by Anna Holmes (2014)
"Emmet Brickowski was the most ordinary guy in the whole world. That is, until he found the Piece of Resistance! Now a group of rebels called the Master Builders want Emmet to use the Piece of Resistance to stop Lord Business from gluing the world together. Emmet isn't quite sure he has what it takes. But there's one thing Emmet is sure of: Today is going to be the most awesome day of his entire life."--Page 4 of cover. After finding the Piece of Resistance, Emmet is drafted into a group of rebels, the Master Builders. The rebels are on an epic quest to stop the evil Lord Business, a journey for which Emmet is hopelessly underprepared.
E. Nesbit
Matilda and her stern nursemaid accidentally pay a visit to a kingdom in which everything is constantly made topsy-turvy every time the Cockatoucan laughs, and so Matilda sets herself to putting things right once and for all.
Joe O'Brien
When Josh Bloom and his friends visit Cherry Tree Manor on a school trip what really interests the class is the mystery about the manor's owner, General Edgar Pennington, who disappeared exactly twelve years before. Everyone hopes to find a clue to where the general has gone. Then Josh discovers something in the manor library that sends him on an adventure of a lifetime - to the land beyond the cherry tree .-- pub. website.
Susan Cooper
His name is West. Her name is Cally. They speak different languages and come from different countries thousands of miles apart, but they do not know that. What they do know are the tragedies that took their parents, then wrenched the two of them out of reality, into a strange and perilous world through which they must travel together, knowing only that they must reach the sea. Together West and Cally embark upon a strange and sometimes terrifying quest, learning to survive and to love and, at last, the real secret of their journey.
Jane Langton
After a new neighbor begins cutting down all the trees in town, the Halls and their friends band together to protect the magical and mysterious tree that has sprouted overnight in their backyard.