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Serenata: Through the Keyhole (Volume 1)
Serenata: Through the Keyhole
Sandra L Jacobs
There is a Golden place called SERENATA… Matthew loves exploring and desires to be one of the world’s greatest explorers. He reads about them and dreams about them. He doesn’t realize it, but his wish is about to come true. He would never have thought his dream of being an explorer would start in the hayloft of a barn. An adventurous 12 year old boy named Matt accidentally discovers a new friend, an alternate universe and some valuable lessons. His new friend Phil (not his real name) is a short tempered sarcastic control freak but also has a surprisingly soft side. Matt finds himself, though reluctantly, being the hero and is caught up in a magical place where time almost stands still. Serenata is a beautiful fun place full of very familiar things that have become unfamiliar. There is also the dark side that Matt contends with along with his new friend and an unexpected old friend. From castles to the darkest of caves, Serenata is a place full of beauty, color and light that will continue forever and never be forgotten. Serenata...Through The Keyhole is a children’s/young adult adventure story.

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The Grimalkin's Secret
The Grimalkin's Secret
Kara Komarnitsky
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8-13 year olds who like magic, action, a good mystery, and a surprise ending will enjoy this novel centered on three adventurous teenagers with special powers. Kya can use Reesk, or magic, with the will of her conscience. Eliza can change into any animal as long as she has seen it before. And Sebastian has an unexpected connection to a boy who just vanished into a painting at the local museum. The museum mystery quickly pulls the teenagers deeper into the world of magic than they have ever been before. They are in over their heads as they encounter new creatures and travel halfway across the world to try to save it.

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Monster Dreams The Liars Tongue
Monster Dreams The Liars Tongue [Kindle Edition]
J.L. Williams, Lilly Ann M.
Here's a story full of monsters and dragons, meet Keeyslor a young boy who's about to have the greatest dream of his life. Follow the Dream Walker through the door of light and into the world of Hydrotherian. Where Monsters and creatures of different sizes hide in the dark misty forest. Because of a lie he finds himself hunting down the unseen Darkendun Dragon with other monsters he will end up calling friends.There are delicacies to be had, such as the redheaded screamer, but be careful or you just might become lunch for something as small as a marble, Tangladons are not to be messed with. This fun filled story has something for everyone. Whether it's Pupils the three eyed purple money playing tricks or Boylee making wise cracks, you will laugh hard and marvel at the mystery of the Dream Walker. The first of a new great series, teaches young adults about life's little lessons in a fun, fast pace, adventure. The door is about to open. The only question left is. . . are you going to have a Monster Dream?

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Starchild: The Age of Akra
Starchild: The Age of Akra (Book #1)
Vacen Taylor
When Mai is chosen to take a pilgrimage to the Valley of a Thousand Thoughts to train with the oldest and wisest master of their people, an ancient prophecy is set in motion. The events to come have been predicted but are not unchangeable. When the Starchild returns to the planet of Sage, the foreknowledge of the prophecy begins to gain strength.Four children come together and become linked to the events that lie ahead. In The Age of Akra, the first stage of their journey has them facing the deadly spiderflax, only then to be confronted by a creature of the underworld, an evil Dementra called Amual.The struggle to bring peace to the world of powerful energies lies in the hands of these four children and a strange little lizard. And it will not come easy. This journey is only the beginning.

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Escapement (Steampunk): Book I (The Neumarian Chronicles 1)
Escapement (The Neumarian Chronicles)
* #1 Teen & Young Adult Paranormal Bestseller **#1 Amazon Bestselling Series**#1 Steampunk Amazon Bestseller**#3 Young Adult Amazon Bestseller** Teen & Young Adult Urban Fantasy Bestseller ** Teen & Young Adult Paranormal Romance Bestseller ** Teen & Young Adult Fantasy Romance Bestseller **Teen & Young Adult Science Fiction Bestseller*Ten years after the great war of 2185 the queen's reign is threatened by uprisings and fear. In celebration of my sixteenth birthday it is my duty as princess to sacrifice a slave to be initiated into the ruling council, solidifying my mother's empire. When my own erratic powers surface I'm captured and tried for treason. Slaves hate me, my mother wants me executed, and my only chance of survival rests in the hands of a young man, Ryder Arteres, whose sister I sentenced to death.

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The Epitaph of Jonas Barloff
The Epitaph of Jonas Barloff
Calvin Dean
Popular high school senior, Daniel Townsend, is dead – victim of a suspicious car crash. As classmates Marc and Angela investigate, a chance discovery pinpoints Daniel at a crumbling antebellum mansion – the old Jonas Barloff estate. The house looks uninhabitable. Haunted. Evil. While inspecting the Barloff family cemetery, Marc notices a towering grave marker with a perplexing inscription. What does the epitaph mean, and who is the old man claiming to be Jonas Barloff? To solve the mystery, Marc and Angela must comb through a phantom infested antebellum mansion. Witness a sordid grave exhumation. Attend a wicked, hair-raising séance. And learn the true identity of Jonas Barloff. Will any of these pieces of the puzzle help them lay the cozy mysteries to rest once and for all? Oh, no! Not hardly! Not until they come face-to-face with an evil no one could possibly imagine. Even if they live to tell the story, no one will believe them. Not in a million years.

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The Wee Musketeers (Bound Into The Classics) (Volume 1)
The Wee Musketeers
It was early 1960's and there wasn't much else for three eleven year old boys to do in the small town where they lived. Playing with wooden swords they would act out the novel, Bobby pretending to be Athos, Fritzy, Porthos and Keith, Aramis. But, since there was only three boys they had no D'Artagnan. How the boys longed for a D'Artagnan to complete their games. Little did they know that very book that inspired their games, the one Grandpa Max read to them often, was indeed magic. Given to him by a mysterious old woman at a book sale, Bobby's Grandfather quickly discovered he could transport himself into the stories. Once Grandpa Max realized he had interfered with the plot, unwittingly getting Athos, Porthos and Aramis captured by the cardinals guards to keep them from helping D'Artagnan, he summons Bobby and his friends to help him repair the damage. If they fail, every copy of The Three Musketeers would change forever.

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Disconnect: Book One of the Divided Worlds Trilogy
Disconnect: The Divided Worlds Trilogy #1
Dirtying fingernails in sewers is fast approaching worthlessness for Zachary, a 16-year old Underworld scavenger. When footage of an Overworld girl, Rosa, is discovered, his intrigue heightens at why she expresses sadness with a lavish lifestyle.In meeting Rosa, Zachary is scorned by her opinion of the deprived. She pities him and provides a means for them to communicate. With time, friendship and something he’s never felt grows; love for another human. Knowing Rosa calls him when it suits her isn’t enough; he wants to meet her, but how? Relationships in Underworld are few, let alone the impossibility with those above the ceiling.Underworld will suffer when plans to conquer Jupiter’s moon, Europa move ahead. Worse is Rosa’s father, a disgraced Overworld ambassador, approving the plan.Zachary must defeat the prejudice of the worlds, sneak within opposing forces, lose friends and challenge Rosa’s sadness. In doing so, a twisted secret is uncovered that may devour the reason he lives; Rosa.In space, love has boundaries.About the AuthorImran Siddiq may have tried to leave Leicester a few times, but its become his place to wake up to two cats, freeze when the heating’s off and most of all, get down to writing. During a night in the jungle (2007), the bug inside awakened, and since then he’s been sacrificing every second that he can to write. A veteran of writing festivals, a presence on Twitter and always reading to find new worlds. His preferred genre is Science Fiction in YA, though will meddle with fantasy. He has a tendency to throw a droid in every novel – literally.

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Wilf (Things Change Book 2)
WILF (Things Change)
Ruth Campbell
WILF is a serialized coming of age story, told in four volumes. Please visit www.wilf.us.com for more information.It’s the summer of 1943 and, in spite of their mutual dislike, young Brit Wilf and American teen Peggy are becoming a true team as they work together for the sake of the war effort.When the two become reluctant performers in a hospital show for wounded soldiers, they ask Arden Brown to join their act. Soon, Peggy finds herself thinking more about Arden and less about her boyfriend who’s fighting overseas.It’s still to early to tell how WILF’s story will end. But, in Volume Two, things are starting to change.

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Wilf (The Journey Begins Book 1)
WILF (The Journey Begins)
Ruth Campbell
WILF is a serialized coming of age story, told in four volumes. Please visit www.wilf.us.com for more information.It’s the summer of 1943 and World War II is raging all across the globe.While sixteen-year-old Peggy’s boyfriend is overseas, helping to protect England from Nazi air attacks, a young British boy named Wilf arrives in Pasadena to live with Peggy and her mother.Because she blames the English for putting her boyfriend’s life at risk, Peggy despises Wilf even before she meets him. In response, Wilf hates her right back.As Wilf adjusts to California and Peggy adjusts to Wilf, someone who has a secret crush on Peggy slowly becomes an important part of their lives. Before the summer ends, the bond that develops between the three will change each one’s future forever.But in this first volume their story’s just beginning.

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