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A Journey to the New World
Remember Patience Whipple, called Mem, is a bit frightened at the thought of the New World her family is sailing to on the Mayflower. She hears tales ...

Dancing Through Fire
Sylie Bertrand is a young girl who is studying to be a ballerina at the Paris Opera Ballet School in 1870. Due to poverty, her mother had to leave the...

Dreams in the Golden Country
Zipporah Feldman is a young Jew who has immigrated to the United States. She faces culture clash, the difficulties of helping her parents make ends m...

Guardians of Gahoole: The Burning
Soren Alba is a young barn owl living on an island in the middle of the Sea of Hoolemere. There, on that fairly small piece of land, an enormous tree ...

Guardians of Gahoole: The Hatchling
Nyroc, son of the wicked Nyra, the mate of Kludd, is born on the night of a lunar eclipse. Kludd is dead now and the Tytonic Union of Pure Ones is red...

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Guardians of Gahoole: The Journey
Soren, Glyfie, Digger, and Twilight set their wings on the Great Gahoole Tree. They are determined to get there and find noble owls who will help the...



Guardians of Gahoole: The Outcast
Nyroc is an outcast. Owls fear him because he bears a striking resemblance of Nyra. He goes to the Forest of Ambala, where he meets the flying snakes ...

Guardians of Gahoole: The Rescue
Soren, Gylfie, Twilight, Digger, and Eglantine band together to find the venerable Ezylryb. In doing so, they find themselves learning more about the ...

Guardians of Gahoole: The Shattering
Soren's sister, Eglantine, has fallen under a strange spell. She has vivid dreams of seeing her mum in the Beaks, though this is not possible because ...

Guardians of Gahoole: The Siege
Soren, Glyfie, Digger, and Twilight continue their life at the Tree. Their extremely intelligent but snooty friend, Otulissa, has begun researching on...

Marie Antoinette: Princess of Versailles
The year is 1769; the place, Austria. The pressure is on thirteen-year-old Maria Antonia, youngest daughter of the Empress Maria Theresa, to excell so...

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The Capture
Soren, a Barn Owl (Tyto alba), is a young owlet who lives in a fir tree in the Tyto Forest with his mother, father, older brother (Kludd), and younger...

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