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Water
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Peter Dickinson,Robin McKinley |
What magical beings inhabit earth’s waters? Some are as almost-familiar as the mer-people; some as strange as the thing glimpsed only as a golden eye in a pool at the edge of Damar’s Great Desert Kal… |
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Lord Berners
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Peter Dickinson |
"Lord Berners (1883-1950) was one of the most idiosyncratic and fascinating personalities in England during the 1920s and 30s. The interviews in this book come from some of the leading figures of tha… |
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The ropemaker
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Peter Dickinson |
Tilja has grown up in the peaceful Valley, which is protected from the fearsome Empire by an enchanted forest. But the forest’s power has begun to fade and the Valley is in danger. Tilja is the young… |
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The Lion Tamer's Daughter and Other Stories
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Peter Dickinson |
Each of these stories touches on the idea of a twin, ghostly double of a live person, or a secret self. |
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Heartsease
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Peter Dickinson |
At a future time in England when anyone knowledgeable about machines is severely punished as a witch, four children dare to aid in the escape of a "witch" left for dead. |
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Angel Isle
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Peter Dickinson |
While seeking the Ropemaker to restore the ancient magic that will protect their valley, Saranja, Maja, and Ribek must outwit twenty-four of the empire's most powerful and evil magicians. |
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Suth's story
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Peter Dickinson |
When cut off from their kin and lost in the desert 200,000 years ago, Suth and five other orphans struggle to survive and to find their way to safety. |
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The Kin
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Peter Dickinson |
It is two hundred thousand years ago. A small group of children are cut off from their Kin, the Moonhawks, when they are driven from their "Good Place" by violent strangers. While searching for a new… |
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Angel Isle
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Peter Dickinson |
While seeking the Ropemaker to restore the ancient magic that will protect their valley, Saranja, Maja, and Ribek must outwit twenty-four of the empire's most powerful and evil magicians. |
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Mana's story
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Peter Dickinson |
Mana and the other Kin, a band of people living in prehistoric times, search for food on the edge of a great marsh and fight a new enemy, the dangerous killers whom they name the demon men. |
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Po's story
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Peter Dickinson |
As a member of the Kin, a band of people living in prehistoric times, young Po wants to prove his bravery but finds that doing so requires overcoming great obstacles. |
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Shadow of a hero
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Peter Dickinson |
In 1989, Letta, an English teenager, learns of her heritage from her grandfather, great-grandson of the legendary hero of Varina, as he becomes involved in the nationalistic political struggles in Ea… |
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The tears of the salamander
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Peter Dickinson |
When Alfredo, a twelve-year-old choir boy in eighteenth-century Italy, loses his family in a fire, he goes to live with Uncle Giorgio, who he discovers is a sorcerer in control of the fires of Mt. Et… |
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A bone from a dry sea
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Peter Dickinson |
In two parallel stories, an intelligent female member of a prehistoric tribe becomes instrumental in advancing the lot of her people, and the daughter of a paleontologist is visiting him on a dig in … |
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Chuck and Danielle
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Peter Dickinson |
Danielle's pet whippet, Chuck, is terrified of absolutely everything, but Danielle is sure that Chuck is going to save the universe one day. |
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Some deaths before dying
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Peter Dickinson |
The New York Times Book Review calls multiple-award winner Peter Dickinson "a stylist of subtle brilliance". Always surprising and incisive, the author of The Yellow Room Conspiracy and dozens of oth… |
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A box of nothing
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Peter Dickinson |
After the man in the closed, empty shop gives James a box of nothing, he finds himself in the Dump, a bizarre world filled with strangely altered rubbish and large intelligent rats. |
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Tulku
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Peter Dickinson |
A thirteen-year-old boy escapes from slaughter by the Boxers in China and joins forces with an English botanist and her escort, traveling with them to Tibet where the power of Buddhist monks transfor… |
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The dancing bear
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Peter Dickinson |
In 558 A.D., a saint, a slave, and his bear flee Byzantium, rescue, a princess, and face the Hun Khan. |
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The tears of the salamander
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Peter Dickinson |
Mount Etna towers above the remote villa where Alfredo lives with his uncle after a fire wipes out his family. Deep within Etna swim the magical salamanders, and he must use his strange powers to pro… |
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