Posts Tagged ‘unicorns’
The Giant Slayer
Delacorte Books for Young Readers, 2009
Historical Fiction/Fantasy
ISBN: 0385733763
304 pages
Synopsis
A girl’s imagination transports polio-afflicted kids into a fantastic world.
The spring of 1955 tests Laurie Valentine’s gifts as a storyteller. After her friend Dickie contracts polio and finds himself confined to an iron lung, Laurie visits him in the hospital. There she meets Carolyn and Chip, two other kids trapped inside the breathing machines. Laurie’s first impulse is to flee, but Dickie begs her to tell them a story. And so Laurie begins her tale of Collosso, a rampaging giant, and Jimmy, a tiny boy whose destiny is to become a slayer of giants. …
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Rampant
Harper Teen, 2009
Fantasy
ISBN: 0061490008
416 Pages
Synopsis
Forget everything you ever knew about unicorns. Real unicorns are venomous, man-eating monsters with huge fangs and razor-sharp horns. Fortunately, they’ve been extinct for a hundred and fifty years. Or not.
Astrid had always scoffed at her eccentric mother’s stories about killer unicorns. But when one of the monsters attacks her boyfriend—thereby ruining any chance of him taking her to the prom—Astrid finds herself headed to Rome to train as a unicorn hunter at the ancient cloisters the hunters have used for centuries. …
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Many Waters
Square Fish, 1986
Fantasy Fiction
ISBN-10: 0312368577
224 pages
Synopsis
One minute they’re playing hockey in the middle of freezing winter, and the next the twins Sandy and Dennys Murry are thrust through their parents’ experimental time travel machine and end up in the hot desert during the time of Noah. …
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