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If You Liked... Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Alice is wondering what to do done day, when a talking rabbit steals her attention. She is so intrigued that she follows him into his hole, and tumbles down into Wonderland.


The wind in the willows 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.



The wonderful Wizard of Oz 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.



Watership Down 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.



The secret garden 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.



Inkheart 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.



Ella Minnow Pea : a progressively lipogrammatic epistolary fable 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....



Stardust 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.



The color of magic : a Discworld novel 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.



The city of Ember 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.



Uglies 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.



Graceling 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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