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1) The BFG
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English
Description
Kidsnatched from her orphange by a BFG (Big Friendly Giant), who spends his life blowing happy dreams to children, Sophie concocts with him a plan to save the world from nine other man-gobbling cannybull giants.
Captured by a giant! The BFG is no ordinary bone-crunching giant. He is far too nice and jumbly. It's lucky for Sophie that he is. Had she been carried off in the middle of the night by the Bloodbottler, the Fleshlumpeater, the Bonecruncher,...
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Heroes of Olympus volume 3
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English
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"The Greek and Roman demigods will have to cooperate in order to defeat the giants released by the Earth Mother, Gaea. Then they will have to sail together to the ancient land--Greece itself--to find the Doors of Death"--
4) The BFG
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Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 118 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
Description
It tells the imaginative story of a young girl and the Giant who introduces her to the wonders and perils of Giant Country. The BFG, while a giant himself, is a Big Friendly Giant and nothing like the other inhabitants of Giant Country. Standing 24-feet tall with enormous ears and a keen sense of smell, he is endearingly dim-witted and keeps to himself for the most part.
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Series
Heroes of Olympus volume 4
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English
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"Greek and Roman demigods from the Prophecy of Seven must work together to seal the Doors of Death--and help Percy and Annabeth escape the Underworld in the process"--
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Beyond the Spiderwick chronicles volume 2
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154 pages : illustrations (some color), map ; 18 cm.
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English
Description
As giants start waking up and destroying everything around their Florida neighborhood, Nick, Laurie, Jules, and Cindy work frantically to find a solution.
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Beyond the Spiderwick chronicles volume 1
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English
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Eleven-year-old Nicholas Vargas only thinks his life has been turned upside down after his developer father remarries and moves his new wife and daughter into the soon-to-be completed Mangrove Hollow. But an "expedition" to a nearby lake turns up a little nixie with a giant problem--the huge, lumbering, fire-breathing variety--and it's up to Nick, his stepsister Laurie, and his big brother, Julian (plus a familiar face from the original Spiderwick...
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English
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When ten-year-old Zeus is kidnapped, he discovers he can defend himself with a magical thunderbolt.
Ten-year-old Zeus, irritated that he keeps getting struck by lightning, discovers a magical thunderbolt embedded in a stone and embarks on the adventure of a lifetime when he is attacked by the Titans, who have been kidnapping other Olympian children with powers comparable to Zeus's.
13) Abiyoyo returns
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Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
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English
Description
Based on a South African tale, this story tells what happens when a giant who had been banished from a town by a magician thirty years earlier is called back to save the town from flooding.
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English
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In this humorous version of the traditional tale, Jack's magic beanstalk produces so many beans that soon everyone in the village is sick of eating them, and mad at Jack, and when he climbs the beanstalk he finds that Mr. Giant is equally fed up with beans -- but fortunately Mrs. Giant suggests a solution to their diet problem.
17) The wyrm king
Author
Series
Beyond the Spiderwick chronicles volume 3
Physical Desc
202 pages : illustrations (some color), map ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
Nick, Julie, Laurie, and their friends try to prevent a hydra from destroying Florida.
19) Wilfred
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Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 x 28 cm
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English
Description
When Wilfred, a big, hairy, and lonesome giant, enters a town full of tiny bald people, he finds only one friend but that proves to be enough when the other townspeople trick him out of his warm hair.
20) Mangaboom
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Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 31 cm
Language
English
Description
Daniel meets a giant named Mangaboom who lives in a mango tree and takes him to tea at her auntie's house.
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