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Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer
Artemis Fowl
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Interest: Grades 4-8. Reading Level: 5.0. Author: Eoin Colfer.

Artemis Fowl is a series of fantasy novels starring the teenage criminal mastermind Artemis Fowl II. Artemis, the main character, is a ruthless and extremely intelligent young criminal whose main goal is the acquisition of money through a variety of often illegal schemes.  The books alternate dark moments with humor, in a style similar to J.K. Rowling and Roald Dahl.
Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer
Artemis Fowl
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Interest: Grades 4-8. Reading Level: 5.0. Author: Eoin Colfer.

Artemis Fowl is a series of fantasy novels starring the teenage criminal mastermind Artemis Fowl II. Artemis, the main character, is a ruthless and extremely intelligent young criminal whose main goal is the acquisition of money through a variety of often illegal schemes.  The books alternate dark moments with humor, in a style similar to J.K. Rowling and Roald Dahl.
The Mysterious Edge of the Heroic World
Mysterious Edge of the Heroic World, The
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Interest: Grades 4-8. Reading Level: 5.7. Author: E.L. Konigsburg.

Amedeo Kaplan dreams of discovering something - some treasure no one realizes is there until he finds it. And he would like to discover a true friend to share this with.

Improbably, he finds the friend in aloof, edgy William Wilcox. And even more improbably, he finds his treasure among the memorabilia in the house of his eccentric neighbor, Mrs. Zender.

But Amedeo and William find more than treasure - they find a story that links a sketch, a young boy's life, an old man's reminiscence, and a painful secret dating back to the outrages of Nazi Germany. And they discover unexpected truths about art, friendship, history, heroism, and the mysteries of the human heart.
A Single Shard
Single Shard, A
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Interest: Grades 4-8. Reading Level: 6.6. Author: Linda Sue Park. Key Award: Newbery Award.

Tree-ear is an orphan boy in a 12th-century Korean potters’ village. When he accidentally breaks a pot, he must work for the master to pay for the damage by setting off on a difficult and dangerous journey that will change his life forever. This is a beautifully written book with wonderful imagery.
Stormbreaker by Anthony Horowitz
Stormbreaker
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Interest: Grades 5-8. Reading Level: 5.1. Author: Anthony Horowitz.

Alex Rider is a series of spy novels by English author Anthony Horowitz about a young spy named Alex Rider. The story opens with a 14 year old orphan Alex Rider learning that his guardian and uncle, Ian Rider, has died in a car accident. Suspicious about the circumstances of his uncle's death, Alex decides to investigate his uncles death and discovers that Ian was a spy working for MI6. Alex is then told that his uncle was investigating Herod Sayle, a Lebanese businessman and computer entrepreneur, who is donating a revolutionary computer system to every secondary school in the United Kingdom. MI6 forcibly recruit Alex and place him in a grueling SAS training camp, where he is the youngest and is treated as an outcast, before moving him into Sayle's factory. Alex discovers that Herod Sayle is planning to wipe out Britain's school children, through a lethal virus of smallpox, contained in the Stormbreaker, the computer he is manufacturing. As with each novel in the series, Alex must use all of his skills to try to stop the enemy and save the world.
Twisted
Twisted
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Interest: Grades 9-12. Reading Level: 4.3. Mature Content. Author: Laurie Halse Anderson. New York Times Bestseller.

High school senior Tyler Miller used to be the kind of guy who faded into the background. But since he got busted for doing graffiti on the school, and spent the summer doing outdoor work to pay for it, he stands out like you wouldn’t believe.

His new physique attracts the attention of queen bee Bethany Milbury, who just so happens to be his father’s boss’s daughter, the sister of his biggest enemy— and Tyler’s secret crush.

And that sets off a string of events and changes that have Tyler questioning his place in school, in his family, and in the world.

Fans and new readers alike will be captured by the main character's (Tyler) pitchperfect, funny voice, the surprising narrative arc, and the thoughtful moral dilemmas that are at the heart of all of the author’s award-winning, widely read work.
His Dark Materials Trilogy
His Dark Materials Trilogy ("The Golden Compass")
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Interest: Grade 9-12. Reading Levels: 6.2-7.1. Author: Philip Pullman. Key Awards: Carnegie Medal. Costa (Whitbread) Book Award.

"Dark Materials" refers to dust, and this series is an epic adventure of two children who wander through two parallel universes to try to stop those experimenting with "dust".
Fahrenheit 451
Fahrenheit 451
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Interest: Grades 9-12. Reading Level: 7.0. Author: Ray Bradbury. Classic.

"The system was simple. Everyone understood it. Books were for burning, along with the houses in which they were hidden." Guy Montag was a fireman whose job it was to start fires. And he enjoyed his job. He had been a fireman for ten years, and he had never questioned the pleasure of the midnight runs nor the joy of watching pages consumed by flames...never questioned anything until he met a seventeen-year-old girl who told him of a past when people were not afraid.  Then Guy met a professor who told him of a future in which people could think. And Guy Montag suddenly realized what he had to do...

Fahrenheit 451, first published in 1953, is a classic science fiction book about dystopia (where the conditions of life in a society are miserable, and characterized by human misery, poverty, oppression, violence, disease, and/or pollution).  This is one of three books considered to be the greatest books written about dystopia (the other two books are "1984" by George Orwell, and "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley).