 If
You Like Emily Windsnap: Tales of Mermaids and Fairies...
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Bridging Fiction
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Almond Blossom's mystery
Woodward, Kay.
Almond Blossom must discover who has stolen the season of spring so that warmth
can return to the garden after winter.
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The Hinky Pink
McDonald, Megan.
Summoned to the Great Castle of Firenze to create a special dress for Princess Isabella
Caramella Gorgonzola, Anabel, a talented seamstress, is at first delighted but then
increasingly despairing as time passes and her efforts are continually subverted
by an unseen sprite.
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Stephanie the starfish fairy
Meadows, Daisy.
Kristy, Rachel and Stephanie the Starfish Fairy need to find Spike the starfish.
But before they do, Stephanie is trapped--by the goblins! Can the girls help?
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Double trouble dwarfs
West, Tracey, 1965-
Fourteen fairies have escaped from their world. Now they're causing trouble in out
world! It's up to a girl named Violet and a fairy named Sprite to trick them all
and send them back home. Who will they trick next?
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Fiction
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The boy in the oak
Albarn, Jessica,
1971-
"In the garden behind the cottage grows an ancient oak that hides a secret. The
boy who lives in the cottage couldn't care less about the ancient tree and certainly
doesn't know it is enchanted. But the Faeries will soon change this. . ." -- Back
cover.
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Keeper
Appelt, Kathi,
1954-
On the night of the blue moon when mermaids are said to gather on a sandbar in the
Gulf of Mexico, ten-year-old Keeper sets out in a small boat, with her dog BD and
a seagull named Captain, determined to find her mother, a mermaid, as Keeper has
always believed, who left long ago to return to the sea.
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The fairy rebel
Banks, Lynne
Reid, 1929-
A rebellious fairy named Tiki, already in trouble for breaking the rule against
wearing jeans, risks the further wrath of the Fairy Queen by trying to fulfill a
human's special request for help.
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Peter and the Starcatchers
Barry, Dave.
Soon after Peter, an orphan, sets sail from England on the ship Never Land, he befriends
and assists Molly, a young Starcatcher, whose mission is to guard a trunk of magical
stardust from a greedy pirate and the native inhabitants of a remote island.
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Come fall
Bauer, A. C. E.
Drawn together by a mentoring program and an unusual crow, middle school misfits
Salman, Lu, and Blos form a strong friendship despite teasing by fellow students
and the maneuverings of fairies Oberon, Titania, and Puck.
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Small persons with wings
Booraem, Ellen.
When Mellie Turpin's grandfather dies and leaves her family his run-down inn and
bar, she learns that for generations her family members have been fairy guardians,
and now that the fairies want an important ring returned, the Turpins become involved
in a series of magical adventures as they try to locate the missing ring.
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Birdie's book
Bozarth, Jan.
When twelve-year-old Birdie goes to meet her grandmother, who is estranged from
Birdie's mother, she learns a secret which leads to fantastic adventures, new understanding,
and a renewed closeness among members of her family.
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The faerie door
Maxwell, Bruce,
1957-
Victoria Deveny is transported from her Northumberland, England, home in 1890 to
1964 Alton Bay, New Hampshire, where she meets Elliot Good and they agree to help
the Faerie Queen defeat the Shadow Knight, who is trying to close the portals that
allow fairies to help humans in time of need.
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Rise of the Darklings
Crilley, Paul,
1975-
After saving a piskie's life, twelve-year-old Emily Snow finds herself in the middle
of a centuries-old war between rival fairy factions and a secret society named The
Invisible Order.
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Beck and the great berry
battle
Driscoll, Laura.
Beck, a fairy, has a talent for talking to animals, but that may not be enough when
she tries to mediate a war between the hummingbirds and the chipmunks.
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The goblin baby
Doherty, Berlie.
After nine-year-old Tam's baby sister is stolen away by faeries and replaced by
a goblin baby, he must journey to the land of the faeries to retrieve her and bring
her back home.
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Following magic
Duey, Kathleen.
Having escaped from the tower where she was trapped, the faerie Alida and her human
helper Gavin try to elude capture by Lord Dunraven's men while they search for Alida's
family.
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I, Coriander
Gardner, Sally.
In 17th century London, Coriander, a girl who has inherited magic from her mother,
must find a way to use this magic in order to save both herself and an inhabitant
of the fairy world where her mother was born.
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13 treasures
Harrison,
Michelle, 1979-
Bedeviled by evil fairies that only she can see, thirteen-year-old Tanya is sent
to stay with her cold and distant grandmother at Elvesden Manor, where she and the
caretaker's son solve a disturbing mystery that leads them to the discovery that
Tanya's life is in danger.
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The tail of Emily Windsnap
Kessler, Liz.
After finally convincing her mother that she should take swimming lessons, twelve-year-old
Emily discovers a terrible and wonderful secret about herself that opens up a whole
new world.
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Philippa Fisher's fairy godsister
Kessler, Liz
Philippa Fisher is just your average eleven-and-a-half year-old girl - she's a bit
shy and not the most popular girl at school. But all that changes one day when a
new girl named Daisy arrives at school and reluctantly confesses that she is Philippa's
very own fairy godsister--Publisher.
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Ella enchanted
Levine, Gail Carson.
In this novel based on the story of Cinderella, Ella struggles against the childhood
curse that forces her to obey any order given to her.
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Fairy dust and the quest
for the egg
Levine, Gail Carson.
Prilla, the unusual new fairy in Neverland, finds her mettle, Mother Dove's wisdom,
and Tinker Bell's courage tested by many trials, including a hurricane, a selfish
fairy, and Captain Hook.
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Apple-y ever after
Mason, Jane B.
Snow White and her friends must find a way to break the magic spell which caused
her father to lose his memory.
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The faerie door
Maxwell, Bruce,
1957-
Victoria Deveny is transported from her Northumberland, England, home in 1890 to
1964 Alton Bay, New Hampshire, where she meets Elliot Good and they agree to help
the Faerie Queen defeat the Shadow Knight, who is trying to close the portals that
allow fairies to help humans in time of need.
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The same place but different
Nodelman, Perry.
Young John Nesbit enters the world of the Strangers in order to rescue his baby
sister whom the fairies have replaced with a Changeling.
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Caramel moon
Perelman, Helen.
Melli and the other Candy Fairies must figure out who is destroying the candy corn
crop before the Caramel Moon Festival.
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Enter the Realm : three adventures
Rodda, Emily.
Presents the first three books in the Fairy Realm series in which Jessie discovers
the magical Realm and has many adventures.
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Anacaona, Golden Flower
Danticat, Edwidge,
1969-
Beginning in 1490, Anacaona keeps a record of her life as a possible successor to
the supreme chief of Xaragua, as wife of the chief of Maguana, and as a warrior
battling the first white men to arrive in the West Indies, ravenous for gold.
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Magyk
Sage, Angie.
After learning that she is the Princess, Jenna is whisked from her home and carried
toward safety by the Extraordinary Wizard, those she always believed were her father
and brother, and a young guard known only as Boy 412--pursued by agents of those
who killed her mother ten years earlier.
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The night fairy
Schlitz, Laura Amy.
When Flory the night fairy's wings are accidentally broken and she cannot fly, she
has to learn to do everything differently.
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To catch a mermaid
Selfors, Suzanne.
When twelve-year-old Boomerang Broom discovers a wish-granting baby mermaid, he
takes her home and his little sister begs to keep her, with unexpected consequences.
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Amber's first clue
Shields, Gillian.
Amber leads her fellow mermaids in trying to help beluga whales that are trapped
in ice, while working on solving a riddle from evil Mantora, whose theft of the
Snow Diamonds may cause the Ice Kingdom to melt.
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Unicorns of Balinor. Books
1-3
Stanton, Mary.
A princess and her unicorn battle the dark forces of Evil to reclaim the magical
land of Balinor.
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Under the green hill
Sullivan, Laura L.
While staying with distant relatives in England, Americans Rowan, Meg, Silly, and
James Morgan, with their neighbors Dickie Rhys and Finn Fachan, learn that one of
them must fight to the death in the Midsummer War required by the local fairies.
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Dragonfly and the Web of
Dreams
Sweet, J. H.
When the Web of Dreams is destroyed, Jennifer and her friends once again need to
transform into fairies so they can contact the Dream Spider who is on holiday.
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Butterfingers
Trewellard, Juliet.
When beautiful Princess Bella is kidnapped by a fearsome dragon, it is left to a
clumsy stable boy, accompanied by his dog and pony, to save her.
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The fairies of Nutfolk Wood
Ullman, Barb Bentler.
After her parents divorce and she moves to the country with her mother, fourth-grader
Willa Jane, anxious and unhappy with the changes in her life, discovers a world
of little people called Nutfolk living in the woods around her new home.
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The girl who circumnavigated
Fairyland in a ship of her own making
Valente,
Catherynne M., 1979-
Twelve-year-old September's ordinary life in Omaha turns to adventure when a Green
Wind takes her to Fairyland to retrieve a talisman the new and fickle Marquess wants
from the enchanted woods.
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