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The Heir of Mistmantle

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Rinkitink in Oz

L. Frank Baum · 148 pages

When all the inhabitants of Pingaree are kidnapped by the mongrel hordes of twin island kingdoms, Prince Inga and his friend King Rinkitink decide to go to the rescue.

Kidnapping PlotIslandPrinces and PrincessesMiddle Grade
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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!

IslandTalking AnimalsPrinces and PrincessesMiddle Grade
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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

Talking AnimalsPrinces and PrincessesMiddle GradeFantasy
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The Sea of Adventure

Enid Blyton · 255 pages

A mysterious trip to the desolate Northern Isles soon turns into a terrifying adventure when Bill is kidnapped! Marooned far from the mainland on a deserted coast, Philip, Dinah, Lucy-Ann, Jack and Kiki the parrot find themselves playing a dangerous game with an unknown enemy. Will they escape with Bill and their lives?

IslandKidnapping PlotTalking AnimalsMiddle Grade
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Wildwood

Colin Meloy · 560 pages

When her baby brother is kidnapped by crows, seventh-grader Prue McKeel ventures into the forbidden Impassable Wilderness--a dangerous and magical forest in the middle of Portland, Oregon--and soon finds herself involved in a war among the various inhabitants.

Talking AnimalsKidnapping PlotMiddle GradeFantasy
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The Truth

Zizou Corder · 272 pages

Charlie Ashanti, the hero of LIONBOY, speaks cat - the language of all cats wild and domestic alike. His unusual talent helps him on his quest to find his kidnapped parents who have discovered a cure for asthma. The local cats of his home town (a futuristic London) start him on his search to solve the mystery of his missing parents, which leads him across the channel on board a circus ship bound f

Talking AnimalsKidnapping PlotMiddle GradeFantasy
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Mattimeo

Brian Jacques · 446 pages

Slagar the fox hated Redwall Abbey - its peaceable creatures, its fearless mouse warrior Matthias. He blamed Matthias for the injuries he'd suffered ... but his quest for vengeance would have to be a cunning one, for the knew the power of the legendary Redwall sword. Above all, he know the Redwallers cherished their young. So Slagar would steal them from under their very noses - and the greates

Talking AnimalsKidnapping PlotMiddle GradeFantasy
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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.

IslandTalking AnimalsMiddle GradeFantasy
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Prince Caspian

Clive Staples Lewis · 190 pages

Talking AnimalsMiddle GradePrinces and PrincessesFantasy
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Kabumpo in Oz

Ruth Plumly Thompson · 158 pages

Talking AnimalsPrinces and PrincessesMiddle GradeFantasy
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The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (full color)

C. S. Lewis · 260 pages

The Dawn Treader will take you places you never dreamed existed.

IslandTalking AnimalsMiddle GradeFantasy
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The Golden Compass

Philip Pullman · 399 pages

In a landmark epic of fantasy and storytelling, Philip Pullman invites readers into a world as convincing and thoroughly realized as Narnia, Earthsea, or Redwall. Here lives an orphaned ward named Lyra Belacqua, whose carefree life among the scholars at Oxford's Jordan College is shattered by the arrival of two powerful visitors. First, her fearsome uncle, Lord Asriel, appears with evidence of mys

Talking AnimalsKidnapping PlotMiddle GradeFantasy
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Searching for Dragons

Patricia C. Wrede · 249 pages

A fast paced, humorous YA fantasy novel. Princess Cimorene, assistant to the dragon king, and Mendebar, the young king of the Enchanted forest, team up to foil the latest plots of the Society of Wizards. Book two of the Enchanted Forest series.

Princes and PrincessesMiddle GradeKidnapping PlotFantasy
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Wren to the Rescue

Sherwood Smith · 216 pages

With the help of a prince and an apprentice wizard, Wren strives to rescue her best friend, a princess named Tess, from the fortress of a wicked king.

Kidnapping PlotPrinces and PrincessesMiddle GradeFantasy
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The Wild Robot Protects: Volume 3

Peter Brown · 284 pages

Life for Roz and the animals on their island is perfect. But when mysterious, dangerous waters surround the island, the animals are forced inland to fight over dwindling resources. Roz calms and organizes the animals, but the *poison tide* takes a terrible toll on the island. So the wild robot sets out across the ocean, determined to stop the poison tide. During her journey, Roz encounters amaz

Talking AnimalsIslandMiddle GradeAdventure
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Impossible Creatures

Katherine Rundell · 358 pages

IslandTalking AnimalsMiddle GradeFantasy
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Urchin of the Riding Stars

M.I. McAllister, Margaret McAllister · 290 pages

A group of animals, led by an orphaned squirrel, learns about friendship and loyalty when they band together to defend their island kingdom against evil forces.

Talking AnimalsIslandMiddle GradeFantasy
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The Tale of Despereaux

Kate DiCamillo · 270 pages

The adventures of Desperaux Tilling, a small mouse of unusual talents, the princess that he loves, the servant girl who longs to be a princess, and a devious rat determined to bring them all to ruin.

Talking AnimalsPrinces and PrincessesMiddle GradeFantasy
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Princess Academy

Shannon Hale · 314 pages

Kidnapping PlotPrinces and PrincessesMiddle GradeFantasy
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Carbonel, the Prince of Cats

Barbara Sleigh, V.H. Drummond · 240 pages

Talking AnimalsPrinces and PrincessesMiddle GradeFantasy
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Magyk

Angie Sage

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Thea Stilton and the Prince's Emerald

Thea Stilton · 176 pages

Talking AnimalsPrinces and PrincessesMiddle GradeAdventure
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Hurricane Gold

Charlie Higson · 368 pages

Future spy James Bond, a teenager in the 1930s, travels from hurricane-damaged Mexico to Lagrimas Negras, a Caribbean island containing a deadly obstacle course, as he tries to rescue two American children abducted by criminals.

IslandKidnapping PlotMiddle GradeAdventure
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Lone Wolf

Kathryn Lasky · 229 pages

In the harsh wilderness beyond the owl world of Ga'Hoole, a wolf mother hides in fear. Her newborn pup, otherwise healthy, has a twisted paw. The mother knows the rigid rules of her kind. The pack cannot have weakness. Her pup must be abandoned on an icy riverbank - condemned to die. But alone in the forest, the pup, Faolan, does the unthinkable. He survives. This is Faolan's story, the story

Talking AnimalsMiddle GradeFantasyAdventure

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