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Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
383 pages ; 25 cm
Description
Fred Chappell's A Shadow All of Light, a stylish, episodic fantasy novel, follows the exploits of Falco, a young man from the country, who arrives in the port city of Tardocco with the ambition of becoming an apprentice to a master shadow thief. Maestro Astolfo, whose mysterious powers of observation would rival those of Sherlock Holmes, sees Falco's potential and puts him through a grueling series of physical lessons and intellectual tests. Falco's...
Author
Series
Notebook of doom volume 3
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
88 pages : illustrations.
Description
Alexander and his new friend, Rip, are worried that the worms the rain has brought out are really the megaworms that Notebook of Doom describes but they soon discover that the night crawlers are trying to warn them about the monster tunnel fish that are threatening Stermont Elementary.
Author
Series
League of beastly dreadfuls volume 1
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
294 pages ; 22 cm
Description
Anastasia, nearly eleven, is snatched from her elementary school and sent to live at a former insane asylum with two great aunts she had never met after being told that her parents died in a tragic vacuum cleaner accident.
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
6 audio discs (6 hr., 41 min.) : digital, CD audio ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Anastasia, nearly eleven, is snatched from her elementary school and sent to live at a former insane asylum with two great aunts she has never met after being told that her parents died in a tragic vacuum cleaner accident.
9) I got next
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
40 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Description
"A young basketball player receives inspiration from a surprising place and joins the competition ready to try his best"--
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 28 cm
Description
A picture-book take on the subject of childhood anxiety. Once there was a girl called Mindi, who was afraid of something that no one else could see. This thing that she was afraid of, this thing that no one else could see, was a big goose. It came into her room as quietly as a thought comes into your head, and it stayed there for as long as it wanted to. The little girl and her devoted father try everything they can think of to drive away the big...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
258 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Description
After returning to Fairyland, September discovers that her stolen shadow has become the Hollow Queen, the new ruler of Fairyland Below, who is stealing the magic and shadows from Fairyland folk and refusing to give them back.
12) Gloom town
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
xii, 267 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Description
Twelve-year-old Rory and his friend Izzy try to foil the plans of Lord Foxglove, for whom Rory works as a valet, and his inhuman accomplices from taking over the world.--
13) Shadows
Author
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
356 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"Magic is illegal in Newworld, so Maggie struggles to explain the strange shadows--that only she can see--that seem to accompany her new stepfather everywhere"--
14) Nonstop
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 21 x 29 cm
Description
In this final masterpiece from the late Tomi Ungerer, Earth is devastated and empty. Everyone has escaped to the moon, except Vasco. Luckily, Vasco has his shadow to guide him, and he finds little green Poco, someone to care for and bring to safety. Nonstop dangers await Vasco and baby Poco at every corner, but Vasco's shadow rescues and guides them through destroyed cities and apocalyptic landscapes to safety. It's a timely, thought-provoking tale...
15) Groundhug Day
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 28 cm
Description
"Moose is planning the biggest Valentine's Day party ever. But can he convince his friend, Groundhog, to stay around to celebrate without hiding from his shadow?"--
17) Comet rising
Author
Series
Shadow weaver volume 2
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
295 pages ; 21 cm
Description
Shadow weaver Emmeline and her best friend Lucas, a light singer, must try to use their powers to stop evil Lady Aisling, the magic eater, once and for all.
18) Shadow weaver
Author
Series
Shadow weaver volume 1
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
310 pages ; 21 cm
Description
Twelve-year-old Emmeline possesses the unique ability to manipulate shadows. When her magical powers are threatened by a noble family, she desperately turns to Dar, her shadow friend, who offers to save her if Emmeline makes Dar flesh again, but this bargain only puts Emmeline's life in further jeopardy.
Author
Series
Mia Mayhem volume 3
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
119 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Description
Mia is excited about her first superspeed training class, but a bully on her relay team leads her to lose her shadow and, worse, to snap at her friends.
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
453 pages : 21 cm.
Description
"South Africa, 1884. A young and naive English doctor by the name of William Abbey witnesses the lynching of a local boy by the white colonists. As the child dies, his mother curses William. William begins to understand what the curse means when the shadow of the dead boy starts following him across the world. It never stops, never rests. It can cross oceans and mountains. And if it catches him, the person he loves most in the world will die."--Amazon....
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