Action and Adventure Chapter Books | Yavapai College Libraries

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Welcome to Nowhere, Arizona, the least livable town in the United States. For Gus, a bright 13-year-old with dreams of getting out and going to college, life there is made even worse by Bo Taylor, Nowhere's biggest, baddest bully. When Bo tries to force Gus to eat a dangerously spiny cactus, Rossi Scott, one of the best racers in Nowhere, comes to his rescue--but in return she has to give Bo her prized dirt bike. Determined to buy it back, Gus agrees...

2) The abominable snowman

Author

Montgomery, R. A

Series

Choose your own adventure volume 13

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Book - Large Print, Book - Mass Market Paperback, Book - Regular Print

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You and your best friend, Carlos, have traveled to Nepal in search of the Yeti. Carlos arrived three days before you and has not been heard from since. Do you search for him or strike out on your own? What do you make of the strange not he left for you? Could there be other dangers and other wonders in th ehigh peaks of the Himalayas? Choose Your Own Adventure, The aboninable snowman is an interactive adventure book in which you decide what happens...

3) The adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Author

Twain, Mark

Series

Saddleback classics

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Audiobook on CD, Book - Large Print, Book - Regular Print, eAudiobook, eBook

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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is essential to the understanding of the American soul. The recent discovery of the first half of Twain's manuscript, long thought lost, made front-page news. And this unprecedented edition, which contains for the first time omitted episodes and other variations present in the first half of the handwritten manuscript, as well as facsimile reproductions of thirty manuscript pages, is indispensable to a full understanding...

4) The apothecary

Author

Meloy, Maile

Series

Apothecary series volume 1

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Book - Regular Print, eAudiobook

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Follows a fourteen-year-old American girl whose life unexpectedly transforms when she moves to London in 1952 and gets swept up in a race to save the world from nuclear war.

5) The battle for the Emerald Buddha: Thailand

Author

Hunt, Elizabeth Singer

Series

Secret agents Jack & Max Stalwart volume 1

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"Meet Jack and Max Stalwart, Code Names: Courage and Wisdom. Jack and Max are ordinary kids who become secret agents by night, thwarting evil and saving priceless treasures as they solve mysteries around the world. Destination: Thailand. Temporarily retired from the GPF-Global Protection Force-and on family vacation, Jack Stalwart and his older brother, Max, are motivated to act when a band of thieves takes the Emerald Buddha from the Grand Palace...

6) The call of the wild

Author

London, Jack

Series

Scholastic classics

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Audiobook on CD, Book - Mass Market Paperback, Book - Regular Print, eAudiobook, eBook

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"Life is good for Buck in Santa Clara Valley, where he spends his days eating and sleeping in the golden sunshine. But one day a treacherous act of betrayal leads to his kidnap, and he is forced into a life of toil and danger. Dragged away to be a sledge dog in the harsh and freezing cold Yukon, Buck must fight for his survivial. Can he rise above his enemies and become the master of his realm once again?"--

7) Curse of the Night Witch

Author

Aster, Alex

Series

Emblem Island volume 1

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After changing the fate he has known since birth, twelve-year-old Tor Luna, accompanied by his friends Engle and Melda, must visit the notorious Night Witch to break the curse he now faces.

8) Danger Guys

Author

Abbott, Tony

Series

Danger Guys volume 3

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Book - Regular Print, Child - Beginning Reader

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While attending the grand opening of Danger Guy, an adventure store, Noodle and Zeek become involved with thieves who are looting an ancient temple and stealing its artifacts.

9) Daughter of the deep

Author

Riordan, Rick

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Book - Regular Print, eAudiobook

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In this story inspired by Jules Verne's "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea," Ana Dakkar, a freshman at Harding-Pencroft Academy, a five-year high school that graduates the best marine scientists, naval warriors, navigators, and underwater explorers in the world, makes astounding discoveries about her heritage and puts her leadership skills to the test against deadly enemies from a rival school.

10) Dog Squad

Author

Grabenstein, Chris

Series

Dog Squad volume 1

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"Fred, a scrappy and lovable dog, gets cast as a stand-in for the lead role in Dog Squad, a show about crime-fighting dogs, and he soon finds out the action doesn't always stop on screen"--

11) The explorer

Author

Rundell, Katherine

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Left stranded in the Amazon jungle when their plane crashes on their way back to England from Manaus, Brazil, four children struggle to survive for days until one of them finds a map that leads them to a ruined city and a secret hidden among the vines.

12) Framed

Author

Korman, Gordon

Series

Swindle mysteries volume 3

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Griffin Bing is in big trouble when a Super Bowl ring disappears from his middle school's display case, replaced by Griffin's retainer, and the more he and his friends investigate, the worse his situation becomes.

13) The Hobbit, or, There and back again

Author

Tolkien, J. R. R

Series

Lord of the rings

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Audiobook on CD, Book - Mass Market Paperback, Book - Regular Print, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle

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"The classic bestseller behind this year's biggest movie, this definitive paperback edition features nine illustrations and two maps drawn by J.R.R. Tolkien, and a preface by Christopher Tolkien. Bilbo Baggins is a hobbit who enjoys a comfortable, unambitious life, rarely traveling further than the pantry of his hobbit-hole in Bag End. But his contentment is disturbed when the wizard, Gandalf, and a company of thirteen dwarves arrive on his doorstep...

14) I survived the attacks of September 11, 2001

Author

Tarshis, Lauren

Series

I survived volume 6

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Book - Regular Print, eAudiobook, Playaway

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When Lucas decides to skip school because he wants to discuss football with a firefighter friend of his father, he finds himself caught up in the terrorist attacks on New York City.

15) Independence Hall

Author

Smith, Roland

Series

I, Q volume 1

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Book - Regular Print, eBook, Kindle

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"Step-siblings Q (Quest) and Angela are thrust into the work of the U.S. Secret Service and the Israeli Mossad when Angela realizes she's being followed, and Q learns the secret about Angela's real mother--a former Secret Service agent who was supposedly killed by a terrorist group. But who are the good guys and who are the bad guys"--Cover, P. [4].

16) Loki's wolves

Author

Armstrong, Kelley

Series

Blackwell pages volume 1

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Book - Regular Print, eAudiobook

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"Matt Thorsen is a direct descendent of the order-keeping god Thor, and his classmates Fen and Laurie Brekke are descendents of the trickster god Loki. When Ragnarok--the apocalypse--threatens, the human descendents of the gods must fight monsters to stop the end of the world."--

17) The magician's elephant

Author

DiCamillo, Kate

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When ten-year-old orphan Peter Augustus Duchene encounters a fortune teller in the marketplace one day and she tells him that his sister, who is presumed dead, is in fact alive, he embarks on a remarkable series of adventures as he desperately tries to find her.

18) Marina and the Kraken

Author

Magaziner, Lauren

Series

Mythics (Magaziner) volume 1

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Book - Regular Print, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle

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"It's Pairing Day in Terrafamiliar! Marina has been waiting for this moment--anxiously--for as long as she can remember. Because today's the day she gets to bond with her animal familiar for life, like every other ten-year-old in the land. Except after the ceremony ends, Marina doesn't have one. And she's not alone...four other girls also didn't get their animal companions. The leaders of Terrafamiliar realize something special is happening: Marina...

19) The maze of bones

Author

Riordan, Rick

Series

The 39 clues. Main series volume 1

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Audiobook on CD, Book - Regular Print, eAudiobook

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At the reading of their grandmother's will, Dan and Amy Cahill are given the choice of receiving a million dollars or uncovering the 39 clues hidden around the world that will lead to the source of the family's power, but by taking on the clues, they end up in a dangerous race against their own family members. Maze of bones is the first in a series of 10 books. The publisher offers an online game as well.

20) Minecraft

Author

Monster, Sfé R

Series

Minecraft

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Book - Graphic Novel, Book - Regular Print, eComic, Kindle

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"Tyler is your everyday kid whose life is changed when his family has to move from the town he's always known. Thankfully, Tyler has a strong group of friends forever linked in the world of Minecraft! Tyler, along with Evan, Candace, Tobi, and Grace have been going on countless adventures together across the Overworld and are in need of a challenge. They decide to go on the Ultimate Quest -- to travel to the End and face off against the ender dragon!"--...