Jim Madsen

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1) Mr. Popper's penguins

Author

Atwater, Richard

Language

English

Formats

Book, Audiobook, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle

Description

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The unexpected delivery of a large crate containing an Antarctic penguin changes the life and fortunes of Mr. Popper, a house painter obsessed by dreams of the Polar regions.

2) The trials of Morrigan Crow

Author

Townsend, Jessica

Series

Nevermoor volume 1

Pub. Date

2017.

Language

English

Formats

Book, eBook, Kindle

Description

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"A cursed child destined to die on her eleventh birthday is rescued and whisked away to a secret realm called Nevermoor and given the chance to compete for a place in a prestigious organization called the Wundrous Society"--

3) Starfish: a novel

Author

Crowley, James

Language

English

Formats

Book, eBook, Kindle

Description

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In the early part of the 1900s, Beatrice and Lionel, two Blackfeet Indian children, escape from the Chalk Bluff Indian Boarding School in Montana to find their grandfather, and must elude their pursuers and make a life for themselves in the wilderness.

4) Hollowpox: the hunt for Morrigan Crow

Author

Townsend, Jessica

Series

Nevermoor volume 3

Pub. Date

2020.

Language

English

Description

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"Morrigan Crow must uncover the mystery behind a new disease spreading through Nevermoor"--

5) Indian shoes

Author

Smith, Cynthia Leitich

Pub. Date

c2002

Language

English

Description

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Together with Grampa, Ray Halfmoon, a Seminole-Cherokee boy, finds creative and amusing solutions to life's challenges.

6) Beast of stone

Author

Park, Linda Sue

Series

Wing & claw volume 3
Wing and Claw volume Bk. 3
Wing and claw volume 3

Pub. Date

[2018]

Language

English

Description

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Apothecary Raffa and his ragtag band of allies prepare to battle the heartless Chancellor's armies, a conflict he fears will cause untold suffering for the animals being forced to fight.

7) Tuki and Moka: a tale of two tamarins

Author

Young, Judy

Series

Tales of the world

Pub. Date

[2013]

Language

English

Description

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Like his ancestors before him, ten-year-old Eduardo enjoys going into Ecuador's rain forest to collect Brazil nuts with his father, but when the wild tamarins that always accompany them disappear Eduardo is determined to find them.

8) The thirteenth fairy

Author

De la Cruz, Melissa

Series

Never after volume 1

Pub. Date

2020.

Language

English

Description

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The best-selling author of the Disney's Descendants adventures presents a debut entry in a fairy tale-inspired series that finds a bullied teen summoned by a character from her favorite books into a magical world that is being threatened by an evil queen.

9) Forest of wonders

Author

Park, Linda Sue

Series

Wing & claw volume 1
Wing and Claw volume Bk. 1
Wing and claw volume 1

Pub. Date

[2016]

Language

English

Description

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When Raffa makes a cure from a rare crimson vine he finds deep in the forbidden forest, the bat he saves transforms into something much more.

10) The Popper penguin rescue

Author

Schrefer, Eliot

Pub. Date

2020.

Language

English

Description

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Long after Mr. Popper found his famous penguins a proper home, his distant relatives, Nina and Joel, move to a new house with their mother and find mysterious eggs in the basement.

11) Legacy of the claw

Author

Grey, C. R

Series

Animas volume 1

Pub. Date

[2014]

Language

English

Description

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In a world where every person forms a bond with an animal species upon coming of age, one boy has not found his Animas, but learns of a heroic destiny.

12) Saving Mister Nibbles!

Author

Carman, Patrick

Series

Elliot's park volume 1

Language

English

Formats

Book, Audiobook

Description

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Elliot the squirrel and his friends try to rescue a toy squirrel from a little boy's house.

13) The crossing

Author

Napoli, Donna Jo

Pub. Date

2011

Language

English

Description

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In 1805, Sacagawea, a woman of the Shoshoni tribe, helps Meriwether Lewis and William Clark find a passage to the West Coast, in this story told through the eyes of the baby boy on Sacagawea's back.

14) The jungle book: #1,Rikki Tikki Tavi moves in

Author

Namm, Diane

Pub. Date

2006

Language

English

Description

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A brief, simplified retelling of the episode in "The Jungle Book" during which a very curious mongoose becomes a house pet and races a snake to see who will be "Master of the Garden."