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The second life of Linus Hoppe

2005
Having given up his privileged life for the freedom to make his own decisions, fourteen-year-old Linus escapes the drudgery of Realm Two and joins with others to battle the power behind the Great Processor.

The destiny of Linus Hoppe

2005
In a utopian world, fourteen-year-old Linus, who is approaching the test that will determine which Realm he will live, rejects the accepted way of life and ventures to change his destiny.

Have space suit-- will travel

2003
Kip, a high school senior, wins a space suit in a soap jingle contest and is testing it out in the backyard when he is skyjacked by a space pirate and put aboard a ship with other captives heading for a deadly encounter with the moon.

Star wars, episode III

2005
Years of civil war and the erosion of constitutional rights have left the Republic on the verge of collapse, and events escalate when Obi-Wan attempts to destroy Separatist leader General Grievious, Palpatine begins a campaign to sully the reputation of the Jedi, and Anakin Skywalker is turned toward the Dark Side.

The secret hour

2004
Upon moving to Bixby, Oklahoma, fifteen-year-old Jessica Day learns that she is one in a special group born at the stroke of midnight who can roam the town at a secret hour while others sleep--and that she must fight the evil creatures who share her power.

Touching darkness

2004
Jessica Day, and her four friends, the "midnighters", are the only ones in Bixby, Oklahoma that know the world freezes at midnight, and as they battle evil creatures living in the hour hidden they learn about Bixby's shadowy past and uncover a deadly conspiracy that reaches beyond the secret hour.

Mortal engines

2001
In the distant future, when cities move about and consume smaller towns, a fifteen-year-old apprentice is pushed out of London by the man he most admires and must seek answers in the perilous Out-Country, aided by one girl and the memory of another.

The invisible man

1992
The tale of a scientist who discovers how to make his body become invisible, but, when he can't make himself visible again, becomes violently insane.

Jumpman rule #1

don't touch anything
2004
When a defective time-jumping device strands Theodore, a teen from the distant future, in the twenty-first century, he is helped by two high schoolers--Jules, who is having time problems of his own, and Gen, an old friend Jules was about to ask out.

Truesight

2004
In a distant frontier world, thirteen-year-old Jacob is uncertain of his future in a community that considers blindness a virtue and "Seers" as aberrations.

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