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Urchin and the Rage Tide

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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.

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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.

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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!

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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

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Impossible Creatures

Katherine Rundell · 358 pages

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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.

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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

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The Black Star of Kingston

S.D. Smith · 160 pages

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The Dragon Prophecy

Geronimo Stilton

Princess Sterling sends the Dragon of the Rainbow and Scribblehopper to bring Geronimo Stilton back the the Kingdom of Fantasy, because he is the hero in the dragon prophecy who will find the stolen dragon egg and restore harmony to the kingdom.

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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?

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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

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Fire in the Sky

Erin Hunter · 299 pages

The spirits dance like fire in the sky... The three cubs—Kallik, Toklo, and Lusa—along with their shape-shifting companion, Ujurak, stand on the edge of the sea-ice under the blazing Northern Lights. The land has come to an end, but the bears' journey is far from over. Now they must put their trust in Kallik's paws, as she feels the ice pulling her out toward the ocean.Life on the ice is more d

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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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Of Mice and Magic

David Farland · 276 pages

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Circle of Heroes

Adam Jay Epstein, Andrew Jacobson · 336 pages

Human magic in Vastia is still gone, and as the familiars begin their journey to find the seven animals needed to summon the Shifting Fortress, an army of the Dead besieges the city of Bridgetower, destroying the first of three glyph stones, the only places where the Shifting Fortress can be called from. They escape, but are forced to leave the bounty hunter, Grimslade, behind. The familiars retai

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Beyond the Valley of Thorns

Patrick Carman · 221 pages

When thirteen-year-old Alexa embarks on a mysterious quest, she finds her old friends Yipes the little man, Murphy the squirrel, Odessa the wolf, and Squire the hawk have been designated to help her.

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Sunwing

Kenneth Oppel · 299 pages

Continues the adventures of Shade, a young bat, as he searches for his father and struggles to prevent the evil jungle bat Goth from wiping out the sun.

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The Wizard of Oz

L. Frank Baum · 235 pages

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Emily Windsnap and the Monster from the Deep

Liz Kessler · 219 pages

Picture an island set in a glittering blue sea, sparkling with white sand and palm trees, a secret place where humans and merfolk live together. To Emily Windsnap — half mermaid, half human — her new home is perfect. That is, until Emily ruins everything by waking a legendary sea monster known as the kraken from its hundred-year sleep. . . . An enchanting tale with a fabulous monster, engaging cha

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Island of Fog

Keith Robinson · 264 pages

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Prince Caspian

Clive Staples Lewis · 190 pages

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Marlfox

Brian Jacques · 386 pages

Stealth and cunning are the traits of the Marlfox. Known only in Redwall country by legend, they are said to be able to appear and disappear by magic. When the strange creatures begin to appear in Mossflower Woods, it's clear that evil is abroad. A kidnapping and a cunning raid to steal the beautiful Redwall tapestry confirm the worst: Redwall is under threat. Three young ones, squirrels Songbr

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Sword Quest

Nancy Yi Fan · 287 pages

Wind-voice the half-dove, formerly enslaved, is now free, and Maldeor, the one-winged archaeopteryx, hungers for supreme power.Can Wind-voice and his valiant companions—Ewingerale, the wood-pecker scribe; Stormac, the myna warrior; and Fleydur, the musician eagle—save the future of their world?An exciting prequel to the New York Times bestseller Swordbird.

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