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Song of the lioness volume 1
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Eleven-year-old Alanna, who aspires to be a knight even though she is a girl, disguises herself as a boy to become a royal page, learning many hard lessons along her path to high adventure. "From now on I'm Alan of Trebond, the younger twin. I'll be a knight." And so young Alanna of Trebond begins the journey to knighthood. Though a girl, Alanna has always craved the adventure and daring allowed only for boys; her twin brother, Thom, yearns to learn...
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Shifting scenes volume 6
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Knowing how to read and write is not enough for Louis, a voiceless trumpeter swan; his determination to learn to play a stolen trumpet takes him far from his wilderness home.
43) The subtle knife
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As the boundaries between worlds begin to dissolve, Lyra and her daemon help Will Parry in his search for his father and for a powerful, magical knife.
44) The Silmarillion
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"Tolkien considered THE SILMARILLION his most important work, and, though it was published last and posthumously, this great collection of tales and legends clearly sets the stage for all his other writing. The story of the creation of the world and of the the First Age, this is the ancient drama to which the characters in THE LORD OF THE RINGS look back and in whose events some of them, such as Elrond and Galadriel, took part. The three Silmarils...
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The Wizard of Oz series volume 7
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A boy, a patchwork girl, and a glass cat go on a mission to find the ingredients for a charm which will transform some people turned to marble.
46) Mirror, mirror
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Presents a retelling of the Snow White fairy tale, set in early sixteenth-century Italy, in which the life of innocent, young Bianca de Nevada is disrupted when her beloved father is sent on an errand by Cesare Borgia, leaving her in the care of Borgia's sister Lucrezia, a decadent woman who orders the child killed.
49) The high king
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When the most powerful weapon in the land of Prydain falls into the hands of Arawn, Lord of the Land of Death, Taran and Prince Gwydion rally an army to stand up to the dark forces. The companions' last and greatest quest is also their most perilous. The biting cold of winter is upon them, adding to the danger they already face. Their journey, fraught with battle and bloodshed, ends at the very portal of Arawn's stronghold. There, Taran is faced with...
50) The Taggerung
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Redwall volume 14
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770L
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A young otter, kidnapped in his infancy and raised as a warrior-thief by a band of vermin, leaves the tribe and goes off to seek adventures of his own.
51) Ozma of Oz
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When a storm blows Dorothy to the land of Ev where lunches grow on trees, she meets the Scarecrow, the Tin Woodsman, the Cowardly Lion, and Princess Ozma, and together they set out to free the Queen of Ev and her ten children.
52) Dragon champion
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Age of fire volume 1
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Young Auron, the last of a dying breed of dragons, manages to escape a murderous group of slave-trading dwarves and sets out to find more of his own kind and learn who is killing off the remaining dragons.
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Witch and Yale historian Diana Bishop discovers an enchanted manuscript, attracting the attention of 1,500-year-old vampire Matthew Clairmont. The orphaned daughter of two powerful witches, Bishop prefers intellect, but relies on magic when her discovery of a palimpsest documenting the origin of supernatural species releases an assortment of undead who threaten, stalk, and harass her.
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It began for our narrator forty years ago when the family lodger stole their car and committed suicide in it, stirring up ancient powers best left undisturbed. Dark creatures from beyond the world are on the loose, and it will take everything our narrator has just to stay alive: there is primal horror here, and menace unleashed - within his family and from the forces that have gathered to destroy it. His only defense is three women, on a farm at the...
55) Lord Foul's bane
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"The first book in one of the most remarkable epic fantasies ever written, the Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, Unbeliever.
He called himself Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever because he dared not believe in the strange alternate world in which he suddenly found himself. Yet he was tempted to believe, to fight for the Land, to be the reincarnation of its greatest hero...."
57) Queste
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Septimus Heap volume 4
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Septimus must elude the plans of Merrin Meredith and Tertius Fume in order to find the House of Foryx, a place where all Time meets, and secure the release of Nicko and Snorri.
58) Pearls of Lutra
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Redwall volume 9
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Tansy, a young hedgehog living at Redwall Abbey, attempts to solve the riddle of the missing pearls while at the same time the evil marten, Mad Eyes, desires them for himself.
60) Dragon strike
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Age of fire volume 4
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Three dragon siblings are among the last of a dying breed, and the final hope for their species' survival. AuRon, Wistala, and Copper find themselves at odds over the coming human war. AuRon thinks dragons should have no part in the affairs of humans. Wistala believes dragons and man can peacefully co-exist. And Copper has designs of his own on the world.
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