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Adventure Time (Vol.2) (ADVENTURE TIME)

Ryan North, Shelli Paroline, Braden Lamb

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The Mouse and the Motorcycle

Beverly Cleary · 158 pages

The Mouse and the Motorcycle is a children's novel written by Beverly Cleary and published in 1965. It is the first in a trilogy featuring Ralph S. Mouse, a house mouse who can speak to humans (though typically only children), goes on adventures riding his miniature motorcycle, and who longs for excitement and independence while living with his family in a run-down hotel. The book was released

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Wayside School Is Falling Down

Louis Sachar · 179 pages

"Watch Closely," said Mrs. Jewls. "You can learn much faster using a computer instead of paper and pencil." Then she pushed the new computer out the window. The children watched it fall thirty floors and smash against the sidewalk. "See?" said Mrs. Jewls. "That's gravity! I've been trying to teach you about gravity, but the computer showed you a lot quicker!" That's the way things happen a

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The Hitch Hiker's guide to the galaxy

Douglas Adams · 590 pages

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Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There

Lewis Carroll · 217 pages

*Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There*, published in late 1871, is a sequel to Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. While the previous book begins with Alice falling down a rabbit hole into a world of playing cards, this volume finds her step through a parlor mirror into a realm totally designed like a game of chess.

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Pippi Longstocking

Astrid Lindgren · 160 pages

Pippi Longstocking is nine years old. She has just moved into Villa Villekulla where she lives all by herself with a horse, a monkey, and a big suitcase full of gold coins. The grown-ups in the village try to make Pippi behave in ways that they think a little girl should, but Pippi has other ideas. She would much rather spend her days arranging wild, exciting adventures to enjoy with her neighbour

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The Phantom Tollbooth

Norton Juster · 256 pages

It has been fifty years—and millions of readers—since the world was first introduced to Milo and his adventures in the Lands Beyond with Tock, the Humbug, and the captive princesses Rhyme and Reason. Now we have a remarkable 50th anniversary edition to honor this universally adored and deeply influential novel.  This special edition will include:    • Gorgeous packaging that features the classic

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Here Be Monsters!

Alan Snow · 529 pages

While gathering food to bring to his grandfather, young Arthur becomes trapped in the city of Ratbridge, where he and some new friends try to stop a plot to shrink the monsters of Arthur's home, the Underworld, for a nefarious purpose.

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Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle

Betty MacDonald · 118 pages

Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle is an extraordinarily magic little woman with a talent for curing children of their bad behaviors. She lives in an upside-down house and is the best friend of every child in town. Watch as she cleverly takes on a never go to bedder, cures a messy room, and more.

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The 26-Storey Treehouse

Andy Griffiths · 352 pages

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Mary Poppins

P.L. Travers · 206 pages

An extraordinary English nanny blows in on the East Wind with her parrot-headed umbrella and magic carpetbag and introduces her charges, Jane and Michael, to some delightful people and experiences.

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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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Adventure Time Vol. 1

Ryan North, Braden Lamb

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Doctor Dolittle

Hugh Lofting · 144 pages

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A Hat Full of Sky

Terry Pratchett · 352 pages

Something is coming after Tiffany ...Tiffany Aching is ready to begin her apprenticeship in magic. She expects spells and magic -- not chores and ill-tempered nanny goats! Surely there must be more to witchcraft than this!What Tiffany doesn't know is that an insidious, disembodied creature is pursuing her. This time, neither Mistress Weatherwax (the greatest witch in the world) nor the fierce, six

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Pinocchio

Carlo Collodi · 205 pages

"First published in serial form from 1881 to 1883 in Il Giornale dei bambini, the many adventures of Pinocchio, Geppetto's wooden puppet who came to life to laugh, cry, and dance like a real boy, garnered immediate acclaim as a children's story. Today Italians consider the novel, along with The Divine Comedy and The Decameron, one of their most important works of literature. Readers familiar only

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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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The Marvelous Land of Oz

L. Frank Baum · 166 pages

Tip and his creation, Jack Pumpkin, run away to Oz, where they save the city after it is captured by girls.

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The Grim Grotto

Lemony Snicket · 323 pages

Warning: Your day will become very dark – and possibly damp – if you read this book. Plan to spend this spring in hiding. Lemony Snicket is back with the eleventh book in his New York Times bestselling A Series of Unfortunate Events. Lemony Snicket's saga about the charming, intelligent and grossly unlucky Baudelaire orphans continues to provoke suspicion and despair in readers the world over. In

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Jacob Two-Two Meets the Hooded Fang

Mordecai Richler · 86 pages

***The delightful adventures of an ordinary boy condemned to the dreaded dungeon ''From which no brat returns!''*** Poor Jacob Two-Two. Not only must he say everything twice just to be heard over his four brothers and sisters, but when he inadvertently insults a grown up, he is exiled to Slimers' Isle - and soon finds himself the prisoner of the dreaded Hooded Fang. ***Although he's small, Jaco

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Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing

Judy Blume · 120 pages

Any fourth grader would agree that Peter Hatcher has a terrible problem—his little brother, Fudge. But the grown-ups in his life just can't see that there is something wrong with a two-year-old who breaks his front teeth try- ing to fly, decides that he is a dog, goes on a no-eat strike, and scribbles all over his brother's homework. Peter is always asked to perform so that Fudge will be less of

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The Snarkout Boys and the Avocado of Death

Daniel Pinkwater · 156 pages

Walter and Winston set out to rescue the inventor of the Alligatron, a computer developed from an avocado which is the world's last defense against the space-realtors.

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The Anybodies

N.E. Bode

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