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Castle
LucasFilm & Scholastic, 2000
Fantasy Fiction
ISBN-10: 0439176832
215 pages
Synopsis
Tal and Milla are taken to the Ruin Ship, a giant metal ship, which looks exactly like the bone ships the Icecarls steer around their ice world. Here the Shield Maidens have their base. Learning more about the world of the Icecarls and their ways, Tal starts to see that there’s more to his world than he originally thought. Once Milla’s wounds have healed, the two must take a dangerous path up the mountain to get back to the Castle. …
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Airborn
Eos, 2004
Fantasy Fiction
ISBN-10: 0060531800
355 pages
Honor Book – Michael L. Printz Award for Excellence in Young Adult Literature (ALA)
Synopsis
On a routine flight aboard the cruise airship the Aurora, Matt Cruse, its cabin boy, spots a fledgling hot air balloon heading toward them. Rescuing the pilot just before his inevitable death, Matt thinks nothing of the old man’s ramblings about some beautiful and unknown flying creatures.
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Sabriel
EOS, 1995
Fantasy Fiction
ISBN-10: 0064471837
491 pages
Synopsis
Sabriel is a 17-year-old girl who is finishing her last year at Wyverly College, a private school in a place known as Ancelstierre, a world based on science. However, she is the daughter of the Abhorsen, a powerful man in the magical world of the Old Kingdom who works as a necromancer to fight the dead who seek to return to Life. …
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The Fall
LucasFilm & Scholastic, 2000
Fantasy Fiction
ISBN-10: 0439176824
195 pages
Synopsis
Tal’s father is missing and presumed dead, and now he must find a way to get a Sunstone in order to save his family. However, little does he know that this quest is not as easy as it seems as there are forces at work against him. …
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Silverwing
Aladdin, 1997
Fantasy Fiction
ISBN-10: 0689825587
216 pages
Mr. Christie’s Book Award for 12 and Up
Canadian Library Association Book of the Year for Children
Synopsis
Shade may be a young runt, but what he lacks in size, he easily makes up for in cunning. Determined to prove himself to his colony of Silverwing bats on his first dangerous winter migration to Hibernaculum, Shade gets separated from his kin during a fierce storm. …
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