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1. Impossible creatures

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Author:
Rundell, Katherine
Series:
Impossible creatures volume 1
Impossible creatures volume 2
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HL: High-Low 650L
Language:
English
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5 stars
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"A boy called Christopher is visiting his reclusive grandfather when he witnesses an avalanche of mythical creatures come tearing down the hill. This is how Christopher learns that his grandfather is the guardian of one of the ways between the non-magical world and a place called the Archipelago, a cluster of magical islands where all the creatures we tell of in myth live and breed and thrive alongside humans. They have been protected from being discovered...

2. Impossible Creatures - Das Geheimnis Der Unglaublichen Wesen

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Author:
Rundell, Katherine
Publisher:
argon Kinder- und Jugendhörbuch
Pub. Date:
2025
Language:
German
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Der preisgekrönte Bestseller aus Großbritannien: Außergewöhnliches Fantasy-Abenteuer voller Fabelwesen und Action ab 10 Jahren "Geh auf keinen Fall den Hügel hinauf", hatte Christophers Großvater gesagt. Doch die Ferien sind zu langweilig, um sich an Verbote zu halten. Als Christopher den Hügel erklimmt, bebt plötzlich die Erde. Sprechende Eichhörnchen, ein geflügeltes Pferd und ein Einhorn kommen ihm entgegen. Christopher kann es nicht...

3. Mythic creatures: and the impossibly real animals who inspired them

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Author:
Kendall, Laurel
Publisher:
Sterling Signature
Pub. Date:
[2016]
Language:
English
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4. Remarkably bright creatures: a novel

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Author:
Van Pelt, Shelby
Language:
English
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4.2 stars
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"For fans of A Man Called Ove, a luminous debut novel about a widow's unlikely friendship with a giant Pacific octopus reluctantly residing at the local aquarium-and the truths she finally uncovers about her son's disappearance 30 years ago"-- After Tova Sullivan's husband died, she began working the night shift at the Sowell Bay Aquarium, mopping floors and tidying up. Keeping busy has always helped her cope, which she's been doing since her eighteen-year-old...

5. The grey wolf

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Author:
Penny, Louise
Series:
Three Pines mystery volume 19
Thorndike Press large print high octane
Chief Inspector Armand Gamache
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English
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2.8 stars
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"The 19th mystery in the #1 New York Times-bestselling Armand Gamache series. Relentless phone calls interrupt the peace of a warm August morning in Three Pines. Though the tiny Québec village is impossible to find on any map, someone has managed to track down Armand Gamache, head of homicide at the Sûreté, as he sits with his wife in their back garden. Reine-Marie watches with increasing unease as her husband refuses to pick up, though he clearly...

6. The poisoned king

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Author:
Rundell, Katherine
Series:
Impossible creatures volume 2
Publisher:
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date:
[2025]
Language:
English
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Christopher returns to the Archipelago to investigate the mysterious dragon deaths, embarking on a rescue mission alongside a princess seeking justice for her father.

7. Alice's adventures in wonderland & Through the looking-glass

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Author:
Carroll, Lewis, 1832-1898
Series:
Puffin chalk
Jake Urry Classics Collection
Studio book
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Lexile measure:
950L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4.5 stars
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"Commemorating the 150th anniversary of one of the most beloved classics of children's literature, this illustrated edition presents Alice like you've never seen her before. In 1865, Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, an Oxford mathematician and Anglican deacon, published a story about a little girl who tumbles down a rabbit hole. Thus was the world first introduced to Alice and her pseudonymous creator, Lewis Carroll. This beautiful new edition of Alice's...

8. Moana

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Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment
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English
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5 stars
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A mythic adventure set around 2,000 years ago across a series of islands in the South Pacific. The film follows the journey of a spirited teenager named Moana as she meets the once-mighty demi-god Maui, and together they traverse the open ocean, encountering enormous fiery creatures and impossible odds.

9. Hamnet: a novel of the plague

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Author:
O'Farrell, Maggie, 1972-
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Thorndike Press large print core
Language:
English
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"A thrilling departure: a short, piercing, deeply moving novel about the death of Shakespeare's 11 year old son Hamnet--a name interchangeable with Hamlet in 15th century Britain--and the years leading up to the production of his great play. England, 1580. A young Latin tutor--penniless, bullied by a violent father--falls in love with an extraordinary, eccentric young woman--a wild creature who walks her family's estate with a falcon on her shoulder...

10. Poppy

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Author:
Avi, 1937-
Series:
Poppy stories volume 3
Dimwood Forest volume 2
Lexile measure:
670L
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English
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4 stars
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"At the very edge of Dimwood Forest stands an old charred oak. A great horned owl, Mr. Ocax, waits there. With his piercing gaze, he surveys the lands he calls his own, watching for the creatures he considers his subjects. None dares disobey him, until the night a courageous deer mouse name Poppy makes a stand, only to find herself in terrible danger. To lead her family to a better life, will Poppy battle Mr. Ocax to the end?"--Back cover.

11. The war of the worlds

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Author:
Wells, H. G. (Herbert George), 1866-1946
Series:
Dover thrift editions
Oxford world's classics
Smart Pop
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Lexile measure:
1170L
Language:
English
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On a summer night, at the end of the nineteenth century, a "meteor" lands on Horsell Common in London. An artificial cyliner is found the next day and upon approaching it, the unsuspecting humans are instantly killed by an all-destroying heat-ray, as terrifying Martians emerge and blaze a path of fiery destruction across Victorian England. Amid the boundless destruction that is caused, it looks as if the end of the world has come ... The War of the...

12. The ocean at the end of the lane

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Author:
Gaiman, Neil
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English
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4.3 stars
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It began for our narrator forty years ago when the family lodger stole their car and committed suicide in it, stirring up ancient powers best left undisturbed. Dark creatures from beyond the world are on the loose, and it will take everything our narrator has just to stay alive: there is primal horror here, and menace unleashed-- within his family and from the forces that have gathered to destroy it. His only defense is three women on a farm at the...

13. The metamorphosis and other stories

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Author:
Kafka, Franz, 1883-1924
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Dover thrift editions
Penguin classics deluxe edition
Jake Urry Classics Collection
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Lexile measure:
1340L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
3.6 stars
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A novel about a man who finds himself transformed into a huge insect, and the effects of this change upon his life. This is a fantastic horror story about a hapless man who is turned into an insect. When Gregor Samsa woke up one morning from unsettling dreams, he found himself changed in his bed into a monstrous vermin. With this startling, bizarre, yet surprisingly funny first sentence, Kafka begins his masterpiece, The Metamorphosis. It is the story...

14. Fairy tale: a novel

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Author:
King, Stephen, 1947-
Series:
New York Times Best Sellers Fiction
Thorndike Press large print core
Language:
English
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4.4 stars
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"Legendary storyteller Stephen King goes into the deepest well of his imagination in this spellbinding novel about a seventeen-year-old boy who inherits the keys to a parallel world where good and evil are at war, and the stakes could not be higher--for that world or ours." -- Charlie Reade looks like a regular high school kid, great at baseball and football, a decent student. But he carries a heavy load. His mom was killed in a hit-and-run accident...

15. 20,000 leagues under the sea

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Author:
Verne, Jules, 1828-1905
Series:
Treasury of illustrated classics
Books of wonder
Unabridged classics
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Lexile measure:
770L
Language:
English
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5 stars
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A deadly and huge sea monster is sinking ships. Three men--a French scientist, his trusty sidekick, and a Canadian harpoonist are thrown from the deck of their American warship. A door opens on the side of the monster, and they are taken inside the greatest submarine in the world, the top-secret Nautilus commanded by a madman who will take them 20,000 leagues into the depths.

16. Planet Earth: The complete series

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The best-selling factual series of all time is now even better! Now, with the addition of all-new commentary and new bonus programs, you can relive this incredible experience all over again!

17. Hunger: a Gone novel

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Author:
Grant, Michael, 1954-
Series:
Gone volume 2
Gone novel volume 2
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HL: High-Low 570L
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English
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3 stars
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Conditions worsen for the remaining young residents of a small California coastal town isolated by supernatural events when their food supplies dwindle and the Darkness underground awakens.

18. Howl's moving castle

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Author:
Jones, Diana Wynne
Series:
World of Howl
Howl's moving castle volume 1
Howl's Castle
Lexile measure:
800L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4.7 stars
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The eldest of three sisters, in a land where it is considered to be a misfortune, Sophie is resigned to her fate as a hat shop apprentice until a witch turns her into an old woman and she finds herself in the castle of the greatly feared wizard Howl.

19. The world that we knew

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Author:
Hoffman, Alice
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English
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"From New York Times bestselling author Alice Hoffman comes a beautiful story of one Jewish child refugee's flight to safety in Nazi German and her mother's impossible decision to set her free"--

20. H is for hawk

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Author:
Macdonald, Helen, 1970-
Series:
Thorndike Press large print peer picks
Language:
English
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3.1 stars
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"As a child, Helen Macdonald was determined to become a falconer. She learned the arcane terminology and read all the classic books, including T.H. White's tortured masterpiece, The Goshawk, which describes White's struggle to train a hawk as a spiritual contest. When her father dies and she is knocked sideways by grief, she becomes obsessed with the idea of training her own goshawk. She buys Mabel ... on a Scottish quayside and takes her home to...
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