Meetings

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Mary Norton

With the powers they acquire from a spinster who is studying to be a witch, three children go on a number of exciting and gruesome trips. Contains both titles: "The Magic Bedknob" and "Bonfires and Broomsticks." In *The Magic Bedknob*, Carey, Charles and Paul 6 find prim Miss Price injured by falling off her broomstick. For their silence, she bespells a bedknob to carry them where-ever and when-ever. In *Bonfires and Broomsticks* two years later, they bring necromancer Emelius Jones to visit. But his neighbors want to burn him at the stake for disappearing in the Great Fire of London.

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Justine Larbalestier

When fifteen-year-old Reason is pulled through the magical door connecting New York City with the Sydney, Australia, home of her grandmother, she encounters an impossibly ancient man who seems to have some purpose in mind for her.

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Joe O'Brien

When Josh Bloom and his friends visit Cherry Tree Manor on a school trip what really interests the class is the mystery about the manor's owner, General Edgar Pennington, who disappeared exactly twelve years before. Everyone hopes to find a clue to where the general has gone. Then Josh discovers something in the manor library that sends him on an adventure of a lifetime - to the land beyond the cherry tree .-- pub. website.

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Babette Cole

Gran, who is secretly an extraterrestrial being, livens up a trip to the seaside taken by a group of school children and senior citizens.