Swashbuckling Fantasy: 10 Thrilling Tales of Magical Adventure [NOOK Book]

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SWASHBUCKLING FANTASY features excerpts from 10 series by bestselling and critically acclaimed authors such as Margaret Petersen Haddix, author of the Shadow Children series, D.J. MacHale, author of the Pendragon series, Scott Westerfeld, author of Uglies and Holly Black, author of Valiant. This online sampler also highlights six debut series from rising stars in fantasy, including Kai Meyer, Jane Johnson and Obert Skye. This fantasy sampler is the perfect way to introduce middle grade through teen readers to ...
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Swashbuckling Fantasy: 10 Thrilling Tales of Magical Adventure

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Overview


SWASHBUCKLING FANTASY features excerpts from 10 series by bestselling and critically acclaimed authors such as Margaret Petersen Haddix, author of the Shadow Children series, D.J. MacHale, author of the Pendragon series, Scott Westerfeld, author of Uglies and Holly Black, author of Valiant. This online sampler also highlights six debut series from rising stars in fantasy, including Kai Meyer, Jane Johnson and Obert Skye. This fantasy sampler is the perfect way to introduce middle grade through teen readers to alternate worlds, distant pasts and fantastic creatures!

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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781416933823
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers
  • Publication date: 5/12/2006
  • Sold by: Simon & Schuster
  • Format: eBook
  • Edition description: Original
  • Pages: 349
  • Age range: 8 - 12 Years
  • File size: 6 MB

Meet the Author


Margaret Peterson Haddix is the author of many critically and popularly acclaimed YA and middle grade novels, including The Missing series and the Shadow Children series. A graduate of Miami University (of Ohio), she worked for several years as a reporter for The Indianapolis News. She also taught at the Danville (Illinois) Area Community College. She lives with her family in Columbus, Ohio. Visit her at HaddixBooks.com.


Obert Skye was born on a stormy night in the back of a fast-moving taxi. Obert spends his time telling all who will listen about the existence of Foo and the importance of dreams. Obert is a fairly ordinary fellow who says he is simply hoping to repair what he has mistakenly undone. You can visit him online at leventhumps.com.


Alan Snow is a well-known author and illustrator of children’s books and has also worked in many fields of design and animation. He has written two novels, Here Be Monsters! and Worse Things Happen at Sea!, both set in the wonderfully weird world of Ratbridge. He lives in Bath, England.


Anne Ursu is the author of The Shadow Thieves, The Siren Song, and The Immortal Fire, all books in the Cronus Chronicles series. She has also written novels for adults. Anne teaches at Hamline University's Masters of Fine Arts in Writing for Children for Young Adults. She lives in Minneapolis with her son and cats.


Jane Johnson is the director of HarperCollins UK's fantasy and

science fiction list and for many years was the publisher of J. R. R.

Tolkien's work. While she has written adult novels as both Gabriel King

and Jude Fischer, the Eidolon Chronicles is her first series for

children. Ms. Johnson lives in London and Morocco. Visit Ms. Johnson at

her website, janejohnson.eu.


Kai Meyer is the author of many highly acclaimed and popular books for adults and young adults in his native Germany. Pirate Curse, the first book in the Wave Walkers trilogy, was praised by Booklist as "a fast-paced fantasy featuring plenty of action and suspense." The Water Mirror, the first book in the Dark Reflections Trilogy, was named a School Library Journal Best Book, a Locus Magazine Recommended Read, a Book Sense Children's Pick, and a New York Public Library Book for the Teen Age. It received starred reviews in both School Library Journal and Publishers Weekly. School Library Journal has called Meyer "an expert at creating fantastical worlds filled with unusual and exotic elements." For more information please visit his website at kaimeyer.com.

Linda Buckley-Archer is the author of the critically acclaimed Gideon trilogy. Originally trained as a linguist, she is now a full-time novelist and scriptwriter. She has written a television drama for the BBC and several radio dramas, as well as various journalistic pieces for papers like the Independent. The Gideon Trilogy was inspired by the criminal underworld of eighteenth-century London.


D.J. MacHale is the author of the #1 New York Times bestselling Pendragon series and the Morpheus Road series. He has written, directed and produced many television series and movies for young people that have been seen on Nickelodeon, The Disney Channel, HBO, Showtime, PBS, Discovery Kids, and the broadcast networks. D.J. lives with his family in Southern California.


Scott Westerfeld is the author of the Leviathan series, the first book of which was the winner of the 2010 Locus Award for Best Young Adult Fiction. His other novels include the New York Times bestselling Uglies series, The Last Days, Peeps, So Yesterday, and the Midnighters trilogy. Visit him at ScottWesterfeld.com or follow him on Twitter at @ScottWesterfeld.


Holly Black is the author of bestselling contemporary fantasy books for kids and teens. Some of her titles include The Spiderwick Chronicles (with Tony DiTerlizzi), The Modern Faerie Tale series, The Good Neighbors graphic novel trilogy (with Ted Naifeh), the Curse Workers series, and her new ghostly middle grade novel, Doll Bones. She has been a finalist for the Mythopoeic Award, a finalist for an Eisner Award, and the recipient of the Andre Norton Award. She currently lives in New England with her husband, Theo, in a house with a secret door. Visit her at BlackHolly.com.

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Customer Reviews

Average Rating 3.5
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  • Posted Sat Feb 05 00:00:00 EST 2011

    only samples

    this only contains one chapter of a book

    21 out of 27 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted Mon Mar 28 00:00:00 EDT 2011

    Strange Collection

    I loved one of the short excerpts, but could not figure out where/how to get the full book! What is the point??

    10 out of 14 people found this review helpful.

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  • Posted Sun Apr 17 00:00:00 EDT 2011

    read the title!

    it does say its a sampler :)

    5 out of 7 people found this review helpful.

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  • Posted Tue Sep 06 00:00:00 EDT 2011

    I expected it to be different.

    THis isn't actually a novel, it's a collection of samples from a lot of books. On the plus side, it shows you some pretty neat books, but it cuts them off at exciting parts and has you go buy them. Overall, the stories it tells are pertty good.

    2 out of 4 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted Thu Dec 27 00:00:00 EST 2012

    Jimmy

    So Bad & Good

    1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted Tue Jan 03 00:00:00 EST 2012

    Love

    Love it

    1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

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  • Posted Sat Oct 22 00:00:00 EDT 2011

    Free

    Is for freeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

    1 out of 9 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted Wed Mar 06 00:00:00 EST 2013

    Should I......

    Should i get this book or is it to boring and is a book worth skipping out on.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted Thu Feb 21 00:00:00 EST 2013

    Eeh

    Great idea to give people a little peak at these books but they probably should have used more exciting chapters.

    The only one i actually ended up reading was leven thumps by oberg skye. Thatbook was actually goid and i read he reest of the series (books 2-5 were better than the first)

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  • Anonymous

    Posted Fri Dec 28 00:00:00 EST 2012

    BORING

    BORING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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  • Anonymous

    Posted Mon Nov 26 00:00:00 EST 2012

    BORING

    I know that this was a sampler book and that only parts of each book were shown buttttt. If your going tp show a book this way you should at least show sections that would peaks one interest too get you to buy it. I had to make myself finish this sampler, and i love to read . I have read 132 books this year and sorry to say there is not one book in here that i would purchase.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted Wed Jun 06 00:00:00 EDT 2012

    ?????????

    What books are in it??????

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  • Anonymous

    Posted Thu May 03 00:00:00 EDT 2012

    READ THIS ALL PEOPLE

    If you write a reveiw write about the book. Dont write something totally randomly stupid. So read the book and write the reveiw about the book. Writing random crap makes you look

    0 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted Fri Apr 20 00:00:00 EDT 2012

    Windimar

    Whats up?

    0 out of 3 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted Fri Apr 20 00:00:00 EDT 2012

    Wavrn

    Watches and cleans his bow"

    0 out of 3 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted Sun May 06 00:00:00 EDT 2012

    Angel

    Gotex?

    0 out of 2 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted Sun Apr 08 00:00:00 EDT 2012

    Ohhhhhhh i get it

    It is a bunch of samples of books reccomended grades?????????

    0 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted Sun Mar 25 00:00:00 EDT 2012

    What

    What is it about i was looking and it didnt really say

    0 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted Fri Mar 02 00:00:00 EST 2012

    great stuff

    these are great little encapsulations, gives me new authors to want to follow

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  • Anonymous

    Posted Fri Feb 24 00:00:00 EST 2012

    Book

    If u r given the chance to comment , comment on the book do not say random stuff it is annoying

    0 out of 2 people found this review helpful.

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