Harry Potter has no idea how famous he is. That’s because he’s being raised by his miserable aunt and uncle who are terrified Harry will learn that he’s really a wizard, just as his parents were. But everything changes when Harry is summoned to attend an infamous school for wizards, and he begins to discover some clues about his illustrious birthright. From the surprising way he is greeted by a lovable giant, to the unique curriculum and colorful faculty at his unusual school, Harry finds himself drawn deep inside a mystical world he never knew existed and closer to his own noble destiny.

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When the Knight Bus crashes through the darkness and screeches to a halt in front of him, it’s the start of another far from ordinary year at Hogwarts for Harry Potter. Sirius Black, escaped mass-murderer and follower of Lord Voldemort, is on the run – and they say he is coming after Harry. In his first ever Divination class, Professor Trelawney sees an omen of death in Harry’s tea leaves …But perhaps most terrifying of all are the Dementors patrolling the school grounds, with their soul-sucking kiss. These new editions of the classic and internationally bestselling, multi-award-winning series feature instantly pick-up-able new jackets by Jonny Duddle, with huge child appeal, to bring Harry Potter to the next generation of readers. It’s time to PASS THE MAGIC ON …

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In his fifth year at Hogwart’s, Harry faces challenges at every turn, from the dark threat of He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named and the unreliability of the government of the magical world to the rise of Ron Weasley as the keeper of the Gryffindor Quidditch Team. Along the way he learns about the strength of his friends, the fierceness of his enemies, and the meaning of sacrifice.

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Two young boys journey across the world, the galaxy, and multiple dimensions to track down and stop their imaginary friend from causing havoc. A number of scientific concepts and vocabulary words are introduced as the main characters use them to solve the problems put before them. The boys have to learn to rely on and look out for each other in order to succeed. Vocabulary words are underlined so parents and children can go through the story together to discuss the words and concepts. The book is rated a 6.0 ATOS reading level. Glossary and discussion questions have been added due to reader requests and feedback.

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Torak has survived the summer and his heart-stopping adventure in the Seal Islands. He and Wolf are together again. But their reunion is all too short-lived. As mid winter approaches Torak learns the worst from the White Fox clan. The Soul-Eaters have snatched Wolf and will sacrifice him. Desperate to rescue him, Torak hatches a perilous plan and one which he must carry out alone. He will find the Soul-Eaters and infiltrate the cult.

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In bestselling author Patrick Carman’s rich and riveting follow-up to The House of Power, an extraordinary world meets its destiny in an epic and unforgettable rebirth.

The world of Atherton has collapsed and the three levels have become one. Humans and monsters, once separated by vast cliffs, now roam the surface of Atherton together. The inside of Atherton–where the most troubling secrets are hidden–has been breached. While Edgar embarks on a life-or-death quest to find Atherton’s mad maker, his two friends, Samuel and Isabel, venture through dangerous underground realms, confronting deadly cave dwellers, rivers of fire, and waters of life.

Atherton is not what it seems at all, but something far more dangerous, with a history locked inside the mind of a madman and a future beyond Edgar’s wildest imagining.

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It’s been three days since Solar Storm Icarus silenced the world…three days since the GRS virus wiped out most of humanity and started changing the few who remained. Liv and the others made it through the initial wave, but they’ve lost a lot along the way and the journey to Salvation is far from over. A rogue military organization has taken hold of the area and they possess a weapon that could change everything.

When Liv finds out her brother and the other refugees are being held captive at Camp Seco, she will risk everything to get him back. As the group embarks upon a dangerous rescue mission, a rival band of survivors threatens their safety and a new storm gathers overhead. The virus has spread and the infected are being drawn together. What’s worse, the beast that lurks inside of Liv is growing stronger and more difficult to control. But Liv has a promise to keep–and her little brother is running out of time.

Will Liv be able to harness her strength to save her brother and the hundreds of other innocents beyond the walls of Camp Seco, or will she let the monster out and put them all at risk?

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When Aggie goes fishing on her own for the first time and is dragged into the river by a shape-changing elf, her life is turned upside-down. Everything she thought she knew about herself is about to be challenged. Join Aggie on her journey of discovery, through a magical world of elves and an evil wizard.
‘The Rise of Agnil’ is the first book of the ‘Agnil’s Worlds’ fantasy adventure series.

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Mars in 1816 is a world of high Society, deadly danger, and strange clockwork machines. Pterodactyls glide through the sky, automatic servants hand out sandwiches at elegant garden parties, and in the north, the great dragon tombs hide marvels of Ancient Martian technology.

Twelve-year-old Edward Sullivan has always dreamed of becoming a spy like the ones he reads of in his favorite magazine, Thrilling Martian Tales. Instead, he spends his days keeping his eccentric family from complete disaster … that is, until the villainous archeologist, Sir Titus Dane, kidnaps Edward’s parents as part of a scheme to loot an undiscovered dragon tomb.

Edward and his sisters set out on a perilous pursuit across the Martian wilderness. Together they must evade Sir Titus’s minions, battle mechanical nasties, and escape deadly Martian hunting machines. If they can’t, they will never uncover the secrets of the dragon tomb and rescue Edward’s family.

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FERGUS CRANE! YOU ARE IN GREAT DANGER! I AM SENDING HELP.
Signed T. C., your long-lost Uncle Theo

Fergus Crane has an almost ordinary life—having lessons taught by rather odd teachers on the school ship Betty Jeanne and helping his mother in the bakery. But then a mysterious flying box appears at the window of his waterfront home and Fergus is plunged headlong into an exciting adventure! The box is followed by a winged mechanical horse that whisks him off to meet his long-lost uncle and his penguin helpers, Finn, Bill, and Jackson. Fergus finds out that his teachers are not quite what they seem— they’re actually pirates! Can Fergus and his winged horse save his schoolmates on the far-off Fire Island? And who else will he find there?

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On an enchanted island, far, far away, princess ponies can talk and play. Eight golden horseshoes give the ponies their magic, but when the shoes go missing from the castle, only a true pony lover can save the princesses and their home.

A Dream Come True
It’s field day on pony island and Princess Stardust’s best friend, Blossom is competing. Stardust wants to cheer her on, but she knows she and Pippa should keep looking for the missing horse shoes. Will Stardust have to choose between her old friend and her new friend? Or is it okay to have two best friends?

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Sansablatt Head is a blast, exploding all over the page in the shape of richly textured characters, plot, and landscape. Imagine a King—Sansablatt—trapped in his own giant wooden head. Imagine his Queen- to-Be Claudine. She loves him so much she almost kills him (an axe to that head is just what he needs to be free, she thinks). And don’t forget Eugenia (who stops this disaster before it starts), an outrageous Big Mama General who rules with an iron hand (and a smart one). She insists that Claudine’s short cut cannot dispel the spell that keeps the King from attaining his true height and claiming his Kingdom, that only the long cut can—the intricate route through dangerous woods (described with a T for terror) to the top of a mountain where inside a cave, but I’m treading on dangerous ground here myself because I don’t want to give away anything about this marvelous journey and its surprising adventures. That’s for me to remember with pleasure and for you to find pleasure in yourself. But I can tell you one thing: Imagine first and last, longest and hardest about the main character—Alec—who doesn’t have a friend on earth except Sansablatt, the Head: a lucky friendship for an unlucky boy because it carries him out of our world (where he’s always been out-of-place) into a parallel one called Quelle where, from the moment he and the Head flip down into it by way of a mud pit, he slowly discovers what it means and what it takes to become part of the right place at the right time. Wouldn’t we all like to learn that lesson? Well, you will, and have a lot of fun on the way, when you accompany Alec all the way from the first to last page of Sansablatt Head, a fantastic fantasy written by Joan Spilman. Llewellyn McKernan

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A story for all the family – with over 18 full page, fully coloured HD illustrations!

Fleeing to preserve his very existence, “Shiny”, an intelligent alien device, (similar in size to touchscreen phones), finally escapes battered with only a few bruises, from the chasing evil Virons after being ambushed during a peaceful rescue mission…….

Hiding in a passing comet, “Shiny” is tragically separated from his human companion, as the comet leaves his solar system continuing its one way voyage into deep, deep, space…….

Finally escaping from the clutches of his saving comet he falls to the planet Earth where he is found by a lone construction worker named Ted.

This abridged version follows as their friendship grows as they both get older, and the energy of both dwindle……………

Returning from the Doctor’s, after a routine but more regular visit – Ted softly tells “Shiny” about his unfortunate news, which makes them both very sad……..

When all seems lost, both at journey’s end – a magical transformation is triggered which rejuvenates them both, not as the individuals “Shiny” the touchscreen from afar, and Ted, the lonely construction worker, but as “TouchScreenTed” and together they begin their fabulous adventures …………

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Get the complete trilogy of the Amazon bestselling The Reverians for more than 40% off the normal price! This boxed set includes Defects, Rebels and Warriors. This 240,000-word collection is nearly 700 pages of treachery, paranormal, conspiracy and deadly thrills.

“The easiest way to control people is to make them think they’re defective—but that only works until they realize they’re not.”

In the happy, clean community of Austin Valley, everything appears to be perfect. Seventeen-year-old Em Fuller, however, fears something is askew. Em is one of the new generation of Dream Travelers. For some reason, the gods have not seen fit to gift all of them with their expected special abilities.
Em is a Defect—one of the unfortunate Dream Travelers not gifted with a psychic power. Desperate to do whatever it takes to earn her gift, she endures painful daily injections along with commands from her overbearing, loveless father. One of the few bright spots in her life is the return of a friend she had thought dead—but with his return comes the knowledge of a shocking, unforgivable truth. The society Em thought was protecting her has actually been betraying her, but she has no idea how to break away from its authority without hurting everyone she loves.

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FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Garden talent and fashion trendsetter Rosetta is thrilled to be asked to design a dress for the fairy fashion show, but when she loses her sense of style, she must ask her less fashionable friends for help. Original.

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FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Ranger, the time-traveling golden retriever with search-and-rescue training, joins an early twentieth-century expedition journeying from New Zealand to Antarctica. He befriends Jack Nin, the stowaway turned cabin boy of Captain Robert Falcon Scott’s ship. They’re racing against a rival explorer to reach the South Pole, but with unstable ice, killer whales, and raging blizzards, the journey turns into a race against time… and a struggle to stay alive.

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A brilliantly inventive, fabulously illustrated addition to the Far- Flung Adventures series from the award-winning, bestselling author and
illustrator team Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell. Set in the same world as the Fergus Crane and Corby Flood stories, this is the tale of a small boy, Hugo Pepper, and his amazing exploits. Raised in the Frozen North by reindeer herders, his parents eaten by polar bears when he was just a baby, Hugo discovers that the sled they arrived in has a very special compass—one that can be set to “Home.” And so Hugo arrives in Firefly Square—to discover a group of very special friends, and a dastardly enemy. With three-toed snowmen, a secret buried treasure, and a host of fabulous stories, this is a fantastic new tale in this series.

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Deborah is starting to notice things about her best friend, Willy—like how cute he looks in his Halloween costume and the adorable way his red hair curls just above his collar. He’s the coolest boy in sixth grade, and the closest friend she’s got . . . that is, until her alien parents tell her she has to eat him for dinner. After all, she’s an alien, too—even if she and her family do live in disguise.

Should she keep Willy alive and survive on forbidden hamburgers and chocolate . . . or point her tentacles at her best friend and gain approval from alien kind?

There are times when everyone feels like they’re from outer space. A zany adventure and a close and sympathetic look at middle-school friendships and rivalries, Alethea Eason’s wonderfully unique first novel satisfies that craving to fit in.

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The dreadful Doctor Leachum treats his patients with leeches and seems to be concerned with anything but health! Royal Taste-Tester Testin Gruberson eats far more than his fair share and terrorizes the castle’s servants. The Monarch’s trusted spy Jamison Bondgott’em always gets his man, but anything can happen in the Kingdom of Hamelot! Meet the characters of Hamelot in this first eBook, a series of poetic introductions followed by a tale of intrigue and royal deception!

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Set in Australia, 9 year old Jenny lived in a small seaside town of Coogee Beach. While playing on the beach she trips over a beautiful vase. Not knowing it is the Great Vase of Ra, Jenny takes the vase home to surprise her mum, but instead Jenny is the one who gets surprised when she discovers a little girl Genie named Futuna stuck inside.
While Jenny is still thinking there is “No Such Thing As A Genie”, Futuna tearfully explains the story of how she fell into the vase while playing in the Great Pyramid of Khufu. Futuna tells Jenny that the Great Celebration Ceremony occurs every thousand years when the Drugon Star aligns with the Great Pyramid. Even if only one Genie is missing the ceremony cannot take place and all the Genies will lose the powers. Meanwhile, King Farook, the King of the Genies, decrees that all Genies search for Futuna.
Jenny is determined to help Futuna get to the Great Celebration Ceremony in time. Can the Genies find Futuna or will they lose their powers?

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Alcapenny and Bot aren’t your average kids. They’re unusually smart, brave, and creative. They can even talk to animals. In one important way, however, they’re way below average: Alcapenny and Bot are only three inches tall.

For such little people, they seem to get into a lot of mischief, and big trouble leads to grand adventure. When a passing hawk flies off with Alcapenny, Bot is sure she’s still alive out there somewhere in the woods. But how will he find her? Can a three-inch boy save his tiny sister before she becomes bird food?

Bot isn’t about to let his size stop him from finding Alcapenny. He sets off into the forest on the back of his new guinea pig friend, Isabella. Carl the mouse, who is determined to shed his tame ways and become a real wild rodent, joins them. In the meantime Alcapenny discovers a whole new world of animal allies and enemies in the wilderness. Despite her love for her furry forest friends, Alcapenny misses home. The wild life is exciting, but both Alcapenny and Bot learn that no matter how little you are, family is a real big deal.

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FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Once upon a time, in faraway Grimmlandia…Goldilocks is so eager to make friends at Grimm Academy, she’s even tempted to accept an invitation to join E.V.I.L., it’s just nice to be included! But she doesn’t want to be a villain. Can Goldie get inside the secret society and do some good?

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Hal Spacejock is a loner, struggling to make his way in a huge, uncaring galaxy. His occasional brushes with the law have left him wary and suspicious of authority.

The Peace Force is a proud and dedicated body of humans and robots who work together to solve crimes and keep the Galaxy safe.

Now, one of them desperately needs the other.

Hal Spacejock No Free Lunch is book four in the Hal Spacejock series. (95,000 words, approx 380 pages)

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From deep within the ring of fire, burning logs, and smoldering ash, grows a tale of an adventurous boy and a magical discovery.

Nat is a young boy who lives with his family in Sutter, a small village in the Kingdom of Westerford. Like all children his age, Nat loves to play “knights” with his friends. He dreams of one day becoming a knight himself and serving the noble King Edgar. Nat’s other favorite activity is exploring the nearby forest where, one day, he, quite literally, stumbles upon a giant egg.

When the egg finally hatches, so does a series of events that leads to the fulfillment of Nat’s wildest dreams. This is the story of two young friends who take on adventures to save the kingdom. With his best friend, Danby, by his side what could possibly go wrong?

The Tales of Westerford: Dragons, Knights and Kings is a collection of stories born in the campfire tradition and meant to be shared aloud with family and friends. Watch as the flames come to life before the children’s eyes with the adventures of Nat and Danby and the Knights and Kings of Westerford.

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