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61) Tinsey Clover
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Tinsey Clover is smart. She's brave. Also, she can't carry a tune to save her life. Oh yeah, and she's an elf the size of a chipmunk. When her bizarre magical power grows in and makes her feel like a total outsider in her own village, Tinsey sneaks into the forbidden forest on a journey to find someone more like her. What she discovers along the way challenges everything, and everyone, she thought she knew.
For early middle grade fans of...
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Friendship and a brand new bicycle ... what more could a possum ask for?
When Oliver Possum was just a young joey, he walked everywhere. Well,
everywhere he could, which wasn't far. All of that changed when he got his first bicycle.
Now the whole world is his, as long as he's was back by dark. And he made sure he was, mostly. Now he is making new friends, too! Well, mostly.
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Wesley's Birthday Wish presented as a narrative, with color-filled pictures throughout. Wesley is incredibly excited about waking up the morning he finally turns seven years old. A magic door would open for him at last! He had wondered what was on the other side of that door ever since it first appeared when he turned four. What adventures await? Wesley's Birthday Wish, is a moving fantasy story about a small boy's rite of passage, and one can't help...
64) Skyclyffe
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Rex Bright enjoys drawing in notebooks and dreaming. He's thirteen, and his life is ordinary.Until he sees a face in a cloud which changes everything.Rex glimpses the girl from an airplane window while travelling to his aunt and uncle's farm for the summer. Her features are so perfect, Rex can't believe she's only vapor.But Cloud Girl is real.A week later, Skyclyffe, a mysterious airship cloaked in a cumulus, abducts Rex and his family. The captors...
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Immerse yourself in the enchanting world of Journey, a captivating children's book that celebrates the power of transformation and the beauty found in unexpected friendships. Join Christina as she embarks on an extraordinary journey filled with discovery and wonder. In Chapter 1, readers will join Christina during a walk in the forest, where she stumbles upon a mesmerizing sight-a small caterpillar making its way across the forest floor. The encounter...
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Step into a mystical world filled with fantasy and adventure as Jenna defends her dragon friend from dangerous hunters!
Middle Forest is once again being threatened by hunters and twelve-year-old Jenna is the only one who can help them. First Guard to Ituria, the shapeshifting dragon, Knocker, has encountered the hunters before-but in his human form.
The hunters promised they would stop hunting, but now that they have discovered the forest...
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On Earth, red wolves are extremely endangered, and one of the last forest areas set aside for red wolf reintroduction has been sold for a housing development. Taylor has been watching a family of red wolves who will lose their home, and he wishes he could save them, but how could he save them and where could they go? Trusting a stranger to help, Taylor reaches the wolves in time; but how can they get the wolves out of the construction site without...
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Join Taylor on his adventure to rescue nine endangered red wolves from extinction! Using the ability to communicate with animals granted to him after his first encounter with Ituria's Alliance, Taylor races to save the red wolves left in his land. He joins forces with Megan, a dragon temporarily turned human, to save Brandon, a young wolf caught in a poacher's trap. With Brandon freed, the poacher's are angry and hot on their trail. Taylor, his forest...
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Danger has returned to Middle Forest!
It has been a few months since Jenna rescued the unicorn Ituria from the hunters; and Jenna's grandfather has come to live with her family. When the hunters return searching for a magical creature they claim to have seen, Jenna answers the call for help, and must protect her new forest friends…without her grandfather or parents finding out.
After Jenna learns that her grandfather has been to Middle Forest...
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Dive into a world filled with nature and self-discovery as Jenna finds herself part of the Legend of the White Wolf...
A desperate call for help starts Jenna on a fast-paced journey to try and save Ituria, a unicorn trapped by hunters. After freeing him from the hunter's cave, she must also protect him from a renegade wolf intent on taking over Ituria's forest home.
Jenna may be human in East Forest, but when she travels into the Middle Forest she...
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"No time to explain — they will see you, now run!"
Learning that an expedition was studying a group of endangered terns, Jan joined the group with her father, to help him with his research and see if she could do anything to protect them. While at the nesting site on the cliffs, she finds a small silk bag in a cave, and so starts an adventure with many unexpected surprises.
When she learns poachers have stolen many tern eggs, she is determined...
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Join Michelle on her adventure to rescue a baby manatee! As a hurricane rips through her coastal community, Michelle does her best to stay safe inside her house, but a strange siren leads her to the end of her dock. There she discovers a young manatee named Ethan who is in desperate need of help. Quickly joined by Knocker, a dragon who can transform into a human, and Alleana, the leader of the Crystal Cay mermaids, the trio devise a plan to save him....
73) Just Keep Going
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Just Keep Going is a story of blended families, new friendships, marine pollution, a magical stone, a persistent dolphin, and a young girl with a strong will to succeed, adapting to life in a new country.
Becky always loved visiting her dad in New Zealand until she returns during the pandemic.
Now he's got a baby with her new stepmum and everything has changed. Worse still, her windsurfer hasn't arrived yet, so there's nothing for her to do but wait...
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What could be better than selling lemonade to stave off the summer doldrums? Try swashbuckling adventure on the high seas! Captain Gabriel has done both before, the lemonade and the adventures, so he's pretty good at it despite the fact that he still has no idea what a swash even is, nor how one would buckle it. Never mind that -- he's setting sail with his quirky crew to embrace the unknown, including a magical unicorn and her warrior-girl companion,...
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Old family secrets will not stay hidden...
Billie's uncle is convinced the stories his sister tells about the Bergmann family history are true.
A magic mirror.
A family of dwarfs.
And he'll do anything to command the mirror, even if it means using unsuspecting Billie.
Socialite Billie likes a treasure hunt as much as the next girl, so she follows her uncle to an out-of-the-way mining town in Arizona where she meets an odd array of characters,...
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Someone, or something, is causing trouble at Southland Academy for Supernatural Youth, aka SASY. Random items turn up missing from the rooms of the academy's students, and no one knows who is doing it or why it's happening. When Vlad's valuable family ring goes missing and Devlin overhears the culprit, the six friends decide to follow the clues left behind. Meet Vlad, the son of the world's most famous vampire, who is accident prone and has a serious...
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Christina and the Monster Under Her Bed is a heartwarming children's book that takes young readers on an exciting adventure filled with bravery, friendship, and important life lessons. Join Christina as she embarks on a thrilling journey to confront her fears and discover the truth behind the mysterious noises coming from under her bed.In Chapter 1, readers are introduced to Christina, a little girl who believes there is a monster lurking beneath...
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He was supposed to collect the dead. Instead, he rescued a single soul. Now watching her adventure, he's faced with making the ultimate sacrifice. The Collector can't tell how to fix what he's undone. Ever since impulsively saving the baby in the rowboat, the walking bringer of death has spent his days searching for the key to rolling back his misstep. But the greater his fascination with human mortality and the allure of taking just one life-giving...
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"This story reminds me of the books that began my love of reading in the first place. This is definitely now in my top 10 list of young reader books" - by Melody
"I can't recommend this book enough as it was a very satisfying read" - by Dawn
"I'm a massive fan of young adult fantasy, I just love how simple, fun and enjoyable it can be and The Deadly Cavern was just that." - by David
"A new world, some adventure and a whole lot of fun. What an exciting...
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A young African boy lives most of his childhood in Texas. "Prince" is the name his parents call him ever since he was a young boy.
The name, "Prince", would often cause Amadi to wonder about the meaning and importance of the name. Young Amadi knows about his Nigerian roots, but he has never visited his homeland. When his parents first announce they are traveling back home to Africa, Amadi becomes very happy and curious about traveling home to Nigeria....
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