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1. Impossible creatures

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Author:
Rundell, Katherine
Series:
Impossible creatures volume 1
Lexile measure:
HL: High-Low 650L
Language:
English
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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. Mythic creatures: and the impossibly real animals who inspired them

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

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Author:
Van Pelt, Shelby
Language:
English
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4.1 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...

4. 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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2.2 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...

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

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Author:
Carroll, Lewis, 1832-1898
Series:
Puffin chalk
Alice in Wonderland
Tantor unabridged classics
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Lexile measure:
950L
Language:
English
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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...

6. 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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Blu-Ray, DVD
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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.

7. Hamnet: a novel of the plague

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Author:
O'Farrell, Maggie, 1972-
Series:
Thorndike Press large print core
Language:
English
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4.3 stars
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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...

8. Poppy

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Author:
Avi, 1937-
Series:
Poppy stories volume 3
Dimwood Forest volume 2
Lexile measure:
670L
Language:
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.

9. The war of the worlds

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Author:
Wells, H. G. (Herbert George), 1866-1946
Series:
Oxford world's classics
Smart Pop
Timeless Classics
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Lexile measure:
1170L
Language:
English
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"One of the most important and influential invasion narratives ever written, The War of the Worlds (1897) describes the coming of the Martians, who land in Woking, and make their way remorselessly towards the capital, wreaking chaos, death, and destruction."--

10. 20,000 leagues under the sea

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Author:
Verne, Jules, 1828-1905
Series:
Timeless Classics
Classic Starts®
Voyages Extraordinaires
Lexile measure:
590L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
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.

11. Fairy tale: a novel

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Author:
King, Stephen, 1947-
Series:
Thorndike Press large print core
New York Times Best Sellers Fiction
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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...

12. 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!

13. Hunger: a Gone novel

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Author:
Grant, Michael, 1954-
Series:
Gone volume 2
Gone novel volume 2
Lexile measure:
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.

14. The world that we knew

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Author:
Hoffman, Alice
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English
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4.8 stars
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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"--

15. 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...

16. The knife of never letting go

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Author:
Ness, Patrick, 1971-
Series:
Chaos walking volume 1
Lexile measure:
860L
Language:
English
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Pursued by power-hungry Prentiss and mad minister Aaron, young Todd and Viola set out across New World searching for answers about his colony's true past and seeking a way to warn the ship bringing hopeful settlers from Old World.

17. Beautiful darkness

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Author:
Garcia, Kami
Series:
Beautiful Creatures
Caster Chronicles volume 2
Lexile measure:
HL: High-Low 660L
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English
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In a small southern town with a secret world hidden in plain sight, sixteen-year-old Lena, who possesses supernatural powers and faces a life-altering decision, draws away from her true love, Ethan, a mortal with frightening visions.

18. The demon crown

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Author:
Rollins, James, 1961-
Series:
Sigma Force novel volume 13
Sigma Force novel volume 12
Language:
English
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5 stars
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Off the coast of Brazil, a team of scientists discovers a horror like no other, an island where all life has been eradicated, consumed and possessed by a species beyond imagination. Before they can report their discovery, a mysterious agency attacks the group, killing them all, save one, an entomologist, an expert on venomous creatures, Professor Ken Matsui from Cornell University. Strangest of all, this inexplicable threat traces back to a terrifying...

19. Lalani of the distant sea

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Author:
Kelly, Erin Entrada
Lexile measure:
600L
Language:
English
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5 stars
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"Twelve-year-old Lalani Sarita takes on the impossible task of traveling to the legendary Mount Isa, towering on an island to the north. Generations of men and boys have died on the same quest--how can a timid young girl in a tiny boat survive the epic tests of the archipelago?"--

20. Buzz, sting, bite: why we need insects

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Author:
Sverdrup-Thygeson, Anne
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English
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An enthusiastic, witty, and informative introduction to the world of insects and why we-and the planet we inhabit-could not survive without them. Insects comprise roughly half of the animal kingdom. They live everywhere-deep inside caves, 18,000 feet high in the Himalayas, inside computers, in Yellowstone's hot springs, and in the ears and nostrils of much larger creatures. There are insects that have ears on their knees, eyes on their penises, and...
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