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Rowan Hood: Outlaw Girl of Sherwood Forest

Nancy Springer · 192 pages

In her quest to connect with Robin Hood, the father she has never met, thirteen-year-old Rosemary disguises herself as a boy, befriends a half-wolf, half-dog, a runaway princess, and an overgrown boy whose singing is hypnotic, and makes peace with her elfin heritage.

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City of the Beasts

Isabel Allende · 406 pages

With his mother in hospital, fifteen-year-old Alex Cold is sent to his fierce, wonderful grandmother, Kate - a pipe-smoking, vodka-drinking old reporter with blue eyes "as sharp as daggers' points". Kate is about to embark on an expedition to the dangerous, remote world of the Amazon rainforest, but rather than change her plans, she simply takes Alex along with her. They set off with their team -

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Forest of Wonders

Linda Sue Park · 352 pages

When Raffa makes a cure from a rare crimson vine he finds deep in the forbidden forest, the bat he saves transforms into something much more.

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The Jungle Books

Rudyard Kipling · 334 pages

Among the best loved of all children's classics, Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book is set among a community of animals in the jungles of India, where Kipling was born and grew up. Three of the stories feature the adventures of an abandoned "man cub," a boy named Mowgli, who is raised by wolves in the jungle. Other well-known stories in the collection include "Rikki-Tikki-Tavi," the tale of a heroi

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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

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Into the Wild

Erin Hunter · 304 pages

A fantastic book about a house cat named Rusty who joins a Clan of wild cat's and fights through taunting, terrible events, and a suspicious warrior named Tigerclaw. But a prophecy given to the leader Bluestar garentees *Fire alone will save our Clan* Jenseits der Menschen, tief verborgen im Wald, leben die ungezähmten Katzen in Clans zusammen. Der Hauskater Sammy hat seine Zweibeiner verlassen

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Eragon & Eldest

Christopher Paolini · 1,197 pages

The first two titles of the Inheritance Cycle in one fantastic book!ERAGONWhen Eragon finds a polished stone in the forest, he thinks it is a lucky discovery - perhaps it will buy his family meat for the winter. But when the stone becomes a dragon hatchling, Eragon soon realizes he has stumbled upon a legacy nearly as old as the Empire itself. Overnight his simple life is shattered and he is thrus

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The Dreamsnatcher

Abi Elphinstone · 278 pages

Twelve-year-old Molly Pecksniff wakes one night in the middle of the forest, lured there by a recurring nightmare - the one with the drums and the rattles and the masks. The Dreamsnatcher is waiting. He has already taken her dreams and now he wants her life. Because Moll is more important than she knows ... The Oracle Bones foretold that she and Gryff, a wildcat that has always been by her side, a

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My Side of the Mountain

Jean Craighead George · 177 pages

A young boy relates his adventures during the year he spends living alone in the Catskill Mountains, including his struggle for survival, his dependence on nature, his animal friends, and his ultimate realization that he needs human companionship.

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Owlsight

Mercedes Lackey, Larry Dixon · 389 pages

The Owl Mage Trilogy Book 2 It has been four years since Darian saw his village sacked and burned by barbarians. Taking refuge with the Hawkbrothers, he soon finds his life's calling--as a Healing Adept. But even as he learns the mystical ways of this ancient race, Darian cannot escape the dangers threatening his future. Another tribe of barbarians is approaching. The time has come...to stand up

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The Wind Through the Keyhole

Stephen King · 352 pages

Sent by his father to investigate evidence of a murderous shape shifter, a "skin man," Roland Deschain takes charge of Bill Streeter, a brave but terrified boy who is the sole surviving witness to the beast's most recent slaughter. Roland, himself only a teenager, calms the boy by reciting a story from the Magic Tales of the Eld that his mother used to read to him at bedtime, "The Wind through the

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Wildwood Imperium

Colin Meloy · 592 pages

from publisher: From Colin Meloy, lead singer of the Decemberists, and Carson Ellis, acclaimed illustrator of The Mysterious Benedict Society, comes the stunning third book in the New York Times bestselling fantasy-adventure series the Wildwood Chronicles. A young girl's midnight séance awakens a long-slumbering malevolent spirit.... A band of runaway orphans allies with an underground collect

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Wild Magic

Tamora Pierce · 348 pages

Young Daine's knack with horses gets her a job helping the royal horsemistress drive a herd of ponies to Tortall. Soon it becomes clear that Daine's talent, as much as she struggles to hide it, is downright magical. Horses and other animals not only obey, but listen to her words. Daine, though, will have to learn to trust humans before she can come to terms with her powers, her past, and herself.

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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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Serafina and the Twisted Staff

Robert Beatty · 370 pages

In 1899, when an evil threatens all the humans and animals of the Blue Ridge Mountains, twelve-year-old Serafina, rat catcher for the Biltmore estate and the daughter of a shapeshifting mountain lion, must search deep inside herself and embrace the destiny that awaits her.

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The Spook's Curse

Joseph Delaney · 455 pages

The Spook and his apprentice, Thomas Ward, rid the county of witches, ghosts, boggarts, and other creatures of the dark. And there’s some unfinished business to attend to in Priestown. Deep in the catacombs lurks a creature the Spook has never been able to defeat. The Bane! But the Bane is not their only enemy. The Quisitor arrives, intent on hunting down anyone who meddles with the dark. Thom

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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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Wildfire

Lene Kaaberbol

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The Sword of Summer

Rick Riordan · 512 pages

Magnus Chase has seen his share of trouble. Ever since that terrible night two years ago when his mother told him to run, he has lived alone on the streets of Boston, surviving by his wits, staying one step ahead of the police and the truant officers. One day, Magnus learns that someone else is trying to track him down—his uncle Randolph, a man his mother had always warned him about. When Magnu

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Hunted

Meagan Spooner · 387 pages

Beauty knows the Beast s forest in her bones and in her blood. She knows that the forest holds secrets and that her father is the only hunter who s ever come close to discovering them. But Yeva s grown up far from her father s old lodge, raised to be part of the city s highest caste of artistocrats. Still, she s never forgotten the feel of a bow in her hands, and she s spent a lifetime longing for

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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

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Ferals

Jacob Grey · 288 pages

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