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Book cover for "Cousins in the time of magic".
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Publisher:
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date:
2025
Language:
English
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Three cousins venture through time to 1862 where they must deliver their aunt's mysterious sword to General Ignacio Zaragoza in time for the Battle of Puebla in Mexico.
Book cover for "City of time and magic".
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Series:
Found things volume 4
Language:
English
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4 stars
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"Paula Brackston's City of Time and Magic is the next installment in the time-traveling Found Things Series. City of Time and Magic sees Xanthe face her greatest challenges yet. She must choose from three treasures that sing to her; a beautiful writing slope, a mourning brooch of heartbreaking detail, and a gorgeous gem-set hat pin. All call her, but the wrong one could take her on a mission other than that which she must address first, and the stakes...
Book cover for "TIME The Magic of LEGO".
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Publisher:
Dotdash Meredith
Language:
English
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TIME The Magic of LEGO

Book cover for "Dejah & Summer in the Time of Magic".
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Publisher:
Warren Bluhm
Pub. Date:
2024
Language:
English
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On an otherwise normal October day, my two golden retrievers, Dejah and Summer, began talking with me. The next thing I knew, all sorts of other magical things were happening. I began making a number of new friends - an elfin being, a dragon, a convocation of eagles, and a great buck and his family - and it soon became clear that something extremely unpleasant was heading our way on Halloween morning.It all came down to a great prophecy: "In the time...
Book cover for "Time Management Magic".
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Publisher:
Morgan James Publishing
Pub. Date:
2019
Language:
English
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Time Management Magic is all about learning a system and a way of thinking that enhances the ability to lead a highly productive, balanced, and effective life. Too many people get discouraged and want to quit because they have setbacks and other obstacles in their life. Retired executive vice president of Walt Disney World, Lee Cockerell's advice to everyone is, "Don't underestimate what you can achieve. Having a well-organized system for planning...
Book cover for "How to Talk to Customers".
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Publisher:
Wiley
Pub. Date:
2011
Language:
English
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Filled with case studies and anecdotes, How to Talk to Customers demystifies the most critical aspect of customer service: conversations employees have every day with customers. In this must-have resource, Diane Berenbaum and Tom Larkin outline a proven system based on their MAGIC customer service training program. MAGIC, which stands for Make A Great Impression on the Customer, can help anyone become the type of communicator that makes their customers...
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Wiley
Pub. Date:
2011
Language:
English
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Filled with case studies and anecdotes, How to Talk to Customers demystifies the most critical aspect of customer service: conversations employees have every day with customers. In this must-have resource, Diane Berenbaum and Tom Larkin outline a proven system based on their MAGIC customer service training program. MAGIC, which stands for Make A Great Impression on the Customer, can help anyone become the type of communicator that makes their customers...
Book cover for "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix".
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Lexile measure:
950L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4.5 stars
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Harry is in his fifth year at Hogwarts as the adventures continue. There is a door at the end of a silent corridor. And it's haunting Harry Potter's dreams. Why else would he be waking in the middle of the night, screaming in terror? Harry has a lot on his mind for this, his fifth year at Hogwarts: a defense against the dark arts teacher with a personality like poisoned honey; a big surprise on the Gryffindor Quidditch team; and the looming terror...
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Lexile measure:
760L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4.7 stars
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Classics. This is an exquisite leatherbound edition of a much-loved children's classic that will be cherished by all ages. It is suitable for children aged 10 to 13 years old. On the grounds of Misselthwaite, her Uncle's estate near the Yorkshire moors, nine-year-old Mary Lennox finds a walled-in garden that has been locked securely for years. She cultivates the garden, an experience that both improves her health and raises her spirits. And it proves...
Book cover for "The great Gatsby".
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Lexile measure:
1010L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
3.8 stars
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The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, one of literature’s most beloved stories and the inspiration for numerous film adaptations, is now available in a fine exclusive collector’s edition featuring beautiful cover and interior treatments, making it ideal for fiction lovers and book collectors alike. Jay Gatsby had once loved beautiful, spoiled Daisy Buchanan, then lost her to a rich boy. Now, mysteriously wealthy, he is ready to...
Book cover for "As you like it".
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English
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Exiled royals--including a duke's daughter, disguised as a man--and country folk, learn lessons about class and gender through a series of love triangles in the Forest of Arden.
Book cover for "A Room with a view".
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English
Average Rating:
3 stars
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"A Room with a View, written by E.M. Forster and originally published in 1908, tells the story of Lucy Honeychurch, a young Englishwoman on holiday in Italy with her cousin Charlotte Bartlett. Lucy finds herself torn between the conventions of her upbringing and the passionate desires of her heart, as she discovers a new way of looking at the world. A Room with a View captures the beauty of Florence and the Italian countryside, as well as the humor...
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Lexile measure:
730L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
5 stars
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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Annie Proulx's The Shipping News is a vigorous, darkly comic, and at times magical portrait of the contemporary North American family. Quoyle, a third-rate newspaper hack, with a "head shaped like a Crenshaw, no neck, reddish hair…features as bunched as kissed fingertips," is wrenched violently out of his workaday life when his two-timing wife meets her just desserts. An aunt convinces Quoyle and his two emotionally...
Book cover for "The house of the seven gables".
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Lexile measure:
1320L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4 stars
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A gloomy New England mansion provides the setting for this classic exploration of ancestral guilt and its expiation through the love and goodwill of succeeding generations. Nathaniel Hawthorne drew inspiration for this story of an immorally obtained property from the role his forebears played in the 17th-century Salem witch trials. Built over an unquiet grave, the House of the Seven Gables carries a dying man's curse that blights the lives of its...
Book cover for "Dark witch".
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Language:
English
Average Rating:
3.7 stars
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An American searches for her Irish ancestors to learn more about her powers and break an ancient curse.
Book cover for "The Phoenix Pencil Company".
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Language:
English
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"Monica Tsai spends most days on her computer, journaling the details of her ordinary life and coding for a program that seeks to connect strangers online. A self-proclaimed recluse, she's always struggled to make friends and, as a college freshman, finds herself escaping into a digital world, counting the days until she can return home to her beloved grandparents. They are now in their nineties, and Monica worries about them constantly--especially...
Book cover for "Guarding the invisible dragons".
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Publisher:
Scholastic Inc
Lexile measure:
560L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
5 stars
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A nest of invisible baby dragons has been discovered in Queen Sofia's castle so Drake, Worm, and Val, Carlos's cousin, must journey to the dangerous Dove Island to find the parents and the fruit that keeps the dragons' invisible powers.

18. Eldest

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Series:
Inheritance volume 2
Lexile measure:
970L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
5 stars
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After successfully evading an Urgals ambush, Eragon is adopted into the Ingeitum clan and sent to finish his training in magic and swordsmanship so he can further help the Varden in their struggle against the Empire.
Book cover for "The god of small things".
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Lexile measure:
840L
Average Rating:
3.5 stars
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In 1969 in Kerala, India, Rahel and her twin brother, Estha, struggle to forge a childhood for themselves amid the destruction of their family life, as they discover that the entire world can be transformed in a single moment.
Book cover for "Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz".
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Lexile measure:
1020L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
3 stars
Description:
An earthquake drops Dorothy and her friend Zeb into the Vegetable Kingdom, a land of glass buildings, princesses that grow, and invisible people, where they encounter the Wizard of Oz and together seek the Emerald City.