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The wind in the willows
Grahame, Kenneth, 1859-1932. New York : Scribner's, 1954.
The adventures of a group of animals who live in the English countryside--bashful
Mole, boastful Toad, practical Badger and world-wise Rat.
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The wonderful Wizard of Oz
Baum, L. Frank (Lyman Frank), 1856-1919. [New York] : Books of Wonder : HarperCollins Publishers, 1987, c1900.
After a cyclone transports her to the land of Oz, Dorothy must seek out the great
wizard in order to return to Kansas.
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Watership Down
Adams, Richard, 1920- New York : Macmillan, [1974, c1972]
Chronicles the adventures of a group of rabbits searching for a safe place to establish
a new warren where they can live in peace.
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The secret garden
Burnett, Frances Hodgson, 1849-1924. New York : Harper Collins, [1985], c1962.
Ten-year old Mary come to live in a lonely house on the Yorkshire moors and discovers
an invalid cousin and mysteries of a locked garden.
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Inkheart
Funke, Cornelia Caroline. New York : Scholastic, 2003.
Twelve-year-old Meggie learns that her father, who repairs and binds books for a
living, can "read" fictional characters to life when one of those characters abducts
them and tries to force him into service.
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Ella Minnow Pea : a progressively
lipogrammatic epistolary fable
Dunn, Mark, 1956- San Francisco : MacAdam/Cage Pub., c2001.
Ella Minnow Pea is an epistolary novel set in the fictional island of Nollop situated
off the coast of South Carolina and home to the man who invented the phrase The
Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over The Lazy Dog. Now deceased, the islanders have erected
a monument to honor their hero, but one day a tile with the letter "Z" falls from
the statue. The leaders interpret the falling tile as a message from beyond the
grave and the letter is banned from use. On an island where the residents pride
themselves on their love of language, this is seen as a tragedy. They are still
reeling from the shock, when another tile falls and then another....
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Stardust
Gaiman, Neil. New York : Spike, c1999.
In the sleepy English countryside of decades past, there is a town that has stood
on a jut of granite for six hundred years. And immediately to the east stands a
high stone wall, for which the village is named. Here in the town of Wall, Tristran
Thorn has lost his heart to the hauntingly beautiful Victoria Forester. One crisp
October night, as they watch, a star falls from the sky, and Victoria promises to
marry Tristran if he'll retrieve that star and bring it back for her. It is this
promise that sends Tristran through the only gap in the wall, across the meadow,
and into the most unforgettable adventure of his life.
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The color of magic : a Discworld
novel
Pratchett, Terry. New York : HarperPaperbacks, 2000, c1983.
The Color of Magic is Terry Pratchett's maiden voyage through the now-legendary
land of Discworld. This is where it all begins--with the tourist Twoflower and his
wizard guide, Rincewind.
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The city of Ember
DuPrau, Jeanne. New York : Random House, 2003.
In the year 241, twelve-year-old Lina trades jobs on Assignment Day to be a Messenger
to run to new places in her decaying but beloved city, perhaps even to glimpse Unknown
Regions.
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Uglies
Westerfeld, Scott. New York : Simon Pulse, 2005.
Just before their sixteenth birthdays, when they will will be transformed into beauties
whose only job is to have a great time, Tally's best friend runs away and Tally
must find her and turn her in, or never become pretty at all.
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Graceling
Cashore, Kristin. Orlando, FL : Harcourt, 2008.
In a world where some people are born with extreme and often-feared skills called
Graces, Katsa struggles for redemption from her own horrifying Grace, the Grace
of killing, and teams up with another young fighter to save their land from a corrupt
king.
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