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https://hardcover.app/series/the-hunger-games

In a dark vision of the near future, twelve boys and twelve girls are forced to appear in a live TV show called the Hunger Games. There is only one rule: kill or be killed. When sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen steps forward to take her sister’s place in the games, she sees it as a death sentence. But Katniss has been close to death before. For her, survival is second nature.

• The Hunger Games
• Catching Fire
• Mockingjay

https://hardcover.app/series/the-long-earth

1916: The Western Front. Private Percy Blakeney wakes up. He is lying on fresh spring grass. He can hear birdsong and the wind in the leaves. Where have the mud, blood, and blasted landscape of no-man’s-land gone? For that matter, where has Percy gone?

2015: Madison, Wisconsin. Police officer Monica Jansson is exploring the burned-out home of a reclusive–some say mad, others allege dangerous–scientist who seems to have vanished. Sifting through the wreckage, Jansson finds a curious gadget: a box containing some rudimentary wiring, a three-way switch, and . . . a potato. It is the prototype of an invention that will change the way humankind views the world forever.

• The Long Earth
• The Long War
• The Long Mars
• The Long Utopia
• The Long Cosmos

https://hardcover.app/series/the-kingkiller-chronicle

Told in Kvothe’s own voice, this is the tale of the magically gifted young man who grows to be the most notorious wizard his world has ever seen.

The intimate narrative of his childhood in a troupe of traveling players, his years spent as a near-feral orphan in a crime-ridden city, his daringly brazen yet successful bid to enter a legendary school of magic, and his life as a fugitive after the murder of a king form a gripping coming-of-age story unrivaled in recent literature.

• The Name of the Wind
• The Wise Man’s Fear

https://hardcover.app/series/enders-saga

In order to develop a secure defense against a hostile alien race’s next attack, government agencies breed child geniuses and train them as soldiers. A brilliant young boy, Andrew “Ender” Wiggin lives with his kind but distant parents, his sadistic brother Peter, and the person he loves more than anyone else, his sister Valentine. Peter and Valentine were candidates for the soldier-training program but didn’t make the cut—young Ender is the Wiggin drafted to the orbiting Battle School for rigorous military training.

Ender’s skills make him a leader in school and respected in the Battle Room, where children play at mock battles in zero gravity. Yet growing up in an artificial community of young soldiers Ender suffers greatly from isolation, rivalry from his peers, pressure from the adult teachers, and an unsettling fear of the alien invaders. His psychological battles include loneliness, fear that he is becoming like the cruel brother he remembers, and fanning the flames of devotion to his beloved sister.

Is Ender the general Earth needs? But Ender is not the only result of the genetic experiments. The war with the Buggers has been raging for a hundred years, and the quest for the perfect general has been underway for almost as long. Ender’s two older siblings are every bit as unusual as he is, but in very different ways. Between the three of them lie the abilities to remake a world. If, that is, the world survives.

• Ender’s Game
• Speaker for the Dead
• Xenocide
• Children of the Mind
• Ender in Exile
• The Last Shadow

https://hardcover.app/series/percy-jackson-and-the-olympians

Is he supposed to stand by while a bully picks on his scrawny best friend? Or not defend himself when his teacher turns into a monster and tries to kill him?

Mythical creatures seem to be walking straight out of the pages of Percy’s Greek mythology textbook and into his life. What’s worse, he’s angered a few of them: Zeus’s master lightning bolt has been stolen, and Percy is the prime suspect.

Percy and his friends Grover the satyr, and Annabeth, the demigod daughter of Athena, must find and return Zeus’s stolen property and bring peace to a warring Mount Olympus. They travel cross country to the gates of the Underworld in Los Angeles, facing a host of enemies determined to stop them.

• The Lightning Theif
• The Sea of Monsters
• The Titan’s Curse
• The Battle of the Labyrinth
• The Last Olympian
• The Chalice of the Gods
• Wrath of the Triple Goddess

https://hardcover.app/series/the-secrets-of-the-immortal-nicholas-flamel

He holds the secret that can end the world.The truth: Nicholas Flamel was born in Paris on September 28, 1330. Nearly 700 years later, he is acknowledged as the greatest Alchemyst of his day. It is said that he discovered the secret of eternal life.The records show that he died in 1418.But his tomb is empty.The legend: Nicholas Flamel lives. But only because he has been making the elixir of life for centuries. The secret of eternal life is hidden within the book he protects–the Book of Abraham the Mage. It’s the most powerful book that has ever existed. In the wrong hands, it will destroy the world. That’s exactly what Dr. John Dee plans to do when he steals it. Humankind won’t know what’s happening until it’s too late. And if the prophecy is right, Sophie and Josh Newman are the only ones with the power to save the world as we know it.Sometimes legends are true.And Sophie and Josh Newman are about to find themselves in the middle of the greatest legend of all time.

• The Alchemyst
• The Magician
• The Sorceress
• The Necromancer
• The Warlock
• The Enchantress

https://hardcover.app/series/the-kane-chronicles

Since their mother’s death, Carter and Sadie have become near strangers. While Sadie has lived with her grandparents in London, her brother has traveled the world with their father, the brilliant Egyptologist, Dr. Julius Kane.

One night, Dr. Kane brings the siblings together for a “research experiment” at the British Museum, where he hopes to set things right for his family. Instead, he unleashes the Egyptian god Set, who banishes him to oblivion and forces the children to flee for their lives.

Soon, Sadie and Carter discover that the gods of Egypt are waking, and the worst of them—Set—has his sights on the Kanes. To stop him, the siblings embark on a dangerous journey across the globe—a quest that brings them ever closer to the truth about their family, and their links to a secret order that has existed since the time of the pharaohs.

• The Rid Pyramid
• The Throne of Fire
• The Serpent’s Shadow

https://hardcover.app/series/the-farseer-trilogy

In a faraway land where members of the royal family are named for the virtues they embody, one young boy will become a walking enigma.

Born on the wrong side of the sheets, Fitz, son of Chivalry Farseer, is a royal bastard, cast out into the world, friendless and lonely. Only his magical link with animals - the old art known as the Wit - gives him solace and companionship. But the Wit, if used too often, is a perilous magic, and one abhorred by the nobility.

So when Fitz is finally adopted into the royal household, he must give up his old ways and embrace a new life of weaponry, scribing, courtly manners; and how to kill a man secretly, as he trains to become a royal assassin.

• Assassin’s Apprentice
• Royal Assassin
• Assassin’s Quest

https://hardcover.app/series/how-to-train-your-dragon

• How to Train Your Dragon
• How to be a Pirate
• How to Speak Dragonese
• How to Cheat a Dragon’s Curse
• How to Twist a Dragon’s Tale
• A Hero’s Guide to Deadly Dragons
• How to Ride a Dragon’s Storm
• How to Break a Dragon’s Heart
• How to Steal a Dragon’s Sword
• How to Seize a ndragon’s Jewel
• How to Betray a Dragon’s Hero
• How to Fight a Dragon’s Fury

https://hardcover.app/series/alex-rider

They told him his uncle died in an accident. He wasn’t wearing his seatbelt, they said. But when fourteen-year-old Alex finds his uncle’s windshield riddled with bullet holes, he knows it was no accident. What he doesn’t know yet is that his uncle was killed while on a top-secret mission. But he is about to, and once he does, there is no turning back. Finding himself in the middle of terrorists, Alex must outsmart the people who want him dead. The government has given him the technology, but only he can provide the courage. Should he fail, every child in England will be murdered in cold blood.

• Stormbreaker
• Point Blank
• Skeleton Key
• Eagle Strike
• Scorpia
• Ark Angel
• Snakehead
• Crocodile Tears
• Scorpia Rising
• Russian Roulette
• Never Say Die
• Nightshade

https://hardcover.app/series/the-5th-wave

After the 1st wave, only darkness remains. After the 2nd, only the lucky escape. And after the 3rd, only the unlucky survive. After the 4th wave, only one rule applies: trust no one.

Now, it’s the dawn of the 5th wave, and on a lonely stretch of highway, Cassie runs from Them. The beings who only look human, who roam the countryside killing anyone they see. Who have scattered Earth’s last survivors. To stay alone is to stay alive, Cassie believes, until she meets Evan Walker. Beguiling and mysterious, Evan Walker may be Cassie’s only hope for rescuing her brother—or even saving herself. But Cassie must choose: between trust and despair, between defiance and surrender, between life and death. To give up or to get up.

• The 5th Wave
• The Infinite Sea
• The Last Star

https://hardcover.app/series/septimus-heap

After learning that she is the Princess, Jenna is whisked from her home and carried toward safety by the Extraordinary Wizard, those she always believed were her father and brother, and a young guard known only as Boy 412–pursued by agents of those who killed her mother ten years earlier.

• Magyk
• Flyte
• Physik
• Queste
• Syren
• Darke

https://hardcover.app/series/skulduggery-pleasant

Meet Skulduggery Pleasant,

Ace Detective, Snappy Dresser, Razor–tongued Wit, Crackerjack Sorcerer, and Walking, Talking, Fire-throwing Skeleton,

—as well as ally, protector, and mentor of Stephanie Edgley, a very unusual and darkly talented twelve-year-old.

These two alone must defeat an all-consuming ancient evil.

The end of the world?

Over his dead body.

• Skulduggery Pleasant
• Playing with Fire
• The Faceless Ones
• Dark Days
• Mortal Coil
• Death Bringer
• Kingdom of the Wicked
• Last Stand of Dead Men
• The Dying of the Light
• Midnight
• Bedlam
• Seasons of War
• Dead or Alive
• Until the End
• A Mind Full of Murder
• A Heart Full of Hatred

https://hardcover.app/series/the-39-clues-16428

The 39 Clues series is a thrilling adventure following siblings Amy and Dan Cahill as they race against ruthless relatives to find 39 hidden clues, scattered globally, that reveal the secret to their family’s immense power, forcing them to uncover historical mysteries while battling dangerous family members and making choices that impact world history

• The Maze of nbones
• One False Note
• The Sword Theif
• Beyond the Grave
• The Black Circle
• In Too Deep
• The Viper’s Nest
• The Emporor’s Code
• Storm Warning
• Into The Gauntlet
• Vespers Rising

• Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
• Around the World in Eighty Days
• Journey to the Center of the Earth

https://hardcover.app/series/a-series-of-unfortunate-events

If you have not read anything about the Baudelaire orphans, then before you read even one more sentence, you should know this: Violet, Klaus, and Sunny are kindhearted and quick-witted, but their lives are filled with bad luck and misery. All of the stories about these three children are unhappy and wretched and will most likely fill you with deep despair.

• The Bad Beginning
• The Reptile Room
• The Wide Window
• The Miserable Mill
• The Austere Academy
• The Ersatz Elevator
• The Vile Village
• The Hostile Hospital
• The Carnivorous Carnival
• The Slippery Slope
• The Grim Grotto
• The Penultimate Peril
• The End

https://hardcover.app/series/the-keys-to-the-kingdom-garth-nix

Arthur Penhaligon is not supposed to be a hero. He is, in fact, supposed to die an early death. But then he is saved by a key shaped like the minute hand of a clock.Arthur is safe but his world is not. Along with the key comes a plague brought by bizarre creatures from another realm. A stranger named Mister Monday, his avenging messengers with blood-stained wings, and an army of dog-faced Fetchers will stop at nothing to get the key back even if it means destroying Arthur and everything around him.Desperate, Arthur ventures into a mysterious house a house that only he can see. It is in this house that Arthur must unravel the secrets of the key and discover his true fate.

• Mister Monday
• Grim Tuesday
• Drowned Wednesday
• Sir Thursday
• Lady Friday
• Superior Saturday
• Lord Sunday

https://hardcover.app/series/the-mysterious-benedict-society

Dozens of children respond to this peculiar ad in the newspaper and are then put through a series of mind-bending tests, which readers take along with them. Only four children-two boys and two girls-succeed. Their to go on a secret mission that only the most intelligent and inventive children could complete. To accomplish it they will have to go undercover at the Learning Institute for the Very Enlightened, where the only rule is that there are no rules. But what they’ll find in the hidden underground tunnels of the school is more than your average school supplies. So, if you’re gifted, creative, or happen to know Morse Code, they could probably use your help.

• The Mysterious Benedict Society
• The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Perilous Journey
• The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Prisoner’s Dilemma
• The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Riddle of Ages

https://hardcover.app/series/the-roman-mysteries

Flavia Gemina is a ’girl-detective’ in first century Rome, in this series for children (ages 9-14). Flavia lives in Ostia, Rome’s port, with her sea captain father. She solves mysteries with an assortment of friends from a wide range of Roman life.

• The Thieves of Ostia
• The Secrets of Vesuvius
• The Pirates of Pompeii
• The Assassins of Rome
• The Dolphins of Laurentum
• The Code of Romulus
• The Twelve Tasks of Flavia Gemina
• The Enemies of Jupiter
• The Gladiators from Capua
• The Colossus of Rhodes
• The Fugitive from Corinth
• The Charioteer of Delphi
• The Slave-girl from Jerusalem
• The Beggar of Volubilis
• The Scribes from Alexandria
• The Prophet from Ephesus
• The Man from Pomegrannate Street

https://hardcover.app/series/the-inheritance-cycle

When Eragon finds a polished blue stone in the forest, he thinks it is the lucky discovery of a poor farm boy; perhaps it will buy his family meat for the winter. But when the stone brings a dragon hatchling, Eragon soon realizes he has stumbled upon a legacy nearly as old as the Empire itself.

Overnight his simple life is shattered, and he is thrust into a perilous new world of destiny, magic, and power. With only an ancient sword and the advice of an old storyteller for guidance, Eragon and the fledgling dragon must navigate the dangerous terrain and dark enemies of an Empire ruled by a king whose evil knows no bounds.

• Eragon
• Eldest
• Brisingr
• Inheritance
• Murtagh

https://hardcover.app/series/chaos-walking

Todd Hewitt is the only boy in a town of men. Ever since the settlers were infected with the Noise germ, Todd can hear everything the men think, and they hear everything he thinks. Todd is just a month away from becoming a man, but in the midst of the cacophony, he knows that the town is hiding something from him – something so awful Todd is forced to flee with only his dog, whose simple, loyal voice he hears too. With hostile men from the town in pursuit, the two stumble upon a strange and eerily silent creature: a girl. Who is she? Why wasn’t she killed by the germ like all the females on New World? Propelled by Todd’s gritty narration, readers are in for a white-knuckle journey in which a boy on the cusp of manhood must unlearn everything he knows in order to figure out who he truly is.

• The Knife of Never Letting Go
• The Ask and the Answer
• Monsters of Men