Ridley Pearson
1) The Academy
Author
Series
Publisher
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Formats
Description
Steven "Steel" Trapp has been placed in an East Coast boarding school for gifted kids by his FBI agent father. He soon discovers that there's a clubby element of the faculty and upper classmen that is very secretive and protective. To his surprise, his friend Kaileigh arrives at the school, and it isn't long before the two realize that this is not your normal boarding school. It seems a select few students are recruited, while still minors, to serve...
Author
Series
Publisher
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this riveting thriller, 14-year-old Steven "Steel" Trapp sets off with his mom and their dog, Cairo, on a 2-day Amtrak journey to compete in the National Science Competition in Washington, DC. Steel is both blessed and cursed with a remarkable photographic memory—just one look and whatever he sees is imprinted for keeps. Trying to be a good Samaritan on the train, he instead becomes embroiled in an ingenious, international plot of kidnapping...
Author
Publisher
Hachette Books
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Formats
Description
Can Detective Joe "Dart" Dartelli uncover the truth? Or, more importantly, does he dare?
Detective Joe "Dart" Dartelli made one critical mistake in his police career: He chose to ignore a piece of evidence in a case labeled a suicide that might have been a murder. The dead man was himself a vicious woman-killer who more than deserved his fate, but that ignored evidence pointed to Dart's former mentor, the brilliant forensic specialist...
Detective Joe "Dart" Dartelli made one critical mistake in his police career: He chose to ignore a piece of evidence in a case labeled a suicide that might have been a murder. The dead man was himself a vicious woman-killer who more than deserved his fate, but that ignored evidence pointed to Dart's former mentor, the brilliant forensic specialist...
Author
Series
Kingdom Keepers volume 1
Publisher
Disney/Hyperion Books
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Finn Whitman and his fellow DHIs, teenagers chosen to serve as actors for a new technology, investigate strange occurrences at Disney theme park attractions, racing to uncover a supernatural force that could destroy the world.
Author
Series
Publisher
Disney Book Group
Language
English
Description
Finn, Philby, Willa, Charlene, and Maybeck search to find Wayne, their mentor and head Imagineer who has mysteriously gone missing. Concerned Wayne has been abducted by the Overtakers—Disney villains, who along with other Disney characters, take over the parks when the turnstiles stop spinning, and want desperately to steer the parks to a far darker place—the five kids pick up a major clue from a close friend, Jess, whose dreams (nightmares, really)...
6) Power Play
Author
Series
Kingdom Keepers volume 4
Publisher
Disney/Hyperion Books
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
When a group of Disney villains known as the Overtakers threaten to release two of their leaders from Disney captivity, the five teens of the Kingdom Keepers must work together to protect the Disney magic and keep the evil locked up.
7) Shell game
Author
Series
Kingdom Keepers volume 5
Publisher
Disney/Hyperion Books
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
The Kingdom Keepers have their hands full when, during the inaugural cruise of the Disney ship, Fantasy, to exotic locations, they discover that the Overtakers have infiltrated the cast, stolen a journal that belonged to Walt Disney himself, and plan to unleash a powerful evil, the Chernabog.
8) The insider
Author
Series
Kingdom Keepers volume 7
Publisher
Disney/Hyperion Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Deception and betrayal rock the Kingdom Keepers as the merciless group of Disney villains known as the Overtakers stage an unexpected comeback. But a discovery by the Keepers provides them with one hope of victory: a lost icon.
10) Disney at last
Author
Series
Kingdom Keepers novel the return volume 3
Publisher
Disney Hyperion
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"The stakes are high--both for the past and the future. The finale of The Return series leaves the Kingdom Keepers with unimaginable choices to make"--
11) Disney lands
Author
Series
Kingdom Keepers novel the return volume 1
Publisher
Disney-Hyperion
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"With the defeat of the Overtakers behind them, the five teenagers known as the Kingdom Keepers should be celebrating. By all accounts they saved Disneyland from certain destruction. Why then did their mentor leave one last puzzle for them to decipher? The Keepers must solve a puzzle of the past, or be crushed under an evil that makes the Overtakers seem like gentle souls"--
Author
Series
A Kingdom Keepers novel the return volume 2
Publisher
Disney/Hyperion
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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.
13) Dark passage
Author
Series
Kingdom Keepers volume 6
Publisher
Disney Hyperion
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
The Kingdom keepers and their friends discover that Maleficent and the Overtakers are plotting a catastrophic event that could have repercussions far beyond the world of Disney unless they solve a puzzle that is revealed during the Disney Cruise Line's inaugural passage through the Panama Canal.
14) The initiation
Author
Series
Publisher
Harper, an inprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Before James grew up to be a ruthless, remorseless villain, he was a curious boy from Boston, with a penchant for trouble and an acid tongue. Thrown into a boarding school against his wishes, James winds up rooming with a most unlikely companion: a lanky British know-it-all named Sherlock Holmes ("Lock" to his friends). An heirloom Bible, donated by the Moriarty family more than a hundred years ago, has gone missing, and it doesn't take long for the...
15) Disney in shadow
Author
Series
Kingdom Keepers volume 3
Publisher
Disney/Hyperion Books
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
When Wayne, the head Imagineer, goes missing, the kids get clues from their friend Jess that will lead them into Disney's Hollywood Studios and Epcot.
16) Disney at dawn
Author
Series
Kingdom Keepers volume 2
Publisher
Disney Editions
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
It's supposed to be a happy day at the Magic Kingdom -- the teenage holographic hosts have returned. But things go wrong when a sudden lightning storm disrupts the celebration, and Amanda's mysterious sister Jez, disappears.The only clue is the sighting of a wild monkey in the Magic Kingdom during the storm. The mystery deepens when Finn is contacted by Wayne, an old man he hasn't heard from in months. Wayne tells Finn that there 's trouble at the...
Author
Publisher
DC Zoom
Pub. Date
20190402
Language
English
Description
The "New York Times"-bestselling author of "Peter and the Starcatchers" delivers the first in an epic new graphic novel series that follows the Super Sons of Superman and Batman as they struggle to find their place in a rapidly changing world.
18) The final step
Author
Series
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Before James Moriarty and his sister Moria enrolled in Baskerville Academy, they were inseparable--as close to best friends as a brother and sister could be. But since setting foot on the boarding school's campus, James has been different. At Baskerville, he's become cunning, deceptive, ruthless, sometimes reckless. And now that his roommate Sherlock Holmes has been expelled, there's no one left to help Moira figure out what's going on with her brother...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
20171010
Language
English
Description
"New York Times"-bestselling author Pearson delivers the second riveting tale in this trilogy, the reimagined origin story of the rivalry between Sherlock Holmes and James Moriarty told from the perspective of James's observant little sister, Moira.
Author
Series
Starcatchers volume 2
Publisher
Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
2007.
Lexile measure
780L
Language
English
Description
Peter must visit London to help his friend Molly and her family of starcatchers locate the missing starstuff, leaving the boys on Mollusk Island at the mercy of Hook.