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"Just what is a jackalope? Purported to be part jackrabbit and part antelope, the jackalope began as a local joke concocted by two young brothers in a small Wyoming town during the Great Depression. Their creation quickly spread around the U.S., where it now regularly appears as innumerable forms of kitsch--wall mounts, postcards, keychains, coffee mugs, shot glasses, and so on. A vast body of folk narratives has carried the jackalope's fame around...
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DAW Books, Incorporated
Pub. Date
[2020]
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English
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The ninth book in the fast-paced InCryptid urban fantasy series returns to the mishaps of the Price family, eccentric cryptozoologists who safeguard the world of magical creatures living in secret among humans. Sarah Zellaby has always been in an interesting position. Adopted into the Price family at a young age, she's never been able to escape the biological reality of her origins: she's a cuckoo, a telepathic ambush predator closer akin to a parasitic...
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Hidden world of Changers volume 6
Publisher
Simon Spotlight
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 4
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English
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Worrying that Mack may be under the control of new enemy Sakura Hiyamoto, the First Four ask inexperienced spirit walker Gabriella for help and must support her through additional training to safeguard her from danger.
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Godwin Books, Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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"A funny picture book celebrating the universal truth about wanting to be loved just as you are, fangs and all, inspired by the real-life legend of Mongolian Death Worms. Like the ongoing search for Big Foot and the Loch Ness Monster, scientists have searched the Gobi Desert for these giant worms. Reported sightings claim that their skin is blood red; their fangs razor sharp. The worms are supposedly poisonous and electrifying... or are they?"--
6) Skybreaker
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Eos
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IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 16
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English
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Matt Cruse, a student at the Airship Academy, and Kate de Vries, a young heiress, team up with a gypsy and a daring captain, to find a long-lost airship, rumored to carry a treasure beyond imagination.
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Columbia University Press
Pub. Date
2015.
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English
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Throughout our history, humans have been captivated by mythic beasts and legendary creatures. Tales of Bigfoot, the Yeti, and the Loch Ness monster are part of our collective experience. Now comes a book from two dedicated investigators that explores and elucidates the fascinating world of cryptozoology. Daniel Loxton and Donald R. Prothero have written an entertaining, educational, and definitive text on cryptids, presenting the arguments both for...
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Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2018.
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English
Description
inventive story collection explores themes of love, identity, coming of age and parenthood as they are shaped by mythology and universal experiences in different world regions, from a girl who watches her homesick mother dissolve into mist to a Mars-bound chef who embarks on a more treacherous journey closer to home. By the award-winning author of No One Is Here Except All of Us.
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Series
Riders of the realm volume 1
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 12
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English
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Believing they have tamed all the wild winged horses, stable groom Rahkki and his Sandwen clanmates are stunned when a wild herd flies over their village, but this herd has crossed the ocean hoping to settle in a free land, unaware of the Sandwens.
11) Calculated risks
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Series
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DAW Books, Incorporated
Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
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After being kidnapped and manipulated by her birth family, Sarah Zellaby, who has undergone a transformation called an instar that makes her more powerful and difficult to control, is stranded in a different dimension where numerous people want her dead.
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Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Clivo Wren learns that his recently deceased father was not an archaeologist as he was told, but rather a cryptid catcher, known for finding elusive mythological creatures, and now Clivo must pick up where his father left off and track down a cryptid whose blood grants immortality before the knowledge falls into the wrong hands.
The Cryptid Catcher is the first book in a monstrously fun middle-grade duology by Lija Fisher about...
14) The rain heron
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FSG Originals, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Ren lives alone on the remote frontier of a country devastated by a coup. High on the forested slopes, she survives by hunting and trading - and forgetting. But when a young soldier comes to the mountains in search of a legendary creature, Ren is inexorably drawn into an impossible mission. As their lives entwine, unravel and erupt - as myth merges with reality - both Ren and the soldier are forced to confront what they regret, what they love, and...
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Series
Pip Bartlett volume 2
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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Pip Bartlett has a way with the magical creatures at his Aunt Emma's clinic, but an extremely timid unicorn named Regent Maximus is testing even his abilities--particularly since it is Pip's assignment to get Regent ready for the Triple Trident show for magical animals where, to make matters worse, somebody is trying to win by sabotaging the other contestants.
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Series
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Disney-Hyperion
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Six months after Paola Santiago confronted the legendary La Llorona, life is nothing like she'd expected it to be. She is barely speaking to her best friends, Dante and Emma, and what's worse, her mom has a totally annoying boyfriend. Even with her chupacabra puppy, Bruto, around, Pao can't escape the feeling that she's all alone in the world. Pao has no one to tell that she's having nightmares again, this time set in a terrifying forest. Even more...
17) Kronos
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Publisher
Breakneck Books
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
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"Two years after his wife's death, oceanographer and former navy SEAL, Atticus Young, attempts to reconcile with his rebellious daughter, Giona, by taking her on the scuba dive of a lifetime--swimming with a pod of peaceful humpback whales in the Gulf of Maine. But the beauty of the sea belies a terror from the deep--a horrific creature as immense as it is ancient. There is no blood, no scream, no fight. Giona is swallowed whole by the massive jaws....
18) Thundercluck!
Author
Series
Thundercluck volume 1
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Thundercluck is a powerful chicken favored by the gods and, with the help of the goddess Brunhilde, undertakes a dangerous mission to defeat the evil Cook and other villains who are threatening the kingdom of Asgard.
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Series
InCryptid volume 8
Publisher
DAW Books, Inc
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Antimony Price has never done well without a support system. As the youngest of her generation, she has always been able to depend on her parents, siblings, and cousins to help her out when she's in a pinch--until now. After fleeing from the Covenant of St. George, she's found herself in debt to the crossroads and running for her life. No family. No mice. No way out. Lucky for her, she's always been resourceful, and she's been gathering allies as...
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Series
Hidden world of Changers volume 7
Publisher
Simon Spotlight
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Determined to rescue Mack from the influence of their Shadow Fox enemy, Gabriella and her Changer friends attempt to break a curse that is preventing them from obtaining the magical protection they need to guard against the Shadow Fox's dark magic.
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