The Alchemyst: The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel

Michael Scott
Publisher: Delacorte Books for Young Readers

Sophie and Josh Newman think their summer jobs at a coffee shop and a bookshop across the street are just perfect. Then strange things start happening - goons show up at the bookstore and kidnap the owner's wife - the owner of the coffee shop - and they also get away with a book that has important meaning to Nick Flemming, the bookstore owner (aka Nicholas Flamel). Join Sophie and Josh on an incredible adventure full of magical powers and wondrous creatures.

Storm

E. L. Young

Publisher: Puffin/Penguin Young Readers Group

Will, Gaia, and Andrew are geniuses. Will invents gadgets no one has even thought of before. Gaia has a photographic memory and learns languages by reading about them. Andrew is a computer genuis who earned his first million by the time he was 10. The three of them set off on an adventure to save another genius from harming himself, and perhaps the world.