The Invention of Hugo Cabret
By Brian Selznick

Markus Selznick’s Hugo Cabret is a revolutionary blend of graphic novel and narrative.
Selznick’s original creation tells the story of a small boy growing up in France who stumbles across an automaton and embarks on a whirling adventure filled with secrets and buried history.
Selznick’s book spotlights not only the captivating story of Hugo Cabret, but also hundreds of hand drawn pencil sketches scattered throughout the novel help to carry the story along.
Although it was adapted into a screenplay, the story of Hugo Cabret on a film screen will never be able to capture the magical mysticism and intrigue buried within the pages of the printed Hugo Cabret.

The Name of this Book is Secret
By Pseudonymous Bosch

This story is a story about things that are secret. Things you were never supposed to know, in a book that you were never supposed to have stumbled upon; this, of course, makes it all the more fascinating and riveting to read. When the ever adventurous and daring Cass and the crafty and logical Max Earnest discover the Symphony of Smells, a box full of mysterious vials of odiferous liquids, they embark on a peculiar journey. Along the way, they encounter a diary, a dead magician, puzzles and mysteries, and they get swept up in the perpetual hunt for immortality.

The School of Fear
By Gitty Daneshvari

Madeleine Masterson is deathly afraid of spiders. Theodore Bartholemew is terrified of dying. Lulu Punchalower suffers from crippling claustrophobia. Garrison Feldman is scared of deep water.
Everyone has phobias; everyone’s scared of something, but for Madeleine, Theodore, Lulu and Garrison, their fears rule their lives. Armed with tool belts of bug spray, copious journals and crafty escape strategies, they proceed through life with a tentative foot, perpetually afraid of the dangers that might lurk around the next corner.
Desperate to help their children, the parents of these four twelve year-olds send them to a mysterious School of Fear run by a pretentious ex-beauty queen and a dog named Macaroni. The kids fight and battle their way through their terrors at the School of Fear, hoping to emerge cured, and alive.

The Mysterious Benedict Society
By Trenton Lee Stewart

Constance Contraire, Reynie Muldoon, and Sticky Washington are best friends. Constance is snarky and moody, Sticky is a walking encyclopedia, and Reynie is the rock that holds the three together. These aren’t just any children, mind you; they’ve come to live with Mr. Nicholas Benedict of the Benedict Society. They were chosen to come here.  They’ve been selected out of hundreds of applicants by passing a series of nearly impossible tests. These children are not just any children, they’re unique and possess unique qualities desired by many and held by few. But the children must be wary; envious villains are out to possess their unique traits and will stop at nothing to capture them.