Twister on Tuesday

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Mary Pope Osborne

The magic tree house takes Jack and Annie to San Francisco in 1906, in time for them to experience one of the biggest earthquakes the United States had ever known.

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James Riley

Life is boring when you live in the real world, instead of starring in your own book series. Owen knows that better than anyone, what with the real world's homework and chores. But everything changes the day Owen sees the impossible happen -- his classmate Bethany climb out of a book in the library. It turns out Bethany's half-fictional and has been searching every book she can find for her missing father, a fictional character. Bethany can't let anyone else learn her secret, so Owen makes her a deal: All she has to do is take him into a book in Owen's favorite Kiel Gnomenfoot series, and he'll never say a word. Besides, visiting the book might help Bethany find her father. Or it might just destroy the Kiel Gnomenfoot series, reveal Bethany's secret to the entire world, and force Owen to live out Kiel Gnomenfoot's final (very final) adventure.

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K.A. Applegate

Official Summary: After what seemed like a lifetime of waiting, the Remnants are back on Earth -- for better or worse. Yago has taken control of Mother and stranded the Remnants along with their ruthless enemies the Riders and Meanies to keep them company. Meanwhile, Jobs discovers that Earth has some ‘remnants’ of its own humans who don’t know any world other than the new Earth. Will the survivors of the Rock help the remaining Remnants? Or does a new enemy lurk on the horizon? Back-of-Book Summary: The Remnants have rediscovered Earth. But it's definitely not the earth they left behind more than 500 years ago. It's not the earth that was almost completely destroyed by an asteroid. Everything that's left is in ruins, and there doesn't seem to be any water or food. Jobs, Mo'Steel, Billy, and the others have to try to find a way to make this wasteland into a home. They don't have a lot of supplies. . . . or time. And there are devastating storms that stir up intense winds -- and horrible dreams. Dreams that are almost real. What the Remnants don't know is there's something beneath the surface of the ravaged planet. Something they never could have imagined. And it could give Jobs and the others the chance they'd been hoping for. The chance to survive.

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Julia Golding

How do you catch an international treasure thief who can TRAVEL IN TIME? That's the fiendish challenge that faces Mel Foster, Eve Frankenstein and their friends when priceless items begin vanishing all over the world. The Mona Lisa ...Queen Victoria's Crown Jewels ...nothing is safe! But the next item on the thief's list is no diamond. It's Mel himself. Before Mel knows it he's been kidnapped and stranded in the past. He's back in time, and back in trouble! On Mel's second monstrously big adventure he encounters famous and unusual heroes, and more than a couple of villains: Quasimodo the Younger, Mowgli and his wolf pack, and a cheery young pickpocket by the name of the Artful Dodger.