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"The Light Princess" is George MacDonald's 1864 fairy tale inspired by "Sleeping Beauty". It is the story of a young girl, the daughter of the King and Queen, who at her christening is cursed to have no gravity by the uninvited Princess Makemnoit, sister to the King, and a spiteful bitter woman. As a result of the curse, the princess is in constant danger of being carried away by the wind and grows up never taking anything seriously. The only time...
64) Beach day
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Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
Rhyming text describes a perfect day at the beach, complete with sandy knees, deviled eggs, and a castle with a moat.
65) It's a tiger!
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English
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A child imagines that he is in a story where he encounters a tiger at every turn.
66) Odd bird out
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Publisher
Gecko Press
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
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Faced with mockery for his antics and attire, a raven named Robert leaves town to seek his fortune, and some time later a fabulous entertainer named Bobby Raver appears to great popular acclaim--but he never reveals his identity.
68) Holes
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English
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As further evidence of his family's bad fortune which they attribute to a curse on a distant relative, Stanley Yelnats is sent to a hellish correctional camp in the Texas desert where he finds his first real friend, a treasure, and a new sense of himself.
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Tales from Deckawoo Drive volume 5
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English
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Stella Endicott loves her teacher, Miss Liliana, and she is thrilled when the class is assigned to write a poem. Stella crafts a beautiful poem about Mercy Watson, the pig who lives next door -- a poem complete with a metaphor and full of curiosity and courage. But Horace Broom, Stella's irritating classmate, insists that Stella's poem is full of lies and that pigs do not live in houses. And when Stella and Horace get into a shouting match in the...
70) Squirm
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English
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Billy Dickens discovers that his mysterious father lives in Montana, so this summer Billy will fly across the country, hike a mountain, float a river, dodge a grizzly bear, shoot down a spy drone, and save his own father.
71) Pinocchio
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Series
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
Presents the adventures of Pinocchio, a mischievous wooden puppet, who wants more than anything else to become a real boy.
72) Treat
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Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Language
English
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After performing endless tricks and futile searches, a treat-obsessed little dog finally makes a tasty discovery.
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English
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Before: Ethan was always up for a laugh, always willing to accept a dare, always ready for a baseball game with his big brother, Roddie, or an adventure with his best friend, Kacey. Now: Ethan's family is escaping Boston for the small town of Palm Knot, Georgia. But Ethan's not sure he'll ever escape the memories of the accident that cost him everything. When Ethan meets Coralee, a girl with a big personality and even bigger stories, he starts to...
74) Peter Pan
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English
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An illustrated edition of the classic story in which the three Darling children, Wendy, John, and Michael, travel to Neverland where they share great adventures with Peter Pan, the boy who refused to grow up.
75) The Hunger Games
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Series
Hunger Games trilogy volume 1
Language
English
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In a future North America, where the rulers of Panem maintain control through a televised survival competition pitting young people against one another, Katniss's skills are put to the test when she takes her younger sister's place.
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
When thirteen-year-old Logan and his family move into a run-down old house in rural Virginia, he discovers that a woman was murdered there and becomes involved with his neighbor Arthur in a dangerous investigation to try to uncover the killer.
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Series
Fablehaven volume 4
Language
English
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Description
The magical preserve Fablehaven provides refuge to numerous mystical species: centaurs, trolls, satyrs, ogres, fairies, minotaurs, brownies, imps, nymphs, and many others. But some beings are too large and powerful to be confined to regular enchanted refuges. These mightiest of creatures dwell inside the dragon sanctuaries.
80) The lost hero
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Heroes of Olympus volume 1
Language
English
Description
Jason, Piper, and Leo, three students from a school for "bad kids," find themselves at Camp Half-Blood, where they learn that they are demigods and begin a quest to free Hera, who has been imprisoned by Mother Earth herself.
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