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  Pobby and Dingan (Vintage)

  by Ben Rice

  This enchanting tale is at once a beautifully rendered narrative of childhood loss and a powerfully simple fable about the necessity of imagination. Pobby and Dingan are Kellyanne Williamson’s best friends, maybe her only friends, and only she can see them. Kellyanne’s brother, Ashmol, can’t see them and doesn’t believe they exist anywhere but in Kellyanne’s immature imagination. Only when Pobby and Dingan... (more)
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  Because of Winn-Dixie

  by Kate DiCamillo

  Recalling the fiction of Harper Lee and Carson McCullers,this is a funny, poignant, and utterly genuine first novel from a major new talent. The summer Opal and her father, the preacher, move to Naomi, Florida, Opal goes into the Winn-Dixie supermarket--and comes out with a dog. A big, ugly, suffering dog with a sterling sense of humor. A dog she names Winn-Dixie after the supermarket she finds it in.
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  Glass Series: Book 1

  Storm Glass

  by Maria V. Snyder

  Note that this series (Glass Series) is a sequel series to Maria V. Snyder's Study Series.As a glassmaker and a magician-in-training, Opal Cowen understands trial by fire. Now it's time to test her mettle. Someone has sabotaged the Stormdancer clan's glass orbs, killing their most powerful magicians. The Stormdancers—particularly the mysterious and mercurial Kade—require Opal's unique talents to prevent... (more)
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  Evidence of Things Unseen

  by Marianne Wiggins

  This poetic novel, by the acclaimed author of John Dollar, describes America at the brink of the Atomic Age. In the years between the two world wars, the future held more promise than peril, but there was evidence of things unseen that would transfigure our unquestioned trust in a safe future. Fos has returned to Tennessee from the trenches of France. Intrigued with electricity, bioluminescence, and especially... (more)
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  Artemis Fowl: Book 4

  The Opal Deception

  by Eoin Colfer

  Evil pixie, Opal Koboi is back and she's more dangerous than ever. This time she doesn't just want power over the fairy People, this time she wants the lot. Everyone is under threat - humans and fairies alike. Captain Holly Short is the only fairy with a hope of stopping her, but as Holly knows, it takes one genius criminal mastermind to fight another. And the 14-year-old genius Holly is thinking of can't even... (more)
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  Study Series: Book 2

  Magic Study

  by Maria V. Snyder

  Yelena is a survivor. Kidnapped as a child, held prisoner as a teen, then released to act as a poison taster, she is now a student of magic. But these magic skills place her in imminent danger, and with an execution order on her head, she has no choice but to escape to Sitia, the land of her birth. But nothing in Sitia is familiar. Not the family to whom she is a stranger. Not the... (more)
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  How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild, and Got a Life

  by Kaavya Vishwanathan

  In this outrageously funny debut novel, an overachieving teenage girl discovers that, in order to get into the college of her dreams, she needs to have more fun. A movie is currently in development with Dreamworks.
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  Artemis Fowl: Book 2

  The Arctic Incident

  by Eoin Colfer

  Artemis is at boarding school in Ireland when he suddenly receives an urgent video e-mail from Russia. In it is a plea from his father, who has been kidnapped by the Russian Mafia. As Artemis rushes to his rescue, he is stopped by Captain Holly Short of the Leprecon fairy police. But this time, instead of battling the fairies, he is going to have to join forces with them if he wants to save one of the few people... (more)
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  Christy

  by Catherine Marshall

  In the year 1912, nineteen-year-old Christy Huddleston leaves home to teach school in the Smoky Mountains -- and comes to know and love the resilient people of the region, with their fierce pride, their dark superstitions, their terrible poverty, and their yearning for beauty and truth. But her faith will be severely challenged by trial and tragedy, by the needs and unique strengths of two remarkable young men,... (more)
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  Semiprecious

  by D. Anne Love

  It's the middle of summer in Mirabeau, Texas, but already Garnet Hubbard looks forward to fall -- to entering seventh grade and becoming a teenager at last. With Opal, her beautiful and popular fourteen-year-old sister, as her guide, Garnet is sure to have a great year. But everything changes when their mother, Melanie, packs them up and heads for Nashville, determined to fulfill her lifelong dream of becoming a... (more)
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  Hunters Out Of Space

  by Joseph Everidge Kelleam

  Jack Odin and Gunnar enter deep space to hunt down Grim Hagen who have killed millions of Opal's people, stole their treasures, as well as Maya, their beloved princess. Their aim - to find Grim Hagen and make him pay, and to get back Maya and the treasures. But they do not know about the traitor in their midst...
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  Artemis Fowl: Book 6

  The Time Paradox

  by Eoin Colfer

  After disappearing for three years, Artemis Fowl II has returned to a life different from the one he had. Now he's a big brother, and spends his days teaching his twin siblings the important things in life, such as how to properly summon a waiter at a French restaurant.But when Artemis's mother contracts a life-threatening illness, his world is turned upside down. The only hope for a cure lies in the... (more)
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  The One and Only (Toot & Puddle)

  by Holly Hobbie

  Bubbles is a copycat, yet she soon becomes the teacher's pet and the most popular student in class--and Opal's friend Daphne can't stand it! How does Bubbles always win? But when it's time for the class's annual theatrical extravaganza, Opal and Daphne discover one thing Bubbles can't do: dance. Bubbles is bound to be the weak link in the chorus line, unless someone decides to help her. In this,... (more)
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  Glass Series: Book 3

  Spy Glass

  by Maria V. Snyder

  An undercover mission leads to danger, adventure and an impossible choice. After siphoning her own blood magic in the showdown at Hubal, Opal Cowan has lost her powers. She can no longer create glass magic. More, she's immune to the effects of magic. Opal is now an outsider looking in, spying through the glass on those with the powers she once had, powers that make a difference in the world. Until spying through... (more)
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  Warped

  by Maurissa Guibord

  Tessa doesn't believe in magic. Or Fate. But there's something weird about the dusty unicorn tapestry she discovers in a box of old books. She finds the creature woven within it compelling and frightening. After the tapestry comes into her possession, Tessa experiences dreams of the past and scenes from a brutal hunt that she herself participated in. When she accidentally pulls a thread from the tapestry, Tessa... (more)
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  Lux (Armentrout): Book 3

  Opal

  by Jennifer L. Armentrout

  No one is like Daemon Black. When he set out to prove his feelings for me, he wasn’t fooling around. Doubting him isn’t something I’ll do again, and now that we’ve made it through the rough patches, well... There’s a lot of spontaneous combustion going on. But even he can’t protect his family from the danger of trying to free those they love. After everything, I’m no longer the same Katy. I’m... (more)