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1) Briarheart
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Although Miriam is the daughter of Tirendell's Queen Alethia, she is not the daughter of the King, but rather the daughter of the deceased King's Champion, Alethia's former husband. Having no ambitions to rule, Miriam is overjoyed when her baby sister, Aurora, is born. Then, on Aurora's christening day, the Dark Fae arrives to curse her--but in the process, Miriam discovers she has powers of her own. Now, Miriam must learn to use her magic and how...
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Evie loves healing people, and her medical work takes up so much time she never thinks about marrying anyone--so when Wormy, her friend and often test subject, suddenly proposes to her, Evie turns him down, not being in love with him in that way. Lucinda, though, doesn't approve of her rejection, and curses Evie to be a hideous ogre. If she does not find another suitor within sixty-two days she will be stuck as an ogre forever.
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That fool of a fairy Lucinda did not intend to lay a curse on me. She meant to bestow a gift. When I cried inconsolably through my first hour of life, my tears were her inspiration. Shaking her head sympathetically at Mother, the fairy touched my nose. 'My gift is obedience. Ella will always be obedient. Now stop crying, child.' I stopped. So begins this richly entertaining story of Ella of Frell, who wants nothing more than to be free of Lucinda's...
5) Ash
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A variation on the Cinderella story in which a girl named Ash grows up believing in the fairy realm that the king and his philosophers have sought to suppress, until one day she must choose between a handsome fairy cursed to love her and the King's Huntress, whom she loves.
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2nd Grade Reading
Children's and Middle Grade Novels in Spanish and English/Novelas juveniles en español e inglés
Fun Family Read-Alouds for 2nd Grade and Older
Funny Books for Kids
Children's and Middle Grade Novels in Spanish and English/Novelas juveniles en español e inglés
Fun Family Read-Alouds for 2nd Grade and Older
Funny Books for Kids
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A young boy escapes from two wicked aunts and embarks on a series of adventures with six giant insects he meets inside a giant peach.
7) Bad hair day
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On their fifth trip through the magic mirror, siblings Abby and Jonah find themselves in the story of Rapunzel--and they set out to free her from her tower, reunite her with her parents, and give the story a completely happy ending.
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New York high school student Elizabeth gets an after-school job as a page at the "New-York Circulating Material Repository," and when she gains coveted access to its Grimm Collection of magical objects, she and the other pages are drawn into a series of frightening adventures involving mythical creatures and stolen goods.
11) The heir
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Twenty years ago, America Singer entered the Selection and won Prince Maxon's heart. Now the time has come for Princess Eadlyn to hold a Selection of her own. Eadlyn doesn't expect her Selection to be anything like her parents' fairy-tale love story ... but as the competition begins, she may discover that finding her own happily ever after isn't as impossible as she's always thought.
12) Frogged
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Princess Imogene hates doing her homework, so instead she goes outside to look at the pond whenever she can. One day she meets a frog that used to be a prince. Kissing him to reverse the spell like in the fairy tales, Imogene is instead herself turned into a frog. Now she has to find someone to kiss her to turn her back.
13) A true princess
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Twelve-year-old Lilia goes north to seek the family she has never known, accompanied by her friends Kai and Karina and their dog Ove, on an adventure fraught with peril, especially when they become lost in Bitra Forest, the Elf King's domain. Inspired by the Hans Christian Andersen tale, The princess and the pea.
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Journeyman toymaker Stefan Drosselmeyer is recruited by his mysterious cousin, Christian, to find a mythical nut that will save Boldavia's princess and his own kidnapped father from a fanatical Mouse Queen and her seven-headed Mouse Prince, who have sworn to destroy the Drosselmeyer family.
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"Ever since he was a dwarfling, Borlen (nicknamed Grump) has dreamed of visiting The Surface, so when opportunity knocks, he leaves his cavern home behind. At first, life aboveground is a dream come true. Queen Elfrieda Veronika Ingrid Lenore (E.V.I.L.) is the best friend Grump always wanted, feeding him all the rubies he can eat and allowing him to rule at her side. But as time goes on, Grump starts to suspect that Queen E.V.I.L. may not be as nice...
16) The bone sparrow
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Subhi, a refugee born in an Australian permanent detention center, finds comfort in the songs of whales he can hear from the sea. One day he meets a scruffy girl on the other side of the camp's wire mesh, Jimmie, who asks him to read her lost mother's notebook, which contains her family's love songs and tragedies.
17) 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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The Vietnam War continues to play itself out in fiction, autobiography, and history books, but no American author has captured the experiences of the Vietnamese themselves--and caught their voices--more tellingly than Robert Olen Butler, who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1993 for A Good Scent From a Strange Mountain. The 15 stories collected here, all written in the first person, blend Vietnamese folklore, the terrible, lingering memories of war, American...
19) The last battle
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Jill and Eustace help fight the great last battle in Narnia after a false, cruel leader deceives the people into believing he is Aslan.
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"An epic fantasy about a young girl raised by a witch, a swamp monster, and a Perfectly Tiny Dragon, who must unlock the powerful magic buried deep inside her. Every year, the people of the Protectorate leave a baby as an offering to the witch who lives in the forest. They hope this sacrifice will keep her from terrorizing their town. But the witch in the forest, Xan, is kind and gentle. She shares her home with a wise Swamp Monster named Glerk and...