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WHAT TO GIVE, WHAT TO GET
We’ve created a special What to Give/What to Get Guide with you in mind --- it’s just for kids! We have books that we know you’ll love to unwrap this season, so check it out. We’re sure you’ll end up spotting a title or two that you can add to YOUR holiday list.
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 FAIREST
Gail Carson Levine
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Fans of Gail Carson Levine's Ella Enchanted will be pleased to discover that her newest fairy tale offering, FAIREST, is every bit as enchanting as its beloved predecessor. This time, Levine boldly rewrites the Snow White tale into a story that bears little resemblance to the original but offers much more scope for the imagination.
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 Harriet Bean Series
Alexander McCall Smith
• Harriet Bean Series
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Humor, suspense and a charming cast of characters abound in this delightful mystery series starring nine-year-old Harriet Bean. Fans of Nate the Great or Junie B. Jones will appreciate the antics of Harriet and her aunts as they discover each other and uncover baffling bedlam --- and have loads of fun doing both. These stories manage to feel both up-to-the-minute and enchantingly old-fashioned. Readers of series chapter books won't be able to resist them. Then again, why should they?
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 LARKLIGHT
By Philip Reeve
Illustrated by David Wyatt
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Arthur (Art) Mumby and his irritating sister Myrtle live with their father Revd Marmaduke Mumby in the huge and rambling house, Larklight, travelling through space on a remote orbit far beyond the moon. One ordinary sort of morning they receive a correspondence informing them that a gentleman is on his way to visit, a Mr Webster. Visitors to Larklight are rare if not unique, and a frenzy of preparation ensues. But it is the wrong sort of preparation, as they discover when their guest arrives, and a Dreadful and Terrifying (and marvellous) adventure begins. It takes them to the furthest reaches of known space, where they must battle the evil First Ones in a desperate attempt to save each other --- and the universe.
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 MOUSE COOKIES & MORE
By Laura Numeroff
Illustrated by Felicia Bond
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All three characters from the #l national bestselling If You Give... series have brought their books, recipes, songs and activities to this family treasury, chock-a-block full of fun things to do. Parents, grab your kids! Kids, grab your parents and join Mouse, Moose and Pig as they read, bake, sing and play.
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 Rotten School Series
R.L. Stine
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Welcome to Rotten School! A place where Chef Baloney serves chicken with the feathers still on, where an armpit is a musical instrument, where the winning prize for art goes to the student with the best tattoo. But on this campus of losers, there's one winner who really stands out: Bernie Bridges. The king of schemers, Bernie can figure out a creative solution to any problem. Whether it's finding a way to steal --- er, win --- his hated enemy's new watch, or turning the tables on a bully by turning his dorm into a haunted house, Bernie always has a brilliant idea. Of course, things don't always turn out exactly as he plans...but then, what would be the fun in that?
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 MAGYK: Septimus Heap, Book One
By Angie Sage
Illustrated by Mark Zug
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Septimus Heap, the seventh son of the seventh son, disappears the night he is born, pronounced dead by the midwife. That same night, the baby's father, Silas Heap, comes across an abandoned child in the snow --- a newborn girl with violet eyes. The Heaps take her into their home, name her Jenna, and raise her as their own. But who is this mysterious baby girl, and what really happened to their beloved son Septimus?
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 A Series of Unfortunate Events
Lemony Snicket
Illustrated by Brett Helquist
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Near the conclusion of THE END, the thirteenth (and final) volume in A Series of Unfortunate Events, our hapless narrator reflects: "Perhaps you do not yet know what the end really means. 'The end' is a phrase which refers to the completion of a story, or the final moment of some accomplishment, such as a secret errand, or a great deal of research, and indeed this thirteenth volume marks the completion of my investigation into the Baudelaire case, which required much research, a great many secret errands, and the accomplishments of a number of my comrades, from a trolley driver to a botanical hybridization expert, with many, many typewriter repairpeople in between."
--- Compiled and written by Jen Krieger
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