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English
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It was a dark and stormy night. Meg Murry, her small brother Charles Wallace, and her mother had come down to the kitchen for a midnight snack when they were upset by the arrival of a most disturbing stranger. "Wild nights are my glory," the unearthly stranger told them. "I just got caught in a downdraft and blown off course. Let me sit down for a moment, and then I'll be on my way. Speaking of ways, by the way, there is such a thing as a tesseract."...
2) Half magic
Author
Series
Tales of magic volume 1
Publisher
Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Faced with a dull summer in the city, Jane, Mark, Katharine, and Martha suddenly find themselves involved in a series of extraordinary adventures after Jane discovers an ordinary-looking coin that seems to grant wishes.
Author
Series
Magic tree house. Merlin missions volume 20
Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
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Magically transported to southwest China to find the final object needed to break the spell on the wizard Merlin's beloved penguin, Jack and Annie take a side trip to the world's largest giant panda reserve.
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
On the Midwinter Day that is his eleventh birthday, Will Stanton discovers a special gift -- that he is the last of the Old Ones, immortals dedicated to keeping the world from domination by the forces of evil, the Dark. At once, he is plunged into a quest for the six magical Signs that will one day aid the Old Ones in the final battle between the Dark and the Light. And for the twelve days of Christmas, while the Dark is rising, life for Will is full...
Author
Series
Magic tree house. Original series volume 19
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
Having used their magic tree house to travel to India, where they must get a gift to help free the dog Teddy from a spell, Jack and Annie have adventures involving a tiger and other endangered jungle animals.
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
"A companion to Newbery Award winner, A wrinkle in time."
With Meg Murray's help, the dragons her six year-old brother saw in the vegetable garden play an important part in his struggle between life and death.
Author
Series
Beyonders volume 1
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Audio
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Jason Walker is transported to a strange world called Lyrian, where he joins Rachel, who was also drawn there from our world, and a few rebels, to piece together the Word that can destroy the malicious wizard emperor, Surroth.
Author
Publisher
Disney/Hyperion Books
Pub. Date
2009, c2008
Language
English
Description
Artemis's mother has contracted a deadly disease -- and the only cure lies in the brain fluid of African lemurs. Unfortunately, Artemis himself was responsible for making the lemurs extinct five years ago. Now he must enlist the aid of his fairy friends to travel back in time and save them. Not only that, but he must face his deadliest foe yet...his younger self. 500: :
Includes an excerpt from Airman.
Author
Series
Artemis Fowl series volume 5
Publisher
Miramax books/Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
When demons begin appearing on Earth unpredictably, foreshadowing a cataclysmic breakdown of their magic, Artemis and his friends face a new foe--a twelve-year-old girl whose intellect just might match Artemis's own--as they try to prevent catastrophe.
11) Many waters
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
The fifteen-year-old Murry twins, Sandy and Dennys, are accidentally sent back to a strange Biblical time period, in which mythical beasts roam the desert and a man named Noah is building a boat in preparation for a great flood.
Author
Series
Artemis Fowl (Graphic novels) volume 1
Language
English
Description
Teenaged criminal mastermind Artemis Fowl must save the underwater fairy metropolis of Atlantis from danger, while battling a psychological affliction known as the Atlantis Complex.
Author
Series
Books of beginning volume 1
Language
English
Description
Kate, Michael, and Emma have passed from one orphanage to another in the 10 years since their parents disappeared to protect them. Now they learn that they have special powers, a prophesied quest to find a magical book, and a fearsome enemy. First in the Books of Beginning series.
Author
Series
Artemis Fowl (Graphic novels) volume 1
Language
English
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Description
In order to free his father from the Russian Mafiya, Artemis must join forces with the fairy police and his familiar nemesis, Captain Holly Short.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
As her mother prepares to be a contestant on the 1980s television game show, "The $20,000 Pyramid," a twelve-year-old New York City girl tries to make sense of a series of mysterious notes received from an anonymous source that seems to defy the laws of time and space.
Author
Series
Artemis Fowl series volume 8
Publisher
Disney Hyperion
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
"Teenage genius Artemis Fowl and his arch rival Opal battle to the last in this eighth and final book in series"--
Author
Series
Beyonders volume 2
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Audio
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
After Jason succeeds in finding a way back to Lyrian, he's immediately in more danger than ever. Meanwhile, Rachel and the others have made their own progress--as well as discovered new enemies. As the group ultimately rejoins, they strive to convince their most needed ally to join the war and form a rebellion strong enough to triumph against the emperor.
20) Interworld
Author
Series
Interworld novels volume 1
Publisher
HarperCollins
Language
English
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Description
At nearly fifteen years of age, Joey Harker learns that he is a Walker, able to travel between dimensions, and soon joins a team of different versions of himself, each from another dimension, to fight the evil forces striving to conquer all the worlds.
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