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2) Jinx's magic
Author
Series
Lexile measure
560L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A young wizard's apprentice, Jinx, learns that his forest home, the Urwald, is under threat, and to save it he must travel to a new land" --
3) Jinx's fire
Author
Series
Lexile measure
620L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Jinx travels throughout the Urwald to unite its people and creatures against encroaching threats." --
Author
Language
English
Description
"It's the summer of 1994 in Claypot, Wisconsin, and the lives of ten-year-old Fischer 'Fish' Branson and Dale 'Bread' Breadwin are shaped by the two fathers they don't talk about. One night, tired of seeing his best friend bruised and terrorized by his no-good dad, Fish takes action. A gunshot rings out and the two boys flee the scene, believing themselves murderers. They head for the woods, where they find their way onto a raft, but the natural terrors...
Author
Series
Edge chronicles volume 1
Lexile measure
720L
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Twig, having always looked and felt different from his woodtroll family, learns that he is adopted and travels out of his Deepwoods home to find the place where he belongs.
7) Snow & Rose
Author
Lexile measure
730L
Language
English
Description
Snow and Rose search the forest for their missing father and discover there is a sinister magic at work in the woods. A reimagining of the classic but little-known fairy tale Snow White and Rose Red.
Author
Series
Wing and claw volume 2
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Lexile measure
700L
Language
English
Description
Hoping to return home after a winter in the Sudden Mountains so he can join his parents in the fight against the evil Chancellor, Raffa must use his apothecary skills while enlisting the help of human and animal friends to survive the journey.
9) Small spaces
Author
Lexile measure
HL 570L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"After suffering a tragic loss, eleven-year-old Ollie only finds solace in books. So when she happens upon a crazed woman at the river threatening to throw a book into the water, Ollie doesn't think--she just acts, stealing the book and running away. As she begins to read the slender volume, Ollie discovers a chilling story about a girl named Beth, the two brothers who both loved her, and a peculiar deal made with "the smiling man," a sinister specter...
11) Little lightning
Author
Series
Publisher
Stone Arch Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
Lexile measure
630L
Physical Desc
1 online resource (75 pages) : illustrations.
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Mary knows a secret--that lightning strikes in the forest give woodland creatures new power. Now they are turning their power against the humans who have been destroying their homes. Only Mary and her friend Isabel can stop them.
Author
Publisher
Redhook
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
403 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Deep in the Hungarian woods, the sacred magic of King Solomon lives on in his descendants. Gathering under the midnight stars, they perform small miracles and none are more gifted than the great Rabbi Isaac and his three daughters. But darkness is creeping across Europe, threatening the lives of every Jewish person in every village. Each sister will have to make an impossible choice in an effort to survive--and change the fate of their family forever"...
13) Nuts to you
Author
Lexile measure
560L
Language
English
Formats
Description
The squirrels Jed, TsTs, and Chai are the very best of friends. So when Jed is snatched up by a hawk and carried away to another realm, TsTs and Chai resolve to go after him. New communities are discovered, new friends are made, huge danger is encountered (both man-made and of the fox and bobcat variety) and mysteries are revealed.
Author
Publisher
Running Press Kids
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
On a walk through the forest, a child celebrates the potential of an acorn, a caterpillar, and other things he can hold in the palm of his hand--which he knows will turn into something wonderful.
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
A tree's life story is told from its beginnings as a seed to its survival in the wilderness until it finally falls, but continues its life as a log, an animal habitat, and finally decomposes to provide nutrition for future trees.
Author
Publisher
Minnesota Historical Society Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
32 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
"Wander through wintry woods and along frozen creeks to observe eagles soaring, deer munching, and muskrats hiding as the winter solstice arrives in a whirl of snowy confetti and dancing starlight"--
Author
Publisher
Redhook
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
450 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
In a remote village surrounded by vast forests on the border of Moldova and Ukraine, sisters Liba and Laya have been raised on the honeyed scent of their Mami's babka and the low rumble of their Tati's prayers. But when a troupe of mysterious men arrives, Laya falls under their spell - despite their mother's warning to be wary of strangers. And this is not the only danger lurking in the woods. As dark forces close in on their village, Liba and Laya...
Author
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Sticky Burr is on the verge of being kicked out of his village in Burrwood Forest because he is not prickly enough to suit some of the other burrs, but when the village is attacked by wild dogs, Sticky Burr and his friends come to the rescue.
Author
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
Illustrations and easy-to-read, rhyming text show how, throughout autumn, forest animals prepare for winter as shadows lengthen, the ground freezes, and northern lights begin to appear.