Wemberly's Ice-Cream Star

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E. B. White

Louis, a romantic swan, is in love with the angelic Serena, but he can't tell her how he feels; he has no voice. When he meets eleven-year-old Sam Beaver, a human friend, he goes to school with him to learn how to read and write. Louis' father also helps out; he steals a brass trumpet for his son. In the end, Louis learns to play, wins Serena's heart, and repays the music shop owner for his stolen trumpet. Here is a wonderful story of romance, friendship, and determination among animals and humans.

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Christopher Golden and Thomas E. Sniegoski

Timothy and Cassandra may have beaten the evil sorcerer Alhazred, but their problems are far from over. Alhazred was connected so close to the matrix energy that his death caused a magical blow-out, dimming all the sorcerous power, both in people and in lights. The blow-out has also weakened the dimensional barrier that keeps the Wurm out of Arcanum, and for the first time in decades the Wurm have the chance to wreak their vengeance upon the mages who sought to destroy them. Can Timothy and Cassandra end the feud before the Wurm devastate Arcanum?

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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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Susan Cooper

His name is West. Her name is Cally. They speak different languages and come from different countries thousands of miles apart, but they do not know that. What they do know are the tragedies that took their parents, then wrenched the two of them out of reality, into a strange and perilous world through which they must travel together, knowing only that they must reach the sea. Together West and Cally embark upon a strange and sometimes terrifying quest, learning to survive and to love and, at last, the real secret of their journey.