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Almond, David THE SEA OF TROLLS THE VIEW FROM SATURDAY SKELLIG After Jack becomes apprenticed to a Druid bard, Four students develop a special bond and attract Unhappy about his baby sister's illness and the he and his sister Lucy are captured by Viking the attention of their teacher, a paraplegic, who chaos of moving into a dilapidated old house, Berserkers and taken to the home of King Ivar chooses them to represent their sixth-grade class Michael retreats to the garage and finds a the Boneless and his half-troll queen, leading in the Academic Bowl competition Jack to undertake a quest to Jotunheim, home of mysterious stranger who is something like a bird and something like an angel. the trolls. Lord, Cynthia Fox, Paula Avi RULES CRISPIN: THE CROSS OF LEAD ONE-EYED CAT Frustrated at life with an autistic brother, An eleven-year-old shoots a stray cat with his Falsely accused of theft and murder, an peasant twelve-year-old Catherine longs for a normal new air rifle, subsequently suffers from guilt, boy in fourteenth-century England flees his village existence but her world is further complicated and meets a larger-than-life juggler who holds a and eventually assumes responsibility for it. by a friendship with a young paraplegic. dangerous secret. Balliett, Blue Funke, Cornelia Peck, Richard CHASING VERMEER * INKHEART * A YEAR DOWN YONDER 12-year-old Meggie learns that her father, who When unrelated and strange events start to During the recession of 1937, fifteen-year-old happen and a precious Vermeer painting repairs and binds books for a living, can "read" Mary Alice is sent to live with her feisty, fictional characters to life when one of those disappears, eleven-year-olds Petra and Calder larger-than-life grandmother in rural Illinois combine their talents to solve an international characters abducts them and tries to force him and comes to a better understanding of this into service. art scandal. fearsome woman. 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