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(0)Kelly Regan Barnhill
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
288 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
A short story collection featuring elements of magic realism while touching on the themes of love, knowledge, grief, hope, and jealousy. Teeming with uncanny characters whose lives unfold in worlds at once strikingly human and eerily original, these stories demonstrate the strength and power -- known and unknown -- of the imagination.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Stone-in-the-Glen, once a lovely town, has fallen on hard times. Fires, floods, and other calamities have caused the people to lose their library, their school, their park, and even their neighborliness. The people put their faith in the Mayor, a dazzling fellow who promises he alone can help. After all, he is a famous dragon slayer. (At least, no one has seen a dragon in his presence.) Only the clever children of the Orphan House and the kindly Ogress...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"'Mothers fly away like migrating birds. This is why farmers have daughters.' A fifteen-year-old teenager is the backbone of her small Midwestern family, budgeting the household finances and raising her younger brother while her mother, a talented artist, weaves beautiful tapestries. For six years, it's been just the three of them--her mother has brought home guests at times, but none have ever stayed. Yet when her mother brings home a six-foot tall...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First paperback edition.
Physical Desc
424 pages : illustrations, map ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"Princess Violet is plain, reckless, and quite possibly too clever for her own good. Particularly when it comes to telling stories. One day she and her best friend, Demetrius, stumble upon a hidden room and find a peculiar book. A forbidden book. It tells a story of an evil being--called the Nybbas--imprisoned in their world. The story cannot be true--not really. But then the whispers start. Violet and Demetrius, along with an ancient, scarred dragon,...
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
740L
Physical Desc
323 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
Jack is practically invisible at home, but when his parents send him to Hazelwood, Iowa, to spend a summer with his odd aunt and uncle, he suddenly makes friends, is beaten up by the town bully, and is plotted against by the richest man in town.
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
340 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Alex Green is a young girl in a world much like ours. But this version of 1950s America is characterized by a significant event: The Mass Dragoning of 1955, when hundreds of thousands of ordinary wives and mothers sprouted wings, scales and talons, left a trail of fiery destruction in their path, and took to the skies. Was it their choice? What will become of those left behind? Why did Alex's beloved Aunt Marla transform but her mother did not? Alex...
Author
Lexile measure
HL 630L
Language
English
Formats
Description
When a Bandit King comes to take the magic that Ned's mother, a witch, is meant to protect, the stuttering, weak boy villagers think should have drowned rather than his twin summons the strength to protect his family and community, while in the woods, the bandit's daughter puzzles over a mystery that ties her to Ned.
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Lexile measure
700L
Physical Desc
32 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Even if it looks clean, untreated water can have deadly bacteria in it. Discover the nasty effects of unclean water, and learn about the process by which clean, clear water gets to your tap.
Series
Guys read volume 6
Pub. Date
2015
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
660L
Physical Desc
257 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Eleven masters of suspense have come together to bring you a bone-chilling collection of original ghost stories perfect for sharing around the campfire, reading under the covers with a flashlight, and scaring your friends' pants off" -- Dust jacket.