The Nine Lives of Alexander Baddenfield

Louisiana's Way Home

Boy Giant

The Island

Then

The Mostly True Story of Jack

Never After: The Thirteenth Fairy: The Chronicles of Never After

The Language of Spells

A magical medieval tale from two masters, Newbery Medal-winning Kate DiCamillo and Caldecott Medal-winning Sophie Blackall – a fantastical meditation on fate, love and the power of words to spell the world.

We shall all, in the end, be led to where we belong. We shall all, in the end, find our way home.

In a time of war, a mysterious child appears at the monastery of the Order of the Chronicles of Sorrowing. Gentle Brother Edik finds the girl, Beatryce, curled in a stall, wracked with fever, coated in dirt and blood and holding fast to the ear of Answelica the recalcitrant goat. As the monk nurses Beatryce to health, he uncovers her dangerous secret – one that imperils them all.

And so it is that a girl with a head full of stories must venture into a dark wood in search of the castle of a king who wishes her dead. But should she lose her way, Beatryce knows that those who love her – a wild-eyed monk, a man who had once been king, a boy with a terrible sword and a goat with a head as hard as stone – will never give up searching for her. And to know this is to know everything.

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The Nine Lives of Alexander Baddenfield

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Louisiana's Way Home

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Boy Giant

Michael Morpurgo, 2019

The Island

John R Bigonette, 2005

Then

Morris Gleitzman, 2008

The Mostly True Story of Jack

Kelly Barnhill, 2011

Never After: The Thirteenth Fairy: The Chronicles of Never After

Melissa De La Cruz, 2020

The Language of Spells

Garret Weyr, Katie Harnett, Garret Weyr, also Freymann-Weyr, 2018