Jonathan Auxier
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"We save ourselves by saving others." It's been five years since the Sweep disappeared. Orphaned and alone, Nan Sparrow had no other choice but to work for a ruthless chimney sweep named Wilkie Crudd. She spends her days sweeping out chimneys. The job is dangerous and thankless, but with her wits and will, Nan has managed to beat the deadly odds time and time again. When Nan gets stuck in a chimney fire, she fears the end has come. Instead, she wakes...
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Irish orphans Molly, fourteen, and Kip, ten, travel to England to work as servants in a crumbling manor house where nothing is quite what it seems to be, and soon the siblings are confronted by a mysterious stranger and secrets of the cursed house.
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The transporting first volume in the Vanished Kingdom fantasy series—a swashbuckling adventure with unforgettable characters, from Jonathan Auxier, the New York Times bestselling and award-winning author of The Night Gardener and Sweep
Peter Nimble and His Fantastic Eyes is the utterly beguiling tale of a ten-year-old blind orphan who has been schooled in a life of thievery.
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Fabled Stables volume 2
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As an employee in the Fabled Stables, young Auggie must protect all fantastical creatures, even the irritatingly talkative furry tails that have attached themselves to the human residents of Rainbow's End.
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The War of the Maps is a breathtaking fantasy in the vein of His Dark Materials and The Last Battle that dares to give new answers to age-old questions--inviting readers of all ages to sail beyond the edges of the map into a world of magic, myth, and boundless adventure. Since time before time, two opposing forces have been locked in an endless battle: It is the war between magic and reason--between what if and what is. And the victor will not just...
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"Twelve-year-old Sophie knows little beyond the four walls of herfather's bookshop, where she repairs old books and dreams of escaping the confines of her dull life. But when a strange boy and his talking cat/horse companion show up with a rare and mysterious book, she finds herself pulled into an adventure beyond anything she has ever read"-- Provided by publisher.
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Vanished kingdom volume 1
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Raised to be a thief, blind orphan Peter Nimble, age ten, steals from a mysterious stranger three pairs of magical eyes, that lead him to a hidden island where he must decide to become a hero or resume his life of crime.
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The exciting second adventure in the Vanished Kingdom series—about a clever bookmender whose life is turned upside down when she's sent on a mission to save stories and storybooks across the Wide World
It’s been two years since Peter Nimble and Sir Tode rescued the kingdom of HazelPort. In that time, they have traveled far and wide in search of adventure. Now they have been summoned by Professor Cake for
...It’s been two years since Peter Nimble and Sir Tode rescued the kingdom of HazelPort. In that time, they have traveled far and wide in search of adventure. Now they have been summoned by Professor Cake for
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«Za kyslymy lisamy, u samiĭ hushchavyni stoïtʹ mai͡etok Vindzoriv. Uz͡he bahato rokiv nikhto ne navaz͡hui͡etʹsi͡a tudy zaïz͡hdz͡haty. Mist͡sevi obkhodi͡atʹ t͡seĭ budynok desi͡atoi͡u dorohoi͡u, a vsi͡akomu, khto zapytai͡e dorohu do nʹoho, kaz͡hutʹ, shcho zvidty nemai͡e vorotti͡a. Ale Molli ta Kipu -- diti͡am, i͡aki zalyshylysi͡a sami-samisinʹki na t͡sʹomu sviti, -- i͡aknaĭshvydshe potriben prytulok i trokhy ïz͡hi....









