Tony DiTerlizzi & Holly Black
The Spiderwick Chronicles: The Ironwood Tree

First a pack of vile, smelly goblins snatch Simon. Then a band of elves tries to entrap Jared. Why is the entire faerie world so eager to get their hands on Spiderwick's Guide? And will the Grace children be left alone, now that the Guide has mysteriously disappeared? Don't count on it!

Book 4 in The Spiderwick Chronicles.

James Patterson
Maximum Ride: The Angel Experiment

From Death Valley, California, to the bowels of the New York subway system, you're about to take off on a heart-stopping adventure that will blow you away! Max, Fang, iggy, Nudge, and the Gasman must rescue Angel from malicious mutants, infiltrate a secret facility to track down the flock's missing parents, get revenge on an evil traitor - and save the world ... if there's time.

Neil Gaiman
The Graveyard Book

Nobody Owens is a perfectly normal boy - except that he lives in a graveyard, with a guardian who belongs to neither the world of the living nor the world of the dead. There are dangers and adventures for Bod in the graveyard - but it is in the land of the living that the real danger lurks, for it is there that the man Jack lives - and he has already killed Bod's family....

A fascinating story for older children.