Kenneth Oppel
1) Hatch
Author
Series
Overthrow volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Fans left desperate for more at the end of Bloom will dive into this second book of the Overthrow trilogy--where the danger mounts and alien creatures begin to hatch. First the rain brought seeds. Seeds that grew into alien plants that burrowed and strangled and fed. Seth, Anaya, and Petra are strangely immune to the plants' toxins and found a way to combat them. But just as they have their first success, the rain begins again. This rain brings eggs....
3) Half brother
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
In 1973, when a renowned Canadian behavioral psychologist pursues his latest research project--an experiment to determine whether chimpanzees can acquire advanced language skills--he brings home a baby chimp named Zan and asks his thirteen-year-old son to treat Zan like a little brother.
5) Starclimber
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Series
Language
English
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Description
As members of the first crew of astralnauts, Matt Cruse and Kate De Vries journey into outer space on the Starclimber and face a series of catastrophes that threaten the survival of all on board.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Formats
Description
For as long as he can remember, Paul has looked after his younger, weaker brother Sam. But when Sam leaves home to work as a research assistant in Watertown, he disappears into the dark folds of the city's noxious slum. When Paul goes looking for Sam in Watertown, he learns a dark secret: something in the water is changing the residents of Watertown, transforming them into something inhuman. But can Paul reach Sam before the dark waters get to
...7) Demi-Frère
Author
Series
Publisher
Québec Amérique
Pub. Date
2012
Language
Français
Description
Demi-frère a remporté, dans sa version originale anglaise, le prix de l'Association canadienne des bibliothèques (CLA), en 2010, à la fois dans les catégories Children et Young Adult. C'était la première fois qu'un même livre gagnait dans les deux catégories simultanément! Une option cinématographique et trois autres prix d'importance sont également venus couronner ce livre d'une grande profondeur psychologique.
Alors que la renommée
...8) Ghostlight
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Rebecca Strand was just sixteen when she and her father fell to their deaths from the top of the Gibraltar Point Lighthouse in 1839. Just how they fell--or were they pushed?--remains a mystery. And their ghosts haunt the lighthouse to this day. . . Gabe tells this story every day when he gives the ghost tour on Toronto Island. He tries to make it scary enough to satisfy the tourists, but he doesn't actually believe in ghosts--until he finds himself...
9) Skybreaker
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Matt Cruse, a student at the Airship Academy, and Kate de Vries, a young heiress, team up with a gypsy and a daring captain, to find a long-lost airship, rumored to carry a treasure beyond imagination.
10) The nest
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When wasps come to Steve in a dream offering to fix his sick baby brother, he thinks all he has to do is say yes. But yes may not mean what Steve thinks it means"--
11) Sunwing
Author
Series
Silverwing saga volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Continues the adventures of Shade, a young bat, as he searches for his father and struggles to prevent the evil jungle bat Goth from wiping out the sun.
12) Inkling
Author
Language
English
Description
The Rylance family is stuck. Dad's got writer's block. Ethan promised to illustrate a group project at school--even though he can't draw. Sarah's still pining for a puppy. And they all miss Mom. So much more than they can say. Enter Inkling. Inkling begins life in Mr. Rylance's sketchbook. But one night the ink of his drawings runs together--and then leaps off the page! This small burst of creativity is about to change everything. Ethan finds him...
13) Silverwing
Author
Series
Silverwing saga volume 1
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
When a newborn bat named Shade but sometimes called "Runt" becomes separated from his colony during migration, he grows in ways that prepare him for even greater journeys.
14) Firewing
Author
Series
Silverwing saga volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
Griffin, a young bat, is sucked into the "Underworld," and his father follows to rescue him.
15) Darkwing
Author
Series
Silverwing saga volume Prequel
Language
English
Formats
Description
Dusk, the world's first bat, must lead his colony to safety in a time of changing species.
16) Airborn
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Matt, a young cabin boy aboard an airship, and Kate, a wealthy young girl traveling with her chaperone, team up to search for the existence of mysterious winged creatures reportedly living hundreds of feet above the Earth's surface. Sailing toward dawn, and I was perched atop the crow's nest, being the ship's eyes. We were two nights out of Sydney, and there'd been no weather to speak of so far. I was keeping watch on a dark stack of nimbus clouds...
17) Silverwing
Author
Series
Silverwing saga volume 1
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
In this graphic novel edition of a best-selling story, young silverwing bat Shade is blown off course during his colony's migration to Hibernaculum, during which he meets other winged loners on his journey back to his family, but with a long and dangerous flight ahead, he must figure out who he can trust.
18) Bloom
Author
Series
Overthrow volume 1
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"The first book in a can't-put-it-down, can't-read-it-fast-enough action-thriller trilogy that's part Hatchet, part Little Shop of Horrors! The invasion begins--but not as you'd expect. It begins with rain. Rain that carries seeds. Seeds that sprout--overnight, everywhere. These new plants take over crop fields, twine up houses, burrow below streets. They bloom--and release toxic pollens. They bloom--and form venus-fly-trap like pods that swallow...
19) The Boundless
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Language
English
Description
Aboard "The Boundless," the greatest train ever built, on its maiden voyage across Canada, teenaged Will enlists the aid of a traveling circus to save the train from villains.