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Story Thieves
James Riley - Aladdin
Format: Hardcover
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A hilarious, action-packed New York Times bestselling series launches with a story-within-a-story, from the author of the Half Upon a Time trilogy.Life is boring when you live in the real world, instead of starring in your own book series. Owen knows that better than anyone, what... |
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The Book of Storms
Ruth Hatfield - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover
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Eleven-year-old Danny O'Neill has never been what you'd call adventurous. But when he wakes the morning after a storm to find his house empty, his parents gone, and himself able to hear the thoughts of a dying tree, he has no choice but to set out to find answers. He soon learns that the enigmatic... |
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The Book of Storms
Ruth Hatfield - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover
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Eleven-year-old Danny O'Neill has never been what you'd call adventurous. But when he wakes the morning after a storm to find his house empty, his parents gone, and himself able to hear the thoughts of a dying tree, he has no choice but to set out to find answers. He soon learns that the enigmatic... |
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A Dragon's Guide to the Care and Feeding of Humans
Laurence Yep - Crown Books for Young Readers
Format: Book
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Crusty dragon Miss Drake has a new pet human, precocious Winnie. Oddly enough, Winnie seems to think Miss Drake is her pet - a ridiculous notion!
Unknown to most of its inhabitants, the City by the Bay is home to many mysterious and fantastic creatures, hidden beneath the parks,... |
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Genuine Sweet
Faith Harkey - Clarion Books
Format: Hardcover
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Twelve-year-old Genuine Sweet, of tiny Sass, Georgia, can grant any wish . . . except her own. It's a peculiar predicament, considering how much she could use a few wishes. New friends help Genuine give her family a boost - and then she takes her gift global! Life finally seems to be on the mend.... |
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Genuine Sweet
Faith Harkey - Clarion Books
Format: Hardcover
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Twelve-year-old Genuine Sweet, of tiny Sass, Georgia, can grant any wish . . . except her own. It's a peculiar predicament, considering how much she could use a few wishes. New friends help Genuine give her family a boost - and then she takes her gift global! Life finally seems to be on the mend.... |
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Stolen Magic
Gail Carson Levine - HarperCollins
Format: Book
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Elodie, the dragon detective Meenore, and the kindly ogre Count Jonty Um are all on their way to Elodie's home island of Lahnt.
Elodie has barely set foot on land before she learns that the Replica, a statue that keeps her island's deadly volcano from erupting, has been stolen!... |
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Pip Bartlett's Guide to Magical Creatures
Jackson Pearce - Scholastic Press
Format: Book
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Here's a list of things Pip Bartlett can talk to:
Unicorns
Miniature Silky Griffins
Bitterflunks
Basically, all magical creatures
Here's a list of things she can't talk to (at least, not very well) :
Parents
Teachers
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The Jumbies
Tracey Baptiste - Algonquin Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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The jumbies are coming! Corinne La Mer isn't afraid of anything. Not scorpions, not the boys who tease her, and certainly not jumbies. She knows that jumbies aren't real; they're just creatures parents make up to frighten their children. But on All Hallows' Eve, Corinne chases an agouti... |
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The Jumbies
Tracey Baptiste - Algonquin Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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The jumbies are coming! Corinne La Mer isn't afraid of anything. Not scorpions, not the boys who tease her, and certainly not jumbies. She knows that jumbies aren't real; they're just creatures parents make up to frighten their children. But on All Hallows' Eve, Corinne chases an agouti... |
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Goblins on the Prowl
Bruce Coville - Aladdin
Format: Book
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In the year since William and Fauna freed the goblins from imprisonment in Toad-in-a-Cage Castle, peace has reigned over both the human and goblin kingdoms. Then one cold night William receives a strange book from an unknown visitor, a book that leads him and Fauna to the mysterious stone... |
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The Water and the Wild
K.E. Ormsbee - Chronicle Books
Format: Hardcover
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A green apple tree grows in the heart of Thirsby Square, and tangled up in its magical roots is the story of Lottie Fiske. For as long as Lottie can remember, the only people who seem to care about her are her best friend, Eliot, and the mysterious letter writer who sends her birthday gifts.... |
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The Water and the Wild
K.E. Ormsbee - Chronicle Books
Format: Hardcover
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A green apple tree grows in the heart of Thirsby Square, and tangled up in its magical roots is the story of Lottie Fiske. For as long as Lottie can remember, the only people who seem to care about her are her best friend, Eliot, and the mysterious letter writer who sends her birthday gifts.... |
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The Enchanted Files: Diary of a Mad Brownie
Bruce Coville - Random House Books for Young Readers
Format: Book
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In the first hilarious Enchanted Files, Angus is a brownie. No, not the kind you eat! He's a tiny magical creature that loves to do chores. Angus has just "inherited" a new human girl, Alex. To say that Alex is messy would be an understatement. She's a total hurricane-like... |
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Bayou Magic
Jewell Parker Rhodes - Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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If only Maddy sees the mermaid, can it be real?It's Maddy's turn to have a bayou summer. At first she misses life back home in the city, but soon she grows to love everything about her new surroundings -- the glimmering fireflies, the glorious landscape, and something else, deep within... |
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Bayou Magic
Jewell Parker Rhodes - Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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If only Maddy sees the mermaid, can it be real?It's Maddy's turn to have a bayou summer. At first she misses life back home in the city, but soon she grows to love everything about her new surroundings -- the glimmering fireflies, the glorious landscape, and something else, deep within... |
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Circus Mirandus
Cassie Beasley - Dial Books
Format: Book
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Even though his awful Great-Aunt Gertrudis doesn't approve, Micah believes in the stories his dying Grandpa Ephraim tells him of the magical Circus Mirandus: the invisible tiger guarding the gates, the beautiful flying birdwoman, and the magician more powerful than any other - the Man Who Bends... |
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The Whisperer
Fiona McIntosh - Knopf Books for Young Readers
Format: Book
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Lute is a prince, next in line to the throne. Griff is a poor carnival worker who does the heavy lifting while the malevolent ringmaster orders him about. But there's something special about Griff: he can hear the thoughts of everyone around him. And one day, he begins to connect with... |
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The Sign of the Cat
Lynne Jonell - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Book
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Duncan is very smart. He also has a most unusual gift. So why does his mother encourage him to be perfectly average and insist he only get mediocre grades? His special talent is the ability to talk to cats-but Duncan longs more than anything for academic success. When Duncan rebels and gets... |
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The Girl Who Could Not Dream
Sarah Beth Durst - Clarion Books
Format: Book
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Sophie loves the hidden shop below her parents' bookstore, where dreams are secretly bought and sold. When the dream shop is robbed and her parents go missing, Sophie must unravel the truth to save them. Together with her best friend - a wisecracking and fanatically loyal monster named... |
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The Toymaker's Apprentice
Sherri L Smith - G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers
Format: Book
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Stefan Drosselmeyer is a reluctant apprentice to his toymaker father until the day his world is turned upside down. His father is kidnapped and Stefan is enlisted by his mysterious cousin, Christian Drosselmeyer, to find a mythical nut to save a princess who has been turned into... |
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The Wrinkled Crown
Anne Nesbet - HarperCollins
Format: Book
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In the enchanted village of Lourka, almost-twelve-year-old Linny breaks an ancient law. Girls are forbidden to so much as touch the town's namesake musical instrument before their twelfth birthday or risk being spirited away. But Linny can't resist the call to play a lourka, so she builds... |
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Alistair Grim's Odditorium
Gregory Funaro - Disney-Hyperion
Format: Hardcover
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A New York Times Best Seller "Verne-ian fantasy and reversal of fortune la Dickens willlure readers into this good-vs.-evil series debut."-Kirkus Reviews "Ideal for kids who loved Percy Jackson and Harry Potter." -BOOKLIST "With a dash of Dickens and more than a bit of Rowling,... |
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The Unwanteds
Lisa McMann - Aladdin
Format: Hardcover
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Every year in Quill, thirteen-year-olds are sorted into categories: the strong, intelligent Wanteds go to university, and the artistic Unwanteds are sent to their deaths Thirteen-year-old Alex tries his hardest to be stoic when his fate is announced as Unwanted, even while leaving behind... |
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The Unwanteds
Lisa McMann - Aladdin
Format: Hardcover
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Every year in Quill, thirteen-year-olds are sorted into categories: the strong, intelligent Wanteds go to university, and the artistic Unwanteds are sent to their deaths Thirteen-year-old Alex tries his hardest to be stoic when his fate is announced as Unwanted, even while leaving behind... |
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Grayling's Song
Karen Cushman - Clarion Books
Format: Book
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It's time for Grayling to be a hero. Her mother, a "wise woman" - a sort of witch - has been turned into a tree by evil forces. Tangles and toadstools! Lacking confidence after years of being called "Feeble Wits" by her mother, Grayling heads off dubiously into the wilds... |
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Dragon Castle
Joseph Bruchac - Dial Books
Format: Hardcover
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Young Prince Rashko is frustrated with his family - no one does any thinking but him! The kingdom and castle seem to be in the hands of fools. So when Rashko's parents mysteriously disappear and the evil Baron Temny parks his army outside the castle walls, it is up to the young prince to save... |
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Dragon Castle
Joseph Bruchac - Dial Books
Format: Hardcover
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Young Prince Rashko is frustrated with his family - no one does any thinking but him! The kingdom and castle seem to be in the hands of fools. So when Rashko's parents mysteriously disappear and the evil Baron Temny parks his army outside the castle walls, it is up to the young prince to save... |
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The Menagerie
Tui T. Sutherland - HarperCollins
Format: Hardcover
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From the New York Times bestselling author of the Wings of Fire series, Tui T. Sutherland, and her sister, Kari Sutherland, comes the Menagerie series, perfect for fans of Brandon Mull's Fablehaven series and The Spiderwick Chronicles. In the small town of Xanadu, Wyoming lies the Menagerie,... |
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