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Guardians of Time is a trilogy of novels written by Marianne Curley. The plot of the trilogy consists of the Guardians of Time, trying to protect the past, present, and future by traveling into the past to thwart their enemies, and the Order of Chaos, who are trying to change past events to give themselves more power.
series11 books1962
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The Time Quintet is a science fantasy series of five young adult novels written by American author Madeleine L'Engle and made up of A Wrinkle in Time (1962), A Wind in the Door (1973), A Swiftly Tilting Planet (1978), Many Waters (1986), and An Acceptable Time (1989).
series9 books2010
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TimeRiders is a series of teen science fiction novels written by Alex Scarrow. The series consists of nine books and is published by Puffin Books.
series10 books2008
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The Missing is a series of fictional young-adult novels written by Margaret Peterson Haddix. It tells the story of famous children from history stolen by futuristic time travelers from their place in time and accidentally sent to the 21st century as babies. They are then adopted by families in the 21st century. Because Jonah is one of the stolen children, he, along with his non-adopted sister Katherine, must help return the missing kids to their rightful places in history and fix time before it is destroyed. The first book in the series, Found, was published on April 22, 2008. The series continued with book titles Sent, Sabotaged, Torn, Caught, Risked, and Revealed. The eighth and final book, Redeemed, was released on September 8, 2015. There are also two ebook short stories, Sought and Rescued . Haddix originally intended the series to consist of only seven books. However, she stated that she had trouble closing out the series in seven books; leading to her decision to write Redeemed.
series12 books2005
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Maximum Ride is a series of young adult science fantasy novels by American author James Patterson. The series centers on the adventures of Maximum "Max" Ride and her family, called the Flock, who are winged human-avian hybrids created at a lab called The School. The series was inspired by Patterson's earlier novels When the Wind Blows and The Lake House, which were intended for older readers.
series3 books2006
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The Caretaker Trilogy is a series of science fiction thrillers with an ecological theme, written for young adults by David Klass. The first book in the series, Firestorm (2006), was the first book ever endorsed by Greenpeace and was praised by critics for its combination of entertainment value and environmental message, garnering an American Library Association (ALA) Best Book citation, a starred review from Publishers Weekly, and a favorable review by the New York Times Book Review. The story focuses on Jack Danielson, a teenager sent back from the future to save the world's oceans. Whirlwind, the second book in the Caretaker Trilogy, tells the story of Jack's efforts to save the Amazon rainforest; published in March 2008 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. The third book in the trilogy is Timelock, published in 2009.
series3 books2005
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Rick Yancey's Alfred Kropp trilogy follows the teenage title character through three young-adult fantasy-adventure novels. The debut, The Extraordinary Adventures of Alfred Kropp, was a Publishers Weekly Best Children's Book and a Carnegie Medal finalist, and the story continues in The Seal of Solomon and The Thirteenth Skull.
John Marsdenstandalone novel1990
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James, a strange, silent boy, makes the acquaintance of old Mr. Woodford, a physicist who constructs a mysterious black box, but when the box comes into the boy's possession, it draws him into a magical and dangerous world, in and out of time.
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Only a Monster is Vanessa Len's YA fantasy trilogy: Only a Monster (2022), Never a Hero and Once a Villain. It follows a teenage girl who discovers she comes from a line of time-manipulating 'monsters', the traditional enemies of a lineage of 'heroes', after falling for a boy from the opposing side. The trilogy reframes familiar hero/monster tropes around a contemporary, time-travel fantasy premise.
series6 books2008
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The Dangerous Days of Daniel X opens James Patterson's science-fiction series, co-written with Michael Ledwidge, marking Patterson's return to genre science fiction in a similar vein to his Maximum Ride series. Released in 2008, it became the first of six books following the same teenage protagonist. Patterson's later collaborators on the sequels include Chris Grabenstein, Ned Rust, and Adam Sadler.
series3 books2015
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Quin Kincaid has spent her life training to take her Oath and join the Seekers, an ancient order sworn to protect the weak — but the night of her initiation reveals that her family, her order, and the boy she loves are not what she believed. Arwen Elys Dayton's trilogy (Seeker, Traveler, Disruptor) follows Quin and her companions as the order's true, morally compromised history comes into focus.
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The Tripods is a series of young adult science fiction novels by John Christopher. The series takes place in a post-apocalyptic world where humanity is enslaved by "Tripods"—gigantic three-legged walking machines piloted by an alien race later identified as the "Masters". The first two books were the basis of a science fiction TV series, produced in the United Kingdom in the 1980s.
series4 books1986
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Gillian Rubinstein's Space Demons follows a group of Australian schoolkids drawn into a mysterious video game that starts pulling them physically into its world, with consequences that follow them home. The story continues across two more novels, Skymaze and Shinkei, following the same characters into further games.
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Two separate modern continuations of E. Nesbit's Psammead stories were written decades apart by different authors: Helen Cresswell's The Return of the Psammead (1992) brings the wish-granting sand fairy back for a new set of children, while Kate Saunders's Five Children on the Western Front (2014) follows the now-grown Lamb and his siblings as the First World War arrives, in a more somber sequel to Nesbit's original trilogy. Neither book is by Nesbit herself, and the two have no direct connection to each other beyond both drawing on her creation. Later writers have kept returning to Nesbit's premise long after her own trilogy ended.
series6 books1992
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Jumper follows David Rice, a teenager who discovers he can teleport anywhere he's been and uses the power to escape an abusive home, only to find that ability alone doesn't solve the harder problems of finding his absent mother, building an honest relationship, or staying off the radar of people who'd exploit him. Steven Gould's series continues across Reflex, Impulse, and Exo, later following his and his wife's daughter as a second-generation jumper. A 2008 film loosely adapted the first novel.
series3 books2011
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Ernest Cline's Ready Player One (2011) is set in a near-future dystopia where much of humanity escapes into the OASIS, a vast virtual-reality universe, and follows teenager Wade Watts as he chases an Easter egg hidden by the OASIS's late creator in a puzzle-based hunt worth a fortune. The 2020 sequel, Ready Player Two, picks up after Wade has gained control of the OASIS and follows him and his friends into a new quest built around a brain-computer interface the creator left behind.
Roald Dahlstandalone novel1961
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James and the Giant Peach is a children's novel written in 1961 by British author Roald Dahl. The first edition, published by Alfred Knopf, featured illustrations by Nancy Ekholm Burkert. There have been re-illustrated versions of it over the years, drawn by Michael Simeon, Emma Chichester Clark, Lane Smith and Quentin Blake. It was adapted into a film of the same name in 1996 which was directed by Henry Selick, and a musical in 2010.
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universe13 books1995
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In a world like ours and unlike it, every human soul walks outside the body in the shape of an animal — a daemon, who speaks, who cannot be lied to, and who settles into one fixed form only when childhood ends. This is the country of His Dark Materials: a company of parallel worlds across which an invisible dust of consciousness drifts down upon the waking mind; where a Church that calls itself the Magisterium would sooner sever a child's soul than let that Dust be understood; and where a golden instrument, the alethiometer, answers true questions for anyone with the patience to read it. Philip Pullman's design stands in two trilogies and a scatter of shorter tales. His Dark Materials — Northern Lights (published in America as The Golden Compass), The Subtle Knife, and The Amber Spyglass — carries Lyra Belacqua from the rooftops of a shadow Oxford across the borders between worlds. The Book of Dust returns to that same territory: La Belle Sauvage looks back to Lyra as an infant carried through a great flood, while The Secret Commonwealth follows her grown and less certain into adulthood, with a concluding volume closing the arc. Around them sit slim companion books — Lyra's Oxford, Once Upon a Time in the North, Serpentine — and Nicholas Wright's stage adaptation, made with Pullman's blessing. The register is grave and luminous at once, its title lifted from Milton and its quarrel drawn from Blake: a story that takes the side of curiosity, love, and the physical world against any authority that would forbid them. It reads as adventure — armoured bears, aeronauts, knife-cut windows between skies — yet reasons like philosophy. Begin with Northern Lights / The Golden Compass and read the first trilogy through before turning to The Book of Dust, which deepens everything the first has already made you feel.
series3 books1990
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T. A. Barron links three standalone novels around a resourceful girl named Kate confronting environmental threats through fantastical means. In Heartlight, Kate and her inventor grandfather race across space to save a dying sun; in The Ancient One, she travels five centuries into the past to defend an old-growth forest from the destructive creature Gashra. The Merlin Effect completes the loosely connected set, published together as the omnibus The Heartlight Saga.