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Fairest – Gail Carson Levine

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Read for the Once Upon a Time Challenge. Aza has the most beautiful voice in the kingdom of Ayortha, which is a good thing, because the one thing Ayorthians prize more than beauty is singing ability, and Aza isn’t winning any contests in the beauty department.    She’s even figured out a way to throw her […]

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The Tales of Beedle the Bard – J. K. Rowling

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Read for the Once Upon a Time Reading Challenge. Believe it or not, I bought this book in hardcover, when it first came out.   (That would be 2008.)    And unlike every other Harry Potter book, I didn’t read it immediately.    It’s been sitting on a shelf mocking me, so in the grand spirit of the

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Wicked Lovely – Melissa Marr

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Read for the Once Upon a Time Reading Challenge. Aislinn can see the Fae – an ability shared by her grandmother, who has taught her to hide that gift, for if the faeries ever found out she could see them, terrible things would happen to her.    One place she’s found a sanctuary is her friend

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Alchemy and Meggy Swann – Karen Cushman

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Meggy grew up on her mother’s tavern outside of Elizabethan-era London, until one day, her father sends for her. Her mother is more than happy to send her away, as Meggy is crippled- she can only walk with crutches. So off she goes to London, where she finds that her father is an alchemist. He’s

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Specials – Scott Westerfeld

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I really enjoyed Uglies – the idea of a future time when people had decided that to end strife, they’d make everyone equally beautiful, and give them all the luxury they could ask for, but in reality were giving everyone brain surgery to take away most of their aggression and curiosity, was really interesting. I

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The People of Sparks – Jeanne DuPrau

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In this second Book of Ember, the people of the city of Ember have escaped their dying underground city, and found their way back above ground. Some long ago Disaster has wasted the land above ground, but only a few days walk away, they find the village of Sparks, where the people there have finally

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The Boggart and the Monster – Susan Cooper

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In this sequel to The Boggart, Emily and Jessup are back in Scotland to visit Castle Keep, and the family’s Boggart that lives there. The Boggart is a mischievous spirit that usually attaches himself to a particular family. While in Scotland, they decide to visit Loch Ness, and the Boggart tags along, only to find

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Grim Tuesday – Garth Nix

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Arthur Penhaligion has returned to our world thinking that he was done with the strange House he’d found himself in on Monday. But, as soon as he returned to the regular world, he finds a new enemy in Grim Tuesday, and he’s forced back to the House to take the second key from Grim Tuesday,

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Mairelon the Magician – Patricia C. Wrede

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In an alternate London sometime in the 19th century (I think), Kim lives on the streets. When an obviously well to do man offers her five pounds to break into a traveling magician’s wagon and just look around, she can’t say no to such easy money. But, when she’s caught in the act because of

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