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Discworld volume 1
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On a world supported on the back of a giant turtle (sex unknown), a gleeful, explosive, wickedly eccentric expedition sets out. There's an avaricious but inept wizard, a naive tourist whose luggage moves on hundreds of dear little legs, dragons who only exist if you believe in them, and of course the edge of the planet...
Pub. Date
[2009]
Description
Discworld is a magical realm quite unlike, yet hauntingly familiar to, Earth, and it finally has it's first tourist. Rincewind is an inept ex-student wizard who is given the task of guiding Twoflower through the city-state of Ankh Morpork. But unfortunately Rincewind has two problems. First, he is an expert coward and he doesn't feel that he is the best person to guard a naive, and extremely rich, tourist through one of the roughest cities in the...
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Worst witch volume 1
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Mildred Hubble's first term at Miss Cackle's Academy for Witches starts badly when, unlike her classmates, she can't control her broom, her kitten, or her spells
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Discworld volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 10
Description
The Discworld is moving towards a seemingly inevitable collision with a malevolent red star, and its only possible saviour is Rincewind.
9) Rubylicious
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Series
Pinkalicious volume 7
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
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Description
When she and her brother uncover a magic rock that will grant them one wish, Pinkalicious and Peter must think long and hard about what they want most in the whole wide world.
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Pub. Date
2021.
Description
"Little ones love winter! Cuddle up and share the magic of the season with this bright and engaging board book inspired by the works of legendary children's book author-illustrator Leo Lionni! With sturdy pages and colorful collage-style artwork, this winter-themed book is perfect for girls and boys!"--
12) Woodland dance!
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The moose plays the cello. The deer, violin. And it’s ONE-two-three, ONE-two-three, time to begin! Destined to be a read-aloud favorite, Woodland Dance is a mystical, waltzing story from beloved author and illustrator Sandra Boynton, and a magical book to share with a magical child. Woodland animals heed the call of the fox’s bugle to join the woodland dance in a moonlit glade, dancing all night to the music of the Woodland Dance Trio. As the...
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Tsukuru Tazaki had four best friends at school. By chance all of their names contained a colour. The two boys were called Akamatsu, meaning 'red pine', and Oumi, 'blue sea', while the girls' names were Shirane, 'white root', and Kurono, 'black field'. Tazaki was the only last name with no colour in it. One day Tsukuru Tazaki's friends announced that they didn't want to see him, or talk to him, ever again. Since that day Tsukuru has been floating...
15) The Whisper
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Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
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Description
Step inside the pages of a little girl's magical book as she discovers the profound and inspiring notion that we each bring something different to the same story. Two-time Caldecott Honor artist Pamela Zagarenski debuts as an author in this tender picture book about the joy of reading.
Her magical book of stories is wordless until a whisper in the wind tells a little girl to imagine a story for each page.
16) Be a good dragon
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Pub. Date
[2018]
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Description
"When a dragon catches a cold, setting off fires with its sneezes, a wizard comes to the rescue with a magic potion"--Provided by the publisher.
17) Mira and Baku
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Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
"With the help of a magical friend, a young girl searches for her missing father in this poignant story set during Japanese internment in World War II. It's a week until Mira's birthday, and she's getting worried. Where is Papa? He has never missed her birthday before. When Mira's friend Baku, a creature from Japanese folklore, offers to help, they journey over farmlands and forests, mountains and river mouths, gathering clues to Papa's whereabouts--clues...
18) A Library
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Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2 - AR Pts: 1
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In this lyrical picture book, world-renowned poet, New York Times bestselling author, and Coretta Scott King Honor winner Nikki Giovanni and fine artist Erin Robinson craft an ode to the magic of a library as a place not only for knowledge but also for imagination, exploration, and escape.
Author
Pub. Date
2003.
Description
"This picture of the London of Queen Elizabeth (1558-1603) is the result of Liza Picard's curiosity about the practical details of daily life that almost every history book ignores." "Liza Picard's evocation of the London of four hundred years ago enables us to share the delights, as well as the horrors, of the everyday lives of sixteenth-century Britons."--BOOK JACKET