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Out from Boneville

Jeff Smith · 142 pages

"After being run out of Boneville, the three Bone cousins - Fone Bone, Phoney Bone, and Smiley Bone - are separated and lost in a vast, uncharted desert. One by one, they find their way into a deep, forested valley filled with wonderful and terrifying creatures. Eventually, the cousins are reunited at a farmstead run by tough Gran'Ma Ben and her spirited granddaughter, Thorn. But little do the Bon

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Fablehaven

Brandon Mull · 351 pages

For centuries, mystical creatures of all description were gathered to a hidden refuge called Fablehaven to prevent their extinction. The sanctuary survives today as one of the last strongholds of true magic in a cynical world. Enchanting? Absolutely! Exciting? You bet. Safe? Well, actually, quite the opposite . . . Kendra and her brother Seth have no idea that their grandfather is the current c

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Icefire

Chris d'Lacey · 421 pages

The second installment in a fantasy series. A man who becomes the tenant to a potter who makes dragons, but with a twist. Some of the dragons seem to have odd properties. follow him as he discovers the odd nature of this house and its occupants!

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Talking to Dragons

Patricia C. Wrede · 255 pages

A fast paced, humorous YA science fiction. Young Daystar, raised by his mother Cimorene at the edge of the Enchanted Forest, is sent out on an adventure with a magical sword, meeting a young fire witch and an immature dragon on the way. This is the fourth book of the Enchanted Forest series, and takes place a generation after the first.

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My Father's Dragon

Ruth Stiles Gannett · 79 pages

A young boy runs away from home to rescue an abused baby dragon held captive to serve as a free twenty-four hour, seven-days-a-week ferry for the lazy wild animals living on Wild Island.

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Impossible Creatures

Katherine Rundell · 358 pages

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The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

C.S. Lewis · 223 pages

Lucy, Edmund, and their cousin travel back to Narnia through a painting where they board a ship named "The Dawn Treader." They find King Caspian and a mouse on the ship and they find mystical creatures and go on a mission that will decide Narnia's fate!

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The Dragon Prophecy

Geronimo Stilton

Princess Sterling sends the Dragon of the Rainbow and Scribblehopper to bring Geronimo Stilton back the the Kingdom of Fantasy, because he is the hero in the dragon prophecy who will find the stolen dragon egg and restore harmony to the kingdom.

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Dragon Rider

Cornelia Funke · 532 pages

After learning that humans are headed toward his hidden home, Firedrake, a silver dragon, is joined by a brownie and an orphan boy in a quest to find the legendary valley known as the Rim of Heaven, encountering friendly and unfriendly creatures along the way, and struggling to evade the relentless pursuit of an old enemy.

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The Dragon of the Month Club

Iain Reading · 236 pages

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The Isle of the Lost

Melissa de la Cruz

Imprisoned on the Isle of the Lost, the teenaged children of Disney's most evil villains search for a dragon's eye, the key to true darkness and the villains' only hope of escape.

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The Light Fantastic

Terry Pratchett · 255 pages

From the back cover: In *The Light Fantastic* only one individual can save the world from a disastrous collision. Unfortunately, the hero happens to be the singularly inept wizard Rincewind, who was last seen falling off the edge of the world....

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Magyk

Angie Sage

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The Chronicles of Narnia Vol I: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe

C.S.Lewis · 154 pages

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe tells the story of four adventurous children: Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy Pevensie, who have been evacuated to the English countryside in 1940 following the outbreak of World War II. They discover a wardrobe in Professor Digory Kirke's house that leads to the magical land of Narnia. Narnia is a charming, once peaceful land inhabited by talking beasts, dwarfs

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Five Children and It

E. Nesbit · 146 pages

Haven't you ever thought what you would wish for if you were granted three wishes? In Nesbit's delightful classic, five siblings find a creature that grants their wishes, but as the old saying goes: be careful what you wish for, it might come true...

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The Menagerie

Tui T. Sutherland, Kari Sutherland · 288 pages

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Mary Poppins

P.L. Travers · 206 pages

An extraordinary English nanny blows in on the East Wind with her parrot-headed umbrella and magic carpetbag and introduces her charges, Jane and Michael, to some delightful people and experiences.

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How to Train Your Dragon

Cressida Cowell · 256 pages

Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III was an awesome sword-fighter, a dragon-whisperer and the greatest Viking Hero who ever lived. But it wasn't always like that. In fact, in the beginning, Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III was the most put upon Viking you'd ever seen. Not loud enough to make himself heard at dinner with his father, Stoick the Vast; not hard enough to beat his chief rival, Snotlout, at Ba

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Ashley the Dragon Fairy

Daisy Meadows · 76 pages

The magical animal fairies look after seven young magical animals, and train them to use their powers wisely for the good of Fairyland and the human world. But the creatures have been stolen! Can the girls find them before they are lost forever? ---------- **Books in this series** 1. Ashley the Dragon Fairy 2. [Lara the Black Cat Fairy][2] 3. [Erin the Firebird Fairy][3] 4. [Rihann

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Doctor Dolittle

Hugh Lofting · 144 pages

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Fairy Tail, Vol. 1

Hiro Mashima

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The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien

Shawn Coyne · 211 pages

Bilbo Baggins, an altogether respectable hobbit, had never done anything unexpected—to say nothing of heroic—until he met a wizard in a blue pointed hat. After that meeting, Bilbo embarked upon an adventure, recorded in the pages of The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien, that captured the imagination of readers around the world. With unparalleled skill, Tolkien forged scenes of physical courage, revelato

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The Neverending Story

Michael Ende · 396 pages

From award-winning German author Michael Ende, The Neverending Story is a classic tale of one boy and the book that magically comes to life. When Bastian happens upon an old book called The Neverending Story, he's swept into the magical world of Fantastica--so much that he finds he has actually become a character in the story! And when he realizes that this mysteriously enchanted world is in g

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The Wonderful Wizard of OZ Illustrated

L Frank Baum · 160 pages

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (/ɒz/) is an American children's novel written by author L. Frank Baum and illustrated by W.W. Denslow, originally published by the George M. Hill Company in May 1900.[1] It has since seen several reprints, most often under the title The Wizard of Oz, which is the title of the popular 1902 Broadway musical adaptation as well as the iconic 1939 live-action film.The story

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