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The Assassin's Curse by Kevin Sands
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
· 16 ratings
Christopher Rowe is back and there are more puzzles, riddles, and secrets to uncover in this third novel of the award-winning Blackthorn Key series.Wherever Christopher Rowe goes, adventure—and murder—follows. Even a chance to meet King Charles ends in a brush with an assassin.All that’s recovered from the killer is a coded message with an ominous sign-off: more attempts are coming...

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The Circus Ship Big Book by Chris Van Dusen
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
· 16 ratings
With stunning artwork and a rhyming text, the illustrator of the Mercy Watson books tells a tale of human-animal connection full of humor and heart...

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Mark of the Plague by Kevin Sands
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
· 16 ratings
The Black Death has come to London, spreading disease and fear through town. A mysterious prophet predicts the city's ultimate doom until an unknown apothecary arrives with a cure that actually works. Christopher Blackthorn's shop is chosen to prepare the remedy...

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A Bear Called Paddington by Michael Bond
Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
· 37 ratings
An alternate cover edition of this ISBN can be found here.Mr. and Mrs. Brown first met Paddington, a most endearing bear from Darkest Peru on a railway platform in London. A sign hanging around his neck said, "Please look after this bear. Thank you" So that is just what they did...

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The Ring of Earth by Chris Bradford
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
· 16 ratings
Jack Fletcher is on the run. With no sensei to guide him, he has just his wits and his swords against many new and unknown enemies, as he journeys along the treacherous road to the port of Nagasaki and perhaps home...But the Shogun's samurai are hot on his trail. Barely escaping their clutches, Jack runs headlong into a trap...

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Serafina and the Seven Stars by Robert Beatty
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
· 16 ratings
Serafina and Braeden make an epic return in the hotly anticipated fourth installment of Robert Beatty's #1 New York Times best-selling Serafina series. Serafina, the Guardian of Biltmore Estate, has won battle after battle against the dark forces encroaching on her home. Now, tranquility has returned to Biltmore. Serafina doesn't trust it...

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The Folk Of The Faraway Tree by Enid Blyton
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
· 35 ratings
Jo, Bessie and Fanny have a visit from snooty friend Connie. Connie won't believe in the Faraway Tree and the magical people who live there - Moon-face, Silky the fairy and Saucepan Man. There's only one way to prove her wrong - together the children climb the tree, and visit some of the lands at the top of it, like the Land of Secrets and the Land of Treats...

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Back in Time by Geronimo Stilton
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
· 10 ratings
Return to the past with Geronimo Stilton in this fabumouse special edition!Imagine my surprise when I, Geronimo Stilton, was offered the chance to travel back in time again! Professor Paws von Volt entrusted me to lead my family on a secret journey in his new time machine...

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The Lost Stories by John Flanagan
Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
· 38 ratings
Unconfirmed accounts of a group of Araluen warriors - tales of adventure, battle, and triumph over evil - have spread for centuries throughout the known world. Most notable is a clan shrouded in mystery, phantom warriors known as the Rangers. Two names pass the lips of every storyteller: Halt, and his apprentice, Will...

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Everyone Knows What a Dragon Looks Like by Jay Williams
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
· 6 ratings
Everyone 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...

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Magic Tree House: #1-28 [Magic Tree House Library] by Mary Pope Osborne
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
· 10 ratings
Offers Jack and Annie's first twenty-eight time-traveling adventures...

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Soccer on Sunday by Mary Pope Osborne
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
· 14 ratings
Goal! Jack and Annie have tickets to one of the most exciting soccer games ever--the 1970 World Cup! They are sure the famous soccer player Pele will tell them a "secret of greatness." The game is nonstop action and the stands are packed...

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A Perfect Time for Pandas by Mary Pope Osborne
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
· 16 ratings
Jack and Annie are ready for their next adventure in the New York Times bestselling middle-grade series—the Magic Tree House! Time-traveling brother-and-sister team Jack and Annie have to find a certain kind of food—the fourth thing needed to save Merlin’s beloved penguin, Penny...

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The Puppets of Spelhorst by Kate DiCamillo, Julie Morstad
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
· 18 ratings
A New York Times bestseller!“Kate DiCamillo's dazzling first title in the Norendy Tales trilogy is brimming with wit, whimsy, and heart as it follows five puppets fulfilling their thrilling shared destiny.” – Shelf AwarenessShut up in a trunk by a taciturn old sea captain with a secret, five friends—a king, a wolf, a girl, a boy, and an owl—bicker, boast, and comfort one another in the dark...

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The Bard and the Beast by Jordan Quinn
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
· 6 ratings
Prince 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...

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The Sorcerer's Shadow by Jordan Quinn
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
· 6 ratings
In the twelfth fantastical book from The Kingdom of Wrenly series, Prince Lucas and Clara go on an adventure in the forest realm of Trellis!All is not right in the forest realm of Trellis. Birds have left their nests and bears have abandoned their dens, as a mysterious magic threatens the natural order of the deep, dark woods...

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暁の円卓 2情熱の歳月 [Jōnetsu No Saigetsu] by Ralf Isau
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
· 6 ratings
Born in 1900, David Camden lived for 100 years, and this series of four fantasy novels uses his life to recount the achievements of the 20th century through fantasy worlds, ancient myths, sagas, and legends. Camden's life mission is to oppose The Twilight Circlepica de un hombre contra fuerzas antiguas y poderosas...

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Peut-on adopter un bébé terriblosaure ? by Geronimo Stilton
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
· 6 ratings
Geronimo Stilton's ancient ancestor is back in another prehistoric adventure!Geronimo Stiltonoot and his family save a young dinosaur from the river! The dinosaur and Benjamin quickly become good friends. But the dino turns out to have a tremendous talent . .

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The Pegasus Quest by Jordan Quinn
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
· 6 ratings
In 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...

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Narwhal on a Sunny Night by Mary Pope Osborne
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
· 8 ratings
The #1 bestselling Magic Tree House series is ready to whisk you away through time with Jack and Annie! This time, meet famous explorer Leif Erikson and help save a narwhal!When the magic tree house whisks Jack and Annie to Greenland, they're not sure what time they've landed in, but they immediately know what their mission is: save a narwhal! Then they meet a young hunter named Leif Erikson...

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Cavemice: The Fast and the Frozen by Geronimo Stilton
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
· 8 ratings
Geronimo Stilton's ancient ancestor Geronimo Stiltonoot is back in another prehistoric adventure!A visiting rodent has arrived in Old Mouse City with astounding news. On his recent journey to a cold, distant land, he spotted a mountain . . . moving! Holey cheese! Geronimo Stiltonoot is determined to travel to the ice and snow himself to find out what lies behind this mystery...

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4 Years Trapped in My Mind Palace by Johan Twiss
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
· 8 ratings
Diagnosed with a rare form of meningitis, a teenage boy is paralyzed from head to toe--trapped in his own mind. To cope with his imprisonment, he retreats to an imaginary world called his Mind Palace, but the lines between reality and time blur into wild adventures after he gets a new roommate--an old, outspoken, Jewish jazz musician with dementia...

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Castillon by Christian Cameron
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
· 9 ratings
1450s France. A young Englishman, Tom Swan, is kneeling in the dirt, waiting to be killed by the French who've taken him captive. He's not a professional soldier. He's really a merchant and a scholar looking for remnants of Ancient Greece and Rome - temples, graves, pottery, fabulous animals, unicorn horns...

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Hurricane Heroes in Texas by Mary Pope Osborne
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
· 10 ratings
Jack and Annie are caught out in the rain in the most dangerous Magic Tree House mission yet!Jack and Annie are on a mission! When the magic tree house whisks them back to Galveston, Texas, in 1900, they find out that a big storm is coming. But even though there is rain and wind, no one believes there is any danger. As the storm grows, seawater floods the city...

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The Ship of Shadows by Maria Kuzniar
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
· 10 ratings
Aleja whiles away her days in her family's dusty tavern in Seville, dreaming of distant lands and believing in the kind of magic that she's only ever read about in books. After all, she's always being told that girls can't be explorers.But her life is changed forever when adventure comes for her in the form of a fabled vessel called the Ship of Shadows...

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Shadow of the Shark by Mary Pope Osborne
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
· 12 ratings
Jack and Annie are diving into danger when the magic tree house whisks them away to shark-infested waters in this NEW adventure in the New York Times bestselling Magic Tree House series! It’s a dream vacation for Jack and Annie—or is it? When Teddy, a young sorcerer, offers to send Jack and Annie on a dream vacation, they can’t wait to go...

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The Palace of Glass by Django Wexler
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
· 12 ratings
An action-packed middle-grade fantasy with classic writing, a resourceful heroine, a host of magical creatures, and no shortage of narrow escapes—for fans of Story Thieves, Inkheart, Coraline, and Harry Potter.For Alice, danger threatens from inside the library as well as out...

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Moonlocket by Peter Bunzl
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
· 12 ratings
It’s hard to escape the secrets from the past. Storm clouds gather over Lily and Robert’s summer when criminal mastermind the Jack of Diamonds appears. Jack is searching for the mysterious Moonlocket—but that’s not the only thing he’s after. Suddenly, dark secrets from Robert’s past plunge him into danger. Jack is playing a cruel game that Robert is wrapped up in...

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A Big Day for Baseball by Mary Pope Osborne
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
· 12 ratings
Meet Jackie Robinson and solve a mystery in the #1 bestselling Magic Tree House chapter book series! PLAY BALL! Jack and Annie aren't great baseball players . . . yet! Then Morgan the librarian gives them magical baseball caps that will make them experts. They just need to wear the caps to a special ballgame in Brooklyn, New York...

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The Burning Shadow by Michelle Paver
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
· 12 ratings
For 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...

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The Squire's Quest by Gerald Morris
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
· 12 ratings
Why 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...

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The Time of the Fireflies by Kimberley Griffiths Little
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
· 12 ratings
Critically acclaimed author Kimberley Griffiths Little spins a thrilling story of one girl's race to unravel the curse that has haunted her family for generations. When Larissa Renaud starts receiving eerie phone calls on a disconnected old phone in her family's antique shop, she knows she's in for a strange summer...

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Stallion by Starlight by Mary Pope Osborne
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
· 14 ratings
If kids get hooked on Magic Tree House, they're hooked on reading! This is one series that kids, teachers, librarians, and parents all agree on...

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Hurry Up, Houdini! by Mary Pope Osborne
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
· 14 ratings
Magic Tree House #50 features Jack and Annie and legendary magician, Harry Houdini! If kids get hooked on Magic Tree House, they're hooked on reading! The Magic Tree House books, with their fiction and nonfiction books, are perfect for parents and teachers just starting to get into the "Core Curriculum...

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Magic Tree House: #5-8 by Mary Pope Osborne
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
· 14 ratings
- Night of the Ninjas - Afternoon on the Amazon - Sunset of the Sabertooth - Midnight on the Moon Books 5-8 of the "New York Times" bestselling Magic Tree House series boxed together for the first time These four titles are the perfect gift for a Magic Tree House fan or any child who loves a good adventure...

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Magic Tree House: #9-12 (Collection) by Mary Pope Osborne
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
· 14 ratings
The Magic Tree House adventures continue in books 9—12. Morgan the magical librarian of Camelot challenges Jack and Annie to discover the answers to four riddles as they travel under the sea to the Wild West, the African plains, and the frozen Arctic...

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A Crazy Day With Cobras by Mary Pope Osborne
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
· 16 ratings
The New York Times bestselling Magic Tree House series is back!But with the magic tree house comes terrible news: Merlin’s beloved penguin, Penny, has been put under a spell! Jack and Annie must find four things to break the spell. The first is a rare and precious emerald...

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Sir Cumference and the First Round Table by Cindy Neuschwander, Wayne Geehan
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
· 16 ratings
Key Features Description Assisted by his knight, Sir Cumference, and using ideas offered by his wife and son, King Arthur finds the perfect shape for his table. Assisted by his knight, Sir Cumference, and using ideas offered by his wife and son, King Arthur finds the perfect shape for his table. Standards 3.MD.D...

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Monday with a Mad Genius by Mary Pope Osborne
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
· 19 ratings
JACK AND ANNIE are on a mission to save Merlin from his sorrows! Charged with finding the second of four secrets of happiness, the brother-and-sister team travel back in the magic tree house to the period known as the Renaissance. This time, Jack and Annie will need more than a research book and a magic wand. They'll need help from one of the greatest minds of all time...

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Athena the Brain by Joan Holub, Suzanne Williams
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
· 19 ratings
Athena has always been above average. She has never quite fit in at Triton Junior High, but who would've guessed that Athena is actually a goddess? Principal Zeus's daughter, to be exact.When she's summoned to Mount Olympus Academy, Athena thinks she might actually fit in for the first time in her life...

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Peter Nimble and His Fantastic Eyes by Jonathan Auxier
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
· 24 ratings
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Night Gardener, 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. One fateful afternoon, he steals a box from a mysterious traveling haberdasher—a box that contains three pairs of magical eyes...

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Lost in Babylon by Peter Lerangis
Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars
· 30 ratings
The adventure continues as Jack and his friends travel to the Hanging Gardens of Babylon in the pulse-pounding second title in the Seven Wonders series.With Marco gone and the first Loculus lost, Jack, Cass, and Ally are no closer to saving themselves (or the world) than when they first arrived at the Karai Institute...

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The Nine Lives of Jacob Tibbs by Cylin Busby
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
· 6 ratings
For fans of Katherine Applegate's The One and Only Ivan comes the swashbuckling story of a little cat's high seas adventures, now available as a Yearling paperback.Captain Natick does not want to take a kitten on board his ship as it sets sail, but his daughter convinces him that the scrawny yellow cat will bring him good luck...

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Journey through Ash and Smoke by Kate Messner
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
· 6 ratings
Ranger, the time-traveling golden retriever with search-and-rescue training, goes to Viking age Iceland!Ranger is a time-traveling golden retriever with search-and-rescue training. In this adventure, he goes to Viking age Iceland, which proves to be tough terrain for Ranger to navigate...

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Akatsuki No Entaku by Ralf Isau
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
· 6 ratings
Born in 1900, David Camden lived for 100 years, and this series of four fantasy novels uses his life to recount the achievements of the 20th century through fantasy worlds, ancient myths, sagas, and legends. Camden's life mission is to oppose The Twilight Circlepica de un hombre contra fuerzas antiguas y poderosas...

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Skyborn by Lou Anders
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
· 6 ratings
For 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...

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Anya and the Nightingale by Sofiya Pasternack
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
· 6 ratings
The 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...

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Der weiße Wanderer by Ralf Isau
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
· 6 ratings
Born in 1900, David Camden lived for 100 years, and this series of four fantasy novels uses his life to recount the achievements of the 20th century through fantasy worlds, ancient myths, sagas, and legends. Camden's life mission is to oppose The Twilight Circlepica de un hombre contra fuerzas antiguas y poderosas...

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Showdown with the Shepherd by Marianne Hering, Brock D. Eastman
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
· 6 ratings
The key to adventure lies within your imagination Cousins Patrick and Beth go to the Holy Land in the tenth century BC. Their goal is to get back the ring Hugh stole and return him to 1450s England where he belongs. But troubles await them as soon as they step out of the Imagination Station. First they meet an angry bear and later an angry giant...

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Problems in Plymouth by Marianne Hering, Marshal Younger
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
· 6 ratings
The Imagination Station Adventures continue Patrick and Beth's next adventure leads them to Plymouth Plantation in 1621. There they meet William Bradford, Miles Standish, and Chief Massasoit, who are trying to establish peace between the Pilgrims and the Indians. Things are anything but peaceful, however, when a musket is stolen and the Pilgrims conclude the Indians are planning war...

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