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Poppy the deer mouse urges her family to move next to a field of corn big enough to feed them all forever, but Mr. Ocax, a terrifying owl, has other ideas.

While competing with a rival restaurant for the winning float in the Founder’s Day parade, nine-year-old Freddy Funkhouser constructs a batch of animated French fries in his secret laboratory that come to life.

When eleven-year-old Gregor and his two-year-old sister are pulled into a strange underground world, they trigger an epic battle involving men, bats, rats, cockroaches, and spiders while on a quest foretold by ancient prophecy.

A boy who works for a magician meets familiar fairy tale characters when he is transported to the Land of Story in search of a missing puppet.

Having jumped into the magical land of Luster, Cara joins Lightfoot the unicorn in the search for Queen Arabella Skydancer.

Ten-year-old twins Casey and Lacey fly an enchanted, antique airplane, named the “Vin Fiz,” across the United States and have several daring adventures along the way.

When Jumbeelia, an eight-year-old giant, climbs down a beanstalk and collects some “iggly plops,” the little people of children’s stories, she treats them like toys, unaware that she is endangering their lives.

Toby lives in a hotel by the sea, and so when his friendship with Eliza and her mermaid parents arouses suspicion, he tries to disguise them as hotel guests, but trying to hide a family with fins and tails is tough!

Faced with a dull summer in the city, four kids suddenly find themselves involved in a series of extraordinary adventures after Jane discovers a coin that seems to grant wishes.

With help from an eccentric professor who gives their imaginations special intensive training, three children succeed in locating the last of the great Whangdoodles and granting his heart’s desire.

The daughter of two magicians, twelve-year-old Igraine wants nothing more than to be a knight, and when their castle is attacked by a treacherous neighbor bent on stealing their singing magic books, Igraine has an opportunity to demonstrate her bravery.

A young boy runs away from home to rescue a baby dragon who is being used by a group of lazy animals to ferry them across the river on Wild Island.

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.

At her christening, a princess is given the gift of “ordinariness” by a fairy and the consequences of this eventually take her to a nearby palace where, having run away to become a fourteenth assistant kitchen maid, she meets a prince just as ordinary (and special) as she is!

After finally convincing her mother that she should take swimming lessons, twelve-year-old Emily discovers a terrible and wonderful secret about herself that opens up a whole new world.

In a world where everyone has magical abilities, eleven-year-old Ned has none, but when the world turns upside down his lack of powers turns out to be his best asset.

Twelve-year-old Elodie journeys to Two Castles in hopes of studying acting but instead becomes apprentice to a dragon, who teaches her to be observant and use reasoning, thus helping her to uncover who is poisoning the king.

Leaving in its wake desolate cold and frozen land, the legendary ice dragon has never been tamed until it meets Adara, a winter child who looks to the creature to help save her world from destruction.

A boy who hates books discovers an ink-drinking vampire in his father’s bookshop and follows him to his underground vault.