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Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Description
Long ago in Nowhere, Texas, Mama and Papa Upagainstit agree to take in the wild baby their five children find in a passing tumbleweed, despite the objections of the one who used to be "the littlest-of-all girl."
Author
Series
Delphine series volume 1
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Description
When sixteen-year-old Delphine, a dressmaker mouse in Cinderella's chateau, learns of her connection to the Threaded, magical tailor mice of legend, she undertakes an epic quest to claim her identity.
7) Air keep
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
368 pages : map ; 24 cm.
Description
Marcus and Kyja continue to search for the Elementals they need to unite to open a drift between Earth and Farworld, but the Air Elementals have a strange sense of humor and with Farworld in the grip of a terrible drought and daily earthquakes, the two friends face untold challenges.
8) Water keep
Author
Series
Pub. Date
©2008
Physical Desc
xi, 419 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Description
Found in the desert as a baby by monks who named him, thirteen-year-old Marcus, who has been confined to a wheelchair ever since he can remember, knows nothing of his background and endures the difficulties of his daily life in various foster homes and schools by dreaming of Farworld, a magical place whose pull seems to be getting increasingly stronger.
10) The lock-eater
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
359 pages ; 22 cm
Description
Melanie Gate, a foundling with a peculiar talent for opening the unopenable, agrees to accompany a gearling automaton named Traveler on his quest to find a home, only to be pursued by the most dangerous wizard in the land and, along the way, discover her true powers.
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Red Sparkle Stone is a foundling orphan with an odd name and a veiled past, but she's about to be adopted into the royal family--by Empress Elisa herself. When the empress's greatest rival blocks the adoption, Red is left with no family and no future. Determined to find her place, Red hatches a daring plan: she will prove herself as a recruit for the world's most elite fighting force, the legendary Royal Guard--something no woman has done before....
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
"All sorcerers are evil. Elisabeth has known that as long as she has known anything. Raised as a foundling in one of Austermeer's Great Libraries, Elisabeth has grown up among the tools of sorcery -- magical grimoires that whisper on shelves and rattle beneath iron chains. If provoked, they transform into grotesque monsters of ink and leather. She hopes to become a warden, charged with protecting the kingdom from their power. Then an act of sabotage...
13) Fishbone's song
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Description
"Deep in the woods, in a rustic cabin, lives an old man and the boy he's raised as his own. This sage old man has taught the boy the power of nature and how to live in it, and more importantly, to respect it. In Fishbone's Song, this boy reminisces about the magic of the man who raised him and the tales that he used to tell--all true, but different each time."--
15) Land keep
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
ix, 374 pages : illustrations, map ; 21 cm.
Description
Having discovered that his destiny is tied to that of Farworld, Marcus, despite his growing power over water, struggles with physical pain and inner doubts as, with the help of his companions, he tries to complete the quest to find the other elementals that will help destroy the evil force of the Dark Circle.
16) Arrow
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
393 pages ; 22 cm
Description
Twelve-year-old Arrow was raised by the Guardian Tree in a rainforest protected by a magical veil, but now the veil is deteriorating and humans have entered, changing his life forever.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
356 pages : maps ; 22 cm.
Description
"A rumor that Blackbeard's buried treasure is somewhere near Tupelo Landing causes pirate fever to sweep through town just as clues about Mo's Upstream Mother surface and the Desperado Detectives--aka Mo LoBeau and her best friends Dale and Harm--take on the most important case of Mo's life"--
19) Wench
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
376 pages ; 22 cm
Description
Tanya broke up her first fight at 11. By the time she was a teenager she knew everything about the tavern, and she could run it with her eyes closed. She'd never let anyone-- a drunkard or a captain of the queen's guard-- take advantage of her. But when her guardian dies, she might lose it all: the bar, her home, her purpose in life. She heads out on a quest to petition the queen to keep the tavern in her name-- while dodging unscrupulous guards,...
20) The wonderling
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
450 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 21 cm
Description
In this extraordinary debut novel with its deft nod to Dickensian heroes and rogues, Mira Bartók tells the story of Arthur, a shy, fox-like foundling with only one ear and a desperate desire to belong, as he seeks his destiny.
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