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  Giant: A darkly funny...

  Nicola Skinner

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  ‘Readers will be laughing and crying all at once. This book is an astonishing, unique feat of the imagination’ 
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  From critically acclaimed author Nicola Skinner, her most brilliant book yet – a darkly comic story about staying true to yourself and the people you love, even if it means tearing everything down . . . 
  There’s absolutely nothing wrong with Minnie’s island. Nothing, that is, apart from the earthquakes, which pull buildings and schools and houses down on a regular basis. 
  Luckily, the island’s inhabitants have found a way to fix their crumbling walls: giants. Giants look after human children, like eleven-year-old Minnie. When Minnie turns twelve, she’ll kiss her giant, turning her into a stone statue forever. The stone will be used to repair buildings. And there’s nothing wrong with that either . . . or so Minnie thinks. 
  But when a dreadful earthquake strikes, Minnie realises she’s not quite ready to say goodbye to her giant – not forever – not yet. So Minnie goes on the run, betraying her parents and everyone she knows. The secrets she uncovers on her journey threaten to pull everything down: and so begins a desperate race against time in which she will confront the truth about her island, her giant . . . and ultimately herself. 
  In GIANT, Skinner presents a magical adventure filled with action and folklore. This top children's fantasy fiction explores themes of self-reliance, self-esteem, and friendship, making it a best pick in juvenile literature. 
  For fans of James Ponti (City of the Dead), Kayla Miller (Besties), Katie Kirby (The Mega-Complicated Crushes of Lottie Brooks), Tui T. Sutherland (The Lost Continent), and Robin Stevens (Death Sets Sail). 
  HarperCollins Children's 2022

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  The Purple Sky Lullaby - A dream...

  K.S. Carter

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  The Purple Sky Lullaby is a dream. It is a good dream and in a good dream anything lovely is possible. There are no scary witches or goblins so if that is what you are looking for you will not find it here.  
  Here you will find new friends(people and animals) who like to listen to their feelings inside and decide if they prefer to feel something different. They cleverly use their imagination to create new feeling blends and then give them new names. Once the feeling is named, it is sent out everywhere like a magical mist so that anyone can grab onto it and feel it if they want to. This is the main reason why they focus on creating new, better feelings. They know that as soon as they make them they are also sharing them. Sharing kinder thoughts and feelings makes everything seem bigger as they create their dream world together.  
  Sometimes they do not feel so good, but they know how to turn a thought over or how to step back from it and watch it go by so that another thought can try for their attention. They know not to judge a 'slumpy' feeling but instead, allow it to be there like a friend saying, "Hello there, my name is Slumpy and I'm here to say as long as you think this way, you shall feel this way...and it's OK".  
  We are feeling Humzingy now as we invite you into a world where every friend you meet is the Foreverlong Kind. The kind that creeps right into your heart and leaves you feeling Swoothe. The kind that will fly you to new places and show you color like you have never seen. The kind that will sing you a lullaby or a thank you poem just for being you.  
  This is a good feeling place that might possibly give you a trick or two for how to feel better all by yourself. 
  This is true mastery indeed. 
  Only in a Purple Sky Lullaby. Now what?

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  Becoming Grace

  Hilary McKay

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  Award-winning Hilary McKay brings the childhood of Victorian heroine Grace Darling to life in this heartfelt reimagining of her life up to and including the Forfarshire shipwreck. 
  Grace Darling nearly drowned when she was eight years old, leaving her with a fear of boats and the sea. But it’s a fear she has to overcome as the daughter of a lighthouse keeper, living on the Longstone Rock with her parents, four brothers, three sisters and her beloved dog, Happy. 
  Losses at sea bring shadows to an otherwise idyllic childhood, but everything Grace learns growing up on the coast is put to the test in 1838, when The Forfarshire is wrecked on the Harcar Rock, and she has to row out through the storm to the rescue. 
  Particularly suitable for readers aged 9+ with a reading age of 8. 
  This bestseller is not just a story of survival, but a testament to a young girl's self-reliance and self-esteem. Set in Europe, this historical fiction is a perfect blend of adventure and family themes. 
  For fans of Robin Stevens (Death Sets Sail), Katherine Rundell (The Explorer), Natasha Farrant (Voyage of the Sparrowhawk), Rhian Tracey (I, Spy), and Elisa Paganelli (The House with Chicken Legs). 
  HarperCollins 2025

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  Tegan and Sara: Junior High

  Tegan Quin, Sara Quin

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  From indie-pop twin-sister duo Tegan and Sara comes a contemporary middle-grade graphic audiobook narrated by the authors and a full cast. The program features original Tegan and Sara music and sound design throughout the program, and a bonus conversation with Tillie Walden, the illustrator of the graphic novel, discussing the process of adapting the graphic novel into an audiobook. Tegan and Sara: Junior High explores growing up, coming out, and finding yourself through music and sisterhood, perfect for fans of Raina Telgemeier's Sisters. Before Tegan and Sara took the music world by storm, the Quins were just two identical twins trying to find their place in a new home and new school. From first crushes to the perils of puberty, surviving junior high is something the sisters plan to face side-by-side, just like they've always faced things. But growing up also means growing apart, as Tegan and Sara make different friends and take separate paths to understanding their queerness. For the first time ever, they ask who one sister is without the other.Set in the present day, this effervescent blend of fiction and autobiography offers a glimpse at the two sisters before they became icons, exploring their shifting relationship, their own experiences coming out, and the first steps of their musical journey.A prequel of sorts to the authors' bestselling adult memoir High School, now an eight-episode Freevee television series!A Macmillan Audio production from Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

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  The Whale’s Tale and the Otter’s...

  Kate Messner

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  Readers will laugh aloud at the silly antics of a pair of opinionated sea mammals in a tale presenting one side of a debate when read front-to-back and the other side when read back-to-front, slyly revealing the way identical facts can be used to support opposite positions.  
  A boastful whale and a showboating otter compete in a battle of words to prove that each is the greatest animal ever to swim the seas. Read one way, the first-person text brags about whales’ superiority; read the other way, it extols how much better otters are. Using true information about the two marine species to make both arguments, Kate Messner’s adroit text and Brian Biggs’s giggle-worthy artwork brilliantly illustrate how the same words can be used to express contradictory opinions when speakers have a one-sided view of the world. Includes factual back matter about language usage and the actual similarities of whales and otters.

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  Lost Sci-Fi Books 281 thru 285 -...

  H.P. Lovecraft, Lord Dunsany,...

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  Lost Sci-Fi Books 281 thru 285 - Five Vintage Sci-Fi Short Stories from the 1930s, 40s, 50s and 60sThe Shunned House by H. P. LovecraftThe Ghosts of the Heaviside Layer by Lord DunsanyThe Weapon by Isaac AsimovThe Monsters by Robert SheckleyThe Good Husband by Evelyn E. Smith

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