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| Kira's Collection | The Magic of Reading - Kira's vast knowledge of children's literature is sure to surpise you with undiscovered magical titles. |
| Leepike Ridge by N. D. Wilson | |
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Eleven-year-old Tom Hammond lives with his widowed mother in a windblown old house chained to the top of a gigantic rock. One night, unable to sleep, he heads down to the stream that borders their property, where he has left a heavy piece of refrigerator packing foam. What starts out as aimless drifting down quiet water turns deadly when Tom's foam slab feeds into the rougher mountain water and he is pulled under a rock, ending up in an underwater cavern. The secrets he discovers while attempting to find his way out of the mountain caves are surprising, yet seamlessly executed. Think Mark Twain with a contemporary and utterly captivating twist. |
| The White Darkness by Geraldine McCaughrean | |
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Fourteen-year-old Sym Wates is fascinated with the Antartic and the men who explored it, even to the point of creating an internal cofidante in the form of Captain Lawrence "Titan" Oates, who was part of the doomed Scott expedition 90 years earlier. So when her "Uncle" Victor whisks the painfully shy, hearing-impaired teen away on a surprise trip to the South Pole, it seems like a dream come true. But Victor has his own agenda, seeking the legendary Symmes's Hole, portal to the interior of a hollow Earth. |
| Someday this pain will be useful to you by Peter Cameron | |
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A critically acclaimed author of adult fiction, Cameron makes a singularly auspiscious entry into the world of YA with this beautifully conceived and written coming-of-age novel that is, at turns, funny, sad, tender, and sophisticated. James makes a memorable protagonist, touching in his inability to connect with the world but always entertaining in the first-person account of his life. He dramatizes the ambivalences and uncertainties of adolescence in ways that both teen and adult redaers will savor and remember. |
| Book of a Thousand Days by Shannon Hale | |
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Set in a medival Asian land, a classic Brothers Grimm tale is reimagined by Newbery Honor author Hale. In this completely unique retelling, filled with adventure and romance, drama and disguise, a young maid sacrifices her freedom to accompany her mistress into exile. |
| The Short and Incredibly Happy Life of Riley by Colin Thompson | |
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Human beings live for quite a long time and for a lot of that time are not happy. Rats live for quite a short time and for most of that time they are very, very happy. This piciture book - an Australian Picture Book of the year - presents life lessons with gentel humor and satire. |
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