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The French Confection

Anthony Horowitz · 80 pages

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The Big Splash

Jack D. Ferraiolo · 304 pages

Matt Stevens, an average middle schooler with a glib tongue and a knack for solving crimes, uncovers a mystery while working with "the organization," a mafia-like syndicate run by seventh-grader Vincent "Mr. Biggs" Biggio, specializing in forged hall passes, test-copying rings, black market candy selling, and taking out hits with water guns.

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Bunnicula

James Howe, Deborah Howe · 98 pages

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Once Upon a Marigold

Jean Ferris · 280 pages

Christian was clueless when he started spying on the royal family through his telescope. He lives in a cave with a troll for a dad, after all. If his dad had only warned him about all that mind-boggling love stuff, maybe things wouldn't be such a mess. Although then, maybe, Princess Marigold would be dead. But Christian wasn't warned. And now that he's fallen for the princess, it's up to him to un

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The Clue of the Linoleum Lederhosen: M. T. Anderson's Thrilling Tales

M.T. Anderson · 243 pages

Looking forward to a vacation, Katie, Lily, and Jasper attach their flying Gyroscopic Sky Suite to the Moose Tongue Lodge and Resort, where they mingle with other child heroes found in books, and where they become embroiled in a mystery involving lederhosen-clothed quintuplets and a screaming ventriloquist.

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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.

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How to Train Your Dragon

Cressida Cowell · 256 pages

Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III was an awesome sword-fighter, a dragon-whisperer and the greatest Viking Hero who ever lived. But it wasn't always like that. In fact, in the beginning, Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III was the most put upon Viking you'd ever seen. Not loud enough to make himself heard at dinner with his father, Stoick the Vast; not hard enough to beat his chief rival, Snotlout, at Ba

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Muddle Earth

Paul Stewart · 464 pages

Joe Jefferson suddenly turns into a fearless warrior-hero while walking his dog one night, and is summoned by Muddle Earth's leading wizard to slay ogres, wrestle dragons, and bravely confront villains.

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The Hero's Guide to Saving Your Kingdom

Christopher Healy · 438 pages

"The four princes erroneously dubbed Prince Charming and rudely marginalized in their respective fairy tales form an unlikely team when a witch threatens the whole kingdom"--

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Potterwookiee

Obert Skye

The latest creature to emerge from Rob's closet is a cross between Chewbacca from Star Wars and Harry Potter. Rob names him "Potterwookiee" ("Hairy" for short) and soon Rob finds himself treading water as he tries to figure out how to care for his mixed-up friend. Great laughs and great books help Rob along the way. ---------- **Books in this series** 1. [Wonkenstein][1] 2. Potterwooki

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Have a Hot Time, Hades!

Kate McMullan · 160 pages

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This Book Is Not Good for You

Pseudonymous Bosch · 398 pages

Between the pages of this book lies the secret to the best-tasting chocolate in all the world. I promise, your taste buds will tingle. Your palette will sing! Oh no, have I accidentally tempted you to read this book? I will warn you, however, the most delicious things are never good for you...and this story is particularly scrumptious!In this tooth-rotting adventure, Cass's mom has been kidnap

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Half Upon a Time

James Riley

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The Dark Talent

Brandon Sanderson · 300 pages

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Dark Lord: The Early Years

Jamie Thomson

Evil Dark Lord tries to recover his dignity, his power, and his lands when an arch-foe transports him to a small town, into the body of a thirteen-year-old boy.

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The Fourth Stall

Chris Rylander · 304 pages

Chicago Cubs fan "Mac" Barrett, a fifth-grade "Godfather" who runs a favor-granting business out of the fourth stall of the boys' bathroom, is challenged by the bullying teenaged leader of a gambling ring.

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Dog Man

Dav Pilkey · 235 pages

**Get ready for Action, Suspense, Romance... and Laffs!** George and Harold have created a new breed of justice. When Greg the police dog and his cop companion are injured on the job, a life-saving surgery changes the course of history, and Dog Man is born. With the head of a dog and the body of a human, this heroic hound digs into deception, claws after crooks, rolls over robbers, and scampers

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The Big Over Easy

Jasper Fforde · 416 pages

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It's All Greek to Me

Jon Scieszka, Lane Smith · 73 pages

As they are about to go on stage, Joe, Fred, and Sam are transported back to the time of Zeus and the other gods in Greek mythology, who, strangely enough, behave much as the characters in the trio's class play.

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Don't Cry For Me Aberystwyth

Malcolm Pryce · 288 pages

"It's Christmas in Aberystwyth.The tourists have gone home.The latest movie starring Clip the Sheepdog is on at the cinema. And a man wearing a red-and-white robe is found brutally murdered in a Chinatown alley. A single word is scrawled in his blood on the pavement; 'Hoffmann'. But who is Hoffmann? Thus begins the latest hilarious adventure in the Louie Knight series." "This time Aberystwyth's ce

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Big Nate: In a Class by Himself

Lincoln Peirce · 224 pages

Supremely confident middle school student Nate Wright manages make getting detention from every one of his teachers in the same day seem like an achievement.

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The Wee Free Men

Terry Pratchett · 320 pages

A riotous, wise, and gripping junior Discworld novel from the Carnegie Medal-winning author and acknowledged master of comic fantasy.Nine-year-old Tiffany Aching thinks her Granny Aching - a wise shepherd - might have been a witch, but now Granny Aching is dead and it's up to Tiffany to work it all out when strange things begin happening: a fairy-tale monster in the stream, a headless horseman and

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