Tag Archives: Arthurian

Magic Tree House #29: Christmas in Camelot (A Stepping Stone Book(TM))

Rating: (31 reviews)
Author: Mary Pope Osborne
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers

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The Magic Tree House series has become a staple for inspiring kids to read. Christmas in Camelot is a very special Magic Tree House book. Here, author Mary Pope Osborne uses the literary skills for which she’s known to create a longer, [...]

The Complete Chronicles of Narnia CD Box Set

Rating: (38 reviews)
Author: C. S. Lewis
Publisher: HarperAudio

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Journeys to the end of the world, fantastic creatures, and epic battles between good and evil — what more could any reader ask for? The lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, written in 1949 by Clive Staples Lewis, had all this and more. But Lewis did not [...]

The Absolute Sandman, Vol. 3

Author: Neil Gaiman
Publisher: Vertigo

Book Description
The third volume collecting Neil Gaiman’s seminal, award-winning series starring the Dream King in deluxe format.
ABSOLUTE SANDMAN VOL. 3 presents several key SANDMAN tales in a slipcased hardcover edition, including “Brief Lives,” in which the Sandman’s sister Delirium prevails upon her older brother to help her find their missing sibling, Destruction. [...]

The Neverending Story

Rating: (256 reviews)
Author: Michael Ende
Publisher: Dutton Juvenile

The Seeing Stone (The Spiderwick Chronicles, Book 2)

Rating: (64 reviews)
Author: Holly Black
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing

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In the Spiderwick Chronicles’ second book, things get even more exciting–and kind of scary–for the Grace kids, as the strange faerie world hinted at in The Field Guide blooms to full life around them.
After making tentative peace with Thimbletack (a coveralled house brownie who’s “the [...]

Swimmy (Knopf Children’s Paperbacks)

Rating: (23 reviews)
Author: Leo Lionni
Publisher: Dragonfly Books

Book Description
Illus. in color. “An exquisite picture book. A little fish, the lone survivor of a school of fish swallowed by a tuna, devises a plan to camouflage himself and his new companions.”–(starred) School Library Journal.  

Fahrenheit 451

Rating: (1237 reviews)
Author: Ray Bradbury
Publisher: Del Rey

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In Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury’s classic, frightening vision of the future, firemen don’t put out fires–they start them in order to burn books. Bradbury’s vividly painted society holds up the appearance of happiness as the highest goal–a place where trivial information is good, and knowledge and ideas are [...]

Ender’s Game Boxed Set: Ender’s Game, Ender’s Shadow, Shadow of the Hegemon

Rating: (17 reviews)
Author: Orson Scott Card
Publisher: Tor Books

Book Description
Boxed Set contains Mass Market Editions of Ender’s Game, Ender’s Shadow, and Shadow of the Hegemon
Ender’s Game
Winner of the Hugo and Nebula Awards
In order to develop a secure defense against a hostile alien race’s next attack, government agencies breed child geniuses and train them as soldiers. [...]

Arthur Spiderwick’s Field Guide to the Fantastical World Around You: Movie Tie-in Edition (The Spiderwick Chronicles)

Rating: (49 reviews)
Author: Holly Black
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing

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Spiderwick fans will adore this gorgeous guidebook to the fantastical creatures featured in Holly Black and Tony DiTerlizzi’s spectacular series. The superdeluxe, lavishly illustrated “field guide” features 142 information-packed pages, 41 full-color plates, 6 spectacular gatefolds, 6 watercolor landscapes, scores of black-and-white and color sketches, [...]

The Mists of Avalon

Rating: (871 reviews)
Author: Marion Zimmer Bradley
Publisher: Del Rey

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Even readers who don’t normally enjoy Arthurian legends will love this version, a retelling from the point of view of the women behind the throne. Morgaine (more commonly known as Morgan Le Fay) and Gwenhwyfar (a Welsh spelling of Guinevere) struggle for power, using Arthur as a [...]

Children of the Mind (Ender, Book 4)

Rating: (199 reviews)
Author: Orson Scott Card
Publisher: Tor Science Fiction

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Children of the Mind, fourth in the Ender series, is the conclusion of the story begun in the third book, Xenocide. The author unravels Ender’s life and reweaves the threads into unexpected new patterns, including an apparent reincarnation of his threatening older brother, Peter, not to [...]

Christmas in Camelot (Magic Tree House #29)

Rating: (22 reviews)
Author: Mary Pope Osborne
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers

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A cup, a compass, a key: the magic tree house has brought siblings Annie and Jack to Camelot, where they embark on a mysterious mission to find these enigmatic gifts. In this special hardcover addition to the bestselling Magic Tree House series, the [...]

The Man in the High Castle

Rating: (158 reviews) Author: Philip K. Dick Publisher: Vintage Book Description It’s America in 1962. Slavery is legal once again. the few Jews who still survive hide under assumed names. In San Francisco the I Ching is as common as the Yellow Pages. All because some 20 years earlier the United States lost [...]

The Dark Is Rising (The Dark Is Rising Sequence)

Rating: (153 reviews)
Author: Susan Cooper
Publisher: Simon Pulse
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“When the Dark comes rising, six shall turn it back,
Three from the circle, three from the track;
Wood, bronze, iron; water, fire, stone;
Five will return, and one go alone.”
With these mysterious words, Will Stanton discovers on his 11th birthday that he is no mere boy. He is the Sign-Seeker, [...]

Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day

Rating: (144 reviews)
Author: Judith Viorst
Publisher: Aladdin
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Judith Viorst. Poor Alexander! He woke up with gum in his hair; his mom forgot to put dessert in his lunch bag; there were lima beans for dinner, and kissing on TV even the cat refuses to sleep in his bed. Some days are just like that. Alexander’s [...]