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1) The BFG
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Description
Kidsnatched from her orphanage by a BFG (Big Friendly Giant), who spends his life blowing happy dreams to children, Sophie concocts with him a plan to save the world from nine other man-gobbling cannybull giants.
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Series
Themis files volume 1
Description
"17 years ago: A girl in South Dakota falls through the earth, then wakes up dozens of feet below ground on the palm of what seems to be a giant metal hand. Today: She is a top-level physicist leading a team of people to understand exactly what that hand is, where it came from, and what it portends for humanity. A swift and spellbinding tale told almost exclusively through transcriptions of interviews conducted by a mysterious and unnamed character,...
4) Giant steps
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Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
Description
Five giants play a global game of tag, and while the first four run just as far as they can go, north, south, east, and west, the unlucky fifth giant has to count.
Pub. Date
©2018
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1 videodisc (106 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Barbara is the only thing that stands between terrible giants and the destruction of her small town. But as she boldly confronts her fears in increasingly dangerous ways, she begins to question everything she's always believed to be true.
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Pub. Date
1994
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1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 25 cm.
Description
Banished from the town for making mischief, a little boy and his father are welcomed back when they find a way to make the dreaded giant Abiyoyo disappear. A boy and his father are banished because the father, a magician, has a habit of making things vanish. But when the monster Abiyoyo appears - the father makes Abiyoyo disappear, and all is forgiven. No one wants to hear the little boy play his ukelele anymore...Clink, clunk, clonk. And no one...
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Pub. Date
2016.
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1 volume (unpaged) : colour illustrations ; 23 cm + 1 CD.
Description
Jack and the Beanstalk, the traditional fairy tale is retold in irreverent, playful rhyme that's perfect for reading aloud, and brilliantly accompanied by Nick Sharratt's bright and vibrant illustrations. There are flaps to lift and pop-up surprises on every page: make the beanstalk grow up into the clouds, be brave and open the doors to the giant's castle, and watch his feet pop up out of the compost heap as he comes tumbling down from the sky! Includes...
10) Muncle Trogg
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Muncle Trogg volume 1
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Janet Foxley's hilarious debut, Muncle Trogg, shows young readers that you don't have to be large in stature to have a big heart. Muncle Trogg lives on top of Mount Grumble with the other giants. But Muncle is different, because he's human-sized. Tired of being laughed at for being so small, Muncle leaves Mount Grumble to live among the Smallings. And so begins an adventure in which Muncle meets a human girl named Emily and a badly behaved dragon...
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Heroes of Olympus volume 5
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"The Greek and Roman demigods must simultaneously prevent the earth mother, Gaea, from waking and stop war from breaking out at Camp Half-Blood"-- Provided by publisher.
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Heroes of Olympus volume 4
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At the conclusion of The Mark of Athena, Annabeth and Percy tumble into a pit leading stragith to the Underworld. The other five demigods have to put aside their grief and follow Percy's instructions to find the mortal side of the Door of Death. If they can fight their way through the Gaea's forces, and Percy and Annabeth can survive the House of Hades, then the Seven will be able to seal the Doors from both sides and prevent the giants from raising...
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Dragon masters volume 9
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The Dragon Masters are still reeling from the desertion of Rori and her fire dragon Vulcan, when Mina, a Dragon Master from the far north, arrives with a problem--King Lars needs a fire dragon to defeat the Ice Giant who has frozen his kingdom; and so the Dragon Masters set out to find Rori and convince her to help.
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (94 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Jack must perform a heroic deed by Monday, or flunk out of fairy tale school, just like his father before him. To succeed, Jack sells his C.O.W. (Computer of Wonder) for a handful of beans that overnight, magically grow into a gigantic beanstalk reaching high into the sky. Desperate to be a hero, Jack climbs up the enchanted beanstalk into a magical and dangerous world, and with the help of some friends he learns the true meaning of heroism on his...
16) Dirt Boy
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Pub. Date
2000
Physical Desc
[30] p. : ill. ; 27 cm.
Description
To avoid taking a bath, Fister Farnello runs away from home and is befriended by Dirt Man, a filthy giant who lives in the woods.
18) Switched
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Series
Fairy Tale Reform School volume 4
Description
Gilly and her friends must prepare for a giant invasion after Jack plants magic beans, earning him a spot in Fairy Tale Reform School and reminding Gilly how good it feels to be bad.
19) Wilfred
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Pub. Date
©2013
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 x 28 cm
Description
When Wilfred, a big, hairy, and lonesome giant, enters a town full of tiny bald people, he finds only one friend but that proves to be enough when the other townspeople trick him out of his warm hair.
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