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NYT - Children’s Series

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Harry Potter (Original series) volume 1

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Rescued from the outrageous neglect of his aunt and uncle, a young boy with a great destiny proves his worth while attending Hogwarts School for Witchcraft and Wizardry.

2) Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

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Harry Potter (Original series) volume 2

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Lord of the rings
Hobbit
Middle-Earth Universe

When the Chamber of Secrets is opened again at the Hogswart School for Witchcraft and Wizardry, second-year student Harry Potter finds himself in danger from a dark power that has once more been released on the school.

3) The hobbit, or, There and back again

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Tolkien, J. R. R

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Bilbo Baggins, a respectable, well-to-do hobbit, lives comfortably in his hobbit-hole until the day the wandering wizard Gandalf chooses him to take part in an adventure from which he may never return.

4) Harry Potter and the prisoner of Azkaban

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Harry Potter (Illustrated series) volume 3

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During his third year at Hogwarts School for Witchcraft and Wizardry, Harry Potter must confront the devious and dangerous wizard responsible for his parents' deaths.

5) Harry Potter and the goblet of fire

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Harry Potter (Original series) volume 4

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Harry Potter is midway through his training as a wizard and his coming of age. Harry wants to get away from the pernicious Dursleys and go to the International Quidditch Cup. He wants to find out about the mysterious event that's supposed to take place at Hogwarts this year, an event involving two other rival schools of magic, and a competition that hasn't happened for a hundred years. He wants to be a normal, fourteen-year-old wizard. But unfortunately...

6) The invisible life of Addie LaRue

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Schwab, V. E

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Making a Faustian bargain to live forever but never be remembered, a woman from early eighteenth-century France endures unacknowledged centuries before meeting a man who remembers her name.

7) Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

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Book, Book on CD, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle, Large Print

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Harry Potter (Original series) volume 5
Thorndike large print young adult

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When the government of the magic world and authorities at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry refuse to believe in the growing threat of a freshly revived Lord Voldemort, fifteen-year-old Harry Potter finds support from his loyal friends in facing the evil wizard and other new terrors.

8) Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

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Book, Book on CD, eAudiobook, eBook, Large Print

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Harry Potter (Original series) volume 6
Thorndike Press large print literacy bridge

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Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince brings us Harry Potter's sixth year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry as Lord Voldemort becomes ever more powerful with his followers increasing day by day in this continuing battle between good and evil. Harry searches for the full and complex story of the boy who became Lord Voldemort, and thereby finds what may be his only vulnerability.

9) The house in the cerulean sea

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Klune, TJ

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"A magical island. A dangerous task. A burning secret. Linus Baker leads a quiet, solitary life. At forty, he lives in a tiny house with a devious cat and his old records. As a Case Worker at the Department in Charge Of Magical Youth, he spends his days overseeing the well-being of children in government-sanctioned orphanages. When Linus is unexpectedly summoned by Extremely Upper Management he's given a curious and highly classified assignment: travel...

10) Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

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Harry Potter (Original series) volume 7

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2022 Teen Book Award Winners

'Give me Harry Potter,' said Voldemort's voice, 'and none shall be harmed. Give me Harry Potter, and I shall leave the school untouched. Give me Harry Potter, and you will be rewarded.'
As he climbs into the sidecar of Hagrid's motorbike and takes to the skies, leaving Privet Drive for the last time, Harry Potter knows that Lord Voldemort and the Death Eaters are not far behind. The protective charm that has kept Harry safe until now

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11) A snake falls to Earth

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Badger, Darcie Little

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Nina is a Lipan girl in our world. She's always felt there was something more out there. She still believes in the old stories. Oli is a cottonmouth kid, from the land of spirits and monsters. Like all cottonmouths, he's been cast from home. He's found a new one on the banks of the bottomless lake. Nina and Oli have no idea the other exists. But a catastrophic event on Earth, and a strange sickness that befalls Oli's best friend, will drive their...

12) The Dragonet Prophecy: Wings of Fire Graphic Novel Series, Book 1

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Wings of fire. Original series volume 1

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The New York Times bestselling Wings of Fire series soars to new heights in this first-ever graphic novel adaptation!

Not every dragonet wants a destiny . . . Clay has grown up under the mountain, chosen along with four other dragonets to fulfill a mysterious prophecy and end the war between the dragon tribes of Pyrrhia. He's not so sure about the prophecy part, but Clay can't imagine not living with the other dragonets; they're his

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13) Kindred

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Butler, Octavia E

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Black women writers

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Dana, a modern Black woman, is celebrating her twenty-sixth birthday with her new husband when she is snatched abruptly from her home in California and transported to the antebellum South. Rufus, the white son of a plantation owner, is drowning, and Dana has been summoned across the years to save him. After this first summons, Dana is drawn back, again and again, to the plantation to protect Rufus and ensure that he will grow to manhood and father...

14) The Brightest Night: Wings of Fire Series, Book 5

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Wings of fire. Original series volume 5

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The graphic novel adaptations of the #1 New York Times bestselling Wings of Fire series continue to set the world on fire!

One will have the power of wings of fire . . .

Sunny has always taken the Dragonet Prophecy very seriously. If Pyrrhia's dragons need her, Clay, Tsunami, Glory, and Starflight to end the war, she's ready to try. She even has some good ideas how to do it, if anyone would listen to her.

But

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15) The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings

Author

Tolkien, J. R. R

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Lord of the rings volume 1

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Begin your journey into Middle-earth...

The inspiration for the upcoming original series on Prime Video, The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power.

The Fellowship of the Ring is the first part of J.R.R. Tolkien's epic adventure The Lord of the Rings.

One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them.

Sauron, the Dark

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16) Under the whispering door

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Klune, TJ

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Collins Classics
Peter Pan
Scribner illustrated classic
Graphic Classics

"A Man Called Ove meets The Good Place in Under the Whispering Door, a delightful queer love story from TJ Klune, author of the New York Times and USA Today bestseller The House in the Cerulean Sea. When a reaper comes to collect Wallace from his own funeral, Wallace begins to suspect he might be dead. And when Hugo, the owner of a peculiar tea shop, promises to help him cross over, Wallace decides he's definitely dead. But even in death he's not...

17) Peter Pan

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Barrie, J. M

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Book, Book on CD, eAudiobook, eBook, eComic

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The adventures of the three Darling children in Never-Never Land with Peter Pan, the boy who would not grow up. Illustrations compiled from late nineteenth and early twentieth century editions of the book.

18) The Hidden Kingdom: Wings of Fire Graphic Novel Series, Book 3

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Wings of Fire

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The #1 New York Times bestselling Wings of Fire series soars to new heights in the third graphic novel adaptation!

Glory knows that the dragon world is wrong about her being "a lazy RainWing." Maybe she wasn't meant to be one of the dragonets of destiny, but Glory is sharp and her venom is deadly...even if that's still a secret.So when the dragonets seek shelter in the rain forest, Glory is devastated to find that the treetops are

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19) The Dark Secret: Wings of Fire Graphic Novel Series, Book 4

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Wings of fire. Original series volume 4

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The New York Times bestselling WINGS OF FIRE saga soars to the mysterious land of the NightWings, where Starflight must face a terrible choice — his tribe, or his friends?

In the shadows, trouble is brewing. . .The mysterious NightWings keep everything hidden, from their home and their queen to their allegiance in the war. Now they've kidnapped their own dragonet of destiny, and Starflight is finally meeting the rest of his tribe —

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20) The Lost Heir: Wings of Fire Graphic Novel Series, Book 2

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Wings of fire. Original series volume 2

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