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Spiderwick chronicles volume 3
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111 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm.
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English
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With goblins, trolls, and the house boggart all trying to get them, the Grace children turn to Great Aunt Lucinda for help.
4) Aunt Maria
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274 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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While visiting and caring for Great-aunt Maria, Mig and Chris discover that their "helpless" relative has frightening powers.
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215 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm.
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English
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This notebook for fantastical observations is a must-have for any young adventurer wishing to follow in the footsteps of Arthur Spiderwick and the Grace children. In addition to tips for tracking and observing faerie phenomena (under headings like; How to Get the Sight, Faerie Protections, Suggested Equipment, and Ways to Tell There Might Be Faeries Nearby), readers will read about boggarts, brownies, goblins, griffins, hobgoblins, sprites, trolls,...
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When 28-year-old Agnes Blythe, the contented bifocals-wearing half of an academic power couple, is jilted by her professor boyfriend for the town Pilates instructor, her future is suddenly less than certain. So when her glamorous, eccentric Great Aunt Effie arrives in town and offers a job helping to salvage the condemned Stagecoach Inn, what does Agnes have to lose? But work at the inn has barely begun when the unlikely duo find the body of manipulative...
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227 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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"One of our most gifted writers of fiction returns with a bold and piercing novel about a young single mother living in Harlem, her eccentric aunt, and the decisions they make that have unexpected implications for the world around them. Reyna knows her relationship with Boyd isn't perfect, yet she sees him through a three-month stint at Riker's Island, their bond growing tighter. Kiki, now settled in the East Village after a youth that took her to...
11) Willy and May
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32 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
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English
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A girl who always looks forward to her visits with her Great-aunt May and May's canary Willy is terribly disappointed when she thinks she will not be able to see them one Christmas.
12) Housekeeping
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English
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Ruthie and her younger sister, Lucille, grow toward adulthood under the untraditional care of Sylvie, the transient sister of their dead mother, in Fingerbone, the small Far West town on the glacial lake where their grandfather died in a train wreck and their mother drove off a cliff.
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Sometimes a family's deepest silences hide the most important secrets. For Mina, a London-based travel writer, the enigmatic silence surrounding her aunt Carmela has become a personal obsession. Carmela disappeared from her Italian hometown long ago and is mentioned only in fragments and whispers. Mina has resisted prying, respectful of her family's Sardinian reserve. But now, with her mother battling cancer, it's time to learn the truth.
14) Oy, feh, so?
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 21 x 27 cm
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English
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"Every Sunday Aunt Essy, Aunt Chanah and Uncle Sam drive up in the old Lincoln for their afternoon visit and plop themselves down in the living room. 'Oy,' says Aunt Essy. 'Feh,' says Aunt Chanah. 'So?' says Uncle Sam. That's all they ever say, every Sunday! But one afternoon the three children in the family decide they've had enough..." -- Jacket flap.
17) Pig Pig returns
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Pig Pig is concerned about travelling across the country with his aunt and uncle, but is even more worried when he returns.
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League of beastly dreadfuls volume 1
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294 pages ; 22 cm.
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English
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Anastasia, nearly eleven, is snatched from her elementary school and sent to live at a former insane asylum with two great aunts she had never met after being told that her parents died in a tragic vacuum cleaner accident.
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