Katherine Rundell
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Christopher discovers the Archipelago, a world where mythological creatures were secreted away by magic long ago, but those creatures are now dying, and it is up to Christopher and Mal, a girl from the Archipelago, to save both of their worlds.
3) The explorer
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A Beginner's Guide to Exploring
OBD Explore With The Library - YOUTH
Read Around the World (WPL-Youth)
OBD Explore With The Library - YOUTH
Read Around the World (WPL-Youth)
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Left stranded in the Amazon jungle when their plane crashes on their way back to England from Manaus, Brazil, four children struggle to survive for days until one of them finds a map that leads them to a ruined city and a secret hidden among the vines.
4) Rooftoppers
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When authorities threaten to take Sophie, twelve, from Charles who has been her guardian since she was one and both survived a shipwreck, the pair goes to Paris to try to find Sophie's mother, and they are aided by Matteo and his band of "rooftoppers."
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In 1920s New York City, a young girl with a deformed foot recruits her new friends, a female pickpocket and two circus performers, to help recover an emerald from her grandfather's mansion in upstate New York after he loses his home to an unscrupulous tycoon.-- Provided by Publisher.
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"A very modern biography of John Donne-the poet of love, sex, and death-by bestselling children's book author and superstar academic Katherine Rundell"-- Provided by publisher.
Sometime religious outsider and social disaster, sometime celebrity preacher and establishment darling, John Donne was incapable of being just one thing. In his myriad lives he was a scholar of law, a sea adventurer, a priest, an MP - and perhaps the greatest love poet in...
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Into the Jungle is a modern classic in the making, as Katherine Rundell creates charming and compelling origin stories for all Kipling's best-loved characters, from Baloo and Shere Khan to Kaa and Bagheera. As Mowgli travels through the Indian jungle, this brilliantly visual tale, which weaves each short story together into a wider whole, will make readers both laugh and cry. Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book, first published by Macmillan in 1894,...
14) Just so stories
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Inspired by the bedtime stories Rudyard Kipling told his daughter that had to be recited 'just so', this collection includes the mythical, whimsical legends behind the camel's hump and elephant's long trunk, together with other playful inventions, such as the reason for the ebb and flow of the tides and the creation of the alphabet.
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"Cuando Vita Marlowe aterriza en Nueva York, ciudad a la que ha viajado con su madre desde Inglaterra, ignora que está a punto de emprender una arriesgada aventura para ayudar a su querido abuelo Jack Welles. Un famoso estafador con conexiones con la mafia lo ha engañado y el anciano ha perdido su casa y todas sus posesiones. Su nieta hará lo imposible para hacerle sonreír de nuevo." -- Amazon.com.
In 1920s New York City, a young girl with a...