Tom Sawyer

This is a classic book by Mark Twain. The original is hard to understand and uses a lot of complicated words, but if you get the revised version for children, it's pretty good.The story is about a young boy named Tom who is very mischievous. He has a lot of adventures and get-rich-quick schemes that almost always end in disaster. The most memorable is when he and his homeless friend Huckleberry Finn went to the graveyard to look around. They were surprised by grave robbers, and immediately hid to watch them, thinking it was going to be fun. They ended up watching a man be murdered and another man framed by the killer. After swearing each other to secrecy, they went home to be plagued by nightmares. Eventually, Tom could stand the guilt no longer, and showed up at the courthouse to give his testimony. The killer was put behind bars. 

The Warrior Heir

   Jack, an average, unremarkable teenage boy. The Weir, a complex, bloodstained, magical world ruled by warring wizards that have enchanters, future tellers, sorcerers and warriors under their tyrannical thumbs. When these collide, sparks will fly, and neither will be the same again. As it turns out, Jack is not as unremarkable and average as he previously seemed. He is Weir who was born without a Weirstone, the thing that the Weir channel their powers from. There are different stones for different people, wizards have stones that make them wizards, enchanters have stones that make them enchanters and so on. After he was born, Jack began to die because Weir cannot live without a Weirstone; its like a human heart. A wizard was flown in to implant a wizard stone in him, because that's the stone that he was supposed to be born with. But wizards are tricky, devious people...
    Instead of a wizards stone, he was implanted with a warriors stone, because all the warriors have died out. Now this might seem like a good thing that wizard did (she saved a species, hurray!) but it's not. Remember the "warring wizards" I mentioned? Well, they don't actually fight each other. There are two sides, the White Roses and the Red Roses, who have secretly been at each others throats for the past one hundred years. Once a year, they come together to duke it out in a respected tournament that the wizards created as a peacemaker. The only issue is, they force two warriors, one representing each side, to fight to the death. They have no choice in the matter. Every other person involved in the Weir that isn't a wizard, is essentially thought of as wizards property. Like slaves, except that race is no factor.
    So Jack becomes a warrior even though he wasn't meant to. Now, he is forced to fight in the tournament being as he is one of the last warriors still living, as hundreds of years of this tournament as practically destroyed the warrior race. He rebels (of course) and so the wizards threaten his family and friends. What will Jack do to save his friends and stop the cruel injustice that the wizards carry out? You'll have to read the book to find out!

Dear America: Voyage on the Titanic

This was a short, yet vividly detailed book written in the form of a diary by a young, British orphan named Margaret Ann Brady. A tough, cheerful girl born in a warm but poor family, she fell victim to misfortune and eventually ended up at the Orphanage, a safe but chilly place. Margaret jumps at the chance to leave London and head to America on the Titanic as a companion to the fabulously wealthy Mrs. Carsilde. Once aboard the enormous ship, she quickly makes friends ranging from the esteemed designer of the ship, to one of the wealthiest men alive, to a handsome and friendly steward named Robert. The glitz and glamor of the rich dazzle Margaret as she resides in the luxurious first class alongside Mrs. Carsilde, but as she tells in her diary, the wonderful voyage soon turns disastrous... and not everyone will make it out alive.

Silverfin

Do you know James Bond? Great big action hero, smooth with the ladies and an extremely fashionable dresser? Yes, well this book (and the others that follow) are about his childhood. He had quite a few adventures then as well, from stopping kidnappings to solving murders. Silverfin is about his first adventure, which takes place in Bond's home country, England. More specifically, Eton, where James is enrolled in a boarding school since both of his parents are dead. A boy at school has a fabously wealthy father, but both of them look unnatural, too healthy and vibrant. They practically glow and the father has a gleam of craziness in his eye. When a new friend of James's (Red Kelly, an Irish thug) cousin goes missing after fishing near Loch Silverfin, where the boy and his father reside in a weathered, stone castle, James decides to (or rather, is forced to by Red Kelly's persistence) investigate. But what he finds he beyond human comprehension.  What he finds is the end to the world as we knew it and hello to the deadliest weapon of war that could ever be imagined. The old castle holds more secrets then it's cold outside lets on...