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1) Stone soup
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In this retelling of a European folktale set in China, three wise monks trick a poor, frightened community into finding happiness by teaching them the magic of generosity.
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Cece Rios volume 1
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Privately questioning her remote community's superstitions about dangerous powerful spirits in their Devil's Alley home, Cecelia Rios experiments with the forbidden art of brujería to rescue her kidnapped sister.
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Trials of Apollo volume 1
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How do you punish an immortal? By making him human. After angering his father Zeus, the god Apollo is cast down from Olympus. Weak and disorientated, he lands in New York City as a regular teenage boy. Now, without his godly powers, the four-thousand-year-old deity must learn to survive in the modern world until he can somehow find a way to regain Zeus's favour. But Apollo has many enemies -- gods, monsters, and mortals who would love to see the former...
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"Herc Beal knows who he's named after - a mythical hero - but he's no superhero. He's the smallest kid in his class. So when his homeroom teacher at his new middle school gives him the assignment of duplicating the mythical Hercules's amazing feats in real life, he's skeptical. After all, there are no Nemean Lions on Cape Cod, and not a single Hydra in sight. Missing his parents terribly and wishing his older brother wasn't working all the time, Herc...
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Guardians of Ga'Hoole volume 5
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Soren leads the Chaw of Chaws to rescue his sister, and this begins the next battle between the owls of Ga'Hoole and the evil Pure Ones.
6) Ollie
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30L
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Friends Gossie and Gertie are waiting and waiting for Ollie to hatch. They try poking, listening to, even sitting on top of his egg--but Ollie is Ollie and he will decide when it's time to hatch.
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Magnus Chase and the gods of Asgard volume 1
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"Magnus Chase has seen his share of trouble. Ever since that terrible night two years ago when his mother told him to run, he has lived alone on the streets of Boston, surviving by his wits, staying one step ahead of the police and truant officers.
One day, he’s tracked down by an uncle he barely knows―a man his mother claimed was dangerous. Uncle Randolph tells him an impossible secret: Magnus is the son of a Norse god.
The Viking myths are...
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Unicorn Rescue Society volume 1
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540L
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After encountering a Jersey Devil while on a field trip to the Pine Barrens, Elliot and his new friend Uchenna help their weird teacher Professor Fauna rescue the mythological creature from a pair of greedy billionaire brothers.
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Ranger's apprentice. Main series volume 2
(John Anthony).Royal Ranger volume 1
Royal Ranger volume 2
(John Anthony).Ranger's apprentice volume 13
(John Anthony).Royal Ranger volume 1
Royal Ranger volume 2
(John Anthony).Ranger's apprentice volume 13
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"The mysterious Red Fox Clan, a group of anarchists all donning fox masks, have threatened Castle Araluen and question Princess Cassandra and Madelyn's succession to the throne. Will they succeed in unseating Cassandra and Madelyn and take the throne for themselves?"--
10) Amber & Clay
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"In a warlike land of wind and sunlight, 'ringed by a restless sea,' live Rhaskos and Melisto, spiritual twins with little in common beyond the violent and mysterious forces that dictate their lives. A Thracian slave in a Greek household, Rhaskos is as common as clay, a stable boy worth less than a donkey, much less a horse. Wrenched from his mother at a tender age, he nurtures in secret, aided by Socrates, his passions for art and philosophy. Melisto...
11) The thief
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Gen flaunts his ingenuity as a thief and relishes the adventure which takes him to a remote temple of the gods where he will attempt to steal a precious stone.
13) The outcast
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Guardians of Ga'Hoole volume 8
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Nyroc has glimpsed a new destiny in the of his father's bones. In search of that destiny leaves for The Beyond the Beyond.
14) The siege
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Guardians of Ga'Hoole volume 4
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"Enraged by his clash with Soren and driven by and all-consuming desire for power, Kludd and his group, the Pure Ones, launch an attack upon the Great Ga'Hoole Tree. The noble owls who live there must fight fiercely to protect their resources and defend their honor."--P. 4 cover.
15) Rip Van Winkle
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Arthur Rackham's 1905 illustrations highlight the story of Rip Van Winkle, an eighteenth-century Catskill Mountains man with an aversion to profitable labor, who falls asleep for twenty years and awakens to a very different village.
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Heroes of Olympus volume 5
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"The Greek and Roman demigods must simultaneously prevent the earth mother, Gaea, from waking and stop war from breaking out at Camp Half-Blood"-- Provided by publisher.
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All year the half-bloods have been preparing for battle against the Titans, knowing the odds of victory are grim. Kronos's army is stronger than ever, and with every god and half-blood he recruits, the evil Titan's power only grows. While the Olympians struggle to contain the rampaging monster Typhon, Kronos begins his advance on New York City, where Mount Olympus stands virtually unguarded. Now it's up to Percy Jackson and an army of young demigods...
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Trials of Apollo volume 4
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"In his penultimate adventure, a devastated but determined Apollo travels to Camp Jupiter, where he must learn what it is to be a hero, or die trying"--
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