The Seeing Stone
by Kevin Crossley-Holland
1 out of 5 stars
Merlin gives a seeing stone to thirteen-year-old Arthur de Caldicot, and he sees a vision of young Arthur Pendragon pulling the sword from the stone and becoming king. As Arthur from 1199 watches the visions of King Arthur from hundreds of years before, he begins to realize that events in his own life are mirroring those of his previous self. And Merlin is there to guide and advise them both.
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A Recipe for Robbery: Mystery at the Biltmore #3
by Colleen Nelson
4 out of 5 stars
Elodie runs a detective business in her apartment building, and she gets called in to help when a famous recipe is stolen. The chef is desperate to get the recipes back in time for the opening of their new bakery. Elodie is joined by her dog, Carnegie, and her neighbor, Oscar, who loves tumbling and acrobatics. Most adults don’t take a child detective seriously, but Elodie is determined to prove herself. She follows the clues and regards everyone as a suspect, but all the neighbors are so nice. None of them would steal the recipes… would they?
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Tales Before Narnia: The Roots of Modern Fantasy and Science Fiction
by Douglas A. Anderson (Editor)
This collection of short stories and poems includes works that influenced C.S. Lewis or were direct forerunners of some of his ideas. The list includes G.K.Chesterton, George Macdonald, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Sir Walter Scott, Charles Dickens, Robert Louis Stevenson, Kenneth Grahame, and Edith Nesbit. There are also works from some of Lewis’s fellow Inklings, friends and acquaintances, such as J.R.R. Tolkien, Charles Williams, Owen Barfield, Roger Lancelyn Green, and William Lindsay Gresham.
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Midnight for Charlie Bone (The Children of the Red King, #1)
by Jenny Nimmo
Charlie discovers that he has a magical ability to hear voices from people in pictures and photographs. His evil aunts are delighted, because now he can attend the prestigious Bloors Academy. But Charlie is not sure his new school is a nice place. He meets some good friends, but there are many mysteries at Bloors Academy, not all of them pleasant.
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Anti/Hero
by Kate Karyus Quinn (Author), Demitria Lunetta (Author), Maca Gil (Ilustrator)
Piper wants to be a superhero. She has super strength, but doesn’t always have the wisdom to use it responsibly. Sloane is a teenage thief. She has a super brain that can calculate the perfect heist, but even a genius can’t plan ahead to avoid everything.
When the two girls switch bodies due to a failed science experiment, they must learn to work together to stop the crime boss who is after them and their families.
Reignited (Reawakened, #0.5)
by Colleen Houck
The Egyptian gods have many rules that bind their powers, but the most important one is that none of the gods are allowed to marry each other, because any resulting child would drain the magic from the cosmos. And yet, Isis and Osiris fall in love with such a passion that they are willing to rewrite the stars to create a way to be together. Seth, the evil god of chaos, desires Isis for himself, and as he gradually gains more power, he tests his ability to unmake even a god.
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Outlaws of Ravenhurst
by Sister M. Imelda Wallace
Ten-year-old George has grown up with a poor farmer’s family in the colony of Maryland, but he discovers that he is actually a Scottish lord and his uncle takes him back to Scotland to be the chief of the Gordon clan. The Gordon clan are traditionally Catholic, but Catholicism has been outlawed in Scotland, and the young chief must now decide if he will risk his life for his faith.
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Frogkisser!
by Garth Nix (Goodreads Author)
Princess Anya goes on a quest to de-transform her sister’s suitor after he was transformed into a frog by an evil sorcerer. She must gather ingredients to make a magical lip balm that simulates true love’s kiss to undo evil spells. Along the way, she meets other transformees who beg her to change them back to their proper forms. Traveling in the company of a royal dog and a mischievous thief transformed into a newt, Anya encounters giants, good wizards, witches, magic carpets, and a host of other odd characters.
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Hercule Poirot’s Casebook (Hercule Poirot, #42)
by Agatha Christie
This collection of fifty short stories with Hercule Poirot is wonderful! Poirot is one of my favorite fictional detectives, and it’s so fun to see all these mysteries being solved very quickly in just a few pages. I love the longer Poirot novels as well, but I enjoyed reading these short stories because I could quickly finish each one within a few minutes when I had little time to read.
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The Family Under the Bridge
by Natalie Savage Carlson, Garth Williams (Illustrator)
4 out of 5 stars
Armand is happy to live the free life of a hobo in Paris. He has no ties, takes odd jobs and begs for a few coins to buy food, and he sleeps under a bridge. But when a homeless mother with three young children takes up a corner of his bridge, Armand is worried that he will get tangled up in their problems. The children start to call him “grandpa”, and before long Armand is entertaining the children and teaching them to sing for coins on street corners while their mother is working during the day. The children are sure that Father Christmas will give them a house for their Christmas present, so Armand decides to find some way to get the family a true home.
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