Kenneth Oppel
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When his twin brother falls ill in the family's chateau in the independent republic of Geneva in the eighteenth century, sixteen-year-old Victor Frankenstein embarks on a dangerous and uncertain quest to create the forbidden Elixir of Life described in an ancient text in the family's secret Biblioteka Obscura.
22) Firewing
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Griffin, a young bat, is sucked into the "Underworld," and his father follows to rescue him.