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10 best books like The Unicorn’s Tale (R.L. LaFevers): Guardian of the Green Hill, The Rise and Fall of Mount Majestic, Winter of Magic's Return, Little Nemo in Slumberland: So Many Splendid Sundays!, The Fire King, The Silver Door, Smells Like Treasure, The Ghostwriter Secret, We Dine With Cannibals, Water Shaper

Guardian of the Green Hill
AuthorLaura L. Sullivan
ISBN0805089853
Only a few weeks ago, Meg Morgan and her siblings went to England for the holidays—and found themselves in the middle of a fairy war. Now the war is over, but the battle for control of the fairies has just begun.

A mysterious painter named Gwidion appears at the Rookery, ready to give the children...
The Rise and Fall of Mount Majestic
AuthorJennifer Trafton
ISBN0803733755
Ten-year-old Persimmony Smudge leads (much to her chagrin) a very dull life on the Island at the Center of Everything . . . until the night she overhears a life-changing secret. It seems that Mount Majestic, the rising and falling mountain in the center of the island, is not a mountain at all-it's the belly...
Winter of Magic's Return
AuthorPamela F. Service
ISBN0449702022
I read this book as a young boy in third grade. It completely changed what I expected from a book and helped gear my tastes in reading at an early age. This is the story of three kids living in a post-apocalyptic world. There are some standard tropes, the nerdy book girl who is very smart and turns pretty, and...
Little Nemo in Slumberland: So Many Splendid Sundays!
AuthorWinsor McCay
ISBN0976888505
Winner of the 2006 Will Eisner Award
and TWO 2006 Harvey Kurtzman Awards

“Fantastical”- N.Y. Times

“Stunning Volume” - Garry Trudeau

Beginning with the first page, a collection of Nemo Adventures, 1905-1910.

128 pages, 16 x 21 inches

Here...
The Fire King
AuthorPaul Crilley
ISBN1606840320
With humans threatened by otherworldly creatures, orphans Emily and William Snow, and their friends the pickpocket Spring-Heeled Jack and the wisecracking Corrigan find themselves two hundred years in the past, trapped in the London of 1666. Desperately in need of help, they go in search of Sir Christopher...
The Silver Door
AuthorHolly Lisle
ISBN0545000149
In the powerful, lyrical follow-up to THE RUBY KEY, Genna must master her new powers and summon an ancient magic to save her people in the fight for their freedom.

In the battle between nightlings and humans, it's prophesied that the Sunrider is destined to unite the magics of the sun and moon...
Smells Like Treasure
AuthorSuzanne Selfors
ISBN0316043990
When Homer Pudding receives a mysterious note emblazoned with the letters L.O.S.T., he knows the moment he has been waiting for has arrived. It is time to meet the society of Legends, Objects, Secrets, and Treasures, take his Uncle's place, and become a true adventurer.

With his best friend,...
The Ghostwriter Secret
AuthorMac Barnett
ISBN1416978178
Steve Brixton is fast becoming America's top detective. After saving the United States of America in The Case of the Case of Mistaken Identity, he has opened his own agency. Steve gets a call to solve the case of the Fairview diamond but it turns into an even bigger mystery. MacArthur Bart, author of Steve's...
We Dine With Cannibals
AuthorC. Alexander London
ISBN0142424749
Oliver and Celia Navel have suffered through a whole summer exploring with their father’s nemesis Sir Edmund, and are ready to begin a new school year glued to the TV.  But when their mother vanishes (again) in search of the Lost City of Gold: El Dorado, the twins must trek from the ruins of ancient temples...
Water Shaper
AuthorLaura Williams McCaffrey
ISBN0618614893
Margot is the daughter of a king, but she is beloved by neither his court nor his kingdom. She has “water in her blood,” a trait associated with magic and looked upon with distaste and suspicion. When she meets Orrin, a foreign king who is respectful, not scornful, of her affinity for water, she flees...
Ottoline Goes to School
AuthorChris Riddell
ISBN1405050586
I wasn't crazy about this book. It's not great and it's not bad either. Ottoline's parents are travelers who are often away but she doesn't seem to mind as she has her best friend Mr. Munroe and lots of grown-ups to look after her. One day she meets Cecily Forbes-Lawerence III in the park by her apartment...
Another Whole Nother Story
AuthorCuthbert Soup
ISBN1599904365
The plan was simple. Ethan Cheeseman, along with his three smart, polite, and relatively odor-free children, would travel back in time to end an ancient family curse and save their mother. Now that the LVR (a super-secret time machine) is in working order, it should be easy peasy. Except they didn't...
And Blue Skies From Pain
AuthorStina Leicht
ISBN1597803472
Northern Ireland, 1977. Liam Kelly is many things: a former wheelman for the IRA, a one-time political prisoner, the half-breed son of a mystic Fey warrior and a mortal woman, and a troubled young man literally haunted by the ghosts of his past. Liam has turned his back on his land’s bloody sectarian...
The Weeping Werewolf
AuthorBruce Coville
ISBN0689857551
In "The Dragon of Doom," Moongooble successfully completes his first Mighty Task -- collecting the Golden Acorns of Alcoona. So now it's time for him to complete the second one. He must bring back a bottle containing the tears of the Weeping Werewolf! But werewolves are scary, dangerous creatures....
Riddles and Danger
AuthorBryan Chick
ISBN0061989274
Noah, Megan, Richie, and Ella are the Action Scouts; friends whose tree house overlooks the Clarksville City Zoo. When they discover a magical world hidden within the zoo, they are swept away on an adventure in which penguins can fly, a mysterious figure lurks in the shadows, and the scouts are enlisted...
The Random House Book of Fairy Tales
AuthorAmy Ehrlich
ISBN0394856937
Review: This particular book has all of the classic fairy tales combined into one larger book. Stories like Snow White, Hansel and Gretel, Jack and the Bean Stalk, and many others. This story book has only a few pictures for each story, but the stories all have a little bit of a twist in comparison to the...
World's Worst Wedgie
AuthorNancy E. Krulik
ISBN1101444274
In his continuingNbut mainly disastrousNefforts to be an upstanding, responsible ten-year-old, George Brown decides itOs time to earn some money. (ThereOs also an expensive remote-controlled toy that heOs been coveting.) But no matter what he triesNwhether itOs working at his motherOs craft...
Wet Magic
AuthorE. Nesbit
ISBN1587170558
When four siblings journey to the seashore for a holiday, one of them unwittingly summons the sister of a mermaid who is captured by a circus, and the children set out to save the imprisoned being. After a daring midnight rescue, the children's reward is an incredible journey beneath the waves and into...
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