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"When a pair of young lovers abscond from a Puritan colony, little do they know that their humble cabin in the woods will become the home of an extraordinary succession of human and nonhuman characters alike. An English soldier, destined for glory, abandons the battlefields of the New World to devote himself to apples. A pair of spinster twins navigate war and famine, envy and desire. A crime reporter unearths a mass grave--only to discover that the...
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Pub. Date
2019
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English
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"When Mouse's dad asks her to clean out her dead grandmother's house, she says yes. After all, how bad could it be? Answer: pretty bad. Grandma was a hoarder, and her house is packed to the gills with useless garbage. That would be horrors enough, but there's more. Mouse stumbles across her step-grandfather's journal, which at first seems to be the ravings of a broken mind. Until she encounters some of the terrifying things he described herself....
4) Small spaces
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Series
Small spaces quartet volume 1
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
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The bestselling author of the adult title "The Bear and the Nightingale" makes her middle-grade debut with a spellbinding ghost story about an 11-year-old girl who must use her wits to survive in the scary woods after her school bus mysteriously breaks down on a field trip.
5) Nuts to you
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Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
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The squirrels Jed, TsTs, and Chai are the very best of friends. So when Jed is snatched up by a hawk and carried away to another realm, TsTs and Chai resolve to go after him. New communities are discovered, new friends are made, huge danger is encountered (both man-made and of the fox and bobcat variety) and mysteries are revealed.
6) Snow & Rose
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Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
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Snow and Rose search the forest for their missing father and discover there is a sinister magic at work in the woods. A reimagining of the classic but little-known fairy tale Snow White and Rose Red.
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Publisher
Greystone Books
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
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A 2021 New York Times/New York Public Library Best Illustrated Children's Book
"Absorbing storytelling."—Publishers Weekly STARRED Review
"A riveting read."—Kirkus Reviews STARRED Review
What's on the other side of the forest? A young rabbit and his father are determined to find out in this modern picture book that "feels like a vintage gem" (New York Times), calling to mind...
8) Field trip
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Series
Mr. Wolf's class volume 4
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
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"Mr. Wolf's class explores the forest on an exciting overnight field trip, while also dealing with friendship worries and disagreements."--Provided by publisher.
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Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2017
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English
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It's been a long, crazy trip around the world. Now the duo is back in their beloved forest, and Bird wants to throw a party! But Squirrel isn't in the mood to celebrate. His house needs a good cleaning, the river has been dammed up by a pesky beaver, and the forest animals are jittery about a growing menace. Will the dam dry out the forest? Will the mysterious new danger ruin the party? Will Bird finally convince Squirrel to let go and just have a...
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Warriors (Erin Hunter). Omen of the stars volume 5
Warriors. Omen of the stars volume 5
Warriors omen of the stars volume 5
Warriors. Omen of the stars volume 5
Warriors omen of the stars volume 5
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English
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When an outsider appears in the ThunderClan's midst, it drives the Clans further apart and as tension mounts they must decide who they can trust before it is too late.
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Pub. Date
2023
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English
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Follows six teenage wizards as they fight to make it home alive after a malfunctioning spell leaves them stranded in the wilderness.
Ren Monroe is one of the best wizards in her generation, but top marks at Balmerick University will mean nothing if she fails to get recruited into one of the major houses. Enter Theo Brood. After a failed and disastrous party trick, fate has the two of them crossing paths at the public waxway portal the day before...
13) Harry's trees
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Pub. Date
2018
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English
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"When you climb a tree, the first thing you do is to hold on tight...Thirty-four-year-old Harry Crane works as an analyst for the US Forest Service. When his wife dies suddenly, he is unable to cope. Leaving his job and his old life behind, Harry makes his way to the remote woods of northeastern Pennsylvania's Endless Mountains, determined to lose himself. But fate intervenes in the form of a fiercely determined young girl named Oriana. She and her...
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Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
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"It's 2034 and Jake Greenwood is a storyteller and a liar, an overqualified tour guide babysitting ultra-rich vacationers in one of the world's last remaining forests. It's 2008 and Liam Greenwood is a carpenter, fallen from a ladder and sprawled on his broken back, calling out from the concrete floor of an empty mansion. It's 1974 and Willow Greenwood is out of jail, free after being locked up for one of her endless series of environmental protests:...
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Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
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"From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Then She Was Gone and The Family Upstairs comes another riveting work of "gloriously twisted" (Marie Claire) psychological suspense. On a beautiful summer night in a charming English suburb, a young woman and her boyfriend disappear after partying at the massive country estate of a new college friend. One year later, a writer moves into a cottage on the edge of the woods that border the same estate....