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Follows Hansel and Gretel as they walk out of their own story and into eight more tales, encountering such wicked creatures as witches, along with kindly strangers and other helpful folk. Based in part on the Grimms' fairy tales Faithful Johannes, Hansel and Gretel, The seven ravens, Brother and sister, The robber bridegroom, and The devil and his three golden hairs.
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IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
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Twelve-year-old Malik Jackson is afraid of the dark, so he is reluctant to join his friend, Ian, in an exploration of an abandoned mansion on the night before Halloween, but he agrees to the adventure because a girl he likes is going--but he soon realizes that it is not the dark he needs to be afraid of, it is the things that are hiding inside the dark.
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Disney villains volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
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"The tale is told as if it's happening once upon a dream: the lovely maiden meets her handsome prince in the woods. The story has been told many times and in many ways. But always the maiden finds out that she is a princess-a princess who has been cursed by a dark fairy to prick her finger on a spindle and fall into an eternal sleep. Though her three good fairies try to protect her, the princess succumbs to the curse. But the power of good endures,...
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At 23, Matt Davis moved to a remote Mongolian town to teach English.
What he found when he arrived was a town-and a country-undergoing wholesale change from a traditional, countryside existence to a more urban, modern identity. When Things Get Dark documents these changes through the Mongolians Matt meets, but also focuses on the author's downward spiral into alcohol abuse and violence--a scenario he saw played out by many of the Mongolian men around...
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In the world of the mundanes, a loner joins an online community of misfits in an effort to find his own mysterious kin. He arranges to meet a young woman who has taken on the persona of a creature similar to himself. Could she be the link to the hidden world he has been seeking? Unknown to either of them, a dangerous lurker schemes to destroy their plans.
This story contains mature subject matter and is suitable for mature young adult readers, new...
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WHEN EVERYTHING'S BEEN TAKEN AWAY FROM YOU, SOMETIMES THE BEST THING YOU CAN DO IS RUN.Chris's life of luxury is gone, devastated by the collapse of the European economy. Huddled in a small room with his petrified ten-year-old son, Chris made the decision to stay in his lavish and once cherished home. Gas, water, and electricity are all cut off; his wife and daughter have gone, and food is running out. Driven by the need to survive, Chris has decided...
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Art is her refuge, her passion-and her hell.
American art student Evie Williams is studying abroad in Edinburgh and having the time of her life-especially when she falls hard for Thomas MacBean, a sexy art dealer with a Highlander's brogue. But as Thomas and Evie's romance heats up, so does Evie's fascination with a special exhibit of dark art at a local gallery. Normally frightened by sinister subjects, sensitive Evie finds herself entranced by...
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A mysterious supercomputer connected to Stephen's wheelchair somehow sends both him and his erstwhile new friend Alex into a virtual reality where fairy tales are made real and their challenges even more so. Can this fantasy world save Stephen's real life or help with the search for Alex's lost mother?
The Dark Attic mixes the magic and philosophy of Tai Ji Quan (also known as Tai Chi) with a healthy dose of sci-fi realism, ultimately revealing...
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Space adventure meets stark terror in this blend of military science fiction; space opera, and horror by debut author Davila LeBlanc.
It is the late 23rd century. For engineers Jessie Madison and her husband David, a routine maintenance contract on board the orbital mining station Moria 3 has become a nightmare. Upon awakening from cryo-stasis, they learn a horrifying truth: while they were asleep, machines rose up against humanity...and won.
Marooned...
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One princess. Two realms. And a reckless choice that could destroy kingdoms...Rose Valrois has escaped the sorcerous red priests and returned to the castle beside the enchanted Darkwood, but her troubles are far from over. Her stepsister, Princess Neeve, is more secretive than ever, and as war threatens, Rose's mother pushes her toward a political alliance, even as her heart is torn between a heroic prince and the Dark Elf guardian of the forest....
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Two worlds. A princess in exile. And the sorcerous flames that will consume everything...Rose Valrois thought she'd sacrificed everything to save her loved ones and her entire world - but fate has other ideas. Now that the red priests have arrived, hidden truths are revealed that force Rose to make yet another impossible choice.
With her sister trapped in the magical land of the Dark Elves, and her heart given to the guardian of the Darkwood, Rose...
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Andrea Green might work for one of the most secret organisations in the world, but fighting the forces of evil comes mostly in the form of endless paperwork and mundane office banter.
But when a routine inspection yields unexpected results, the fall out reveals a shattering secret.
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The Human-Knacker War Continues!
Humanity continues to resist the onslaught of the Knackers, carnivorous crab-like aliens whose nomadic fleet is sweeping through inhabited star systems, decimating the populations of entire worlds. At the edge of known space, a solitary SpaceForce destroyer searches desperately for a stranded alien vessel full of human captives. Commanding the Goliath is Captain Taramay Dent, a decorated war hero battling her own...
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This is a story of a family, young love and betrayal, and the tragedy of war. The story revolves around three cousins – an English boy, a German boy, and a Dutch girl – and their upbringing between the wars. The boys' affection for each other is intense, but as they mature, the natural desire for the love of a girl complicates their lives.
During the summer of 1932, when the three cousins are on holiday at their grandparents' country house near...
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Do you hear them calling?
Lucy Acosta's mother died when she was three. Growing up in a Victorian mansion in the middle of the woods with her cold, distant father, she explored the dark hallways of the estate with her cousin, Margaret. They're inseparable-a family.
When her aunt Penelope, the only mother she's ever known, tragically disappears while walking in the woods surrounding their estate, Lucy finds herself devastated and alone. Margaret...
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Dewey Roscoe Jones was a pioneering African American journalist. While working for the Chicago Defender, the most widely read black newspaper in the United States, he edited a book review column and a poetry column whose contributors included Langston Hughes, Countee Cullen, Frank Marshall Davis, and Gwendolyn Brooks. Jones personally wrote about fifty reviews, becoming Black Chicagos premier literary critic and commentator on the Harlem Renaissance....
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A gripping tale of mystery, morbidity and death, with a twelve-year-old girl in the midst of it all, and an entire clan of native Cherokees fazed with extinction. The denizens of the Great Smoky Mountains will resort to unspeakable means to find a solution to their enduring predicament.