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Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

J. K. Rowling · 332 pages

When a letter arrives for unhappy but ordinary Harry Potter, a decade-old secret is revealed to him that apparently he's the last to know. His parents were wizards, killed by a Dark Lord's curse when Harry was just a baby, and which he somehow survived. Escaping his hideous Muggle guardians for Hogwarts, a wizarding school brimming with ghosts and enchantments, Harry stumbles upon a sinister adven

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A Wrinkle in Time

Madeleine L'Engle · 211 pages

A Wrinkle in Time is a science fiction fantasy novel by American writer Madeleine L'Engle, first published in 1962. It is about Meg And Charles Walence. Their father, who was working on a interesting project called a tesseract, goes missing! Then they meet a boy and some strange women. This story won a Newbery Medal, Sequoyah Book Award and Lewis Carroll Shelf Award For this amazing story! It also

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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

J.K. Rowling · 312 pages

Turning the envelope over, his hand trembling, Harry saw a purple wax seal bearing a coat of arms; a lion, an eagle, a badger and a snake surrounding a large letter 'H'. Harry Potter has never even heard of Hogwarts when the letters start dropping on the doormat at number four, Privet Drive. Addressed in green ink on yellowish parchment with a purple seal, they are swiftly confiscated by his grisl

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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 Emerald Atlas

John Stephens

Several years ago, Kate remembers that her mother left her, her sister and her brother in St. Mary's orphanage. Her mother told Kate to always stay with her siblings. So she had. They never stayed in one orphanage for so long. Each orphanage was worse than the other, and Edgar Allan Poe Home for Hopeless and Incorrigible Orphans, was truly horrible. In the series of events that come after this, th

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The Door to Time

Pierdomenico Baccalario · 222 pages

After moving from London to an old mansion on the English coast, eleven-year-old twins Jason and Julia discover that their new home has twisting tunnels, strange artifacts from around the world, and a mysterious, locked door.

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The Midnight Folk

John Masefield · 282 pages

Kay Harker lives in an old house in the country, looked after by his unpleasant governess, Sylvia Daisy Pouncer. One night Kay’s great-grandpapa Harker, a sea captain, steps out of his portrait to tell him about a stolen treasure, and Kay embarks on a quest to recover it. Along the way he is helped by the Midnight Folk, including animals such as Nibbins the cat, Rollicum Bitem the fox and his lost

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The Sword in the Stone

T.H. White · 288 pages

When Merlyn the magician comes to tutor Sir Ector's sons Kay and the Wart, schoolwork suddenly becomes much more fun. After all, who wouldn't enjoy being turned into a fish, or a badger, or a snake? But Merlyn has very particular plans for the Wart. This is the children's story of King Arthur's childhood which was the basis for the still popular Disney cartoon of the same title.

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Physik

Angie Sage · 544 pages

Pulled through a glass that brings him back in time, Septimus Heap becomes the apprentice of an alchemist.

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The Sixty-Eight Rooms

Marianne Malone · 274 pages

Ruthie thinks nothing exciting will ever happen to her until her sixth-grade class visits the Art Institute of Chicago, where she and her best friend Jack discover a magic key that shrinks them to the size of gerbils and allows them to explore the Thorne Rooms--the collection of sixty-eight miniature rooms from various time periods and places--and discover their secrets.

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Arthur and the Minimoys

Luc Besson · 219 pages

In search of a stolen treasure and his missing grandfather, ten-year-old Arthur travels to the land of the Minimoys, a tribe of tiny people whom he must save from destruction.

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Magic by the Lake

Edward Eager · 183 pages

When seven-year-old Martha and her twelve-year-old sister Jane wish for a whole lakeful of magic, there is nothing for a poor old turtle to do but grant their wish. The girls, along with their sister, Katharine, and brother, Mark, soon find themselves in adventures with mermaids, pirates, and cannibals in this delightful sequel to Half Magic.

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A Wrinkle in Time Movie Tie-In Edition

Perfection Learning Corporation

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Prince Caspian

C.S. Lewis · 209 pages

In his effort to bring peace to troubled Narnia, Prince Caspian blows his magic horn to summon Peter, Susan, Lucy, and Edmond to help him with this difficult task.

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Tuesdays at the Castle

Jessica Day George · 233 pages

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The Hobbit

J.R.R. Tolkien · 308 pages

The Hobbit is a tale of high adventure, undertaken by a company of dwarves in search of dragon-guarded gold. A reluctant partner in this perilous quest is Bilbo Baggins, a comfort-loving unambitious hobbit, who surprises even himself by his resourcefulness and skill as a burglar. Encounters with trolls, goblins, dwarves, elves, and giant spiders, conversations with the dragon, Smaug, and a rath

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The Hobbit

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien · 292 pages

Bilbo Baggins, the hobbit, is a peaceful sort who lives in a cozy hole in the Shire, a place where adventures are uncommon - and rather unwanted. So when the wizard Gandalf whisks him away on a treasure-hunting expedition with a troop of rowdy dwarves, he's not entirely thrilled. Encountering ruthless trolls, beastly orcs, gigantic spiders, and hungry wolves, Bilbo discovers within himself astonis

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The Hobbit Illustrated by the Author

J. R. R. Tolkien · 396 pages

For the first time ever, a special enhanced edition of the enchanting prelude to The Lord of the Rings, illustrated throughout with over 50 sketches, drawings, paintings and maps by J.R.R. Tolkien himself. Bilbo Baggins is a hobbit who enjoys a comfortable, unambitious life, rarely travelling further than the pantry of his hobbit-hole in Bag End. But his contentment is disturbed when the wizard, G

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Wizard's Castle

Diana Wynne Jones · 376 pages

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The Stones of Green Knowe

L.M. Boston · 118 pages

While eagerly following each stage of the new stone manor house his father is building to replace their old wooden Saxon hall, a young boy, part Saxon and part Norman, becomes involved with ancient magic that carries him through time.

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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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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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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

Mark Twain · 253 pages

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