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Author
Series
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
1989, c1988
Description
The riveting #1 international bestselling novel about the quest across centuries by two intrepid women in different eras to reunite the pieces of a powerful, ancient chess set A fabulous, bejeweled chess set that belonged to Charlemagne has been buried in a Pyrenees abbey for a thousand years. As the bloody French Revolution rages in Paris, the nuns dig it up and scatter its pieces across the globe because, when united, the set contains a secret...
Author
Series
Kingdom Keepers the return volume 2
Publisher
Disney Hyperion
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 11
Description
When five present-day teenagers known as the Kingdom Keepers travel back to 1955 for Disneyland's Opening Day, the early days of the Tower of Terror, the origin of the Overtakers, and the real power of magic unfold in an unexpected series of events that propels the Keepers into a darkness no one saw coming.
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 23
Description
Days after Oasis founder James Halliday's contest, Wade Watts makes a discovery that changes everything. Hidden within Halliday's vault, waiting for his heir to find, lies a technological advancement that will once again change the world and make the Oasis a thousand times more wondrous, and addictive, than even Wade dreamed possible. With it comes a new riddle and a new quest. A last Easter egg from Halliday, hinting at a mysterious prize. And an...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 23
Description
"An exuberantly realized, exciting, and sweet-natured cyber-quest. Cline's imaginative and rollicking coming-of-age geek saga has a smash-hit vibe."--Booklist, starred review
"Ready Player One takes place in the not-so-distant future--the world has turned into a very bleak place, but luckily there is OASIS, a virtual reality world that is a vast online utopia. People can plug into OASIS to play, go to school, earn money, and even meet other people...
Author
Series
The inheritance games volume 1
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 13
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Description
When a Connecticut teenager inherits vast wealth and an eccentric estate from the richest man in Texas, she must also live with his surviving family and solve a series of puzzles to discover how she earned her inheritance.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 7
Formats
Description
Sam (a puzzle master) and Martina (a history whiz) become involved in a dangerous quest to find seven keys left behind by Benjamin Franklin and a secret society of descendants, which, when gathered together, unlock a powerful weapon, so the middle schoolers must solve the puzzles, find the artifacts before the bad guy does, and save the nation.
Author
Series
(Jennifer Lynn).Inheritance games volume 02
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 12
Description
Rumors spread that Tobias Hawthorne's lost son may still be alive, casting doubt on seventeen-year-old Avery's inheritance and changing the rules of the game.
Thanks to a DNA test, Avery Grambs knows that she is not a Hawthorne by blood, but clues pile up hinting at a deeper connection to the family than she had ever imagined. Grayson and Jameson, the enigmatic and magnetic Hawthorne grandsons, continue to pull Avery in different directions. Tobias...
10) Floors
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 8
Formats
Description
Ten-year-old Leo's future and the fate of the extraordinary Whippet Hotel, where his father is the maintenance man, are at stake when a series of cryptic boxes leads Leo to hidden floors, strange puzzles, and unexpected alliances.
11) A box of bones
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 7
Description
After receiving a wooden puzzle box at a town festival, twelve-year-old Kallie figures out how to open the box and finds that her fate seems to be connected to a young bone carver from another time.
16) The final gambit
Author
Series
Inheritance games(Jennifer Lynn) volume 3
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 13
Description
Avery's fortune, life, and loves are on the line in the game that everyone will be talking about. To inherit billions, all Avery Kylie Grambs has to do is survive a few more weeks living in Hawthorne House. The paparazzi are dogging her every step. Financial pressures are building. Danger is a fact of life. And the only thing getting Avery through it all is the Hawthorne brothers. Her life is intertwined with theirs. She knows their secrets, and...
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 7
Description
Leo and Remi have gotten used to the strangeness of the Whippet Hotel, but when the entire top floor is hoisted into the sky and transported to the field of wacky inventions, they find that they must compete against a number of foes to solve a puzzle or lose their beloved hotel forever.
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Formats
Description
"All the world is a puzzle, and Mike Brink--a celebrated and ingenious puzzle constructor--understands its patterns like no one else. Once a promising Midwestern football star, Brink was transformed by a traumatic brain injury that caused a rare medical condition: Acquired Savant Syndrome. The injury left him with a mental superpower--he can solve puzzles, calculate equations, and see patterns in ways ordinary people can't. But his condition has also...
Author
Series
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 7
Description
"Seeking the third key, middle school geniuses Sam, Martina, and Theo must navigate New York City following clues related to Alexander Hamilton, solving--and surviving--puzzles and traps along the way."--
Author
Series
Puzzling world of Winston Breen volume 3
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 8
Description
Winston attends a weekend of puzzles at a famous musician's mansion, but when he and other young guests pursue a thief, they find themselves in big trouble. Puzzles for the reader to solve are included throughout the text.
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