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The Invention of Hugo Cabret
by Brian Selznick  
Publisher Comments Orphan, clock keeper, thief: Hugo lives in the walls of a busy Paris train station, where his survival depends on secrets and anonymity. Combining elements of picture book, graphic novel, and film, Caldecott Honor artist Selznick breaks open the novel...
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The Phantom Tollbooth
by Norton Juster
Publisher Comments Illustrated in black-and-white. This ingenious fantasy centers around Milo, a bored ten-year-old who comes home to find a large toy tollbooth sitting in his room. Joining forces with a watchdog named Tock, Milo drives through the tollbooth's gates and...
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Half Magic (Edward Eager's Tales of Magic)
by Edward Eager
Powells.com Staff Pick The four children of Half Magic have been reading E. Nesbit's magical story The Enchanted Castle, when they find something magical of their own — at least, partly magical. The ensuing misadventures are highly entertaining. Half Magic was a childhood...
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The Book of Three: The Chronicles of Prydain, Book One (Chronicles of Prydain #01)
by Lloyd Alexander Publisher Comments The Newbery-winning fantasy series now available in gorgeous new paperback editions! Since The Book of Three was first published in 1964, young readers have been enthralled by the adventures of Taran the Assistant Pig-Keeper and his quest to become a...
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The Great Brain (Great Brain #1)
by John D. Fitzgerald and Mercer Mayer Publisher Comments For decades, the Great Brain and his little brother have enchanted readers. Now three of these heartwarming and funny stories featuring the young con artist are reissued. Illustrations....
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Baseball in April and Other Stories
by Gary Soto Publisher Comments In this unique collection of short stories, the small events of daily life reveal big themes — love and friendship, youth and growing up, success and failure. Calling on his own experiences of growing up in California's Central Valley, poet Gary...
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The Tail of Emily Windsnap (Emily Windsnap)
by Liz Kessler and Sarah Gibb Publisher Comments For as long as she can remember, twelve-year-old Emily Windsnap has lived on a boat. And, oddly enough, for just as long, her mother has seemed anxious to keep her away from the water. But when Mom finally agrees to let her take swimming lessons, Emily...
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Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes (Puffin Modern Classics)
by Eleanor Coerr and Ronald Himler Publisher Comments Based on a true story, young Sadako faces the battle of her life when she is diagnosed with "atomic bomb disease" (leukemia). She turns to her native Japanese beliefs and makes one thousand paper cranes so the gods will grant her wish to be well....
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The Horse Tamer (Black Stallion #14)
by Walter Farley Publisher Comments While waiting for a delayed airplane, old Henry Dailey, the Black's trainer, tells young Alec Ramsay a story of his own youth, travelling with his brother, Bill. Bill Dailey's talent as a horse-whisperer was unmatched in the days before the automobile...
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Rabbit Hill (Puffin Newberry Library)
by Robert Lawson
Powells.com Staff Pick Written in 1944, this is one of the classics of children's literature. The animals of Rabbit Hill and the folks who live in the big house learn about coexisting, giving us all something to think about in terms of how we interact with the world around us....
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Homer Price
by Robert Mccloskey
Publisher Comments Homer Price lives two miles out of Centerburg, where Route 56 meets 56A, but most of his friends and relatives live in town. They include Aunt Aggy and Uncle Ulysses, the Sheriff and the boys, Miss Terwilliger, Miss Naomi Enders, great-great-great...
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Mandy (Julie Andrews Collection)
by Julie Andrews Edwards and Johanna Westerman Publisher Comments The magic of finding a home Mandy, a ten-year-old orphan, dreams of a place to call her own. Escaping over the orphanage wall to explore the outside world, Mandy discovers a tiny deserted cottage in the woods. All through the spring, summer, and fall...
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The Misadventures of Maude March
by Audrey Couloumbis
Powells.com Staff Pick Maude March is a "wanted woman," though she never meant to be. As she and her sister Sallie face one hardship after another, their troubles mount and their lives begin to look like those of the roughriders in the dime novels Sallie reads. If I ever...
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The Neddiad: How Neddie Took the Train, Went to Hollywood, and Saved Civilization
by Daniel Pinkwater Publisher Comments The old powers try to come back, and the planet is plunged into chaos, and civilization is destroyed, and it gets all violent and evil...the old legends tell that a hero...with the sacred turtle, always... Los Angeles, California. Neddie...
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Dragon Keeper
by Carole Wilkinson Publisher Comments In the time of the Han Dynasty in ancient China, the last remaining dragon is in danger of being killed by the cruel Emperor. A nameless orphan with no past and an uncertain future becomes his unlikely ally. The young orphan soon discovers that it is her...
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The Light Princess
by George MacDonald and Maurice Sendak Publisher Comments The princess at her christening is cursed by a wicked witch with lightness. She floats blissfully about the castle all day long and, as one can imagine, gets into all sorts of adventures. Gravity, weight, sorrow, suffering — all of this the princess...
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The Fire Thief (Fire Thief Trilogy #01)
by Terry Deary Publisher Comments In this first book of the Fire Thief trilogy--now available in paperback--Deary reinvents the myth of Prometheus, the titan who stole fire from the gods and gave it to the human race. To escape the gods' revenge, Prometheus travels through time to a...
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Pirate Curse (Wave Walkers #01)
by Kai Meyer and Elizabeth D. Crawford Publisher Comments The pirates of the Caribbean have a name for kids who can walk on water — they call them polliwogs. As far as 14-year-old Jolly knows, she's the last polliwog still alive. She is valuable to the pirate captain who raised her, for she can sneak up on...
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Moxy Maxwell Does Not Love Stuart Little
by Peggy Gifford and Valorie Fisher Publisher Comments It wasn't as if Moxy Maxwell hadn't tried to do her summer reading. She and Stuart Little had been inseparable all summer, like best friends. If Stuart Little wasn't in her backpack, it was in her lap...or holding up the coffee table...or getting...
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Benny and Babe
by Eoin Colfer Publisher Comments Benny, a sports-obsessed, carefree kid, is convinced that he can take on the world???until he spends the summer living with his grandfather and meets resident tomboy and all-around tough-girl Babe Meara. Benny may be a wise guy, but Babe is at least...
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