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7) Kaleidoscope
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Pub. Date
2021.
Description
A ship. A garden. A library. A key. In Kaleidoscope, the incomparable Brian Selznick presents the story of two people bound to each other through time and space, memory and dreams. At the center of their relationship is a mystery about the nature of grief and love which will look different to each reader. Kaleidoscope is a feat of storytelling that illuminates how even the wildest tales can help us in the hardest times.
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After Jason succeeds in finding a way back to Lyrian, he's immediately in more danger than ever. Meanwhile, Rachel and the others have made their own progress--as well as discovered new enemies. As the group ultimately rejoins, they strive to convince their most needed ally to join the war and form a rebellion strong enough to triumph against the emperor.
Author
Publisher
Harpercollins Childrens Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
Oscar Indigo has never been good at baseball, so naturally he's nervous when he has to fill in for his team's injured All-Star, Lourdes. Luckily, Oscar has a mysterious gold watch that can stop time, which he uses to fake a game-winning home run. Now Oscar's the underdog hero of his town and even Lourdes wants to be his friend. But the universe is a precarious place, and you can't just steal time without any consequences. If Oscar doesn't find a way...
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Shadow Mountain
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Thirteen-year-old Atticus "Tick" Higginbottom begins receiving mysterious letters from around the world signed only "M.G.," and the clues contained therein lead him on a journey to the perilous 13th Reality and a confrontation with evil Mistress Jane.
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Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
Four linked stories of discovery and survival begin with a Paleolithic-era girl who makes the first written signs, continue with Anna, who people call a witch, then a mad twentieth-century poet who watches the ocean knowing the horrors it hides, and concluding with an astronaut on the first spaceship from Earth sent to colonize another world.
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Publisher
Tyndale
Pub. Date
c2011
Description
Cousins Patrick and Beth find themselves in a world of jousting tournaments and English knights, where they get to meet their Albert, but things go awry at Lord Darkthorn's castle, where they are accused of theft, and Patrick and Beth need to sort friend from foe before Lord Darkthorn decides to lock Albert away in his tower.
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Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2010
Description
When eleven-year-old Olive and her distracted parents move into an old Victorian mansion, Olive finds herself ensnared in a dark plan involving some mysterious paintings, a trapped and angry nine-year-old boy, and three talking cats.
Author
Publisher
Tyndale House Pub
Pub. Date
c2012
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Description
Beth and her cousin Patrick travel in the Imagination Station to Egypt where they befriend a girl named Tabitha and try to help her and her family avoid being forced into slavery by searching an ancient burial vault to discover a great secret that will give hope to Tabitha's family and help them trust in God.
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Publisher
Puffin Books
Pub. Date
2012, c2011
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Description
Eleven-year-old Olive finds herself drawn to the grimoire of the witches who built her house and tries to use its spells to uncover the house's magic and control the cats themselves, but the book is more wicked than it seems.
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2012.
Description
When Jonah and Katherine travel to early 1900s Switzerland and Serbia to return Albert Einstein's daughter, Lieserl, to history, her mother Mileva grasps entirely too much about time travel and has no intention of letting her daughter go.
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