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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 12
Description
Irish orphans Molly, fourteen, and Kip, ten, travel to England to work as servants in a crumbling manor house where nothing is quite what it seems to be, and soon the siblings are confronted by a mysterious stranger and secrets of the cursed house.
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Series
Green Knowe chronicles volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 6
Description
Tolly comes to live with his great-grandmother at the ancient house of Green Knowe and becomes friends with three children who lived there in the seventeenth century.
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House of secrets (Chris Columbus) volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 14
Description
As mystical creatures begin appearing all over America, Brendan, Eleanor, and Cordelia are forced to reenter the book world one last time to stop the two worlds from colliding.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 11
Description
This book forms part of our 'Pook Press' imprint, celebrating the golden age of illustration in children's literature. 'The Wind in the Willows' is a true classic of Children's literature, penned by Kenneth Grahame and first published in 1908. Alternately slow moving and fast paced, it focuses on four anthropomorphised animal characters in a traditional bucolic version of the English Thames valley - a novel notable for its adventure, mysticism, morality...
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Ghoulia volume 4
Description
Ghoulia and cousin Dilbert come up with a plan--and a potion--to prevent the town planner from seizing Auntie Witch's Fancy Manor as abandoned property. Includes a recipe for Back-to-Life potion.
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Description
A very brave witch: A young witch describes what she does on Halloween, her favorite holiday. A dark, dark tale: Journeying through a dark, dark house, a black cat surprises the only inhabitant of the abandoned residence. By the light of the Halloween moon: In this cumulative tale, a host of Halloween spooks, including a cat, a witch, and a ghoul, are drawn to the tapping of a little girl's toe.
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Series
Green Knowe chronicles volume 4
Pub. Date
c1961, 2007
Description
A strange friendship develops between a young Chinese refugee who is spending the summer at Green Knowe and a gorilla who has escaped from the London Zoo.
Author
Series
Green Knowe chronicles volume 1
Pub. Date
p2005
Description
Tolly comes to live with his great-grandmother at the ancient house of Green Knowe and becomes friends with three children who lived there in the seventeenth century.
Author
Series
Green Knowe chronicles volume 5
Pub. Date
c1964, 2008
Description
The inhabitants of Green Knowe become involved with black magic when a modern-day witch attempts to find books of witchcraft supposedly hidden in the old house by a mad seventeenth-century alchemist.
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Series
Green Knowe chronicles volume 6
Pub. Date
c2009
Description
While eagerly following each stage of the new stone manor house his father is building to replace their old wooden Saxon hall, a young boy, part Saxon and part Norman, becomes involved with ancient magic that carries him through time.
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Series
Green Knowe chronicles volume 3
Pub. Date
c2007
Description
While visiting the ancient manor house of Green Knowe for the summer, Ping, Ida, and Oskar find an old canoe and set out upon the water. They have no idea that they are rowing into other worlds entirely-- places where giants recline on the shore, and horses have wings, and a simple paddle downriver becomes a journey into a land of enchantment.
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Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
Brian can think of a few places he'd rather spend his summer than with his aunt and uncle in Boring, Illinois. Jail, for example. Or an earplug factory. Anything would be better than doing summer school on a computer while his scientist dad is stationed at the South Pole. Boring lives up to its name until Brian and his cousin Nora have a fight, get lost, and discover a huge, wooden house in the forest. With balconies, turrets, and windows seemingly...
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