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Hamster princess volume 1
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Harriet Hamsterbone is not your typical princessl. She may be quite stunning in the rodent realm (you'll have to trust her on this one), but she is not go great at trailing around the palace looking ethereal or signing a lot. She find the royal life rather...dull. One day, though, Harriet's parents tell her of the curse that a rat placed on her at birth, dooming her to prick her finger on a hamster wheel when she's twelve and fall into a deep sleep....
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“A bit like the great movie Toy Story and a bit like the wonderful Kate DiCamillo book The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane. This is a great family book.” —The Washington Post on Toys Go Out, the companion to Toy Dance Party
Here is the second book in the highly acclaimed Toys trilogy, which includes the companion books Toys Go...
Here is the second book in the highly acclaimed Toys trilogy, which includes the companion books Toys Go...
4) Snakehead
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Alex Rider adventures volume 7
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While working with the Australian Secret Service on a dangerous mission, teenaged spy Alex Rider uncovers information about his parents.
5) Dreamwood
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"12-year-old Lucy Darrington goes on a quest to find her missing father in a remote, magical territory in the Pacific Northwest"--
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Maximum Ride volume 4
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While on a mission to Antarctica to save the world from global warming, fourteen-year-old Maximum Ride and the other members of the Flock--a band of genetically modified children who can fly--are pursued by their creator, the Uber-Director, who wants to auction them off to the highest bidder.
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After Owen captures an enormous bullfrog, names it Tooley Graham, then has to release it, he and two friends try to use a small submarine that fell from a passing train to search for Tooley in the Carter, Georgia, pond it came from, while avoiding nosy neighbor Viola.
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"I'm Geronimo Stilton. I run a newspaper, but my true passion is writing adventure stories. In my next two adventures, I search the subway tunnels of New Mouse City for the latest ghost haunting, only to find the fright of my life -- the ghost turned out to be a cat! I also try to keep a legendary gem hidden in the heart of the Amazon jungle from falling into the wrong paws"--
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Artemis Fowl series volume 8
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Opal Koboi, power-crazed pixie, is plotting to exterminate mankind and become fairy queen. If she succeeds, the spirits of long-dead fairy warriors will rise from the earth, inhabit the nearest available bodies and wreak mass destruction. But what happens if those nearest bodies include crows, or deer, or badgers -- or two curious little boys by the names of Myles and Beckett Fowl? Yes, it's true. Criminal mastermind Artemis Fowl's four-year-old brothers...
12) The key to Rondo
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Rondo volume 1
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Through an heirloom music box, Leo, a serious, responsible boy, and his badly-behaved cousin Mimi enter the magical world of Rondo to rescue Mimi's dog from a sorceress, who wishes to exchange him for the key that allows free travel between worlds.
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The Cat of Bubastes, A Tale of Ancient Egypt is a historical novel for young people by British author G.A. Henty. It is the story of a young prince who becomes a slave when the Egyptians conquer his people, he becomes a fugitive when he accidentally kills a sacred cat.
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G. A. Henty (1832-1903) wrote vastly popular, carefully researched books about fictional youngsters who lived during critical periods of history. In this exciting volume, he provides a thrilling glimpse of the struggle between Great Britain and Spain for supremacy of the high seas, as seen through the eyes of a sixteenth-century teenager, Ned Hearne. Along with three friends, young Ned is swept up in one adventure after another as he accompanies the...
16) Mulan
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With narration from Grandmother Fa, original character voices, and sound effects from the award-winning film, Mulan, this thrilling read-along brings all the action to life. To save her father from death in the army, Mulan secretly goes in his place and becomes one of China's greatest heroines in the process. Readers can turn the pages at the sound of the chime and follow along with the word-for-word narration on the CD as the adventure begins!
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Helped by a very long ladder, some unusual acquaintances, two rather worried parents, and a great deal of community spirit, a young English boy makes an astonishing discovery when he embarks on a mission to prove that the moon is nothing but a big hole in the sky.