Category: kids
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The Borrowers Aloft is the fourth novel in the Borrowers series by Mary Norton and picks up their adventures an unspecified length of time after the end of the previous one. The Clock family are now living in Fordham, a small village made by Mr. Pott, where they seem to be having a nice peaceful…
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Flyte by Angie Sage is the second book in the Septimus Heap series and picks up about a year after the end of the previous book, Magyk. Septimus has now been the apprentice to the ExtraOrdinary Wizard, Marcia Overstrand, for a little over a year now and has mostly adjusted to his position. Currently he…
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Enemies becoming allies and a temporary truce. After the events of the first book in the series, Artemis Fowl and Holly Short probably never thought they would have to work together but in The Arctic Incident, book two of the Artemis Fowl series by Eoin Colfer, that is exactly what ends up happening. The book…
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A Day No Pigs Would Die is a semi-autobiographical novel written by Robert Newton Peck. Robert Peck is a young boy about twelve or thirteen and is skipping school to play in the forest just beyond his home when he finds himself in a spot of trouble. His neighbor’s cow is up there as well…
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If you know a kid who likes adventures on the high seas you might recommend The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle by Avi. Charlotte Doyle is a young girl, only thirteen, and is traveling from England to America by ship to meet the rest of her family who had traveled ahead while she finished her…
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The Borrowers Afloat is the third book in The Borrowers series by Mary Norton and continues the adventures of the Clock family. Having been rescued from the gypsies by Spiller and Tom they are now residing with their cousins, the Hendrearys. While they are happy to be living in a relatively safe place and to…
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Disparate strings finally coming together as a story finally comes to a close. In The High King, the fifth and final book of the Prydain Chronicles by Lloyd Alexander, we see the story that started all the way back in The Book of Three ending. Taran has just returned from his wandering adventure in the…
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Magyk by Angie Sage is the first book in the Septimus Heap series. The book opens with Silas Heap heading home to help his wife take care of their newborn seventh son, Septimus, only to find a baby girl abandoned in the snow on the way. After he picks the girl up Marcia Overstrand, the…
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Icefire is book two in the Last Dragon Chronicles by Chris D’lacey and continues the story of David and the Pennykettle dragons. David has a new and rather mysterious geography professor who seems to have an unusual interest in dragons but also an unusual interest in bears and the arctic. As he works on finding…
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The Borrowers Afield is the second book in the Borrowers series by Mary Norton and continues both the story of the Clock family and the story of young Kate and Mrs. May. It picks up about a year after Mrs. May first told Kate about the borrowers when Mrs. May inherits some property from her…