Tag Archives: Magic

Peter and the Secret of Rundoon

December 10, 2009 – 4:04 pm

Rating: (3 reviews)
Author: Ridley Pearson, Dave Barry
Publisher: Disney Editions

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The Cricket in Times Square (Chester Cricket and His Friends)

December 2, 2009 – 11:06 am

Rating: (128 reviews)
Author: George Selden
Publisher: Square Fish

Product Description
Tucker is a streetwise city mouse. He thought he’d seen it all. But he’s never met a cricket before, which really isn’t surprising, because, along with his friend Harry Cat, Tucker lives in the very heart of New York City—the Times Square subway station. Chester Cricket never [...]

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The Name of this Book Is Secret

November 28, 2009 – 5:04 pm

Rating: (39 reviews)
Author: Pseudonymous Bosch
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers

Product Description
This is the story about a secret. but it also contains a secret story. When adventurous detectives, Cass, an ever-vigilant survivalist, and Max-Ernest, a boy driven by logic, discover the Symphony of Smells, a box filled with smelly vials of colorful ingredients, they [...]

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Ranger’s Apprentice: Erak’s Ransom

November 28, 2009 – 3:48 pm

Rating: (6 reviews)
Author: John Flanagan
Publisher: Philomel

Product Description What does it mean to earn the Silver Oakleaf? So few men have done so. For Will, a mere boy, that symbol of honor has long felt out of reach. Now, in the wake of Araluen’s uneasy truce with the raiding Skandians comes word that the Skandian [...]

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The Little Prince Pop-Up

November 28, 2009 – 2:49 pm

Rating: (1 reviews)
Author: Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Publisher: HMH Books

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Product Description
After being stranded in a desert after a crash, a pilot comes in contact with a captivating little prince who recounts his journey from planet to planet and his search for what is most important in life. For over sixty-five years Antoine de Saint-Exupery’s classic, [...]

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Mark Wilson’s Complete Course in Magic

January 5, 2009 – 11:16 am

Rating: (52 reviews)
Author: Mark Wilson
Publisher: Running Press Kids

Product Description
From one of the world’s premier practitioners of classic magic, with years of experience instructing younger readers in the magical arts, comes this new revision of his complete guide to learning and performing fantastic feats of prestidigitation. Acclaimed by the Los Angeles Times as “the text [...]

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Where is Baby’s Mommy?

July 3, 2008 – 1:38 pm

Rating: (38 reviews)
Author:
Publisher: Little Simon

Product Description
Is Mommy behind the chair?
Is Mommy behind the plant?
Join baby as he plays hide-and-seek with Mommy. The sturdy format and easy-to-lift flaps in this delightful interactive book are perfect for parents and children to share.

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Easy Mind-Reading Tricks

April 28, 2008 – 4:26 pm

Rating: (3 reviews)
Author: Robert Mandelberg
Publisher: Sterling

Product Description
Dazzle friends, family, and acquaintances with a series of mind-blowing psychic feats that will have them demanding an encore. Robert Mandelberg–comedian, magician, puzzle master, and author of Mind Reading Card Tricks and Mystifying Mind-Reading Tricks, among others–presents the topic as no one else can. With a distinctively wild [...]

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Everybody Needs a Rock (An Aladdin Book)

April 4, 2008 – 1:08 am

Rating: (17 reviews)
Author: Byrd Baylor
Publisher: Aladdin

Product Description
Everybody needs a rock — at least that’s the way this particular rock hound feels about it in presenting her own highly individualistic rules for finding just the right rock for you.

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Masquerade

December 1, 2007 – 9:20 am

Rating: (16 reviews)
Author: Melissa De La Cruz
Publisher: Hyperion
When we last left off with Schuyler Van Alen, she was just getting used to the news of being a Blue Blood, or what we normally label them as, a vampire. She gets invited into the New York Blood Bank Committee and, before she knows it, Schuyler [...]

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Inkspell

November 30, 2007 – 5:04 am

Rating: (200 reviews)
Author: Cornelia Funke
Publisher: The Chicken House
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Just a few chapters into Inkspell, Mo (a.k.a. “Silvertongue”) sagely says to his daughter, “Stories never really end, Meggie, even if the books like to pretend they do. Stories always go on. They don’t end on the last page, any more than they begin on the first [...]

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High Rhulain (Redwall)

November 29, 2007 – 11:24 am

Rating: (26 reviews)
Author: Brian Jacques
Publisher: Ace

Book Description
The otters of Green Isle have long been enslaved to the Wildcat Riggu Felis and his catguards, who torture the otters at every opportunity. The otters trudge on, waiting for the day their savior will arrive—the prophesized High Rhulain, who will lead them in battle and a return [...]

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Salamandastron (Redwall, Book 5)

November 29, 2007 – 3:26 am

Rating: (136 reviews)
Author: Brian Jacques
Publisher: Puffin
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As the inhabitants of Redwall relax in the haze of the long, hot summer, they are unaware that the neighboring stronghold of Salamandastron lies besieged by the evil weasel army of Ferhago the Assassin. Nor do they realize that Mara, beloved daughter of Urthsipe, Badger Lord of the Fire [...]

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Pokemon Get Well Pikachu! #6 (Pokemon, Reader)

November 26, 2007 – 5:53 am

Rating: (1 reviews)
Author: Tracey West
Publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks

Book Description
IT’S SHOCKING!Pikachu is sick. He has too much electricity and he’s zapping everything in sight! He cannot go outside and play. He has to rest. But that does not stop Team Rocket from trying to steal Pikachu! Can Pikachu’s new friends help him hide? Or will Team [...]

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Dora Saves Mermaid Kingdom! (Dora the Explorer (8×8))

November 25, 2007 – 6:54 pm

Author: Artful Doodlers
Publisher: Simon Spotlight/Nickelodeon

Book Description
A mean octopus has dumped garbage all over Mermaid Kingdom! The
only way to save the mermaids is to find the magic crown! Come along
with everyone’s favorite explorer, Dora, as she crosses the Seashell
Bridge, goes through Pirate Island, and then goes to the Silly Sea.
Will Dora be able to save her [...]

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The Golden Compass, Deluxe 10th Anniversary Edition (His Dark Materials, Book 1)

November 24, 2007 – 12:56 pm

Rating: (1372 reviews)
Author: Philip Pullman
Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers
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Some books improve with age–the age of the reader, that is. Such is certainly the case with Philip Pullman’s heroic, at times heart-wrenching novel, The Golden Compass, a story ostensibly for children but one perhaps even better appreciated by adults. The protagonist of this complex [...]

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Prom Nights from Hell

November 23, 2007 – 8:51 am

Rating: (12 reviews) Author: Meg Cabot, Stephenie Meyer, Kim Harrison, Lauren Myracle, Michele Jaffe Publisher: HarperTeen Book Description In this exciting collection, bestselling authors Meg Cabot (How to Be Popular), Kim Harrison (A Fistful of Charms), Michele Jaffe (Bad Kitty), Stephenie Meyer (Twilight), and Lauren Myracle (ttyl) take bad prom nights to a [...]

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Life As We Knew It

November 23, 2007 – 7:57 am

Rating: (42 reviews)
Author: Susan Beth Pfeffer
Publisher: Harcourt Children’s Books
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It’s almost the end of Miranda’s sophomore year in high school, and her journal reflects the busy life of a typical teenager: conversations with friends, fights with mom, and fervent hopes for a driver’s license. When Miranda first begins hearing the reports of a meteor on [...]

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Practical Guide to Dragons

November 23, 2007 – 6:14 am

Rating: (5 reviews) Author: Lisa Trumbauer Publisher: Mirrorstone Amazon.com Did you know dragons hate sweet flavors? Or that the Draconic word for ugly is “nurh”? Or that the best place to find a green dragon is behind a waterfall? Any dragon buff worth his or her salt needs to know the ins and outs [...]

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Wintersmith

November 23, 2007 – 1:50 am

Rating: (69 reviews) Author: Terry Pratchett Publisher: HarperTeen Book Description When the Spirit of Winter takes a fancy to Tiffany Aching, he wants her to stay in his gleaming, frozen world. Forever. It will take the young witch’s skill and cunning, as well as help from the legendary Granny Weatherwax and the irrepressible [...]

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Snowmen at Night

November 23, 2007 – 12:13 am

Rating: (23 reviews) Author: Caralyn Buehner Publisher: Dial Book Description Have you ever built a snowman and discovered the next day that his grin has gotten a little crooked, or his tree-branch arms have moved? And you’ve wondered . . . what do snowmen do at night? This delightful wintertime tale reveals all! [...]

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Eragon / Eldest (Inheritance, Books 1 & 2)

November 22, 2007 – 12:21 am

Rating: (118 reviews)
Author: Christopher Paolini
Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers

Book Description
In the #1 New York Times bestselling novels Eragon and Eldest, fifteen year-old Eragon discovers his destiny as a Dragon Rider. With only an ancient sword and the advice of an old storyteller for guidance, Eragon and his dragon must navigate the dangerous terrain [...]

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The Twilight Collection (Twilight)

November 21, 2007 – 2:42 am

Author: Stephenie Meyer
Publisher: Little Brown and Company

Book Description
Deeply romantic and extraordinarily suspenseful, Twilight, New Moon, and Eclipse capture the struggle between defying our instincts and satisfying our desires. This stunning set includes three hardcover books, two full-color posters and exclusive tattoos, and makes the perfect gift for fans of this bestselling vampire love story.

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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (Book 1)

November 20, 2007 – 4:18 pm

Rating: (5389 reviews)
Author: J.K. Rowling
Publisher: Scholastic
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Say you’ve spent the first 10 years of your life sleeping under the stairs of a family who loathes you. Then, in an absurd, magical twist of fate you find yourself surrounded by wizards, a caged snowy owl, a phoenix-feather wand, and jellybeans that come in every flavor, including [...]

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The Dark Is Rising (The Dark Is Rising Sequence)

November 19, 2007 – 5:49 am

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, [...]

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Eragon/Eldest Trade Paperback Boxed Set

November 18, 2007 – 7:03 pm

Rating: (11 reviews)
Author: Christopher Paolini
Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers

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Midnight Alley (The Morganville Vampires, Book 3)

November 18, 2007 – 3:37 pm

Rating: (8 reviews)
Author: Rachel Caine
Publisher: NAL Jam

Book Description
Claire Danvers’s college town may be run by vampires but a truce between the living and the dead made things relatively safe. For a while. Now people are turning up dead, a psycho is stalking her, and an ancient bloodsucker has proposed private mentoring. To what end, [...]

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The Abhorsen Trilogy Box Set

November 17, 2007 – 2:53 pm

Rating: (19 reviews)
Author: Garth Nix
Publisher: Eos

Book Description
To preserve life,the Abhorsen must enter Death

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The Subtle Knife (His Dark Materials, Book 2)

November 16, 2007 – 1:40 pm

Rating: (598 reviews)
Author: Philip Pullman
Publisher: Laurel Leaf
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With The Golden Compass Philip Pullman garnered every accolade under the sun. Critics lobbed around such superlatives as “elegant,” “awe-inspiring,” “grand,” and “glittering,” and used “magnificent” with gay abandon. Each reader had a favorite chapter–or, more likely, several–from the opening tour de force to Lyra’s close call at [...]

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Tsubasa 15: RESERVoir CHRoNiCLE (Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle)

November 16, 2007 – 12:27 pm

Rating: (2 reviews)
Author: Clamp
Publisher: Del Rey

Book Description
ONCE A CITY, NOW A WASTELAND . . .
Kurogane, Syaoran, Fai, Mokona, and Princess Sakura have come upon a desert of shifting sands and ruined skyscrapers. This postapocalyptic nightmare is all that remains of the booming metropolis that was Tokyo, and the survivors are battling for the few [...]

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The Quillan Games (Pendragon)

November 16, 2007 – 12:21 pm

Rating: (38 reviews)
Author: D. J. MacHale
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing

Book Description
Let the Games Begin….
Quillan is a territory on the verge of destruction. The people have lost control of their own future and must struggle simply to survive. The only chance they have of finding a better life is by playing the Quillan Games. [...]

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Beauty: A Retelling of the Story of Beauty and the Beast

November 16, 2007 – 7:59 am

Rating: (227 reviews)
Author: Robin Mckinley
Publisher: Eos
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This much-loved retelling of the classic French tale Beauty and the Beast elicits the familiar magical charm, but is more believable and complex than the traditional story. In this version, Beauty is not as beautiful as her older sisters, who are both lovely and kind. Here, in fact, Beauty [...]

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Sons of Destiny (Cirque Du Freak: The Saga of Darren Shan, Book 12

November 16, 2007 – 7:21 am

Rating: (25 reviews)
Author: Darren Shan
Publisher: Little, Brown Young Readers

Book Description
Time seemed to collapse… There was a sharp stabbing sensation in my stomach… Steve crowed, “Now I have you! Now you’re gonna die!”
Dead if he loses – damned if he wins. The time has finally come for Darren to face his archenemy, Steve Leopard. One [...]

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Uglies (Uglies Trilogy, Book 1)

November 16, 2007 – 6:26 am

Rating: (205 reviews)
Author: Scott Westerfeld
Publisher: Simon Pulse
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Playing on every teen’s passionate desire to look as good as everybody else, Scott Westerfeld (Midnighters) projects a future world in which a compulsory operation at sixteen wipes out physical differences and makes everyone pretty by conforming to an ideal standard of beauty. The “New Pretties” are then [...]

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The Amber Spyglass, Deluxe 10th Anniversary Edition (His Dark Materials, Book 3)

November 16, 2007 – 5:09 am

Rating: (6 reviews)
Author: Philip Pullman
Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers

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Warriors: Warrior’s Refuge

November 16, 2007 – 3:19 am

Author: Erin Hunter
Publisher: TOKYOPOP

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Grandfather Tang’s Story (Dragonfly Books)

November 16, 2007 – 1:22 am

Rating: (7 reviews)
Author: Ann Tompert
Publisher: Dragonfly Books

Book Description
“Drawing on a Chinese form of storytelling with seven shapes cut from a square of paper, Tompert recounts the tale of two fox fairies. Parker’s pen-and-watercolor art adds drama, while the tangram insets will motivate children to try their own versions.”–The Bulletin of the Center for Children’s [...]

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Sir Thursday (The Keys To The Kingdom, Book 4)

November 15, 2007 – 8:57 pm

Rating: (27 reviews)
Author: Garth Nix
Publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks

Book Description
On the fourth day there was war… Following their adventures in the Border Sea, Arthur and Leaf head for home. But only Leaf gets through the Front Door. Arthur is blocked because someone . . . or something . . . has assumed his identity and is [...]

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The Darkest Hour (Warriors, Book 6)

November 15, 2007 – 2:34 pm

Rating: (105 reviews)
Author: Erin Hunter
Publisher: HarperTrophy

Book Description
ThunderClan’s darkest hour is upon them, as Tigerstar’s quest for power plunges all the Clans into the most terrible danger any cat has ever faced. In order to save his Clan and his friends, Fireheart must uncover the meaning of an ominous proclamation from StarClan:
“Four will become two. [...]

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Pickles To Pittsburgh

November 15, 2007 – 2:23 pm

Rating: (13 reviews)
Author: Judi Barrett
Publisher: Aladdin
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In Pickles to Pittsburgh, the Barretts’ sequel to the delightfully funny, bestselling Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, we check back in with Kate and Henry as they eagerly await Grandpa’s return from an unusual vacation. Kate dreams about a postcard Grandpa has sent, and the story begins.
Kate and [...]

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Shadowbred (The Twilight War, Book 1)

November 15, 2007 – 2:22 pm

Rating: (17 reviews)
Author: Paul S. Kemp
Publisher: Wizards of the Coast

Book Description
The Lady has spoken to me.
It has already begun.
Shadows move out of the shrinking desert, south to the rich and arrogant cities of Sembia.
“Be brave, little man,” says the shadowman, and the boy thinks his voice is surprisingly soft. “Stay with your mother. This [...]

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Skin Hunger (A Resurrection of Magic)

November 15, 2007 – 1:02 pm

Rating: (5 reviews)
Author: Kathleen Duey
Publisher: Atheneum

Book Description
Sadima lives in a world where magic has been banned, leaving poor villagers
prey to fakes and charlatans. A “magician” stole her family’s few valuables and
left Sadima’s mother to die on the day Sadima was born. But vestiges of magic
are hidden in old rhymes and hearth tales and in [...]

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Artemis Fowl: The Graphic Novel (Artemis Fowl)

November 15, 2007 – 12:28 pm

Rating: (7 reviews)
Author: Eoin Colfer, Andrew Donkin
Publisher: Hyperion

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Specials (Uglies)

November 15, 2007 – 11:20 am

Rating: (59 reviews)
Author: Scott Westerfeld
Publisher: Simon Pulse

Book Description
“Special Circumstances”:
The words have sent chills down Tally’s spine since her days as a repellent, rebellious ugly. Back then Specials were a sinister rumor — frighteningly beautiful, dangerously strong, breathtakingly fast. Ordinary pretties might live their whole lives without meeting a Special. But Tally’s never been ordinary.
And [...]

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The Rivers of Zadaa (Pendragon)

November 15, 2007 – 11:00 am

Rating: (68 reviews)
Author: D. J. MacHale
Publisher: Aladdin

Book Description
THE BATTLE CONTINUES.
The struggle of good versus evil continues as Bobby Pendragon follows Saint Dane to the territory of Zadaa. Saint Dane’s influence has fueled the fire of discontent between two warring tribes: the Rokador and the Batu. This is also the territory where the Traveler Loor [...]

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The Sweet Far Thing

November 15, 2007 – 9:38 am

Author: Libba Bray
Publisher: Delacorte Books for Young Readers

Book Description
IT HAS BEEN A YEAR OF CHANGE since Gemma Doyle arrived at the foreboding Spence Academy. Her mother murdered, her father a
laudanum addict, Gemma has relied on an unsuspected strength and has discovered an ability to travel to an enchanted world called the realms, where dark magic [...]

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The Wonderful Wizard of Oz: A Commemorative Pop-up

November 15, 2007 – 9:02 am

Rating: (113 reviews)
Author: L. Frank Baum
Publisher: Little Simon
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To commemorate the 100th anniversary of the publication of L. Frank Baum’s The Wizard of Oz, master paper engineer Robert Sabuda has created a pop-up version of Dorothy’s adventures in Oz that fans will find hard to resist. Modeling his depictions of Dorothy, the Scarecrow, the Tin [...]

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Physik (Septimus Heap, Book 3)

November 15, 2007 – 8:57 am

Rating: (24 reviews)
Author: Angie Sage
Publisher: Katherine Tegen Books

Book Description
When Silas Heap unSeals a forgotten room in the Palace, he releases the ghost of a Queen who lived five hundred years earlier. Queen Etheldredda is as awful in death as she was in life, and she’s still up to no good. Her diabolical plan to [...]

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Pretties (Uglies Trilogy, Book 2)

November 15, 2007 – 8:51 am

Rating: (81 reviews)
Author: Scott Westerfeld
Publisher: Simon Pulse

Book Description
Gorgeous. Popular.
Perfect. Perfectly wrong.
Tally has finally become pretty. Now her looks are beyond perfect, her clothes are awesome, her boyfriend is totally hot, and she’s completely popular. It’s everything she’s ever wanted.
But beneath all the fun — the nonstop parties, the high-tech luxury, the total freedom — [...]

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Dragonhaven

November 15, 2007 – 7:56 am

Rating: (20 reviews)
Author: Robin McKinley
Publisher: Putnam Juvenile

Book Description
Jake Mendoza lives at the Makepeace Institute of Integrated Dragon Studies in Smokehill National Park. Smokehill is home to about two hundred of the few remaining draco australiensis, which is extinct in the wild. Keeping a preserve for dragons is controversial: detractors say dragons are extremely dangerous [...]

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