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How I Live Now
by Meg Rosoff
Hardcover: Aug 2004
Paperback: 31 Jul 2005
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| 'Rarely does a writer come up with a first novel so assured, so powerful and engaging that you can be pretty sure that you will want to read everything this author is capable of writing'. |
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A Hat Full of Sky
by Terry Pratchett
Hardcover: May 2004
Paperback: 1 Jun 2005
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| Tiffany Aching, a young witch-in-training, learns about magic and responsibility as she battles a disembodied monster with the assistance of the six-inch-high Wee Free Men and Mistress Weatherwax, the greatest witch in the world. Ages 12+. |
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Shadowmancer
by G.P. Taylor
Hardcover: Apr 2004
Paperback: 5 May 2005
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| An apocalyptic battle between good and evil is vigorously, violently fought in British author G.P. Taylor's suspenseful, action-packed fantasy.... a pageturner bursting with magic and myth. (Ages 11 and older). |
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Eragon: Inheritance, Book I
by Christopher Paolini
Hardcover: Aug 2003
Paperback: 26 Apr 2005
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| Eragon and the fledgling dragon must navigate the dangerous terrain and dark enemies of an empire ruled by a king whose evil knows no bounds. Can Eragon take up the mantle of the legendary Dragon Riders? |
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A Great and Terrible Beauty
by Libba Bray
Hardcover: Dec 2003
Paperback: 22 Mar 2005
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| In this debut gothic novel mysterious visions, dark family secrets and a long-lost diary thrust Gemma and her classmates back into the horrors that followed her from India. (Ages 12+) |
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Tears of The Salamander
by Peter Dickinson
Hardcover: Aug 2003
Paperback: 8 Feb 2005
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| When Alfredo, a twelve-year-old boy in eighteenth-century Italy, loses his family in a fire, he goes to live with Uncle Giorgio - a sorcerer in control of the fires of Mt. Etna who has sinister plans for his nephew. |
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Vote For Larry
by Janet Tashjian
Hardcover: May 2004
Paperback: 31 Jan 2005
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| In this very smart, witty novel, Tashjian brings the political world to the forefront and explores it from many different points of view. Ages 14+. |
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The Second Summer of The Sisterhood
by Ann Brashares
Hardcover: Apr 2003
Paperback: 28 Dec 2004
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| Brashares returns to the beloved characters she brought to life in her first novel, The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, for a new installment that's equally authentic and engaging. |
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