Eoin Colfer
1) Artemis Fowl
Author
Series
Artemis Fowl series volume 2
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
When a twelve-year-old evil genius tries to restore his family fortune by capturing a fairy and demanding a ransom in gold, the fairies fight back with magic, technology, and a particularly nasty troll.
Author
Pub. Date
c2005
Edition
1st American ed.
Physical Desc
342 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
After his last run-in with the fairies, Artemis Fowl's mind was wiped of memories of the world belowground and any goodness grudgingly learned is now gone with the young genius reverting to his criminal lifestyle. Artemis has no memory of the fairy people and has returned to his unlawful ways. In Berlin, he is preparing to steal a famous Impressionist painting from a German bank. He doesn't know that his old rival, Opal, has escaped from prison by...
Author
Publisher
Hyperion Books For Children
Pub. Date
c2002
Edition
1st American ed.
Physical Desc
viii, 277 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Artemis is at boarding school in Ireland when he receives an urgent video e-mail from Russia. In it is a plea from a man who has been kidnapped by the Russian Mafiya -- a man Artemis had thought he would never see again: his beloved father. As Artemis rushes to his rescue, he is stopped by a familiar nemesis, Captain Holly Short of the LEPrecon fairy police. But this time, instead of battling the fairies, he is going to have to join forces with them...
Author
Publisher
Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
First American edition
Physical Desc
391 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Artemis's mother has contracted a deadly disease -- and the only cure lies in the brain fluid of African lemurs. Unfortunately, Artemis himself was responsible for making the lemurs extinct five years ago. Now he must enlist the aid of his fairy friends to travel back in time and save them. Not only that, but he must face his deadliest foe yet... his younger self.
Author
Series
Artemis Fowl series volume 3
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
309 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Artemis Fowl creates an extraordinarily powerful computer with stolen fairy technology, but his business deal hopes go sour when a Chicago businessman steals his invention and mortally wounds Artemis's loyal bodyguard.
Author
Series
Artemis Fowl series volume 5
Language
English
Description
When demons begin appearing on Earth unpredictably, foreshadowing a cataclysmic breakdown of their magic, Artemis and his friends face a new foe--a twelve-year-old girl whose intellect just might match Artemis's own--as they try to prevent catastrophe.
7) Illegal
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Ebo is alone. His brother, Kwame, has disappeared, and Ebo knows it can only be to attempt the hazardous journey to Europe, and a better life, the same journey their sister set out on months ago. But Ebo refuses to be left behind in Ghana. He sets out after Kwame and joins him on the quest to reach Europe. Ebo's epic journey takes him across the Sahara Desert to the dangerous streets of Tripoli, and finally out to the merciless sea. But with every...
Author
Series
Publisher
Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
c2007
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : chiefly col. ill. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
A graphic novel adaptation of Eoin Colfer's novel in which a twelve-year-old evil genius tries to restore his family fortune by capturing a fairy and demanding a ransom in gold; but the fairies fight back with magic, technology, and a particularly nasty troll.
Author
Series
Artemis Fowl series volume 1
Publisher
Disney/Hyperion Books
Pub. Date
[2010]
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
357 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Teenaged criminal mastermind Artemis Fowl must save the underwater fairy metropolis of Atlantis from danger, while battling a psychological affliction known as the Atlantis Complex.
Author
Publisher
HarperPerennial
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
373 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"In the days of yore, he flew the skies and scorched angry mobs--now he hides from swamp tour boats and rises only with the greatest reluctance from his Laz-Z-Boy recliner. Laying low in the bayou, this once-magnificent fire breather has been reduced to lighting Marlboros with nose sparks, swilling Absolut in a Flashdance T-shirt, and binging Netflix in a fishing shack. For centuries, he struck fear in hearts far and wide as Wyvern, Lord Highfire...
Author
Series
Publisher
Disney Hyperion Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
.
Language
English
Description
After his last run-in with the fairies, Artemis Fowl's mind was wiped of memories of the world belowground and any goodness grudgingly learned is now gone with the young genius reverting to his criminal lifestyle.
12) Global
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Young Readers
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged ) : color illustrations ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
Told in alternating voices, twelve-year-old Sami, from a village along the Bay of Bengal, and fourteen-year-old Yuki, from Northern Canada, strive to protect their homes from the encroaching damage brought on by climate change.
13) The gauntlet
Author
Publisher
Marvel
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
273 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Tony Stark is known throughout the world as many things: billionaire, inventor, Avenger. But mainly for being the Invincible Iron Man. Just when Tony is about to add his pizzazz to an international eco-summit in Ireland, someone close to him forces him to question his role in making the world a more dangerous place with his high-tech weaponry. But Stark doesn't have much time to reflect before an old enemy presents him with an even greater challenge:...
Author
Series
Hitchhiker series volume 6
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
viii, 275 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
15) Artemis Fowl
Author
Publisher
Mondadori
Pub. Date
c2001
Physical Desc
283 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
Italiano
Description
When a twelve-year-old evil genius tries to restore his family fortune by capturing a fairy and demanding a ransom in gold, the fairies fight back with magic, technology, and a particularly nasty troll.
Author
Series
Publisher
Disney Hyperion
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
A full-color graphic novel adaptation in which thirteen-year-old criminal mastermind Artemis Fowl must join forces with his nemesis, Captain Holly Short of the LEPrecon fairy police, in order to save his father--one of the few people in the world Artemis loves--who has been kidnapped by the Russian Mafiya.