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This series is part of Scholastic's early chapter book line Branches, aimed at newly independent readers. With easy-to-read text, high-interest content, fast-paced plots, and illustrations on every page, these books will boost reading confidence and stamina. Branches books help readers grow!A terrible darkness is spreading across Perodia. Thorn, a powerful vulture, is using dark magic (and his dark army of spies!) to destroy the magical land. A young...

As they get older, several sisters decide that they must kidnap children and bring them to their secluded island home to help with the work of caring for an assortment of unusual sea creatures.

Provides instructions for drawing a variety of creatures from myths and legends around the world.

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.

Are mermaids compassionate beings waiting to save drowning sailors or vindictive creatures hoping to lure people to their deaths? The answer depends on the lore, which is vast and varied. Through the centuries, people around the world have reported seeing real mermaids on rocks or bobbing in the sea. Even in the 21st century, people are drawn to the mystery of the mermaid. Readers, too, will find the many mermaid stories and hoaxes in this engaging...

"Storm Herd will have to join forces with the humans they have long-feared to save Rahkki and defeat the giants"--

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.

As Philonecron plots to destroy the gods, transform the Underworld, destroy humanity, and remodel Olympus, Mr. Metos takes thirteen-year-old cousins Charlotte and Zee to join the Prometheans, who have an age-old weapon that may help protect them.

When 9-year-old Jamie moves to a beautiful lakeside village with this mother and father, he learns the idealistic town isn't as peaceful as it seems. A greedy mogul is bullying the townspeople to sell their land. But when Jamie befriends an old sea captain, estranged from his son, who tells him about the lake's mythical and sweet-natured sea creature named Nessie, Jamie wonders if Nessie is the perfect solution to save the town, if only he can prove...