Keppeler, Jill
Summary: Text and photographs look at how to build castles in Minecraft, focusing on how to build arches, drawbridges, towers, and more.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: PowerKids Press 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J STEM KeppelerSummary: Unlock mysteries and uncover lost history with the experts as they use yesteryear's technology to recreate five ancient engineering marvels and to discover what daily life was really like in these communities. Travel around the globe from China to Egypt and take a fresh, "hands-on" look at mankind's greatest cultures and civilizations.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: WGBH Boston Video 2008
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV SECFabiny, Sarah
Summary: "Castles may conjure up a romantic fairy tale world; however, in real life, during the Middle Ages, castles were fortresses, providing shelter and protection for the lord as well as for the peasants who lived on his land. For an army, a lord depended on young soldiers in armor called knights who spent years at the castle learning the skills of warfare"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Workshop 2022
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1 available in JT Non-Fiction, Call number: JT World What FabinyTurnbull, Stephanie.
Summary: Describes the origins, main features, and destruction of medieval castles, and discusses the way of life of the people who lived in them, knighthood and sieges.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Published in the USA by EDC Pub. 2015
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE TURTurnbull, Stephanie.
Summary: Describes the origins, main features, and destruction of medieval castles, and discusses the way of life of the people who lived in them, knighthood and sieges.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Published in the USA by EDC Pub. 2003
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Summary: Working from plans of an actual 14th century European castle, Stephen Biesty has sliced the building into various cross-sections, each one teeming with life and detail.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: DK Publishing 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 940.1 BIEOsborne, Will.
Summary: Jack and Annie look at knights, armor, and life in a castle.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2000
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1 available in Juvenile- Series, Call number: J Fiction Series Osborne 1993Cate, Annette
Summary: "Raise the drawbridge for a story-within-a-story melding classic fairy-tale trappings with contemporary, tongue-in-cheek wit, abundantly illustrated in black-and-white--a perfect family read. Noble children Thomas and Emily have always known their mother to be sensible, the lady of the castle--if anything, a bit boring. But then they discover Meg, a cranky scribe who lives in the castle...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC CATOsborne, Mary Pope
Summary: Eight-year-old Jack and his younger sister Annie use the magic treehouse to travel back to the Middle Ages, where they explore a castle and are helped by a mysterious knight.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2013
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Summary: "Sienna and her Mixling friends go on an epic adventure within a mysterious castle"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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Summary: After discovering a giant egg in the magical Castle Glower, Princess Celie agrees to care for the egg and what creature it hatches.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2014
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Summary: "... This clever rhyming book takes a look at life in a medieval castle through the eyes of its many different inhabitants: the richest, poorest, silliest ..."--from inside jacket cover.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook 2009
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 940.1 ASHCarlisle, Kate
Summary: "In the middle of a Christmas holiday in Dharma, Brooklyn and Derek receive a phone call from their friend Claire in Scotland. The laird of the castle has just proposed to her! They plan to be married on New Year's Day, and they want Derek and Brooklyn to be their witnesses. While they're visiting, Claire hopes that Brooklyn will be able to solve a mystery in the castle library--twelve rare...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2024
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Summary: Eleven-year-old Princess Celie lives with her parents, the king and queen, and her brothers and sister at Castle Glower, which adds rooms or stairways or secret passageways most every Tuesday, and when the king and queen are ambushed while travelling, it is up to Celie--the castle's favorite--with her secret knowledge of its never-ending twists and turns, to protect their home and save their...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Summary: "Kidnapped by the Demon King and imprisoned in his castle, Princess Syalis is...bored. Princess Syalis has a new admirer, and the other demons are jealous--one in particular. How far will he go to dissuade her weaselly suitor? Then summer arrives! Syalis tries to cool off by telling ghost stories to make herself shiver but instead strikes fear into her demon captors' hearts. Then the Demon...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: VIZ Media 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 SLEStilton, Geronimo
Summary: "Geronimo sets off for Ratoff in spooky Transratania, a garlic-fuelled town full of mystery. Even the inhabitants of Ratoff Castle are strange. Maybe it's the way they sleep during the day, or the blood-red drink they're always sipping on, but there's something not quite right about them... Who are these mice? Will Geronimo survive the night?"--Publisher's description.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sweet Cherry Publishing 2021
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC STIChadda, Sarwat
Summary: "Three down-on-their-luck adventurers seek a lost civilization in this Minecraft novel. Rajah would do anything to be a great adventurer. But how can he, when his father's already triumphed over every adventure he can think of? Lord Maharajah fought the Ender Dragon, charted the Overworld, and built a grand manor house. Rajah is surrounded by hand-me-downs, from his father's fancy old name to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Del Rey 2022
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Summary: When Ms. Frizzle and her student Arnold follow an underground passage beneath Craig's Castle Shop and find themselves in the middle of a siege of an English castle, they learn a great deal about both castles and the Middle Ages.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2003
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 728.8 COLHooper, Meredith.
Summary: "This a book about ten real castles. Each castle is illustrated by a fabulous cross-section that reveals its interior, and is described by a lively text on an important day in its history"--Front jkt. flap. Best-selling author, Stephen Biesty, famous for his "Incredible Cross-Sections" books, has now turned his attention to ten actual castles, as they were on ten historic dates (his 1994 book...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Enchanted Lion Books 2004
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 940.1 HOOOsborne, Mary Pope.
Summary: In their magic treehouse, Tom and Lé are again transported to King Arthur's realm, where invisible beings, giant ravens, and mistaken magic spells have a duke's castle in an uproar on Halloween night.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bayard Jeunesse 2006
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Summary: "Chambermaid Faris Shayhan escapes from Tremeshton Manor to work for Lady Rockrimmon at Loch Loland Castle and encounters the rogue Highwayman of Tanglewood who steals her heart. When Lochlan Rockrimmon returns to the castle and protects her from Kade Tremshton, Faris must reconcile her love for the Highwayman with her growing attraction for the heir of Rockrimmon"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2018
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Summary: "Zoe and her best friend Astra, the fairy unicorn, can't wait for the Midsummer Festival on Unicorn Island. But the island is growing hotter by the minute and the flowers are all wilting ... Has Shadow, the evil fairy pony, stolen the clouds?"--Page 4 of cover.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: EDC Publishing 2018
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED DAVReady, Sarah
Summary: Ready whisks readers to the South of France for a saucy enemies-to-lovers romance. Merry DeLuca is in desperate need of a getaway after her best friend and secret crush, Leo, marries her sister. She takes off for a three-month stay at a chateau in Annecy, France--only to arrive and find that Leo's insufferable friend, travel documentarian Noah Wright, is also staying on the estate. Merry is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: WW Crown Books 2022
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Summary: Believing her four young orphan charges to be in mortal danger, tutor Concordia Glade places their safety in the hands of private inquiry agent Ambrose Wells, who endeavors to protect them from a notorious crime lord.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015