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Action and Suspense for Tweens
Like adventure, action, and suspense in your books? Try one of these:
Found by Margaret Peterson Haddix
Stormbreaker by Anthony Horowitz
Theodosia Throckmorton and the Serpents of Chaos by R.L. LaFevers
Shipwreck by Gordon Korman
The city of Ember by Jeanne DuPrau
The maze of bones by Rick Riordan
I.Q. by Roland Smith
The 100-year-old secret by Tracy Barrett
The case of the missing marquess by Nancy Springer
Swindle by Gordon Korman