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Endings by K.M. Shea
Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsThe thrilling conclusion to the King Arthurs and Her Knights Series!Britt has finally settled into her life as King Arthur. Her knights know who she really is, her lands are peaceful, and she has friends and a family she loves. But all of this is threatened when Rome, led by Emperior Lucius, invades...Categorized as:
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The Lands of Ice and Fire: Maps from King's Landing to Across the Narrow Sea by George R.R. Martin
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsGeorge R.R. Martin’s beloved Song of Ice and Fire series, which started with A Game of Thrones, is bursting with a variety and richness of landscapes — from bitter tundra to arid wasteland and everything in between — that provide a sense of scale unrivaled in contemporary fantasy...Categorized as:
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El Cavaller que no volia Lluitar by Helen Docherty
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsEven dragons can’t resist a good story…Even though Leo would rather sit at home and read, his parents send him out into the world in the hopes that Leo will become a famous knight... -
The Sleeping Beauty by Trina Schart Hyman
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsThe story of the beautiful princess who sleeps for a hundred years has captured the imaginations of children for an even longer period of time... -
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Bony-Legs by Joanna Cole
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsWhen a terrible witch vows to eat her for supper, a little girl escapes with the help of a mirror and comb given to her by the witch's cat and dog...Categorized as:
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Sevenfold Sword: Guardian by Jonathan Moeller
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe quest of the Seven Swords nears its end, and dark powers rise to seize the world. Ridmark Arban has learned the terrible secret at the heart of the Seven Swords. Now he need only escape Urd Maelwyn, the grim city ruled by the dark elven tyrant known as the Confessor. But few who enter Urd Maelwyn ever leave alive...Categorized as:
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Everyone Knows What a Dragon Looks Like by Jay Williams
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsEveryone Knows What a Dragon Looks Like is Jay Williams' book about a dragon's mission to save a believer.Because of the road sweeper's belief in him, a dragon saves the city of Wu from the Wild Horsemen of the north. With vibrant illustrations from Mercer Mayer...Categorized as:
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The Secret World of Mermaids by Jordan Quinn
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsPrince Lucas discovers underwater secrets when he gets a glimpse of the mermaids’ kingdom in this eighth chapter book in the fantastical Kingdom of Wrenly series.Lucas and Clara are floating on a raft when a wave hits and throws Lucas into the sea...Categorized as:
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Beguiled by Jody Hedlund
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIn a land where being the fairest maiden is a curse . . .A princess rejected and hunted by her mother, and a prince who lives as a shunned outcast.Princess Pearl flees for her life after her mother, Queen Margery, tries to have her killed during a hunting expedition. Pearl finds refuge on the Isle of Outcasts among criminals and misfits, disguising her face with a veil so no one recognizes her...Categorized as:
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A Barrel of Laughs, a Vale of Tears by Jules Feiffer
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA prince who makes everyone laugh is sent on a quest to turn him into a person worthy of being a king, but he gets everything wrong except for the meaning of life...Categorized as:
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The Lioness and Her Knight by Gerald Morris
Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsLuneta is tired of living in dull Orkney with her mother and father (who happens to be the most boring knight of King Arthur’s Round Table). She prides herself on always getting what she wants, so when the opportunity presents itself, she jumps at the chance to stay at a family friend’s castle near Camelot...Categorized as:
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The Bard and the Beast by Jordan Quinn
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsPrince Lucas discovers that sometimes music is the only way to defeat a savage beast in this newest adventure from the fantastical Kingdom of Wrenly series.Prince Lucas does not want to learn to play the lute. He would much rather be outside exploring with his best friend Clara...Categorized as:
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Catkin by Antonia Barber
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsCatkin is a tiny cat given by the Wise Woman to protect the human child Carrie. One day Carrie is taken under the hill by the Little People. Sent to bring her back, Catkin finds his courage and cleverness tested to the full.Antonia Barber's original story reads like a classic fairy tale... -
O'Sullivan Stew by Hudson Talbott
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSomeone has stolen the witch of Crookhaven's horse, and there will be no peace in the village until it is returned. So bold, brassy Kate O'Sullivan takes matters into her own hands. But instead of saving the day, she manages to land herself--and her family--in trouble with the king. So Kate sets out to save their hides the only way she knows how--with a good story...Categorized as:
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Enamored by Jody Hedlund
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsDuring a time when legends were born . . .ENAMOREDA princess in need of a husband, a young Sage who cannot have her, and a web of deceit that threatens their love.Having been raised by her childless aunt and uncle, the king and queen, Princess Elinor finds herself the only heir to the throne of Norvegia...Categorized as:
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The Pegasus Quest by Jordan Quinn
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIn the tenth fantastical adventure of The Kingdom of Wrenly series, Prince Lucas and Clara must rescue a young Pegasus.When a shooting star streaks across the night sky, Prince Lucas makes a wish for an epic adventure. Little did he know it would come true! As Lucas and Clara set out to investigate some mysterious happenings in Wrenly, they find a Pegasus that is lost and in danger...Categorized as:
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The Dragon Ring by Fil Reid
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe present day – 24-year-old librarian Gwen goes to scatter her father’s ashes on Glastonbury Tor and is kidnapped back in time to become King Arthur’s Dark Age queen – Guinevere...Categorized as:
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Let the Games Begin! by Jordan Quinn
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIn this seventh chapter book in the fantastical Kingdom of Wrenly series, Clara sets out to prove that girls can be knights too.The diverse subjects of Wrenly have traveled far and wide to participate in the kingdom’s Grand Tournament. Dragons will fly, trolls will juggle, and knights will duel...Categorized as:
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The Land of Green Ginger by Noel Langley
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThis beloved classic is a funny, clever, and original novel that opens with Aladdin, now Emperor of China, trying to decide what to name his new son, a child who won't stop talking and is already far too articulate for his own good...Categorized as:
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Jake The Giant by E.G. Foley
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsNY Times and USA Today bestselling author E.G. Foley presents The Gryphon Chronicles, a new series of historical fantasy adventure novels that's as much fun for grownups as it is for kids!Big Trouble..Categorized as:
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The Lost Heir by E.G. Foley
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsNY Times & USA Today bestselling author E.G. Foley presents The Gryphon Chronicles, a new series of historical fantasy adventures that's as much fun for grownups as it is for kids!Strange new talents...Jake is a scrappy orphaned pickpocket living by his wits on the streets of Victorian London...Categorized as:
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A Christmas Carol (picture book edition) by Brett Helquist, Charles Dickens
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsIn this luminous picture book adaptation of Charles Dickens' immortal classic, the story of Ebenezer Scrooge leaps off the page to warm the soul of one and all. Be swept away in an unforgettable Christmas Eve, from Scrooge's first �Bah, humbug!� to the arrival of the Ghost of Christmas Past; from the courage of Tiny Tim to the glory of Christmas morning...Categorized as:
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The Burning Shadow by Michelle Paver
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsFor fans of Nancy Farmer and Lloyd Alexander comes international bestselling author Michelle Paver’s second novel in the Bronze Age adventure series. While searching for his kidnapped sister, Outsider Hylas takes a dangerous detour when he’s captured as a slave and sent to the copper mines of Thalakrea. Hylas faces brutal overseers and lethal cave-ins while evading his enemies, the Crows...Categorized as:
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The Squire's Quest by Gerald Morris
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsWhy is it, Terence wondered, that the things you know most surely are always the things you can’t demonstrate to any one else? And why is it, after all of these years, that Terence is still just a squire, offering advice on how best to scrub the rust spots from armor? But Squire Terence has more to worry about than his place on the social scale...Categorized as:
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The Knight and the Dragon by Tomie dePaola
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsWhat happens when a sheepish knight and a not-so-fierce dragon fight for the very first time? Well, it?s no ordinary battle since the knight has to go to the castle library to learn about dragon-fighting and the dragon must dig through his ancestor?s things to find out how to fight a knight!?Spontaneity of line and feeling are backed by zesty colors and a jovial, tongue-in-cheek tone to which...Categorized as:
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Saint George and the Dragon by Margaret Hodges
Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsThis special new paperback edition of St. George and the Dragon commemorates the 25th Anniversary of the Caldecott Award-winning picture book. Hodges retells an exciting segment from Spenser's The Faerie Queene, in which the Red Cross Knight slays a dreadful dragon that has been terrorizing the countryside for years, bringing peace and joy back to the land...Categorized as:
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The Boy Who Lost Fairyland by Catherynne M. Valente
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsWhen a young troll named Hawthorn is stolen from Fairyland by the Red Wind, he becomes a changeling – a human boy -- in the strange city of Chicago, a place no less bizarre and magical than Fairyland when seen through trollish eyes. Left with a human family, Hawthorn struggles with his troll nature and his changeling fate...Categorized as:
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Dragon by Jeff Stone
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsLong, the dragon-style warrior, saw his temple burned, his brothers killed, and his novice siblings fleeing to the four winds. But that was many months ago. Now the five young warriors have reunited with Ying, the redeemed renegade who put all of these events in motion, and ShaoShu, the mousy street thief, to prevent the wily mantis Tonglong from taking over China...Categorized as:
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The Girl Who Saved Christmas by Matt Haig
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsJOURNEY TO THE EDGE OF MAGICIf magic has a beginning, can it also have an end?When Amelia wants a wish to come true she knows just the man to ask - Father Christmas.But the magic she wants to believe in is starting to fade, and Father Christmas has more than impossible wishes to worry about...Categorized as:
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Dragon Moon by Carole Wilkinson
Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsIn the time of the Han Dynasty in ancient China, a young orphan prepares for a difficult journey. Ping has grown to become a skilled Dragon Keeper, but her greatest challenge is yet to come. After rescuing the baby dragon, Kai, from the evil Emperor, she brings him to a safe haven near the border of the Empire. Now, as Kai grows into a restless young dragon, Ping faces a tough decision...Categorized as:
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Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Andersen
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 35 ratingsHans Christian Andersen's fairy tales are like exquisite jewels, drawing from us gasps of recognition and delight. Writing in the midst of a Europe-wide rebirth of national literature, Anderson broke new ground with his fairy tales in two important ways. First, he composed them in the vernacular, mimicking the language he used in telling them to children aloud...Categorized as:
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The Squire and the Scroll: A Tale of the Rewards of a Pure Heart by Jennie Bishop
Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThis captivating adventure follows a young squire who travels a long, dangerous road beside his brave knight, on a quest for their king. The action builds until the final face-off with the monstrous, evil dragon. Only then does the squire learn of the secret beyond the cave that ends in a joyous celebration for the entire kingdom...Categorized as:
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Hail! Hail! Camp Dragononka by Kate McMullan
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIt’s the last day of the school year, so it must be time for Wiglaf and all his friends at Dragon Slayers’ Academy to go home and enjoy the lazy hazy days of a medieval summer. Ummm, not quite. Not when Mordred the gold-hungry headmaster realizes there’s money to be made running a camp...Categorized as:
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Danger! Wizard at Work! by Kate McMullan
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhen Wiglaf and his pals from Dragon Slayers' Academy meet up with the wizard Zelnoc, all they ask is for a little magic to help them get through the Dark Forest fast. But unfortunately, Zelnoc's spells always end with an "Oops! Sorry about that!" So, yes, the boys are able to travel much faster now..Categorized as:
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A Discovery of Dragons by Lindsay Galvin
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHow to Train Your Dragon meets natural history, with real science, in this story of discovery through one of the lens of one of the most historical voyages in history.It's 1835. Cabin boy Simon Covington is on the voyage of a lifetime to the Galapagos Islands with the world-famous scientist, Charles Darwin.But when Simon falls overboard during a huge storm, he washes up on an unexplored island...Categorized as:
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The Seven Swords by Nils Johnson-Shelton
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAcross both worlds are seven legendary blades. Some have been uncovered, Some forgotten, Others secreted away.Very soon all must be united.Spending the summer fighting dragons, rescuing wizards, and leaping through portals into the Otherworld was only the beginning for Artie and Kay Kingfisher... -
Double Dragon Trouble by Kate McMullan
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWiglaf ’s latest assignment for the DSA school paper is to write an in-depth article about the headmaster: Who is the real Mordred de Marvelous? Wiglaf, with help from his buddy Angus, decides the best way to learn all about the headmaster is to follow him around school for a day...Categorized as:
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Skyborn by Lou Anders
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFor fans of Lloyd Alexander and Brandon Mull comes the epic conclusion to the acclaimed Thrones and Bones fantasy-adventure trilogy that began with Frostborn. Find the Horn. Free the City. The chase continues for the legendary Horns of Osius...Categorized as:
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Anya and the Nightingale by Sofiya Pasternack
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe adventure continues in this exciting sequel to Anya and the Dragon in which a dangerous monster lurks beneath the city and only Anya can keep him from taking her friends’ magic—and their lives. Perfect for fans of The Girl Who Drank the Moon...Categorized as:
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Beowulf: A Tale of Blood, Heat, and Ashes by Nicky Raven
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe exhilarating epic blazes to life — featuring illustrations by a lead artist on the LORD OF THE RINGS film trilogy."Look into the flames and let your minds empty. . . . For this is a tale of blood and heat and ashes...Categorized as:
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Nightborn by Lou Anders
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsFor fans of Lloyd Alexander and Brandon Mull comes Book 2 in the acclaimed Thrones and Bones fantasy-adventure trilogy that began with Frostborn. Karn Korlundsson is a gamer. Not a riddle solver...Categorized as:
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Wheel of Misfortune by Kate McMullan
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWiglaf, Erica, and Angus are representing DSA in the All-Schools-Brain-Power Tournament! But what on Earth are they going to do about their know-it-all captain Bragwort? And how can they even stand a chance against the snobbish Knights Noble Conservatory...Categorized as:
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The Unicorn’s Tale by R.L. LaFevers, Kelly Murphy
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIs there no rest for the travel worn and weary? Not if you're Nathaniel Fludd, the world's youngest beastologist-in-training! All Nate really wants is to track down his missing parents, but when a unicorn falls mysteriously ill, Nate's Aunt Phil makes it clear where a beastologist's duty lies: to the beasts...Categorized as:
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The Wyverns’ Treasure by R.L. LaFevers
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAfter tangling with the deadly basilisk, Nathaniel Fludd is glad to return to England with his Aunt Phil. But someone has ransacked their home, and their best suspect is the sinister man who's been trying to steal the Book of Beasts.Before Nate and Aunt Phil can find the culprit, they are called to Welsh countryside. The wyverns (giant dragons) are in an uproar...Categorized as:
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The Baker's Dozen: A Saint Nicholas Tale by Aaron Shepard
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA holiday tale from colonial Dutch New York. Van Amsterdam, an honest man and a wonderful baker, always sells dozens upon dozens of delicious Saint Nicholas cookies in his shop on Saint Nicholas Eve. When one of his customers insists that a dozen is 13, Van learns a lesson about the importance of being generous of spirit. Full color...Categorized as:
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The Violet Fairy Book by Andrew Lang, Leonora Blanche Alleyne Lang
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsRoumania, Japan, Serbia, Lithuania, Africa, Portugal, and Russia are among the sources of these 35 stories that tell of a haunted forest, chests of gold coins, a magical dog, and a man who outwits a dragon. Perhaps the best English versions available of these classic stories. 74 illustrations...Categorized as:
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A Question of Magic by E.D. Baker
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsSerafina was living the normal life of a village girl, when she gets a mysterious letter--her first letter ever, in fact--from a great aunt she's never heard of in another village. Little does 'Fina know, her great aunt is actually a Baba Yaga, a magical witch who lives in an even more magical cottage...Categorized as:
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Paul Bunyan, a Tall Tale by Steven Kellogg
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsWho was the largest baby ever born in the state of Maine? Who dug the Great Lakes? Who gouged out the Grand Canyon? Why, Paul Bunyan, of course, America's finest, fastest, funniest lumberman and favorite tall-tale hero...Categorized as:
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Night of the Ninth Dragon by Mary Pope Osborne
Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsMagic Tree House is the #1 bestselling chapter book series! In their NEW adventure, Jack and Annie return to Camelot! In this thrilling adventure steeped in history, Mary Pope Osborne introduces readers to classic Welsh legends and continues her own story of King Arthur, Merlin, and the Knights of the Round Table...Categorized as:
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The Ballad of Sir Dinadan by Gerald Morris
Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsYoung Dinadan has no wish to joust or quest or save damsels in distress or do any of the knightly things ex-pected of him. But he was born to be a knight, and knights, of course, have adventures. So after his father forces his knighthood upon him, he wanders toward King Arthur’s court in the company of a misguided young Welsh lad named Culloch...Categorized as:
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