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The Unfinished Angel

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Winging It

Annie Dalton · 144 pages

Mel isn't your average angel. She certainly never expected to wind up at posh Angel Academy. Why would she want to learn about halos, when shopping is much more divine? But when she joins an elite group of time-traveling angels fighting against the Opposition, she learns angel business is a lot more dangerous--and a lot more fun--than she ever could have suspected

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A Wind in the Door

Madeleine L'Engle · 211 pages

A Wind in the Door is a young adult science fantasy novel by Madeleine L'Engle. It is a companion book to A Wrinkle in Time, and part of the Time Quartet (and by extension the Time Quintet). It is November. When Meg comes home from school, Charles Wallace tells her he saw dragons in the twin’s vegetable garden. That night Meg, Calvin and C.W. go to the vegetable garden to meet the Teacher (Bla

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Moominpappa's Memoirs

Tove Jansson · 162 pages

When stricken with a severe cold, Moominpappa decides to set down an account of his eventful youth, which he shares chapter by chapter with Moomintroll, Sniff, and Snufkin.

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Skellig

David Almond · 182 pages

Ten-year-old Michael was looking forward to moving into a new house. But now his baby sister is ill, his parents are frantic, and Doctor Death has come to call. Michael feels helpless. Then he steps into the crumbling garage. . . . What is this thing beneath the spiders' webs and dead flies? A human being, or a strange kind of beast never before seen? The only person Michael can confide in is his

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Rump: The True Story of Rumpelstiltskin

Liesl Shurtliff · 264 pages

Relates the tale of Rumpelstiltskin's childhood and youth, explaining why his name is so important, how he is able to spin straw into gold, and why a first-born child is his reward for helping the miller's daughter-turned-queen.

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Conrad's Fate

Diana Wynne Jones · 375 pages

Chrestomanci #5 When his uncle sends him to work at the mysterious Stallery Mansion, twelve-year-old Conrad Tesdinic overcomes his bad karma and discovers in the mansion's winecellar the source of the magic that threatens to pull his world into one of the eleven other parallel universes.

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Who Could That Be at This Hour?

Lemony Snicket · 272 pages

Thirteen-year-old Lemony Snicket begins his apprenticeship with S. Theodora Markson of the secretive V.F.D. in the tiny dot of a town called Stain'd By The Sea, where he helps investigate the theft of a statue.

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Winging It!

Shel Delisle

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Pi in the Sky

Wendy Mass · 264 pages

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Mothstorm

Philip Reeve

Art, his sister, and the rest of their family and friends are called once more to save the known universe. Interrupted during Christmas, the Mumbys discover a strange, unidentified black cloud that is slowly encroaching on the solar system. Victorian space-travel steampunk novel for children and young adults. Suggested level: primary, intermediate, junior secondary.

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The 26-Storey Treehouse

Andy Griffiths · 352 pages

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My Big Fat Zombie Goldfish

Mo O'Hara · 189 pages

When Tom's big brother decides to become an Evil Scientist, his first experiment involves dunking Frankie the goldfish into toxic green gunk. To save Frankie Tom zaps him with a battery to bring him back to life, but there's something weird about the new Frankie. He's now a big fat zombie goldfish with hypnotic powers and he's out for revenge.

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Fairest of All

Sarah Mlynowski · 169 pages

After moving to a new house, nine-year-old Abby and her younger brother Jonah discover an antique mirror that transports them into the Snow White fairy tale.

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The Sweet Dead Life

Joy Preble · 244 pages

After dying in a car accident, fourteen-year-old Jenna's older brother returns as an angel to help Jenna solve a mystery that not only holds the key to her survival, but also to their mother's mysterious depression and their father's disappearance.

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Wonkenstein

Obert Skye

Twelve-year-old underachiever Rob has better things to do than read. His parents give him lots of books but most of them just end up in the messy pile of junk he keeps locked in his closet that once doubled as a makeshift science laboratory. One day, Rob hears weird sounds coming from behind his closet door and discovers a funny little creature that seems to be a cross between two characters from

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Ella Enchanted

Gail Carson Levine · 240 pages

This beloved Newbery Honor-winning story about a feisty heroine is sure to enchant readers new and old.  At her birth, Ella of Frell receives a foolish fairy's gift—the “gift” of obedience. Ella must obey any order, whether it's to hop on one foot for a day and a half, or to chop off her own head! But strong-willed Ella does not accept her fate... Against a bold backdrop of princes, ogres, g

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What Planet Are You From, Clarice Bean?

Lauren Child · 32 pages

When Clarice has to do a school project on the environment, she and her family become eco-warriors in an attempt to save a tree on their street.

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Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch

Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaiman · 400 pages

Armageddon only happens once, you know. They don't let you go around again until you get it right. According to the Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch - the world's only totally reliable guide to the future, written in 1655, before she exploded - the world will end on a Saturday. Next Saturday, in fact. Just after tea... People have been predicting the end of the world al

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The Unusual Suspects

Michael Buckley · 290 pages

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Bunnicula

James Howe, Deborah Howe · 98 pages

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The Mouse with the Question Mark Tail

Richard Peck · 223 pages

A very small mouse of unknown origins runs away from school in the Royal Mews of Buckingham Palace shortly before the celebration of Queen Victoria's diamond jubilee, celebrating her sixty years on the British throne. A very small mouse of unknown origin runs away from school in the Royal Mews of Buckingham Palace shortly before the celebration of Queen Victoria's diamond jubilee, celebrating her

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Flyte

Angie Sage · 544 pages

When Princess Jenna is pursued by a dark wizard, it is the apprentice, Septimus Heap, who must save her while enduring such terrors as a night in the Forest with hungry wolverines and carnivorous trees.

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