Michael Northrop
Author
Series
Publisher
DC Comics
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Peek inside the lives of DC's infamous rogues gallery, where curious kids write to notorious scoundrels, asking them about life on the dark side. Read between the lines and you may notice the baddies are up to something big! Will the Justice League show up in time to stop them?"--
Author
Series
TombQuest volume 2
Language
English
Description
Investigating a string of disappearances amid supernatural occurrences in London, Alex and Ren discover the workings of a powerful Death Walker intent on destroying the city.
Author
Series
TombQuest volume 3
Language
English
Description
Journeying to the Valley of Kings, Alex and Ren prepare to combat powerful Death Walkers that are causing trouble throughout the world.
5) On thin ice
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
The way twelve-year-old Ked Eakins of Norton, Maine, sees it his life has been stolen from him, piece by piece; first by kyphosis, a spinal abnormality which has made him a social outcast at school and a target for the school bully, by his friends who have recently abandoned him, by his mother who left for the West Coast taking the insurance which might have saved him with her, and by his father who is a gambling addict who has lost the rent money--but...
Author
Series
TombQuest volume 1
Language
English
Description
When Alex Sennefer's mother uses the Lost Spells from the Egyptian Book of the Dead to bring her son from the brink of dying, she also brings back five Death Walkers, leaving Alex and his best friend to find his mother and save the world.
7) Trapped
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
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Description
Seven high school students are stranded at their New England high school during a week-long blizzard that shuts down the power and heat, freezes the pipes, and leaves them wondering if they will survive.
8) Polaris
Author
Language
English
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Description
"In the 1830s Owen Ward is cabin boy on the "Polaris, " a ship on a voyage of scientific exploration, when illness and a mutiny off the coast of Brazil cause the adult crew to abandon the ship, leaving the handful of young cabin attendants and deckhands behind. The young seafarers are determined to bring their ship to safety, but when one of them disappears they begin to suspect that there is something deadly on board with them"--
Author
Series
TombQuest volume 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
Alex and Ren must confront the Death Walkers, The Order, and an army of the dead in an attempt to save themselves, Alex's mother, and the world--and hope that Ammit, the Devourer of Egyptian legend, will be able to separate the guilty from the innocent.
Author
Series
TombQuest volume 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
Twelve-year-olds Alex and Renata are on the run from the Order, which is on the brink of creating an army of indestructible stone warriors to carry out their evil schemes, and only the Lost Spells which his mother used to bring Alex back to life can stop them--and undoing the powerful magic that created the chaos that is now loose in Egypt might very well kill him.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
On the first day of vacation thirteen-year-old Davey Tsering wakes up early, slips out of his family's hotel room without telling anyone, and heads for the beach and a swim in the warm Floridian waters--and a fateful meeting with a shark.
12) Plunked
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Language
English
Description
Sixth-grader Jack Mogens loses his nerve after getting hit by a pitch, and has to dig deep within himself to avoid giving up the sport he loves.
Author
Series
Publisher
DC Comics
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Jump City is full of strange, shambling creatures muttering about sales and dead-set on brains. The Teen Titans saw a comet fall from the sky and can think of nowhere better to hang out and see what happens than the mall. If their theory is correct and people start turning into zombies, they want to be prepared-and we all know zombies love the mall! But as the situation grows ever more dire, Robin and his team take to the streets, trying to save...
14) Gentlemen
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
When three teenaged boys suspect that their English teacher is responsible for their friend's disappearance, they must navigate a maze of assorted clues, fraying friendships, violence, and Dostoevsky's "Crime and punishment" before learning the truth.
16) Rotten
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
When troubled sixteen-year-old Jimmer "JD" Dobbs returns from a mysterious summer "upstate" he finds that his mother has adopted an abused Rottweiler that JD names Johnny Rotten, but soon his tenuous relationship with the dog is threatened.
Author
Series
TombQuest volume 1
Publisher
Puck
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Español
Description
Una puerta al más allá acaba de abrirse después de siglos... La magia del antiguo Egipto ha vuelto a la vida. Solo un antiguo encantamiento puede salvar la vida de Álex. Pero utilizarlo entraña un gran peligro. Porque esos mismos hechizos podrian despertar a cinco monstruos del antiguo Egipto: los Caminantes de la Muerte. No están muertos pero tambpoco están vivos. Llevan tres mil años tramando su venganza. ¡Y estan entre nosotros!
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