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2) War horse
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Albert and his horse, Joey, are like brothers even though they aren't the same species. When Joey is sold into the army during World War I, Albert enlists in the army in an attempt to be reunited with Joey. Both horse and boy experience the horrors of war until finally a miracle brings the two friends together again.
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Up until her twelfth birthday, Kiranmala considered herself an ordinary sixth-grader in Parsippany, New Jersey, but then her parents disappear and a drooling rakkhosh demon shows up in her kitchen, and soon she is swept into another dimension, full of magic, winged horses, talking birds (very annoying), and cute princes--and somehow Kiranmala needs to sort it all out, find her parents, and basically save the world.
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How to Bring a Book to Life - 2023
Picture Books in Both English and Spanish/Libros ilustrados en ingles y español
Spiders!
Picture Books in Both English and Spanish/Libros ilustrados en ingles y español
Spiders!
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The farm animals try to divert a busy little spider from spinning her web, but she persists and produces a thing of both beauty and usefulness. The pictures may be felt as well as seen.
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After her overprotective grandmother has a stroke, eleven-year-old Maya, an orphan, leaves her extremely restricted life in California to stay with her mother's family on a remote Wyoming ranch, where she discovers a love of horses and encounters Artemisia, a wild mare that her mother once rode.
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Shelly is a princess! A real princess! It's been a well-kept secret in Trident City, but now the word is out, and Shelly doesn't know how to act! Should she start wearing a glittery crown? Or move to a grand undersea palace? Will her friends have to call her Your Highness? Being a princess may be exciting, but Shelly's not sure she can truly play this royal part.
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"In the ruggedness of the beautiful Kentucky mountains, Honey Lovett has always known that the old ways can make a hard life harder. As the daughter of the famed blue-skinned, Troublesome Creek packhorse librarian, Honey and her family have been hiding from the law all her life. But when her mother and father are imprisoned, Honey realizes she must fight to stay free, or risk being sent away for good. Picking up her mother's old packhorse library...
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It is 1904 and the partially deaf Asta Hedstrom is engaged to Nils, but she does not want to marry him: she would rather spend her time with her best friend Gunnar Fuglestad and his secret boyfriend, Erlend, who belongs to the wealthiest family on their Norwegian island; so when Nils gravely injures Gunnar, she shuns her marriage and moves in with Gunnar and Erlend in a secluded cabin above town--and the three misfits set out to win the annual Christmas...
10) A hundred horses
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Nell's unhappiness about spending vacation with relatives is turned to curiosity and joy when she meets a half-wild horse and a mysterious girl named Angel. Angel leads Nell on an adventure involving one hundred horses, one of which might be magical, and Nell learns an important truth about life and about herself.
11) The burning maze
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The Greek god Apollo, cast down to earth as the ungifted human teenager Lester Papadopoulos, and his demigod friends must go through the Labyrinth to find the third emperor--and an Oracle who speaks in word puzzles--somewhere in the American Southwest.
13) Heart of fire
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In 1923, Maddie's family is reunited when her brother finally comes home to England after fighting in the Great War, but when she discovers that he is an impostor, Maddie faces the loss of both her new brother and his horse, which she has grown to love.
15) Olympus at war
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Living on Olympus with her friends Joel and Paelen and the flying horse Pegasus, Emily Jacobs waits for a moment when she can return to the human world and save her father. When Olympus is invaded, however, their loyalty and resolve is put to the test as they combat new enemies.
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Echofrost, Shysong, and the entire Storm Herd have been freed, but at a cost--Sandwen Rider Rahkki Stormrunner was captured, and the Gorlan giants will never let him go. Not even Princess I'Lenna or his clan members can rescue him. The only hope is in Storm Herd joining forces with the humans they have traditionally feared, and as monsoon rains sweep down on the region one final battle erupts to decide the fate of the three groups.
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Riding their winged battle horses, the army of the Sandwen clan has successfully kept the giant hordes at bay. Thinking they've tamed all the pegasi in the land to be their warhorses, they are stunned with a wild herd flies over their city. The pegasi herd, Storm Herd, journeyed from across the ocean to settle in a new land, but soon find themselves in conflict with the Landwalkers and their warhorses, realizing at great cost that this new land is...
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In the unique landscape of the Camargue in the South of France during WW2, a young autistic boy lives on his parents' farm among the salt flats and the flamingos that live there. There are lots of things he doesn't understand, but he does know how to heal animals. He loves routine and music too; every week he goes to market with his mother, to ride his special horse on the town carousel. But then the Germans come, with their guns, and take the town....