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2025
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“A new friend is a scary thing, sometimes. You may have to change and adapt a little to make your friendship work …”So says Bat to her new friend Mr. Byrd on one perfect summer twilight. They’ve both landed, quite unexpectedly, on the same branch of the same red maple tree at the same time, and this story begins …They agree to meet at twilight all summer long. Soon, they realize they are more alike than different, and friendship takes many forms. Together, they dis...
Weird Stories Gone Wrong 5-Book Bundle
Carter and the Curious Maze / Myles and the Monster Outside / Jake and the Giant Hand / Alex and The Other / Blackwells and the Briny Deep
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- Weird Stories Gone Wrong
2018
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They’re troubling. They’re bizarre. And they JUST might be true. They’re Weird Stories Gone Wrong.Here are five spectacularly spooky books from acclaimed children’s author Philippa Dowding that will have you wondering about tall tales, giant flies, and mysterious monsters in the dark.Jake and the Giant Hand—Book #1Jake doesn’t really believe a giant’s hand was found in a field near his grandfather’s farm, but when Jake begin...
The Lost Gargoyle Series 3-Book Bundle
The Gargoyle in My Yard / The Gargoyle at the Gates / The Gargoyle Overhead
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- Lost Gargoyle
2014
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This special three-book bundle collects all the books in the Lost Gargoyle series! In The Gargoyle in My Yard, Katherine meets an ancient wandering gargoyle named Gargoth. He ends up being adopted by her family, but all is not well since his nemesis, the cruel The Collector, is lurking – he once owned Gargoth and wants him back. The story continues in The Gargoyle Overhead, in which Gargoth is reunited with his oldest friend, Ambergine. Finally, in The Gargoyle at the...
The Night Flyer's Handbook 2-Book Bundle
The Strange Gift of Gwendolyn Golden / Everton Miles Is Stranger Than Me
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- The Night Flyer's Handbook
2016
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The Night Flyers glide effortlessly over the rooftops of their small town in a strange, magical escape from the pressures of high school. Meet Gwendolyn and Everton in this two-book collection of The Night Flyer's Handbook series.The Strange Gift of Gwendolyn GoldenGwendolyn Golden has a bad temper and hates to read. She's a pretty normal teenager until … one morning she wakes up on the ceiling. Along with her many average teenage qualities, Gwendol...
Everton Miles Is Stranger Than Me
The Night Flyer's Handbook
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- The Night Flyer's Handbook
2016
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The sequel to The Strange Gift of Gwendolyn Golden, shortlisted for the OLA Red Maple Award.I wander around like any normal, paranoid, self-absorbed teenager. Do we all think we’re being chased by deadly entities, I wonder? Probably, but how many of us actually are?Gwendolyn Golden, Night Flyer, floats over the cornfields all summer. What draws her to the same spot, night after night? All she knows is that change is coming: she’s starting ...
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- The Children of Oculum
2018
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”I'm Mann, just Mann.”The world is slowly recovering after environmental collapse, and the children of the automated, domed city of Oculum have begun to awaken. Miranda, William and the 998 other children wake to tend the fruit trees and gardens behind the thick, opaque walls of their world. Some speak quietly of Outside, which is forbidden. Until William finds a door ...The children outside the dome of Oculum — Mann, Cranker and others raised by Grannie — live amo...
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- Lost Gargoyle
2009
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What do you do when a 400-year-old gargoyle moves into your backyard? Especially when no one else but you knows he's ALIVE? Twelve-year-old Katherine Newberry can tell you all about life with a gargoyle. Hes naughty. He gets people into trouble. He howls at the moon, breaks statues and tramples flowers to bits, all the while making it look like you did it! He likes to throw apple cores and stick his tongue out at people when they aren't looking. How do you get rid of a gargoyle? Do they he...
Weird Stories Gone Wrong 3-Book Bundle
Carter and the Curious Maze / Myles and the Monster Outside / Jake and the Giant Hand
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- Weird Stories Gone Wrong
2016
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They’re troubling. They’re bizarre. And they JUST might be true. They’re Weird Stories Gone Wrong.Here are three spectacularly spooky books from acclaimed children’s author Philippa Dowding that will have you wondering about tall tales, giant flies, and mysterious monsters in the dark.IncludesJake and the Giant HandJake doesn’t really believe a giant’s hand was found in a field near his grandfather’s ...
The Strange Gift of Gwendolyn Golden
The Night Flyer's Handbook
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- The Night Flyer's Handbook
2014
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This morning, I woke up on the ceiling …So begins the strange story of Gwendolyn Golden. One perfectly ordinary day for no apparent reason, she wakes up floating around her room like one of her little brother’s Batman balloons.Puberty is weird enough. Everyone already thinks she’s an oddball with anger issues because her father vanished in a mysterious storm one night when she was six. Then there are the mean, false rumours people are spreading about her at school....
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- Lost Gargoyle
2012
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Christopher has a problem. He has just moved to Toronto. He has a new school and no friends. But even worse, the park next door is creepy: voices whisper in the bushes, and something throws apples at his window and howls at the moon. But what? Gargoyles! Their names are Gargoth and Ambergine, and they need help. An evil thief called the Collector is after them and wants to lock them away in his dark mansion, forever.Befriending a gargoyle takes courage, but it's worth it. ...
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- The Children of Oculum
2022
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The explosions come in the night.Miranda1, Mannfred, Grannie, and the one thousand children of Oculum must flee their farm, chased by the UnRuly. But there is hope: an old friend sends word of a book that may hold the secret to their survival.Just as they begin their journey through the wasteland, Echo1 wakes from an eighty-three-year sleep and is given a mission to find the four domes of the children of Oculum, and to find the First One, whatever the cost.
2026
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On February 27, 1941, bombs fall, families vanish, and the war lantern burns …In England, schoolboy Marcus must keep his work at Parnall Aircraft factory a secret, even from his mother, for the fear of Hitler’s spies. In Germany, Nazi officials are about to take Gisele’s baby brother away. Overhead, underage rear gunner Tail End Charlie flies in a Royal Air Force bomber. Each lead seemingly separate lives, until the roar of bombs — and the silence in the aftermath — connects them a...