Spellspam
10 best books like Spellspam (Alma Alexander): Thresholds, Seagulls Don't Eat Pickles, The Doorway and the Deep, Younghee & the Pullocho, Falcon Quinn and the Crimson Vapor, Unlucky Charms, How to Outswim a Shark Without a Snorkel, The Secret Life of Ms. Finkleman, The Secret of the Sacred Scarab, The Titanic Mission
| Author | Nina Kiriki Hoffman |
| ISBN | 0670063193 |
Maya's family has just moved from Idaho to Spores Ferry, Oregon. She's nervous about starting middle school and making new friends, but soon that's the last thing on her mind. First, a fairy flies into her room. Then it turns out that the kids in the apartment building next door do magic, and their basement...
When bully Bryce Billings bets Fish Finelli that he can't find Captain Kidd's legendary long-lost treasure, Fish and his friends embark on a quest to find real-life pirate treasure. Between sneaking into the library to track down Captain Kidd's map, stowing away on a boat, and trespassing on an island,...
Travel back to the enchanting and treacherous land of Limn, where Lottie Fiske has escaped the murderous Southerly king for a while—but other perils are hard on her heels. War is coming to the beautiful world of magic that Lottie has come to love. Events are pushing her to the North, where many answers—about...
Russell, in his debut middle grade reader, whisks readers from modern day Seoul and into the magical land called Strange Land where Korean mythological creatures live such as the dokkaebi, the Haechi, and dragons. As a lover of unique stories and high adventure, I was instantly captivated with this...
| Author | Jennifer Finney Boylan |
| ISBN | 0061728357 |
Falcon Quinn survived the first term at the Academy for Monsters along with his monstrous friends Max, Pearl, Mortia, and the rest. He has finally discovered his monster nature and is working hard to embrace it. But what does it mean to be an Angel, exactly? Having wings is great, when Falcon can remember...
| Author | Adam Rex |
| ISBN | 0062060058 |
World domination through breakfast cereal additives is fairly implausible. But that is practically the most believable aspect of this silly, though occasionally endearing, second book in a promised trilogy. The first book cast corporate America and the Masons as the villains. Here we find that...
| Author | Jess Keating |
| ISBN | 1402297580 |
Ana Wright's summer just got terrifying. She's finally getting used to living in a zoo (no, seriously—she lives with her family in an actual zoo), when she's assigned to work in the new shark tank. With her worst enemy. Forget about sharks! Ashley is the ultimate predator. And after Ana's favorite...
| Author | Ben H. Winters |
| ISBN | 0061965413 |
Ms. Finkleman is just our boring old music teacher.
Or is she?
It all starts with a Special Project in Mr. Melville's Social Studies class: Solve a mystery in your own life. For seventh grader Bethesda Fielding, one mystery is too tempting to ignore: Ms. Finkleman.
Bethesda...
The Secret of the Sacred Scarab
A 5000-year-old mystery comes to life when a scruffy peddler gives Adam and Justin Sinclair an old Egyptian scarab on their very first day in Egypt. Only when the evil Dr. Faisal Khalid shows a particular interest in the cousins and their scarab, do the boys realise they are in terrible danger. Justin...
| Author | Dan Gutman |
| ISBN | 0062236350 |
The eccentric billionaire Miss Zandergoth is very disappointed with the Flashback Four. Luke, Isabel, David, and Julia did not come back from their first time-traveling adventure with a photograph of Abe Lincoln delivering the famous Gettysburg Address for Miss Z’s rare-photograph collection....
| Author | Linda DeMeulemeester |
| ISBN | 1897550138 |
The latest book from the award-winning Grim Hill series finds Cat, her sister, her friends and even her soccer coaches captivated by romance, when an easterly fairy wind blows into town. But even valentine hearts, pink frilly dresses and high school dances have a dark twist in the town with Grim Hill...
| Author | James Jennewein |
| ISBN | 0061449369 |
It's the eve of the Festival of Greatness and Dane has a big problem. He's yet to choose his nickname. Dane the Dangerous? Dane the Despicable? He can't decide. But when Dane sees his proud father shamed by the evil tyrant Thidrek the Terrifying, Dane's indignation earns him a moniker that sticks—Dane...
| Author | Gary Urey |
| ISBN | 0807575577 |
Andy Whiffler—Super Schnoz—is the world’s loudest snorer. His snoring is so thunderous that on most nights it registers a 4.5 on the Richter scale. When his powerful snoring penetrates the atmosphere, the aliens from planet Apnea begin harvesting Super Schnoz’s sleepy-time snuffles to...
| Author | Adam Shaughnessy |
| ISBN | 1616204990 |
It’s been a year since friends ABE and Pru joined Mister Fox’s Fantasy Investigation Bureau--otherwise known as the Unbelievable FIB--to save their hometown from an invasion of Viking gods and giants. Life has been incredibly ordinary ever since. But that’s all about to change when the Norse...
| Author | P.J. Haarsma |
| ISBN | 0763627100 |
Sci-fi fans will tear through this new adventure as Johnny Turnbull — first human softwire — finds more danger and intrigue on the next ring of Orbis.
On Orbis 2, Johnny Turnbull has a new home and a new job, one that pushes his softwire abilities to painful limits. JT is the only one who can...
When the tail of the comet Bhaktul flicks through the Earth's atmosphere, deadly particles are left in its wake, and mankind is confronted with a virus that devastates the adult population. A renowned scientist proposes a bold plan: to build a ship that will carry a crew of 251 teenagers to a home in a distant...
Lost in Lexicon: An Adventure in Words and Numbers
| Author | Pendred Noyce |
| ISBN | 0984525009 |
When Aunt Adelaide sends thirteen-year-old cousins Ivan and Daphne on a treasure hunt in the rain, they never expect to stumble into a whole new world an enchanting land where words and numbers run wild. They are surprised again when the first people they meet beg them to find Lexicon's missing children,...
| Author | David Teague |
| ISBN | 0062377450 |
From critically acclaimed author David Teague, this boisterous and funny novel about friendship and self–discovery will send readers on the wackiest adventure of their lives!
It’s no surprise when the doghouse in Henry Cicada’s backyard starts glowing. After all, it’s made out...
| Author | Elizabeth Singer Hunt |
| ISBN | 1862301255 |
The Search for Sunken Treasure by Elizabeth Singer Hunter, is a book recommended for children, that is fiction, the main character in this book is Jack the Secret Agent, and he is a fearless bold agent who isn’t afraid to take risks, and will do anything to complete the mission. The book’s setting...
| Author | John Kloepfer |
| ISBN | 0062102184 |
The maul of America!
It’s been two days since a zombie virus turned Zack Clarke’s parents, neighbors, and most of the country into brain-munching fiends. Zack and his crew of Zombie Chasers—Rice, Madison, Ozzie, and Zoe—are ready to end this nightmare once and for all!
With...
