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Animal Fantasy Epic Fantasy

Breen, M.E. Barron, T.A. Darkwood The Lost Years of Merlin A clever and orphan A young boy who has no identity endures increasing danger or memory of his past washes while trying to escape from ashore on the coast of Wales and greedy, lawless men and finds his true name after a series elude the terrifying of fantastic adventures. "kinderstalks"--animals who steal -- before discovering her true . (Summary Le Guin, Ursula from Follett Destiny, October 2009) The Wizard of Earthsea Sorcerer’s apprentice Clement-Davies, David Sparrowhawk unwittingly Fire Bringer unleashes evil on the land. He This animal epic follows the grows to manhood while fawn Rannoch and his friends attempting to subdue the evil he through many years on the run unleashed on the world. (Summary from from their herd’s harsh NoveList online fiction guide, March 2003.) dictator. Although the animals think and speak, they otherwise have the Tolkien, J.R.R. characteristics of wild deer. Rannoch’s trials are monumental; his character is complex; and A three-part epic depicting the his enemies are truly vile. Set in Scotland Great War of the Ring, a during the thirteenth century, the novel refers struggle between good and evil to some historical events that deepen the in Middle Earth, in which story. Hobbits, elves, dwarves and wizards play key roles. The books are Jacques, Brian Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers and Redwall Return of the King. (Summary from NoveList When the peaceful life of online fiction guide, March 2003.) ancient Redwall Abbey is shattered by the arrival of the evil rat Cluny and his Fairy Tales, Folktale and villainous hordes, young Princesses mouse Matthias determines to find the legendary sword of Martin the Warrior Cabot, Meg which—he is convinced—will help Redwall’s inhabitants destroy the enemy. The Mia is a typical combat-boot- adventures continue in numerous books of wearing, animal-rights-loving, the series. (Summary from NoveList online algebra-failing New York teen fiction guide, March 2003.) until her absentee father reveals she’s the heir to the throne of a small European principality. Media exposure,

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Denotes new titles recently added to the list princess lessons from Grandmere and the ball is over. Feminist Ella, who managed attention from dreamy senior Josh follow. without any fairy godmother, finds palace protocol boring and trophy wifedom Ferris, Jean insulting—so she escapes and finds fulfillment Once Upon a Marigold doctoring suitably bathetic war refugees Christian ran away from alongside Jed, her nobleman interest. at six and has happily lived in the forest for eleven years. The Hale, Shannon girl next door happens to be a Book of a Thousand Days princess, and the two teens, kept apart by Fifteen-year-old Dashti, sworn circumstance, correspond by carrier pigeon to obey her sixteen-year-old ("p-mail"). The lighthearted tale maintains the mistress, the Lady Saren, shares right balance of humor and sentimentality as Saren's years of punishment the characters finally meet and discover their locked in a tower, then brings her safely to the love is real. Forbidden love, secret identities, lands of her true love, where both must hide and a happy ending--what more could you who they are as they work as kitchen maids. A ask? reimagined, little-known classic fairy tale from the Brothers Grimm, reset on the central Gaiman, Neil Asian steppes. (Summary from Hennepin Anansi County, Sept. 2008) Charlie's dad wasn't just any dad. He was Anansi, a trickster Hale, Shannon god, the spirit of rebellion able Enna Burning to overturn the social order, Enna hopes that her new create wealth out of thin air, and baffle the knowledge of how to wield fire devil. When he dies on a karaoke stage, things will help protect her good friend get very interesting for Charlie. (Summary Isi--the Princess Anidori--and all from Hennepin County Library at hclib.org, of Bayern against their enemies, but the need 2007) to burn is uncontrollable and puts Enna and her loved ones in grave danger. (Summary George, Jessica Day from Follett Destiny, November 2009). Princess of the Midnight Ball A retelling of the tale of twelve Hale, Shannon princesses who wear out their Goose Girl shoes dancing every night, and of On her way to marry a prince Galen, a former soldier now she's never met, Princess working in the king's gardens, who follows Anidori is betrayed by her them in hopes of breaking the curse. guards and her lady-in- (Summary from Follett Destiny, November waiting and must become a goose girl to 2009) survive until she can reveal her true identity and reclaim the crown that is rightfully hers. Haddix, Margaret Peterson (Summary from Hennepin County Library, Just Ella Sept. 2008) Combining modern sarcasm with stilted medievalism, Just Ella picks up the Cinderella tale after

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Hanley, Victoria Levine, Gail Carson Healers Keep Ella Enchanted When the Healer's Keep is Cursed at with the gift of attacked by dark forces, obedience by an irresponsible Princess Sara and the foreigner fairy, Ella is powerless to resist Dorjan join forces with the the commands of others. slave girl Maeve and freeman Expert characterization and Jasper to defend it. (Summary original ideas enliven this from Hennepin County Library, Oct. 2004) novelization of Cinderella. Built around the traditional elements of the fairy Hanley, Victoria tale and at times limited by those restraints, The Seer and the Sword the retelling boasts an admirable heroine who The fates of Princess Torina of discovers her inner strength by combating her Archeld and Landen, a former greatest weakness. prince of a conquered country who was brought to Archeld as a Levine, Gail Carson captive, are tightly entwined. When a The Two Princesses murderous despot seizes the throne, Torina of Bamarre and Landen flee the country separately and Courageous Princess Meryl each becomes a trusted adviser to the high contracts the disease that plagues king. Bamarre, and it is known that courage demonstrated by a Hoffman, Alice former coward could extinguish Foretelling the epidemic. Her timid sister Rain, the product of a rape and Addie arms herself with her sister’s sword and shunned by her distant queen sets out to find the cure. mother, struggles to find her identity and prove herself in a Levine, Gail Carson world where an Amazonian band The Wish of horsewomen warriors fight to defend their Wilma Sturtz endures most of territory and sovereignty. Rain is a gifted the eighth grade as warrior herself, but begins to question her “unpopular,” but a few weeks tribe's combative, man-hating traditions and before graduation she does a unlike the rest of her army, she does not find good deed and is granted her any pleasure in watching her enemies die. wish to be the most popular kid by a dream of a black horse, which is at school. Author Levine convincingly a symbol of deal, Rain fears that her captures Wilma’s adolescent distress between people will someday rise against her. After her wanting her friends to like her for her and mother dies giving birth to her second child, never wanting the spell to end. Rain is forced to determine the future of her community and her own. Marillier, Juliet Daughter of the Forest To reclaim the lives of her brothers, Sorcha leaves the only safe place she has known

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Denotes new titles recently added to the list and starts on a journey of pain, loss and Napoli, Donna Jo terror. Beast Elaborates on the tale of Beauty McKinley, Robin and the Beast told from the point Beauty of view of the beast and set in Kind Beauty grows to love Beast Persia. (Summary from NoveList at whose castle she is compelled online fiction guide, March 2003.) to stay and through her love releases him from the spell that Napoli, Donna Jo had turned him from a Zel handsome prince into an ugly beast. (Summary The girl in the tower, from NoveList online fiction guide, March 2003.) and the prince tell this re- visioning of Rapunzel in turns. McKinley, Robin This book transforms myth Rose Daughter without flippancy, honoring Nearly 20 years after the the power of its roots. publication of Beauty: A Retelling of the Story of Beauty Nielsen, Jennifer and the Beast, McKinley has— The False Prince quizzically—produced In the country of Carthya, a another full-length novel retelling the same devious nobleman engages four tale. orphans in a brutal competition to be selected to impersonate the Meyer, Carolyn king's long-missing son in an effort to avoid a Mary, Bloody Mary civil war. (Summary from Destiny Follett, An engaging account of the January, 2013). childhood of Mary Tudor, King Henry VIII’s oldest daughter, Pullman, Philip childhood and early adulthood. The Tin Princess Long before she ascends the High melodrama and throne, Mary is dismayed by the way Henry adventure greet Becky discards her mother after failing to produce a , companion to the male heir. new queen of Razkavia—a beautiful London commoner. Murdock, Catherine Gilbert Pullman’s invented kingdom, wanted by both Princess Ben Austria and Germany for its natural resources, A girl is transformed, through is the center of international conflict with instruction in life at court, plots and counterplots. determination, and , from sullen, pudgy, graceless Ben into Rhodes, Morgan Crown Princess Benevolence, a fit ruler of the Falling Kingdoms kindgom of Montagne as it faces war with Falling Kingdom Series: Book 1 neighboring Drachensbett. (Hennepin County, 2009) When the peace between the kingdoms of Mytica is threatened by power-hungry rulers, four people become

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Denotes new titles recently added to the list trapped in a web of fate that will decide the Landy, Derek course of their kingdoms' futures. (Summary Skulduggery Pleasant from Destiny Follett, September 2013). When twelve-year-old Stephanie inherits her weird Rhodes, Morgan uncle's estate, she must join Rebel Spring forces with Skulduggery Falling Kingdom Series: Book 2 Pleasant, a skeleton mage, to save the world When the evil King from the Faceless Ones. (Follett, 2009) Gaius announces that a road is to be built Shusterman, Neal into the Forbidden Mountains, formally Downsiders linking all of Mytica together, he sets off a Beneath the city of New York, chain of events that will forever change the an underground culture face of this land, forcing Cleo the dethroned thrives. Talon, a teenage princess, Magnus the reluctant heir, Lucia the Downsider, journeys to the haunted sorceress, and Jonas the desperate Topside seeking medicine for rebel to take steps they never could have his ill sister. There he meets Manhattan imagined. (Follett Destiny, October 2014). newcomer Lindsay, an event that causes the two worlds to collide. Smith, Linda The Broken Thread Wilson, N.D. Fifteen-year-old Alina travels to 100 Cupboards the Isle of Weaving, where After his parents are kidnapped, women work on a legendary timid twelve-year-old Henry tapestry that details the fate of York leaves his sheltered Boston the world, but a mishap with the tapestry life and moves to small-town causes Alina to be sent to distant Kazia, and Kansas, where he and his cousin Henrietta she becomes the caretaker of a child she discover and explore hidden doors in his attic knows will one day bring death to thousands. room that seem to open onto other worlds. Summary from Follett Destiny, November (Summary from Hennepin County, Sept. 2009). 2008)

Other Worlds Quests

Colfer, Eoin Alexander, Lloyd Artemis Fowl: The Arctic Incident The first volume of the author’s Holly Short and Artemis Fowl Prydain cycle that tells the find themselves uneasily on the valorous and humorous tales of same side as they deflect a palace Taran, the assistant pig-keeper, coup in the Lower Eleme nts. Up above, they who determines to save the try to rescue Artemis’ father from kidnappers. kingdom from evil. The following books are The Black Cauldron, , and .

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Alexander, Lloyd suffering. (Summary from Destiny Follett, November The Jedera Adventure 2009). The further adventures of Vesper Holly and her faithful Calhoun, Dia guardian Brinny as they travel to Aria of the Sea the remote country of Jedera When commoner Cerinthe where they brave many dangers gains admittance to the School trying to return a valuable book borrowed by of the Royal Dancers, she Vesper’s father many years ago. (Summary from thinks her dream has come NoveList online fiction guide, March 2003.) true. A rivalry with another dancer causes tension, which is amplified by Cerinthe’s Avi deep-rooted fear of using her gift for healing. Midnight Magic When Princess Teresina claims to Cashore, Kristin have seen the ghost of her Bitterblue murdered brother in the hallway Eighteen-year-old Bitterblue, of her medieval Italian castle, the queen of Monsea, realizes her royal family summons a retired to heavy responsibility and the solve the mystery. Fabrizio, the magician’s futility of relying on advisors servant boy, befriends the young princess and who surround her with lies as she tries to help eventually sees the ghost himself. her people to heal from the thirty-five-year spell cast by her father, a violent psychopath Beddor, Frank with mind-altering abilities. (Summary from The Looking Glass Wars Destiny Follett, January 2013) When she is cast out of Wonderland by her evil aunt Cashore, Kristin Redd, young Alyss Heart finds Fire herself living in Victorian In a kingdom called the Dells, Oxford as Alice Liddell and Fire is the last human-shaped struggles to keep memories of her kingdom monster, with unimaginable intact until she can return and claim her beauty and the ability to rightful throne. (Summary from Hennepin control the minds of those around her, but County Library, January 2008) even with these gifts she cannot escape the strife that overcomes her world. (Summary Bouman, H.M. from Destiny Follett, November 2010). The Remarkable and Very True Story of Lucy & Cashore, Kristin Snowcap Graceling In 1788, thirteen years after In a world where some people are English convicts born with extreme and often- are shipwrecked on the magical islands of feared skills called Graces, Katsa Tathenland, two twelve-year-old girls, one a struggles for from her native Colay, the other the child-governor of own horrifying Grace of killing and teams up the English, set out on a journey to stop the with another young fighter to save their land treachery from which both peoples are from a corrupt king. (Summary from Destiny Follett, November 2009)

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Crossley-Holland, Kevin the younger one, are sought by a detective The Seeing Stone hired by their aunt, but they have found Merlin tells the thirteen-year- shelter with -- and the protection of -- old narrator, “Once, there was Venice's "Thief Lord." a king with your name. . . And he will be.” The Seeing Stone Grove, S.E. that Merlin gives this new The Glass Arthur enables him to relive incidents leading Sentence to King Arthur’s drawing sword from stone. In 1891, in a world transformed by 1799's Great DiCamillo, Kate Disruption--when all of the The Magician’s Elephant continents were flung into different time When ten-year-old orphan Peter periods--thirteen-year-old Sophia Tims and Augustus Duchene encounters a her friend Theo go in search of Sophia's fortune teller in the marketplace uncle, Shadrack Elli, Boston's foremost one day who tells him that his cartologer, who has been kidnapped. sister, who is presumed dead, is in fact alive, (Summary from Follett Destiny, January he embarks on a remarkable series of 2015). adventures in an attempt to find her. (Summary from Follett Destiny, November Hartman, Rachel 2009). Serphina In a world where dragons and DuPrau, Jeanne humans coexist in an uneasy The City of Ember truce and dragons can assume In the year 241, twelve-year-old human form, Seraphina, whose Lina trades jobs on Assignment mother died giving birth to her, grapples with Day to be a Messenger to run to her own identity amid magical secrets and new places in her decaying but royal scandals, while she struggles to accept beloved city, perhaps even to glimpse and develop her extraordinary musical talents. Unknown Regions. (Summary from Hennepin (Summary from Follett Destiny, January Co. Library, December 2004.) 2013).

Fisher, Catherine Kittredge, Caitlin Incarceron The Iron Thorn To free herself from an In an alternate 1950s, upcoming arranged marriage, mechanically gifted fifteen-year- Claudia, the daughter of the old Aoife Grayson, whose family Warden of Incarceron, a has a history of going mad at futuristic prison with a mind of its own, sixteen, must leave the totalitarian city of decides to help a young prisoner escape. Lovecraft and venture into the world of magic (Summary from Follett Destiny, November to solve the mystery of her brother's 2010). disappearance and the mysteries surrounding her father and the Land of Thorn. (Summary Funke, Cornelia Caroline from Follett Destiny, October 2011). The Thief Lord Two brothers, having run away from the aunt who plans to adopt

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LaFevers, Robin Larson, Sara Grave Mercy Defy First Book: His Fair Assassin Seventeen-year-old After escaping from a loveless Alexa's parents were and brutal marriage, young Ismae killed by a sorcerer finds at a convent during a raid, so she has where the sisters still served the ancient gods. disguised herself as a boy, joined Antion's She discovers that in order to stay at the army, and earned a place on Prince Damian's convent she must become an assassin and guard--but Antion is ruled by an evil king, and serve the god of Death. Her first assignment "Alex" must find a way to defeat him and is in the high court of Brittany where she is to protect her prince. (Summary from Follett pose as mistress to Gavriel Duval, the target Destiny, January 2015). of Death's . But having fallen in love with Gavriel, she is unwilling to complete Levine, Gail Carson her mission. (Summary from Follett Destiny, Ever January 2013). Fourteen-year-old Kezi and Olus, Akkan god of the winds, La Fevers, Robin in love and together try to Dark Triumph change her fate--to be sacrificed Second Book: His Fair to a Hyte god because of a rash Assassin promise her father made--through a series of Sybella's duty as Death's assassin quests that might make her immortal. in fifteenth-century France forces (Summary from Hennepin County, Sept. her return home to the personal hell that she 2008) had finally escaped. Love and romance, history and magic, vengeance and salvation Maas, Sarah converge in this sequel to Grave Mercy. The Assassins Blade (Summary from Follett Destiny, October, In these five prequel 2013). novellas to "Throne of Glass," feared assassin LaFevers, Robin Celaena embarks on daring Mortal Heart missions that take her from remote islands to Third Book: His Fair Assassin hostile deserts, where she fights to liberate Annith's worst fears slaves and avenge tyranny. (Summary from are realized when she Follett Destiny, January 2015). discovers that, despite her lifelong training to be an assassin, she is Maas, Sarah being groomed by the abbess as a Seeress, to Throne of Glass be forever shut up in the convent of Saint After she has served a year of Mortain. (Summary from Follett Destiny, hard labor in the salt mines of January 2015). Endovier for her crimes, Crown Prince Dorian offers eighteen-year-old assassin Celaena Sardothien her freedom on the condition that she act as his in a competition to find a new

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Denotes new titles recently added to the list royal assassin. (Summary from Follett royal page, and learns many hard lessons Destiny, January 2013). along her path to high adventure.

Maas, Sarah Pullman, Philip Crown of Midnight The Golden Compass As the royal assassin In Lyra’s world, similar to our own to an evil king, but with some important eighteen-year-old differences, each human has a Celaena Sardothien must decide daemon—an animal familiar with whom one’s what she will fight for--survival, love, or the life and destiny are entwined. Lyra and her future of a kingdom. (Summary from Follett daemon, Pantalaimon, have a great destiny in Destiny, December 2014). this sweeping, suspenseful fantasy novel, the first in a trilogy. Maas, Sarah Heir of Fire Springer, Nancy Sequel to Crown of Midnight Outlaw Princess of Royal assassin Sherwood Forest, Rowan Celaena must travel Hood to a new land to After her mother’s death, confront a truth about her thirteen-year-old Rowan heritage, while brutal and monstrous forces ventures into the forest to search for the are gathering on the horizon, intent on father she has never met, who just happens to enslaving her world. (Summary from Follett be Robin Hood. Accompanied by a wolf-like Destiny, January 2015). dog, the girl learns to depend upon her own abilities and soon has her own band of loyal Meloy, Maile followers. The Apothecary Fourteen-year-old Janie Scott, Stephens, John newly arrived in London from The Emerald Atlas Los Angeles in 1952, becomes Kate, Michael, and Emma have friends with a passed from one orphanage to apothecary and his son, Benjamin another in the ten years since Burrows, and is drawn into a their parents disappeared to adventure with Benjamin when his father is protect them, but now they learn that they kidnapped and Russian spies try to steal his have special powers--and a fearsome enemy-- book of secrets. (Summary from Hennepin and embark on a prophesied quest to find a County Library, March 2012). magical book. (Summary from Follett Destiny, November 2011) Pierce, Tamora Alanna: The First Tolkien, J.R.R. Adventure The Hobbit Eleven-year-old Alanna, who Bilbo Baggins, a respectable, aspires to be a knight even well-to-do hobbit, lives though she is a girl, disguises comfortably in his hobbit- herself as a boy to become a hole until the day the wandering wizard Gandalf

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Denotes new titles recently added to the list chooses him to take part in an adventure from ancient curse by an evil Elfin Knight, she which he may never return. (Summary from realizes that she must perform three NoveList online fiction guide, March 2003.) impossible tasks before her daughter is born to break the curse and to save them both. Tomlinson, Theresa (Follett, 2009) The Forestwife A creative retelling of the Robin Whitley, David Hood story focuses on the life Midnight Charter and deeds of Marian, who In the city of Agora, where retreats to the forest to escape an everything can be bought and unwanted betrothal and finds sold, two children stumble upon fulfillment in helping the poor people of the the mysterious and dangerous woods. She learns the art of healing from her Midnight Charter and play their unique part in old nurse, Agnes and gradually falls in love their society's future as they learn who they with Agnes’ outlaw son. can trust. (Summary from Follett Destiny, November 2010). Tomlinson, Theresa Child of the May This sequel to The Forestwife is a Supernatural coming-of-age story about motherless Magda, who was Bray, Libba brought to the Forestwife’s Rebel Angels clearing as a baby. At fifteen, Magda longs to Gemma Doyle returns in the seek adventure. Her wish is fulfilled when a fast-paced sequel to A Great and crisis draws the band of outlaws to Terrible Beauty. Rather than Nottingham Castle and her father takes her focusing on the normal along. Christmas traditions, Gemma's time is spent on her father, and dealing with nightmares of Voight, Cynthia her dead friend, Pippa. On top of it all, she's Elske supposed to find a temple that will bind the In this last book in the magic that she let loose in the previous book Kingdom Series, which began and the only one who might know how to with Jackaroo, Elske has find it speaks in riddles. (Summary from escaped her fate as the Death Mackin.com, 2006) Maiden and joins a new community serving Beriel, the would-be Bray, Libba Queen of the Kingdom. The two women are A Sweet Far Thing foils for each other, which enhances both At Spence Academy, sixteen- portrayals. For the sophisticated reader, the year-old Gemma Doyle book will be a challenging and thoughtful continues preparing for her experience. London debut while struggling to determine how best to use magic to resolve Werlin, Nancy a power struggle in the enchanted world of Impossible the realms, and to protect her own world and When seventeen-year-old Lucy loved ones. (Summary from Hennepin discovers her family is under an County, Sept. 2008)

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Brewer, Heather homosexuality, a friend’s cancer and a The Chronicles of Vladimir Tod: Eight looming but unknowable menace, Charlie Grade Bites realizes how complicated honesty is. For thirteen years, Vlad, aided by his aunt and best friend, has kept Duncan, Lois secret that he is half-vampire, but The Third Eye when his missing teacher is High school senior Karen, who replaced by a sinister substitute, worries that her psychic powers he learns that there is more to being a will make her seem different vampire, and to his parents' deaths, than he from other people, is could have guessed. (Summary from frightened at first when a Hennepin County, Sept. 2008) young policeman asks her to use her gift to help the police locate missing children. Casanova, Mary Curse of a Winter Moon Gaiman, Neil In 16th-century France, ruled by The Graveyard Book a church that overtaxes The orphan Bod, short for and burns heretics, Marius must Nobody, is taken in by the postpone his apprenticeship to inhabitants of a graveyard as a care for his six-year-old brother, child of eighteen months and whose birth took their mother’s life and who raised lovingly and carefully to the age of the villagers, backed by the Church, believe eighteen years by the community of ghosts will become a loup garou—a werewolf. and otherworldly creatures. (Follett, 2009) (Summary from NoveList online fiction guide, March 2003.) Hahn, Mary Downing Wait Till Helen Comes Clare, Cassandra Molly and Michael dislike their Clockwork Angel spooky new stepsister Heather Sixteen-year-old Tessa Gray but realize they must try to save travels to England in search of her when she seems ready to her brother only to be follow a ghost child to her doom. (Summary abducted by the Dark Sisters, from NoveList online fiction guide, March 2003.) residents of London's Downworld, home to the city's supernatural folk, and she becomes the object of much attention--both good and Johnson, Maureen bad--when it is discovered she has the power The Name of the Star to transform at will into another person. Rory, of Boueuxlieu, Louisiana, is (Summary from Follett Destiny, April 2012). spending a year at a London boarding school when she Coville, Bruce witnesses a murder by a Jack the The Skull of Truth Ripper copycat and becomes involved with After stealing a skull from a the very unusual investigation. (Summary magic shop, habitual liar Charlie from Follett Destiny, 2012). discovers that it compels honesty of its owner. Working through issues such as his uncle’s

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Johnson, Maureen (Summary from Hennepin County, Sept. The Madness Underneath 2008) After her near-fatal run-in with the Jack the Ripper copycat, Rory Nickerson, Jane Devereaux is back in London to Strands of Bronze and Gold help solve a new string of After the death of her father in inexplicable deaths plaguing the city. 1855, seventeen-year-old Sophia (Summary from Follett Destiny, October goes to live with her wealthy and 2013). mysterious godfather at his gothic mansion, Wyndriven Abbey, in Klause, Annette Curtis Mississippi, where many secrets lie hidden. Blood and Chocolate (Summary from Follett Destiny, October When half of Vivian’s werewolf 2013). pack is destroyed in a fire following the forbidden killing Nix, Garth of a human, the remaining loups-garoux are Sabriel forced to move to a new town, where the Sabriel is the daughter of a sixteen-year-old longs for companions her necromancer whose duty it is own age. to protect the Old Kingdom: unlike other mages, he has the Klause, Annette Curtis power to bind the dead as well Freaks: Alive, On the Inside as bring the dead back to life. The story is After leaving home in search of remarkable for the level of originality of the adventure, romance, and riches, fantastic elements and for the subtle seventeen-year-old Abel, the presentation, which leaves readers to explore "normal" son of freak show for themselves the complex structure and entertainers, is haunted by a significance of the magical elements. mysterious spirit. (Summary from Hennepin County Library at hclib.org, 2007) Nix, Garth Lirael, Daughter of the Clayr Klause, Annette Curtis In this sequel to Sabriel, Nix’s The Silver Kiss imaginative magical descriptions, A novel of a young girl plot intrigues and adventure struggling to accept the sequences are outstanding, but the impending death of her mother magnificent build-up is cause for frustration. is curiously interwoven with her The expected climax is put off until the next entanglement with a vampire. book, Abhorsen.

Leavitt, Martine Pierce, Tamora Keturah and Lord Death Wild Magic When Lord Death comes to Homeless, outcast Daine has a claim sixteen-year-old Keturah knack with animals. They hear her, while she is lost in the King's obey her, even talk to her. Her Forest, she charms him with talents, recognized as “wild magic,” her story and is granted a twenty-four hour grow even stronger under the tutelage of the reprieve in which to seek her one true love. mage Numair. Only Daine can sense the

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Denotes new titles recently added to the list presence of the evil immortal creatures under years in the future. (Summary from Follett control of the country’s enemies. In a burst of Destiny, March 2012). glory, she saves the kingdom from invasion. Babbitt, Natalie Shannon, Samantha Tuck Everlasting The Bone Season A family accidentally stumbles In the mid-21st century major upon a spring with water world cities are controlled by a endowing them with the gift of formidable security force and eternal life. Seventy years later, clairvoyant underworld cell without having grown a day older, a young girl member Paige commits acts discovers them and learns their secret. of psychic treason before being captured by an otherworldly race that would make her a Brashares, Ann part of their supernatural army. (Summary The Here and Now from Follett Destiny, November 2013). Seventeen-year-old Prenna, an immigrant who Taylor, Laini moved to New York when she Lips Touch: Three Times was twelve, came from another Contains three short stores of time and she and the other travelers must supernatural love, each focusing follow strict rules to avoid destroying the new on a kiss that has consequences life they have worked so hard to get, as well as for the kissers' souls. (Summary the one person Prenna is desperate to protect. from Follett Destiny, November 2011). (Summary from Follett Destiny, January 2015). Winters, Cat In The Shadow of Blackbirds Citra, Becky In San Diego in 1918, as deadly Never To Be Told influenza and World War I take Asia has Lived with elderly their toll, sixteen-year-old Mary Ira and his wife Maddy on Shelley Black watches desperate their farm for as long as she mourners flock to séances and spirit can remember. When Ira has photographers for comfort and, despite her a heart attack Asia's world is turned upside scientific leanings, must consider if ghosts are down. Faced with the possibility of losing the real when her first love, killed in battle, only family she has ever known, Asia is returns. (Follett Destiny, October 2014). frightened but fascinated by the appearance of a ghost that only she can see and hear. (Summary from Hennepin County Library @ Time and Dimension Travel hclib.org, 2007) Asher, Jay & Mackler, Cooney, Caroline B. Carolyn Goddess of Yesterday The Future of Us A hostage in ancient Greece, Emma gets her first computer Anaxandra relies on her “goddess and an America Online CD- of yesterday” as she impersonates ROM in 1996, and when her best her foster sister, Princess Callisto, in the court friend Josh visits and they log on, they of Menelaus and Helen. When Helen flees discover themselves on Facebook fifteen

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Denotes new titles recently added to the list with to , Anaxandra is enslaved but pulled--into the excavated grave. He emerges saves Menelaus’ son. from the darkness to find he has traveled through time from 1974 Liverpool to 1847 Fleischman, Paul Ireland. Tom's colorful first-person narrative Dateline: Troy describes the era of the great potato famine The tragic tale of the Trojan with honesty; his time travel experiences also War is retold in this adroit, provide some clues to his family background. concise adaptation that reveals truths, particularly about Hobbs, Will human nature, as the author Kokopelli’s Flute juxtaposes twentieth-century news items with Part fantasy, part reality, this events of the Trojan War. As the ancient story novel is set against the ruins of unfolds, present-day events are revealed on a the Anasazi cliff dwellings. Tep facing page of each spread through finds an ancient flute that causes reproductions of actual clippings, arranged him to magically turn into a packrat each within handsome collages in black, white and night. Added to the plot are a scare about a sepia tones. deadly virus that Tep’s mother may have contracted, and a stranger who has mystical Flinn, Alex powers. Kiss in Time Sixteen-year-old Princess Talia Hosie, Donna persuades Jack, the modern-day The Devils’ Intern American who kissed her Seventeen-year-old after a three-hundred-year sleep, Mitchell discovers a to take her to his Miami home, where she time-travel device that will allow hopes to win his love before the witch who him to escape his internship in cursed her can spirit her away. (Summary Hell's accounting office and return to Earth, from Follett Destiny, November 2010). but his plans to alter the circumstances of his own death take an unexpected turn when his Hautman, Pete three closest friends in Hell insist on Mr. Was accompanying him back to the land of the In this convoluted time-slip living. (Summary from Follett Destiny, fantasy, Jack Lund escapes from January, 2015). a scene of family violence through a door to the past, in MacCullough, Carolyn the hope that he will be able to Once a Witch return to the scene in time to prevent his Born into a family of witches, mother’s murder. However, during the fifty- seventeen-year-old Tamsin is five years he must wait, Jack faces further raised believing that she alone tragedies, including the loss of his memory. lacks a magical "Talent," but when Heneghan, James her beautiful and powerful sister is taken by The Grave an age-old rival of the family in an attempt to After construction workers change the balance of power, Tamsin discover a mass grave in his discovers her true destiny. (Summary from schoolyard, thirteen-year-old Follett Destiny, November 2009). foster child Tom falls--or is

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Mlynowski, Sarah make sense of a series of mysterious notes Gimme a Call received from an anonymous source that After accidentally dropping her seems to defy the laws of time and space. cell phone into a fountain at the (Summary from Follett Destiny, November mall, fourteen-year-old Devi 2009). Banks starts to get phone calls-- and an earful of advice on how to live her life Ward, David to avoid making disastrous choices--from her Archipelago seventeen-year-old self. (Summary from Twelve-year-old Jonah and his mother Follett Destiny, November 2010). are exploring the natural beauty of the Queen Islands. One day, a mysterious girl Nolan, Han appears wading in the waters near their float If I Should Die Before I Wake house, and an even more mysterious mist As neo-Nazi Hilary lies in a saves Jonah from his own plunge off a cliff coma in the hospital, she top, Jonah is plunged into a time travel becomes Chana living in Poland adventure that takes him back 14,000 years. during World War II. More vivid (Summary from david ward.ca/news.htm. Oct to her than her real existence, her life as 2009) Chana includes deportation to Auschwitz and survival told in graphic terms. Williams, Maiya The Golden Hour Reiss, Kathryn Thirteen-year-old Rowan and Dreadful Sorry his eleven-year-old sister Nina, Seventeen-year-old Molly is still bereft by the death of their plagued by nightmares and mother the year before, visions of a girl who died over experience an unusual eighty years ago. (Summary from adventure through time when they come to NoveList online fiction guide, March 2003.) stay with their two eccentric great-aunts in a small town on the Maine coast. (Summary from Spinner, Stephanie Hennepin Co. Library, April 2005) Quiver When her father commands that Yolen, Jane she produce an heir, the huntress The Devil’s Arithmetic Atalanta gives her suitors a resents the traditions of seemingly impossible task in order to uphold her Jewish heritage until time her pledge of chastity, as the gods of ancient travel places her in the middle of Greece look on. (Summary from NoveList fiction a small Jewish village in Nazi- guide, March 2003) occupied Poland. Stead, Rebecca Toy and Object Fantasy When You Reach Me As her mother prepares to be a contestant on the 1980s Card, Orson Scott Ender’s Shadow television game show, "The Follows the life of Ender $20,000 Pyramid," a twelve-year- Wiggin’s comrade Bean—his old girl tries to escape from the mean streets of

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Rotterdam to his student days at the Battle existence is threatened when a new landlord School to his role as Ender’s right-hand ally, writes a letter stating he intends to visit. strategist and friend in the epic struggle to save Earth from alien invaders. Urban Fantasy Coville, Bruce Armstrong, Kelley Into the Land of Unicorns Following her grandmother’s Gathering Sixteen-year-old Maya suspects instructions, uses a magic there may be a link between her amulet to enter the world of paw-print birthmark, her Luster, where the unicorns live. connection with wild animals, While dodging a unicorn hunter and other and the strange events occurring in her tiny enemies, Cara befriends several sentient Vancouver Island community, where a creatures and confronts a family secret. medical research facility harbors big secrets. (Summary from Follett Destiny, October Martin, Ann M. The Doll People 2011). Bothered that she hasn’t seen her Aunt Sarah for 45 years, Black, Holly White Cat Annabelle Doll embarks on a When Cassel Sharpe discovers search that takes her out of her that his older brothers have protective dollhouse. She braves dangerous used him to carry out their territory beyond the nursery to discover not criminal schemes and then only the answers to family secrets but also a stolen his memories, he figures out a way to whole new family of dolls. turn their evil machinations against them. (Summary from Follett Destiny, November Martin, Ann M. 2010). The Meanest Doll in the World Annabelle and Tiffany, Black, Jenna Glimmerglass dolls who are best friends Dana Hathaway runs away from living in the Palmer house, her alcoholic mother in order to have an adventure when they hide in Kate find her father in Avalon; but the Palmer's backpack, are carried to school, moment she steps into that world mistakenly go to another house, and try to she discovers she is a Faeriewalker, someone stop Princess , a doll who threatens all who can travel between both worlds. doll kind. (Summary from Follett Destiny, November 2010). Waugh, Sylvia The Mennyms series The Mennyms are a family of Blake, Kendra Anna Dressed in Blood dolls, made by an elderly woman Cas Lowood, armed with his late before her death and imbued father's mysterious athame, set with the ability to think and out to kill a ghost known as speak. For many years they have lived Anna Dressed in Blood, but undisturbed in their London house, but what he believes will be a routine task turns

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Denotes new titles recently added to the list deadly when he discovers Anna is unlike any year-old Clary Fray is drawn into this bizarre ghost he has ever encountered before. world when her mother disappears and Clary (Summary from Follett Destiny, March 2012). herself is almost killed by a monster. (Summary from Follett Destiny, January Brennan, Sarah Rees 2013). Unspoken The twin Lynburn sisters, whose Clare, Casssandra family has owned the sinister Clockwork Prince manor that overlooks Sorry-in- Infernal Devices, Book 2 the-Vale for centuries have As the Council attempts to returned with their sons, one of which looks strip Charlotte of her power, remarkably like the imaginary boy in Kami's sixteen-year-old orphaned head, who she is in love with, but with the shapechanger Tessa Gray works with the twins return, strange things begin to happen London Shadowhunters to find the Magister in Kami's small town. (Summary from and destroy his clockwork army, learning the Follett Destiny, October 2013). secret of her own identity while investigating his past. (Summary from Follett Destiny, Brennan, Sarah Rees January 2013). Untold As Kami Glass and Clement-Moore, Rosemary her friends continue Prom Date From Hell to battle the sorcerers High school senior and yearbook of the Lynburn family in the photographer Maggie thought she sleepy English town of Sorry-in-the-Vale, would rather die than go to prom, friendships and families are torn apart. but when a classmate summons a (Summary from Follett Destiny, January revenge-seeking demon, she has no choice but 2015). to buy herself a dress and prepare to face jocks, cheerleaders, and Evil Incarnate. Cast, P.C. (Summary from Follett Destiny, Oct 2009) Marked House of Night, Book 1 DiCamillo, Kate After being accepted as a Flora & Ulysses fledgling vampire at the House of A girl Night prep school and receiving named Flora and a special powers by a goddess, sixteen-year-old squirrel named Ulysses, whose Zoey Montgomery discovers one of her peers life was saved by Flora after he is misusing her powers and must decide what was involved in an incident with a vacuum he right thing to do is. (Summary from cleaner, team up to use Ulysses' superpowers www.titlewave.com, November 2009). to conquer villains and protect the weak. (Follett Destiny, October 2014). Clare, Cassandra City of Bones Fitzpatrick, Becca Suddenly able to see demons and Crescendo the Darkhunters who are Nora, concerned that she seems dedicated to returning them to to be in danger more than the their own dimension, fifteen- average high school student, and

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Denotes new titles recently added to the list having decided she relies too much on her Hawkins, Rachel guardian angel, Patch, sets out to investigate Rebel Belle what really happened the night her father left Seventeen-year-old for Portland, Maine, and never came back. Harper Price's (Summary from Follett Destiny, October charmed life is turned upside 2011). down when she discovers she's been given magical powers in order to protect Fitzpatrick, Becca her school David Stark, who's an Hush, Hush Oracle. (Summary from Follett Destiny, High school sophomore Nora January 2015). has always been very cautious in her relationships, but when Kate, Lauren Patch, who has a dark side she Fallen can sense, enrolls at her school, she is Fallen Series: Book 1 mysteriously and strongly drawn to him, Suspected in the death of her despite warnings from her best friend, the boyfriend, seventeen-year-old school counselor, and her own instincts. Luce is sent to a Savannah, (Summary from Follett Destiny, October Georgia, reform school where she meets two 2011). intriguing boys and learns the truth about the strange shadows that have always haunted her. Garcia, Kami (Summary from Follett Destiny, October Unbreakable 2011). Seventeen-year-old Kennedy Waters Kate, Lauren discovers she is a Torment member of an ancient secret Fallen Series: Book 2 society formed to protect the When Daniel, Luce's fallen angel world from a powerful demon determined to boyfriend, tells her that he must find a way out of his dimension and into ours. depart in order to hunt the She joins the Legion on a mission to find a Outcasts--immortals who wish him dead, he weapon that can defeat the demon. (Summary hides Luce at a school for the gifted on the from Follett Destiny, January 2015). California coast, where she learns that Daniel may be hiding dangerous secrets about his Harris, Lewis past. (Summary from Follett Destiny, A Taste For Red November 2011). When some of her classmates disappear, sixth-grader Svetlana, Larbalestier, Justine along with her new friends go in Liar search of the missing students Compulsive liar Micah promises using her newfound ability as an Olfactive, to tell the truth after revealing one who has heightened smell, hearing, and that her boyfriend has been the ability to detect vampires. (Summary from murdered. (Summary from Follett Follett Destiny, November 2009). Destiny, November 2010).

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Maizel, Rebecca the wind. (Summary from Follett Destiny, Infinite Days January 2015). Lenah Beaudonte, a vampire whose humanity has been Messenger, Shannon restored thanks to the sacrifice Let the Storm Break of her lover, Rhode, did not Book Two in the believe she would ever be sixteen or fall in Sky Fall Series love again, but she is having those experiences While teenaged Vane until her past comes back to haunt her. discovers more of what it means (Summary from Follett Destiny, November to be a windwalker and his guardian sylph 2010). Audra struggles with her deepest desires, both must band together to face greater challenges Marr, Melissa than they have ever known. (Summary from Ink Exchange Follett Destiny, January 2015). Seventeen-year-old Leslie wants a tattoo as a way of reclaiming Meyer, Stephanie control of herself and her body, Twilight but the eerie she selects When seventeen-year-old Bella pulls her into the dangerous Dark Court of leaves Phoenix to live with her the faeries, where she draws on inner strength father in Forks, Washington, she to make a horrible choice. Companion to meets an exquisitely handsome Wicked Lovely. (Follett, 2009) boy at school for whom she feels an overwhelming and who she comes Marr, Melissa to realize is not wholly human. (Summary from Wicked Lovely Mackin.com, 2006) Seventeen-year-old Aislinn, who has the rare ability to see faeries, is Meyer, Stephanie drawn against her will into a New Moon centuries-old battle between the When the Cullens, including her Summer King and the Winter Queen, and the beloved Edward, leave Forks survival of her life, her love, and summer all rather than risk revealing that hang in the balance. (Summary from they are vampires, it is almost too www.hclib.org, 2007) much for eighteen-year-old Bella to bear, but she finds solace in her friend Jacob until he is Messenger, Shannon drawn into a "cult" and changes in terrible Let the Sky Fall ways. (Summary from www.hclib.org, 2007) Book One in the Sky Fall Series Meyer, Stephanie Ten years after surviving the tornado that killed his Bella must choose between her parents, Vane Weston, now friendship with Jacob and her seventeen, has no memory of relationship with Edward, but that fateful day but dreams of a beautiful girl when Seattle is ravaged by a who, he now learns, is not only real, she is his mysterious string of killings, the three of them guardian sylph, who harnesses the power of need to decide whether their personal lives are more important than the well-being of an

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Denotes new titles recently added to the list entire city. (Summary from Hennepin County all, the mysterious Gray Man is stalking the Library, 2007) Lynch family, looking for something called the Greywaren. (Follett Destiny, October Meyer, Stephanie 2014). Breaking Dawn In the fourth and final book in Stiefvater, Maggie the Twilight Saga, questions will The Raven Boys be answered and the fate of Book 1 of The Raven Cycle Bella and Edward will be Though she is from a family of revealed. (Summary from clairvoyants, Blue Sargent's only Hennepin County, Sept. 2008) gift seems to be that she makes other people's talents stronger, and when she Noël, Alyson meets Gansey, one of the Raven Boys from Evermore the expensive Aglionby Academy, she Immortal Series: Book 1 discovers that he has talents of his own--and Since the car accident that that together their talents are a dangerous mix. claimed the lives of her family, . (Summary from Follett Destiny, September sixteen-year-old Ever can see 2013). auras and hear people's thoughts, and she goes out of her way to hide Stiefvater, Maggie from other people until she meets Damen, Shiver another psychic teenager who is hiding even In all the years she has watched more mysteries. (Summary from Follett the wolves in the woods behind Destiny, November 2010). her house, Grace has been particularly drawn to an unusual Smith, Cynthia Leitich yellow-eyed wolf who, in his turn, has been Tantalize watching her with increasing intensity. When multiple murders in (Summary from Follett Destiny, November Austin, Texas, threaten the grand 2009). re-opening of her family's vampire-themed restaurant, Tucholke, April Genevieve seventeen-year-old, orphaned Quincie worries Between the Devil and the that her best friend-turned-love interest, Deep Blue Sea Keiren, a werewolf-in-training, may be the Violet is in love with prime suspect. (Summary from Follett River, a mysterious Destiny, October 2009) seventeen-year-old stranger renting the guest house behind the Stiefvater, Maggie rotting seaside mansion where Violet lives, The Dream Thieves but when eerie, grim events begin to happen, Book 2 of The Raven Cycle Violet recalls her grandmother's frequent Now that the ley lines warnings about the devil and wonders if River around Cabeswater is evil. (Follett Destiny, October 2014). are awake, magic is swirling around Blue and The Raven boys and Ronan Lynch's ability to pull objects from his dreams is almost out of control but worst of

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Tucholke, April Genevieve live like a normal teenager, and when his Between the Spark and the crush Tate's sister disappears, Mackie sets out Burn to find her and gets a chance to find his Sequel to Between the Devil rightful place in the world. (Summary from and the Deep Blue Sea Follett Destiny, September 2011). Seventeen-year-old Violet is looking for the boy she fell in love with last Witches and Wizards summer, the charismatic liar River West Redding, but as she scours the country Duncan. Lois for him, she begins to wonder who she's really Gallows Hill chasing--and who she really loves. (Summary New student Sarah is coerced from Follett Destiny, January, 2015). into giving psychic readings for her classmates but draws ire Waters, Daniel when her predictions come Break My Heart 1000 Times true and reveal the hypocrisy of Pine Crest’s In the aftermath of the Event, best families. Accused of being a witch, Sarah which made seeing the dead a realizes she and her classmates are reliving part of life, Veronica and her past lives as players in the Salem witch trials. friend Kirk investigate why the ghosts seem to be gaining power and stumble Jordan, Sherryl upon the sinister plot of a teacher who is The Raging Quiet seeking a replacement for his dead daughter. Widowed after only two days, (Summary from Follett Destiny, November sixteen-year-old Marnie is 2013). distrusted by the local villagers. When she befriends a deaf boy Young, Suzanne and invents a signed language, the villagers, A Need so Beautiful encouraged by Marnie’s hateful brother-in- A compelling Need that law, accuse her of witchcraft and demand a Charlotte has felt all her life is trial. growing stronger, forcing her to connect with people in McKenzie, Riford crisis, but at the same time other changes are The Witches of Dredmore taking place and she is terrified by what Hollow Monroe, a doctor and family friend, says must Strange things begin happening at happen next. (Summary from Follett Destiny, Elijah's New England home just Mar 2012). before his twelfth birthday in 1927, especially after two aunts he had never Yovanoff, Brenna met whisk him away to Moaning Marsh, The Replacement where he realizes that they are witches who Sixteen-year-old Mackie Doyle, a need something from him in order to remove being from another world who a curse. (Summary from Follett Destiny, Oct was swapped with a human child 2009) when he was a baby, struggles with his allergies to iron, blood, and consecrated ground and wants desperately to

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Rees, Celia Witch Child Thesman, Jean Mary, a young witch, fears for The Other Ones her own life after her When a bully torments the new grandmother and mentor is girl at school and a neighbor hanged. Luckily, she is rescued and whisked abandons his son, Bridget’s away to America disguised as a Puritan—all parents tell her not to get involved in other under the protective, often invisible gaze of people’s problems. Besides, Bridget has other witches. In the expertly written, potent problems of her own; she’s a witch who’s novel, persecution catches up with Mary in reluctant to use her powers for fear of being the New World. an outcast. With the help of a cranky fairy, however, she learns to accept her true self. Rowling, J.K. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone Vande Velde, Vivian The first book in the Harry Potter Stolen series. On orphaned Harry A girl finds herself running Potter’s eleventh birthday, mysterious through the forest at the edge of missives begin arriving for him. Harry learns a village with no memory of that his parents died saving him from an evil anything, even her own name, sorcerer and that he himself is destined to be and later learns that she might be twelve-year- a wizard of great power. old Isabelle, believed to be stolen by a witch six years before. (Summary from Rowling, J.K. www.hclib.org, October 2009) Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows It all comes down to this - a final face-off between good and evil. You plan to pull out all the stops, but every time you solve one mystery, three more evolve. Do you stay the course you started, despite your lack of progress? Do you detour and follow a new lead that may not help? Do you listen to your instincts, or your friends? Lord Voldemort is preparing for battle and so must Harry. With Ron and Hermione at his side, he's trying to hunt down Voldemort's Horcruxes, escape danger at every turn, and find a way to defeat evil once and for all. How does it all end? (Summary from Hennepin County Library, 2008)

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