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The Lost Years

T.A. Barron · 304 pages

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Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children

Ransom Riggs · 392 pages

A mysterious island. An abandoned orphanage. A strange collection of peculiar photographs. It all waits to be discovered in Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, and unforgettable novel that mixes fiction and photography in a thrilling reading experience. As our story opens, a horrific family tragedy sets sixteen-year-old Jacob journeying to a remote island off the coast of Wales, where he

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The Snow Spider

Jenny Nimmo · 160 pages

Gifts from Gwyn's grandmother on his tenth birthday open up a whole new world to him, as he discovers he has magical powers that help him heal the breach with his father that has existed ever since his sister's mysterious disappearance four years before.

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The Dark Is Rising Sequence

Susan Cooper · 1,088 pages

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A String in the Harp

Nancy Bond · 370 pages

This book relates what happens to three American children, unwillingly transplanted to Wales for one year, when one of them finds an ancient harp-tuning key that takes him back to the time of the great sixth-century bard Taliesin. A family in mourning, an ancient bard, a harp key that brings them together. When fifteen-year-old Jen Morgan flies to Wales to spend Christmas with her family, she's no

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Dreamwalker

James Oswald · 416 pages

The dragons of Glwad are dying. Persecuted for over two millennia, they're a shrunken echo of the proud creatures they once were. And yet in new life springs hope: Benfro, son of Morgwm the Green, the first male kitling in a thousand years. Long ago dragons wrought a terrible wrong to the land, and now is the time for redemption. Every young boy in the Twin Kingdoms dreams of being chosen for o

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The Whispering Mountain

Joan Aiken · 240 pages

With the help of some unusual friends, a young boy tries to restore the Golden Harp of Teirtu to its rightful owner.

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The Children of Green Knowe

L.M. Boston · 157 pages

Tolly comes to live with his great-grandmother at the ancient house of Green Knowe and becomes friends with three children who lived there in the seventeenth century.

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City of Masks

Mary Hoffman · 344 pages

Lucien is very sick with cancer and struggles with his parents' worry every day. But each night, through a magical gift from his father, his mind is transported to an enchanting city, Bellezza, a parallel city to Venice of our world. In Bellezza, Lucien discovers that he is a Stravagante, a rare person able to travel through worlds while sleeping. Befriended by a local girl and protected by an

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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 Dragon of Doom

Bruce Coville · 69 pages

Life in the village of Pigbone is boring until an aspiring magician and his talking toad come to town and ask Edward to help them slay the Dragon of Doom.

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Wild Born

Brandon Mull · 208 pages

Four children separated by vast distances all undergo the same ritual, watched by cloaked strangers. Four flashes of light erupt, and from them emerge the unmistakable shapes of incredible beasts -- a wolf, a leopard, a panda, a falcon. Suddenly the paths of these children -- and the world -- have been changed forever. Enter the world of Erdas, where every child who comes of age must discover i

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Secret of the Sirens

Julia Golding · 357 pages

Upon moving to her aunt's seaside home in the British Isles, Connie becomes part of a secret society that shelters mythical creatures, and must use her ability to communicate with these beings to protect them from evil and the incursions of humans.

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Adventures of the Wishing Chair

Enid Blyton · 185 pages

Once Mollie and Peter have discovered the Wishing-Chair, their lives are full of adventure. It takes them to all sorts of magical places, from the giant's castle where they rescue Chinky the Pixie, to the amazing party at Magician Greatheart's castle.

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Blackbringer

Laini Taylor · 437 pages

When the ancient evil of the Blackbringer rises to unmake the world, only one determined faerie stands in its way. However, Magpie Windwitch, granddaughter of the West Wind, is not like other faeries. While her kind live in seclusion deep in the forests of Dreamdark, she’s devoted her life to tracking down and recapturing devils escaped from their ancient bottles, just as her hero, the legendary B

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Circles in the Stream

Rachel Roberts · 216 pages

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The Menagerie

Tui T. Sutherland, Kari Sutherland · 288 pages

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Taliesin

Stephen R. Lawhead · 512 pages

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Dragon Keeper

Carole Wilkinson · 339 pages

set in China in 141 B.C. In a remote western palace, Ping, a slave girl of unknown origin, serves the emperor's Dragon Keeper, an incompetent drunkard who neglects the two last-known dragons in his charge. When one of them dies and an evil hunter threatens to kill the other for his magical body parts, the old dragon, Danzi, escapes with the girl. He entrusts Ping with his precious and beautiful pu

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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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The Kingdom of Fantasy

Geronimo Stilton

"The Kingdom of Fantasy" is a children's novel written by Italian author Geronimo Stilton. The book follows the adventures of Geronimo, a mouse journalist who is magically transported to a fantasy world called the Kingdom of Fantasy. In the story, Geronimo receives a mysterious invitation to visit the Kingdom of Fantasy from a queen who is in danger. He sets off on a quest to save her, encounte

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The Wizard of Oz

L. Frank Baum · 235 pages

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