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The World Above: A Retelling of Jack and the Beanstalk and Robin Hood

Cameron Dokey

Gen and her twin brother, Jack, were raised with their mother's tales of life in the World Above. Gen is skeptical, but adventurous Jack believes the stories--and trades the family cow for magical beans. Their mother rejoices, knowing they can finally return to their royal home. When Jack plants the beans and climbs the enchanted stalk, he is captured by the tyrant who now rules the land. Gen s

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The Fairy's Mistake

Gail Carson Levine Β· 87 pages

In this humorous retelling of a Perrault tale, the fairy Ethelinda rewards one twin sister for good behavior and punishes the other for bad, only to discover that her punishment is more pleasing than her reward.

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The Field Guide

Holly Black, Tony DiTerlizzi Β· 107 pages

When the Grace children go to stay at their Great Aunt Lucinda's worn Victorian house, they discover a field guide to fairies and other creatures and begin to have some unusual experiences.

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Unlocking the Spell

E.D. Baker Β· 280 pages

Now that Annie has helped her sister Gwendolyn (a.k.a. Sleeping Beauty) wake up from the 100-year curse by finding her beloved prince, you would think that things would get back to normal. Think again! That beloved prince, Beldegard, is stuck in the body of a bear and the only way that Annie can be free of the two irritating lovebirds is to help--by finding the evil dwarf who cast the spell. Lucki

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The Problem Child

Michael Buckley Β· 292 pages

a great book for kids about fairy tale creatures and people come to life where saabrina and daphne and the grrandmother are the grimms they solve the fairy tale crimes

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The Monster

Garth Nix, Sean Williams Β· 304 pages

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The Wind Singer

William Nicholson Β· 352 pages

An extremely amazing look into the life of two twin brothers and sisters who are expected to do everything at their school in the most perfect manner until the sister cant cope with it anymore...................

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The Akhenaten Adventure

P.B. Kerr Β· 355 pages

Meet John and Philippa Gaunt, twelve-year-old twins who one day discover themselves to be descended from a long line of djinn. All of a sudden, they have the power to grant wishes, travel to extraordinary places, and make people and objects disappear. Luckily, the twins are introduced to their eccentric djinn-uncle Nimrod, who will teach them how to harness their newly found power. And not a momen

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Blood Captain

Justin Somper Β· 569 pages

As fans of the Vampirates series know, nothing is quite as it seems when Vampirates and pirates are involved, so twins Connor and Grace have to keep up their guards. But with every new challenge pulling them farther apart, it seems that the time has finally come for the twins to explore their separate fates. Grace, unable to forget the blindness she caused her Vampirate friend Lorcan, chooses to

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Half Upon a Time

James Riley

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The Spiderwick Chronicles Box Set

Holly Black Β· 672 pages

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In a Glass Grimmly

Adam Gidwitz

Companion to: A tale dark & Grimm. Follows Frog (who is not a prince) as he hops out of his own story and joins cousins Jack and Jill to seek a magic mirror, encoutering such creatures as giants, mermaids, and goblins along the way. Based in part on Mother Goose rhymes and fairy tales from the Brothers Grimm and Andersen.

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The Door to Time

Pierdomenico Baccalario Β· 222 pages

After moving from London to an old mansion on the English coast, eleven-year-old twins Jason and Julia discover that their new home has twisting tunnels, strange artifacts from around the world, and a mysterious, locked door.

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Sink or Swim

Sarah Mlynowski Β· 165 pages

Once again Abby and her brother Jonah go through the magic mirror in their basement, and this time they find themselves interfering in the Little Mermaid story--and needing to set things right and make sure everyone has a happy ending.

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Flyte

Angie Sage Β· 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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Rapunzel's Revenge

Shannon Hale, Dean Hale Β· 144 pages

Once upon a time, in a land you only think you know, lived a little girl and her mother . . . or the woman she thought was her mother. Every day, when the little girl played in her pretty garden, she grew more curious about what lay on the other side of the garden wall . . . a rather enormous garden wall. And every year, as she grew older, things seemed weirder and weirder, until the day she

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The Lost Colony

Eoin Colfer Β· 385 pages

When demons begin appearing on Earth unpredictably, foreshadowing a cataclysmic breakdown of their magic, Artemis and his friends face a new foe--a twelve-year-old girl whose intellect just might match Artemis's own--as they try to prevent catastrophe.

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The Warlock

Michael Scott

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Sweetly

Jackson Pearce

When the owner of a candy shop molds magical treats that instill confidence, bravery, and passion, eighteen-year-old Gretchen's haunted childhood memories of her twin sister's abduction by a witch-like monster begin to fade until girls start vanishing at the annual chocolate festival.

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Molly Moon, Micky Minus, & the Mind Machine

Georgia Byng Β· 405 pages

With the, sometimes reluctant, help of her long-lost twin brother Micky Minus, Molly uses her telepathic powers to try and save the world from the maniacal Princess Fang and her evil mind machine.

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Sleeping Beauty's Daughters

Diane Zahler Β· 216 pages

"Twelve-year-old Princess Aurora has been cursed to prick her finger and sleep for one hundred years, but before her fate can come to pass, she and her sister Luna embark on a perilous journey to find the fairy who can break the curse"--

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Hollow Earth

Carole E. Barrowman, John Barrowman Β· 326 pages

Possessing extraordinary powers, including the ability to bring artwork to life, twelve-year-old twins Matt and Emily are sought by villains trying to access the terrors of Hollow Earth, a place where demons and mythological beasts lie trapped for eternity.

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Doctor Illuminatus

Martin Booth Β· 192 pages

Pip and her twin brother, Tim, awaken an alchemist's son from a centuries-long slumber when their family moves to an old English country estate, and he enlists them in the fight against an evil alchemist who seeks to create a homunculus.

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