Bell, Anthea.
Summary: A magical being comes into the unhappy lives of a brother and sister, leading them into a world of fantasy and adventure.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Book Studio 1984
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 398.2 BELBell, Anthea.
Summary: A boy climbs to the top of a giant beanstalk where he uses his quick wits to outsmart an ogre and make his and his mother's fortune.
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Publisher / Publication Date: North South Books 2000
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 398.2 BELFunke, Cornelia Caroline.
Summary: When Dustfinger finds a crooked storyteller who can read him back to Inkscape, he leaves his apprentice Farid behind. Farid seeks out Meggie and the two follow him back into the enchanted book. Although a year has passed, not a day goes by without Meggie thinking of Inkheart, the book whose characters became real. But for Dustfinger, the fire-eater brought into being from words, the need to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chicken House 2005
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC FUNMourlevat, Jean-Claude.
Summary: Fleeing across icy mountains from a pack of terrifying dog-men sent to hunt them down, four teenagers escape from their prison-like boarding schools to take up the fight against the tyrannical government that murdered their parents fifteen years earlier.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2009
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: YA FIC MOUSimon, Marie
Summary: Follows the true story of a young Jewish woman who vanished into the city and lived under an assumed identity, relying on safe houses, foreign workers, and communists in order to survive in World War II Berlin.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SIMON, MARIE SIMSzpilman, Władysław.
Summary: A Jewish pianist's real-life account of survival in World War II Warsaw. Separated in a mêlée, he fights to rejoin his family as they board the death train, but police block him. "Papa!" he cries. The father waves, "as if I were setting out into life and he was already greeting me from beyond the grave."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picador 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5318 SZPILMAN, WLADYSLAW SZPAichner, Bernhard
Summary: A grieving widow and professional mortician discovers there was more to the hit-and-run accident that took her husband's life than she originally thought, and vows to find out and get revenge on those responsible.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC AICAndersen, H. C. (Hans Christian)
Summary: This compilation of eleven classic tales, including "The Princess and the Pea" and "The Emperor's New Clothes," provides readers of all ages an illustrated introduction to these timeless tales.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minedition 2006
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 398.2 ANDFunke, Cornelia
Summary: Ben and his adopted parents are devoting their lives to protecting rare and fabulous creatures (like dragons) and at the moment they are trying to save the last of the winged horses, Pegasus unicus; there are three eggs, but without their mother they will not survive and the only hope is to obtain a Griffin feather--but Griffins are enemies of the dragons, and may not be willing to help.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chicken House, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2018
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Summary: Twelve-year-old Meggie learns that her father, who repairs and binds books for a living, can "read" fictional characters to life when one of those characters abducts them and tries to force him into service.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2003
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC FUNAndersen, H. C. (Hans Christian)
Summary: A little sea princess, longing to be human, trades her mermaid's tail for legs, hoping to win the love of a prince and earn an immortal soul for herself.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minedition/Penguin 2004
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 398.2 ANDAndersen, H. C. (Hans Christian)
Summary: Chronicles the adventures of a tiny girl no bigger than a thumb and her many animal friends.
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Publisher / Publication Date: North-South Books 2009
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 398.2 ANDFrei, Pierre
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FREFunke, Cornelia Caroline.
Summary: As Bluejay--Mo's fictitious double--tries to keep the Book of Immortality from unraveling, Adderhead kidnaps all the children in the kingdom, asking for Bluejay's surrender or the children will be doomed to slavery in the silver mines.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chicken House/Scholastic Inc. 2008
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC FUNGier, Kerstin.
Summary: Sixteen-year-old Gwyneth discovers that she, rather than her well-prepared cousin, carries a time-travel gene, and soon she is journeying with Gideon, who shares the gift, through historical London trying to discover whom they can trust.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt 2011
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC GIEPötzsch, Oliver
Summary: "An epic tale of murder, treachery, bravery, and love In 1524, in what is now Germany, hundreds of thousands of peasants revolted against the harsh treatment of their aristocratic overlords. Agnes is the daughter of one of these overlords, but she is not a typical sixteenth-century girl, refusing to wear dresses and spending more time with her pet falcon than potential suitors. There is only...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC POTPötzsch, Oliver.
Summary: When an encoded diary about Ludwig, the fairytale king of Bavaria who was declared insane and died mysteriously soon thereafter, falls into his hands, rare book dealer Steven Lukas is forced to go on the run as he becomes the target of Ludwig's deranged modern-day followers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC POTTimm, Uwe
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 833.914 TIMAdorján, Johanna
Summary: The author describes the unconventional lives of her grandparents, from surviving the Holocaust and fleeing Budapest during the uprising of 1956 to their complex personalities and long-buried family secrets that may have led them to take their own lives together.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5318 ADORJAAN, JOHANNA ADOAndersen, H. C. (Hans Christian)
Summary: An ugly duckling spends an unhappy year ostracized by the other animals before he grows into a beautiful swan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Book Studio 1989
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE ANDDelacourt, Grégoire.
Summary: "The #1 bestselling international phenomenon that asks, If you won the lottery, would you trade your life for the life of your dreams? Jocelyne lives in a small town in France where she runs a fabric shop, has been married to the same man for twenty-one years, and has raised two children. She is beginning to wonder what happened to all those dreams she had when she was seventeen. Could...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DELFranck, Julia.
Summary: A multi-generational family story set in the Germany of the early twentieth century that reveals the devastating effect of war on the human heart.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FRAFunke, Cornelia Caroline.
Summary: The daughter of two magicians, twelve-year-old Igraine wants nothing more than to be a knight, and when their castle is attacked by a treacherous neighbor bent on stealing their singing magic books, Igraine has an opportunity to demonstrate her bravery.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chicken House/Scholastic 2007
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Summary: Violetta, a little princess, is determined to become as big and strong as her brothers. She secretly teaches herself to become the bravest and cleverest knight in the land until she must face the king's best knights in a jousting tournament. Will she be ready?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2004