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"Effy Sayre has always believed in fairy tales. Haunted by her visions of the Fairy King since childhood, she's had no choice. Her tattered copy of Angharad--Emrys Myrddin's epic about a mortal girl who falls in love with the Fairy King, then destroys him--is the only thing keeping her afloat. So when Myrddin's family announces a contest to redesign the late author's estate, Effy feels certain it is her destiny"--
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IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 14
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From the author of Mask of Shadows comes a dark and intricate story of a girl who must tether herself to a violent ruler to save her crumbling world.
Lorena Adler has a secret-she holds the power of the banished gods, the Noble and the Vile, inside her. She has spent her entire life hiding from the world and her past. She's content to spend her days as an undertaker in a small town, marry her best friend, Julian, and live an unfulfilling life so...
3) Unseelie
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An autistic changeling trying to navigate her unpredictable magic, Seelie finds it difficult to fit in with the humans around her, unlike her twin sister, until they both get caught up in a heist gone wrong that changes everything.
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The book offers new fairytales. Fairytales are a magical and ageless genre appealing to all ages.
The tales open up a fascinating and wonderful world in which children and adults can be in touch with the endless beauty of being human and magical at the same time.
They offer the reader experiences of witches and wizards and dragons and trolls and many more fairytale creatures in a new and enchanting light.
5) Oceanne
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Océanne verse des larmes depuis sa naissance. À tel point que ses pleurs menacent d'engloutir le village de Saint-Parlabas. Seule une mystérieuse boîte à musique parvient à la consoler. Contiendrait-elle son destin? Heureusement, Océanne a un ami qui l'aidera à comprendre toute la magie qui se cache en elle.
Découvrez la fabuleuse histoire d'une enfant sourde et muette qui devra, contre vents et marées, découvrir sa véritable nature. Un...
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Babayaga la sorcière est retenue contre son gré dans une résidence pour personnes âgées.
Dans le folklore slave, Babayaga est un être surnaturel qui apparaît comme une vieille femme difforme ou féroce. Dans la culture, elle vivait dans une hutte généralement décrite comme debout sur des cuisses de poulet. Elle peut aider ou gêner ceux qui la rencontrent o la recherchent.
À travers cette histoire vraie qui m'a été racontée par ma...
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"THE NEED GNOME" was born as a poem and remains so in this newly minted Book Eleven of Kelly Anne Manuel's Essentials Series. In this story the Child is invited on a journey to meet a mythical creature named the Need Gnome. The Child will engage immediately with the narrator who introduces this unique and mysterious main character.
"THE NEED GNOME" offers a standing invitation to the Child. The Child will learn that this character represents a safe...
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The friends are going on a birthday adventure to visit the Lollipop Garden through the Rainbow Forest. They go down the Lemonade River on a boat that can almost fly. They meet a herd of talking words. Eventually they arrive at a very sickly Lollipop Garden. To cure the Lollipop flowers and save the harvest they must explore the Sweet Rock Cave and outwit an ancient magic.
Likened to Alice in Wonderland, the captivating story of 10-year-old Tickle...
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In a playful town, a man tries to sell birds and a squirrel to the hungry Mr. and Mrs. Tummyrumble. But a chatty fly warns Mrs. Tummyrumble that the animals might not be suitable for a regular dish. With humor and creativity, they decide to make a unique bubbly pie instead. This whimsical tale teaches that sometimes unexpected advice can lead to delightful surprises.
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A very slightly updated version of the traditional Norwegian folk tale from Andrew Lang's Blue Fairy Book from 1889. The Blue Fairy Book was the first of 12 Fairy Books to be written and published in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and, though Lang is credited as the creator of these books, it is worth noting that almost all of the actual translation and writing of the stories was done by others - most notably his wife, Nora.
This...
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The tears of princess Prunella is an British fairy tale. Princess Prunella befriends a boy who can only hear beautiful things. He has never learned to hear crying. This upsets the princess and he goes out into the world to find a way so he can hear her tears. The moral of this story is: true love will prevail. Recommended for age 7+.
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Uncle Remus, his songs and his sayings - Joel Chandler Harris - Uncle Remus is the fictional title character and narrator of a collection of African-American folktales adapted and compiled by Joel Chandler Harris, published in book form in 1881. A journalist in post-Reconstruction Atlanta, Georgia, Harris produced seven Uncle Remus books. Harris wanted to show that life in the Southern United States was hard and that they struggled a lot. The term...
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Alle Tiere zittern vor dem Löwen Singh Rajah, Herrscher über den Dschungel. Wer wird als nächstes auf seiner Speisekarte stehen? Als er zwei listigen kleinen Schakalen ganz dicht auf den Fersen ist, scheint es für sie kein Entkommen zu geben...oder doch?
Das Spiel der Macht
Geschichten der Welt — eine indische Fabel
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By creating a mesmerizing world where the surreal and the hyperreal collide, The Helmet of Horror is a radical retelling of the myth of Theseus and the Minotaur set in an Internet chat room. They have never met, they have been assigned strange pseudonyms, they inhabit identical rooms that open out onto very different landscapes, and they have entered a dialogue they cannot escape-a discourse defined and destroyed by the Helmet of Horror. Its wearer...
15) Meanwhile
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Wimmy the Worm hears about a magic bucket and a well from a Raven. Wimmy begins searching but is interrupted by a traveling Wood Thrush whose story overlaps with a White Wolf. In the end, whether or not Wimmy reaches the magic bucket and well is... well, it's in the balance.
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Jack, the delightful, mischievous, big-hearted hero of so many Newfoundland tales, is worried about his parents. They aren't getting any younger; in fact, they're really quite old. So Jack and his brothers Bill and Tom decide to set out and find a magic fruit that will make the old young. Told with the humour, warmth and sly wit that have made Andy Jones one of the Island's finest and best-loved storytellers, The Queen of Paradise's Garden follows...
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The Night of the Christmas Letter Getters is here…It's the most magical time of the year again. The snow is falling, the evenings are drawing in, the secret Post Office is open for business and the Christmas Letter Getters are out in force. Among them is Finley Stark, a small elf with big problems. He doesn't know it yet, but there's sinister forces at play.Soon Finley finds himself being chased through the snowy Yuletide streets of a strange old...
19) The Animals
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In a quaint tourist village, Dorn makes miniature scale models displayed in the local shops. Yet life is far from idyllic; he suffers under the thumb of a rich, philandering younger brother and an unloving father, and cannot find the courage to admit his love to Ravenna, the ungainly schoolteacher.
Life takes a strange turn when the government-sponsored "Wild Home Project" is introduced and wolves, rats, minks, otters, and bears move into villagers'...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
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All 12-year-old Marinka wants is a friend. A real friend. Not like her house with chicken legs. Sure, the house can play games like tag and hide-and-seek, but Marinka longs for a human companion. Someone she can talk to and share secrets with.
But that's tough when your grandmother is a Yaga, a guardian who guides the dead into the afterlife. It's even harder when you live in a house that wanders all over the world . . . carrying you with it. Even...
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