Books for young readers

Half Moon Investigations by Eoin Colfer

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Audience: 9 and up
Rating: B+
Synopsis:
Fletcher “Half” Moon is a pint-sized student with grown up powers of investigation. He graduated top of his class in his online detective school and has an authentic detective’s badge. Now if only people would take him seriously. [...]

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Valiant by Holly Black

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Audience: Young Adult
Rating: A-
Synopsis:
This book, like the first in the series, is not the type of fairy tale your little sister hears at bedtime. This is a much edgier, darker story where magic is injected like heroin and power and loyalties are traded constantly. [...]

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The Sea of Trolls by Nancy Farmer

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Audience: Elementary and Up
Rating: B+
Synopsis:
Jack and his family live in a Saxon Village where his father is a simple farmer and his life seems ordinary and boring. This changes when the Bard chooses Jack to be his apprentice and begins to teach him magic. [...]

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