old Ones ruled and learns the role that he, his brother, and three other Gatekeepers must play to keep the world safe from the Old Ones' return.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
When her fiancé, Henry Walsh, is killed in a freak biking accident, Grace feels like she's lost her own shadow. For five years, they'd been inseparable: five years of the most rollicking, soul-finding love Grace thought any two people could share. Grace moves into the dream house they bought together; returns to work as a chef; watches TV with her elderly neighbor. But she's always aware of the Henry-shaped hole in her life. Then his long-lost twin...
12) Temper
Author
Publisher
Harper Voyager, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Auben Mutze has more vices than he can deal with--six to be exact--each branded down his arm for all the world to see. They mark him as a lesser twin in society, as inferior, but there's no way he'll let that define him. Intelligent and outgoing, Auben's spirited antics make him popular among the other students at his underprivileged high school. So what if he's envious of his twin Kasim, whose single vice brand is a ticket to a better life, one...
13) Redeemed
Author
Series
The missing volume 8
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Jonah was able to save all of time from collapsing but in doing so gained a twin brother, Jordan, who must learn what has happened and do his own part to save time--and his parents.
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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Description
The Vickery twins, Lee and Felix, live in a house in Poplar Wood, where, because of the "Agreement," their mother serves Memory, and their father assists Death, and only Lee is allowed to leave the house, except for Halloween; but when a local girl is murdered, Gretchen Whipple, daughter of the mayor, offers the boys a deal--help her solve the crime and she will help them break the Agreement, and regain their freedom.
Author
Series
Fowl twins volume 3
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
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Formats
Description
"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"--
16) Changeling
Author
Series
Oddmire volume 1
Publisher
Algonquin Young Readers
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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Description
Twelve-year-olds Tinn and Cole, raised as human twins in sleepy Endsborough, risk their lives in the Wild Wood, Oddmire Swamp, and the Deep Dark to learn which is a goblin changeling with an important mission.
17) The crossover
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
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Children's Awards: C. S. King Honor for Afr. Amer. Author/Illustrator
Children's Awards: Newbery Medal for Distinguished Literature
Children's Recommended: 7th and 8th Grade
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Children's Awards: Newbery Medal for Distinguished Literature
Children's Recommended: 7th and 8th Grade
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Description
Fourteen-year-old twin basketball stars Josh and Jordan wrestle with highs and lows on and off the court as their father ignores his declining health.
18) Swamp monster
Author
Series
Publisher
Feiwel & Friends
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Twins Lance and Chance LaRue are seeking a pet in the swamp near their Texas shack when they happen upon an egg and bring it home to hatch, but the creature's mother finds them, determined to rescue her little one.
19) The witch's boy
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Young Readers, an imprint of Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
When Ned and his identical twin brother Tam tumble from their raft into a raging, bewitched river, only Ned survives. Villagers are convinced the wrong boy lived. Sure enough, Ned grows up weak and slow, and stays as much as possible within the safe boundaries of his family's cottage and yard. But when a Bandit King comes to steal the magic that Ned's mother, a witch, is meant to protect, it's Ned who safeguards the magic and summons the strength...
20) The compound
Author
Series
Compound volume 1
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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Description
After his parents, two sisters, and he have spent six years in a vast underground compound built by his wealthy father to protect them from a nuclear holocaust, fifteen-year-old Eli, whose twin brother and grandmother were left behind, discovers that his father has perpetrated a monstrous hoax on them all.
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