Adventure Quest
Was your favorite part of Eragon the quest he had to go on and the peril and adventure he found along the way? Then these books are for you!
The Hobbit
by J.R.R. Tolkien Bilbo Baggins is a quiet and contented hobbit whose life is turned upside down when he joins the wizard Gandalf and thirteen dwarves on their quest to reclaim the dwarves' stolen treasure. It is a journey fraught with danger. In the end it is Bilbo alone who must face the guardian of this treasure, the most-dreaded dragon Smaug. |
The Lightning Thief
by Rick Riordan After Percy Jackson's pre-algebra teacher turned into a monster and tried to kill him, he has to go to Camp Half Blood, a summer camp for demigods. There he learns that the father he never knew is the Greek God Poseidon. After being accused of stealing Zues's lightning, Percy sets off on a quest with his friends across the United States to reach the gates of the Underworld and prevent a catastrophic war between the gods. |
The Thin Executioner
by Darren Shan Jebel Rum's family is honored as royalty because his father is the executioner. But Rashed Rum is near retirement and needs a successor that a contest will determine. Weak Jebel has no chance of winning so he sets out on a quest to the faraway home of a legendary fire god to beg for inhuman powers so that he can become the most lethal of men. He must take with him a slave, named Tel Hesani, to be sacrificed to the god. The pair's journey is fraught with lynch mobs, suicide cults, terrible monsters, and... monstrous men. |
Princeless
by Jeremy Whitley Princess Adrienne is tired of waiting to be rescued. That's why her parents locked her up in a tower, so she can be recued by a 'worthy enough' Prince and marry him. Instead, she decides to 'save' herself and sets off with the dragon meant to be gaurding her to rescue her six sisters who are also locked up in thier own towers. Her quest has just begun! |
Runemarks
by Joanne Harris In Maddy Smith’s world, order rules. Chaos, old gods, fairies, goblins, magic, and glamours were supposedly vanquished centuries ago. But Maddy knows that magic has survived. The “ruinmark” she was born with on her palm proves that. It's Maddy's destiny to set off on a quest to bring back the old gods... |