Colorado Parks & Wildlife Research Library

Dangerous adventures continue for the djinni Bartimaeus and his master, seventeen-year-old Nathaniel, a powerful magician who is serving as England's minister of information.

No girls allowed at the Olympic games! That's the rule when the Magic Tree House whisks Jack and Annie back to ancient Greece. But when Annie tells Jack to go to the games without her, he knows she's up to something. Will Annie find a way to see the games? Or will she get herself - and Jack - into Olympic-size trouble?

Artemis Fowl creates an extraordinarily powerful computer with stolen fairy technology, but his business deal hopes go sour when a Chicago businessman steals his invention and mortally wounds Artemis's loyal bodyguard.

Stanley reveals yet another dimension of her talents in her second novel (after A Time Apart), here serving up a witty story that manages to be both light and satisfying. Fifth-grade narrator Franny Sharp, having just entered yet another new school, cements her friendship with the independent Beamer as the two notice how many of the other kids in the cafeteria are playing, riotously and continuously, with Jelly Worm candies. Franny sees the connection...

Young magician Gwyn and his friend Nia call upon the Snow Spider for help in unraveling the mystery surrounding Emlyn Llewelyn, an odd boy who claims his mother lives on the moon.

When Zack uses a magic box from Tibet to produce a duplicate of himself, he finds that he has created more problems than he has solved.

"Imagine a London where magic is real... real, but feared. This is Eliza Braxton's London, and she has always accepted her place in it gladly. As one of the Riftborn, her magic has relegated her to the servant class, where she dutifully serves as the lady's maid in one of the most powerful households in the country. There, she uses her remarkable powers of persuasion to keep Elder Hallewell's rebelious daughter in the path to an arranged match of...

Bilbo Baggins is a hobbit who enjoys a comfortable, unambitious life, rarely traveling any farther than his pantry or cellar. But his contentment is disturbed when the wizard Gandalf and a company of dwarves arrive on his doorstep one day to whisk him away on an adventure. They have launched a plot to raid the treasure hoard guarded by Smaug the Magnificent, a large and very dangerous dragon. Bilbo reluctantly joins their quest, unaware that on his...

Former "street rat" Briar Moss must face his past when he discovers a young mage in need of a mentor.

Mickle, once a common street urchin, now rules Westmark as the wise Queen Agusta. Yet the kingdom is strangely restless. Ghosts of the past lurk everwhere, whispering of future war. Justin and his revolutionaries denounces the monarchy -- even the benevolent Mickle. Cabbarus, banished from Westmark, plots to seize the throne and install a Reign of Terror. The past has returned to haunt the present, and Theo, once again, must join in the struggle....