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By Disney Book Group. 2017
Read along with Disney! When Vee throws a spooky surprise party, she's in for a surprise herself! Follow along with…
word-for-word narration in this fun tale based on a Vampirina episode.By Disney Book Group. 2017
Read along with Disney! It's another merry unbirthday in Wonderland, but March Hare and Mad Hatter are feeling a bit…
unsatisfied with their usual teacups. In attempt to make them larger and grander, havoc wreaks instead. With the help of Cheshire Cat, follow along as the two try to correct their mistakes.By Disney Book Group. 2018
Read along with Disney! Hoping to overthrow King Triton as ruler of Atlantica, Ursula the sea witch makes a deal…
with the king's mermaid daughter, Ariel, in which she trades her voice for a pair of legs. Follow along with word-for-word narration as the little mermaid has three days for Prince Eric to fall in love with her—or she becomes Ursula's captive forever.By Disney Book Group. 2017
Read along with Disney! It's a day of the Blues for Brer Bunnie and he doesn't feel like doing much.…
Will Brer Papa be able to help him find his Happy Place? Follow along with word for word narration as Brer Papa helps his son bounce back from the Brer Blues.By Disney Book Group. 2017
Read along with Disney! Mickey is working in outer space and Minnie wants to space-mail him Gingerbread Robots. But when…
the mischievous Chip and Dale snatch Pluto's cookie delivery away, it's up to Pluto to save the day and make sure the cookies make it safe and sound to Mars.By Disney Book Group. 2017
Read along with Disney! Ace photographer Donald Duck is on a special expedition! Commissioned by Rare Birds magazine, he is…
on a mission to find and photograph the rare and mischief Aracuan Bird. Follow along as he traverses through Adventureland for this prankster bird.By Disney Book Group. 2017
Read along with Disney! One day, a little puppy with nowhere to go arrived at the Main Street USA train…
station. Seeking for a place to call his own, follow along as the little pup explores the town in order to find the perfect home.By Anne Harris. 2004
A one-of-a-kind novel, like nothing you've ever read, Inventing Memory is a stunning blend of fantasy and reality, exposing the…
secret links between the mythic, the mundane, and the timeless mysteries of the human heart.Shula is a slave in fabled Sumer---until Inanna, Queen of Heaven, appears before her. Chosen by the Goddess for reasons she cannot begin to fathom, Shula is freed from bondage and set upon an uncertain path toward a new and mysterious destiny. But the attention of the gods is a dangerous thing, and Shula may have cause to regret the day she first laid eyes on the Holy Inanna.Wendy Chrenko, former high school misfit, is now an overworked graduate student, researching her dissertation "Remnants of Matriarchy in the Ancient Sumerian Inanna Cycle." Still smarting from the painful wounds of a failed love affair, Wendy is bound and determined to prove that men and women once lived together in perfect equality, even if it means volunteering for a bizarre and dangerous scientific experiment.Separated by millennia, Shula and Wendy appear to be two very different women, leading completely separate lives.Or maybe not.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.By Gavin Aung Than. 2025
"A hilarious mix of pharmacy and fantasy that you won't want to miss!" —John Patrick Green, bestselling author of InvestiGatorsNurse,…
we've got a unicorn with a broken horn! Bring that healing potion—STAT! Welcome to Creature Clinic, the world’s finest—and only—hospital for mythical beings. Here, everyone from trolls and unicorns to tooth fairies and giants can expect the very best treatment. Well, with one exception. Humans are absolutely, 100 percent not welcome.Doctor-in-training Kara Orc has worked hard and followed the rules her entire life to get where she is now. But when a human in need shows up at the hospital, her obedience is put to the test. Sure, most humans are dangerous, destructive beasts, but Kara took an oath to help all creatures. Even humans deserve care and compassion. How long can she keep such a big secret from her boss . . . who also happens to be her mother? And will her decision to do what’s right cause a rift between Kara and her mom that no medicine can cure?By Hilary Robinson. 2025
In this Cornish traditional tale, Hicka is a poor farmer who does not know how he can get all the…
corn ready to take to market. Then somebody helps him ...This story is part of Reading Champion, a series carefully linked to book bands to encourage independent reading skills, developed with Dr Sue Bodman and Glen Franklin of UCL Institute of Education (IOE)Reading Champion offers independent reading books for children to practise and reinforce their developing reading skills.Fantastic stories are accompanied by engaging artwork and a reading activity. Each book has been carefully graded so that it can be matched to a child's reading ability, encouraging reading for pleasure.By Penny Dolan. 2025
In this Indian traditional tale, Crocodile's wife longs to eat the heart of his friend, Monkey. But Monkey plays a…
trick of her own to get away ...This story is part of Reading Champion, a series carefully linked to book bands to encourage independent reading skills, developed with Dr Sue Bodman and Glen Franklin of UCL Institute of Education (IOE)Reading Champion offers independent reading books for children to practise and reinforce their developing reading skills.Fantastic stories are accompanied by engaging artwork and a reading activity. Each book has been carefully graded so that it can be matched to a child's reading ability, encouraging reading for pleasure.By Tonke Dragt. 2015
A stunning gift edition of the Sunday Times and Telegraph Children&’s Book of the Year—the &“action-packed&” sequel to The Letter…
for the King (Daily Mail) Young Sir Tiuri searches for a missing knight in the perilous, magical forest of the Wild Wood—where discerning friend from foe is no easy task . . . One of the King&’s most trusted knights has vanished in the snow, so young Sir Tiuri and his best friend Piak must journey into the shadowy heart of the forest to find him. The Wild Wood is a place of mysteries, rumors and whispered tales. A place of lost cities, ancient curses, robbers, princesses, and Men in Green. As the darkness surrounds him and reports grow of secret plots and ruthless enemies, Tiuri finds himself alone and fighting for survival—caught in a world where good and evil wear the same face, and the wrong move could cost him his life.By Bodil Bredsdorff. 1994
We first met Tink when he came to live in Crow Cove as a young boy in Eidi. Now hard…
times have come to the little settlement, and their food supply is dwindling. Tink, with the help of a newcomer to Crow Cove, saves his friends from starvation by learning how to fish-and also learns important lessons about the complexities of human nature, the importance of compassion, and his own valued place in his community. Tink is a strong new addition to the much-acclaimed Children of Crow series.By Tomie DePaola. 1975
This special ebook edition features Tomie dePaola retelling his classic story against a charming musical score!When Strega Nona leaves him…
alone with her magic pasta pot, Big Anthony is determined to show the townspeople how it works in this classic Caldecott Honor book from Tomie dePaola. Strega Nona—&“Grandma Witch&”—is the source for potions, cures, magic, and comfort in her Calabrian town. Her magical ever-full pasta pot is especially intriguing to hungry Big Anthony. He is supposed to look after her house and tend her garden but one day, when she goes over the mountain to visit Strega Amelia, Big Anthony recites the magic verse over the pasta pot, with disastrous results.By Meg Wittwer, Paul Tillery Iv. 2019
The chicken of the Norse god Thor, bewitched with the power of thunder and lightning, returns to action in Thundercluck!…
Chicken of Thor: Recipe for Revenge—written and illustrated by Paul Tillery IV and Meg Wittwer.The mighty chicken Thundercluck is in trouble. He and Brunhilde have run a-fowl of the gods of Asgard, and the best friends must fly the coop. But when a seasoned foe serves up more danger, it’s out of the frying pan and into the fire for these plucky heroes. Can their friendship handle the heat . . . or will they both be cooked?By Kristin O'Donnell Tubb. 2013
What if there was a 13th zodiac sign? You're no longer Sagittarius, but Ophiuchus, the healer, the 13th sign. Your…
personality has changed. So has your mom's and your best friend's. What about the rest of the world? What if you were the one who accidentally unlocked the 13th sign, causing this world-altering change, and infuriating the other 12 signs? In this book by Kristin O'Donnell Tubb, Jalen did it, and now she must use every ounce of her strength and cunning to send the signs back where they belong. Lives, including her own, depend upon it.By Lija Fisher. 2018
A Reading the West Longlist Pick for 2018The Cryptid Catcher is the first book in a monstrously fun middle-grade duology…
by Lija Fisher about a boy who inherits a job hunting legendary creatures.After Clivo Wren's archaeologist father dies mysteriously, the newly orphaned thirteen-year-old finds out the truth: his dad was no archaeologist. He was actually a cryptid catcher, known for finding elusive beasts like the bloodsucking chupacabra. His goal: discover the one extraordinary cryptid whose blood grants immortality—before the knowledge falls into the wrong hands. The mission remains unfinished, and now there's only one person who can take the renowned cryptid catcher's place: Clivo. He may not know the first thing about monster hunting, but he's willing to give it a try—because anything beats staying home with his salsa-crazy aunt and her neurotic cats.By Bodil Bredsdorff. 1995
A little boy called Doup once came to live in Crow Cove, a little community nestled by the sea. Now…
he's ready to go by his birth name, Alek, and discover his own place in the world. Alek's journey takes him to the fishing village of Last Harbor, where he lives with his bitter older brother, works at an inn—and rescues a beautiful girl from ship wreckers who have killed her family. Murder, romance, and the eternal cycle of life and death all play a role in the exciting conclusion to the acclaimed Children of Crow Cove series.By Elizabeth Fama. 2012
Fierce, seductive mermaid Syrenka falls in love with Ezra, a young naturalist. When she abandons her life underwater for a…
chance at happiness on land, she is unaware that this decision comes with horrific and deadly consequences. Almost one hundred forty years later, seventeen-year-old Hester meets a mysterious stranger named Ezra and feels overwhelmingly, inexplicably drawn to him. For generations, love has resulted in death for the women in her family. Is it an undiagnosed genetic defect . . . or a curse? With Ezra's help, Hester investigates her family's strange, sad history. The answers she seeks are waiting in the graveyard, the crypt, and at the bottom of the ocean - but powerful forces will do anything to keep her from uncovering her connection to Syrenka and to the tragedy of so long ago.By Lija Fisher. 2019
Clivo and the Myth Blasters are back on the trail of the immortal cryptid in this conclusion to a monstrously…
funny middle-grade duology by Lija Fisher. Life has gotten complicated for thirteen-year-old Clivo Wren. After taking up his deceased father’s mission to find the extraordinary creature whose blood grants everlasting life, Clivo is spending his summer not at camp or hanging out with his friends, but jetting all over the world tracking cryptids—while keeping his aunt Pearl in the dark about his dangerous adventures. At the same time, a shocking development unveils the truth about Clivo’s enemies, and the cryptids themselves are posing trouble at every turn. With the help of his crew of Myth Blasters, Clivo is going to need all of the tools, gadgets, and training he has to prevent the immortal cryptid from falling into the wrong hands—and to keep Aunt Pearl off the case.