

These jaw dropping titles are full of magic, mystery, adventure, and suspense. Can she send him back where he belongs, before it’s too late? Conclusion To save her family and possibly the whole world, she’ll have to learn fast how to harness the powerful magic that brought the emperor to life. Now, Meggie is forced to become one of the heroines she’s only read about in fantasy books. It seems that those words contained a dark power, and now an evil ruler has transcended the world of fiction and entered their reality, and their living room. He picks up a mysterious book called INKHEART and begins to read the words out loud, but something strange starts to happen.

When Meggie’s father offers to read her a story one night, she never expected what was coming next. The Fairy-Tale Detectives by Michael Buckley They have evil plans to create deadly nuclear weapons that could destroy millions of people, and now it’s down to Janie and Benjamin to save the day. But they’re not the only ones who need the Pharmacopoeia there’s a gang of Russian spies on their tail who are desperate to locate the book.

The book contains a wealth of ancient spells and magical potions, which they believe can bring Benjamin’s father back. Janie is transfixed by him he is defiant in the face of authority and declares that one day when he’s older, he’ll become a real-life spy.īut one day, Benjamin’s father suddenly disappears without a trace, and the two teens must join forces to solve the mystery of his disappearance, using a secret book called the Pharmacopoeia. She’s so miserable with her new situation that she decides to visit an apothecary in the hopes that they can concoct a cure for her homesickness.īut the apothecary brings her more than just a potion it’s there that she meets the fascinating Benjamin Burrows, the mysterious apothecary’s son. When 14 year old Janie Scott is forced to move to cold, dreary London with her family, she longs to go back to her old life in LA. Genres: Novel, Children's literature, Fantasy Fiction, Mystery, Bildungsroman.

