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The Book of Dead Days is a fast-paced, gripping page-turner. The story takes place in the 18th century in a nameless European city. Valerian, a magician who performs magic tricks in a theater for a living, has a servant boy named Boy whom he took under his care from the streets several years...

The House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer is a seminal novel in the genres of both children’s literature and science fiction, for it deals with a very important and controversial subject in science: human cloning. Matt is a boy raised in isolation from all human contact except a doctor and a...

This is the sequel to the more widely-known children's science fiction novel The City of Ember by Jeanne Duprau. Although it may not be as popular, original and interesting as its predecessor, it is nonetheless a far greater novel than The City of Ember because it deals with a very profound...