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1) Peter Pan
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The adventures of the three Darling children in Never-Never Land with Peter Pan, the boy who would not grow up. Also includes an author profile, contextual notes, questions for reflection, and ideas for activities.
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One night in the reform club, Phileas Fogg bets his companions that he can travel across the globe in just eighty days. Breaking the well-established routine of his daily life, he immediately sets off for Dover with his astonished valet Passepartout. Passing through exotic lands and dangerous locations, they seize whatever transportation is at hand - whether train or elephant - overcoming set-backs and always racing against the clock.
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Run along the Mississippi with Tom Sawyer. Confront the Lilliputians in Gulliver's Travels. Fight the evil sheriff of Nottingham with Robin Hood. Discover how Robinson Crusoe survived on a deserted island. QED has chosen four fantastic adventure stories for boys to continue our successful series Classic Collection! Carefully retold in clear contemporary language, and presented with delightful illustrations, these favourite classic stories will capture...
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Abandoned to his fate when his English parents die in the African jungle, a baby boy is rescued and reared by a loving ape foster mother. Conquering the savage laws of the wilderness, Tarzan grows into a mighty warrior and becomes leader of his tribe of apes until he encounters, for the first time, his own kind - humans. An expedition of white treasure hunters has entered his jungle kingdom, accompanied by the beautiful Jane Porter. Tarzans primitive...
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Alice is a skilled pre-teen secret agent, but her new team at Wonderland is... odd. Mr. White, the new boss, is always running late for something, Maddie makes wacky gadgets and hats but stops for tea every hour, and Alice's new partner, Kitty, literally disappears during their mission training. How can Alice sneak into the evil Queenie Hearts's garden party and stop her top-secret, world-ending plan amid all this madness? Written in graphic novel...
8) Hotel Rem
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Rembrandt Somner enthusiastically runs his hotel by balancing his unwieldy coworkers and wild guests, but a demanding celebrity guest threatens to be the rude awakening that ruins everything.
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"Journey with Alice into a world of wonder where oddities, logic and wordplay rule supreme. Encounter characters like the Cheshire Cat who can vanish into thin air, the Mad Hatter who speaks in riddles and the Queen of Hearts obsessed with the phrase "Off with their heads!" Amidst these absurdities, Alice will have to find her own way home."--Publisher's description.
11) Do a powerbomb
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From the creator of MURDER FALCON and Wonder Woman: Dead Earth comes the wrestling adventure of the decade! Lona Steelrose wants to be a pro wrestler, but shes living under the shadow of her mother, the best to ever do it. Everything changes when a wrestling-obsessed necromancer asks her to join the grandestand most dangerouspro-wrestling tournament of all time! Its The Wrestler meets Dragonball Z in a tale where the competitors get more than they...
12) Cinderella
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Cinderella is so busy cleaning and fixing things that she runs out of time to get ready for the ball with her lazy stepsisters. But then her Fairy Godmother shows up to help the aspiring interior designer and Clementine go to the party.
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"Azula continues her destabilizing campaign against the Fire Nation and her brother, Fire Lord Zuko. But after a failed attack on her latest target, Azula finds herself in a mysterious forest temple inhabited by a solitary monk...or is it something more mysterious? Azula must confront her past, and finally face her chance at redemption."--
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"A young girl finds her way through grief in this ... graphic novel twist on Peter Pan, [in which] 16-year-old Wendy Davies crashes her car into a lake on a late summer night in New England with her two younger brothers, John and Michael, in the backseat. With Michael missing, Wendy struggles to negotiate fantasy and reality as students and adults around her resemble characters from Neverland. Given a sketchbook by her therapist, Wendy starts to draw...