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Lo-Melkhiin killed three hundred girls before he came to her village, so when she is taken to the king's dangerous court she believes death will soon follow, but night after night Lo-Melkhiin comes to her and listens to the stories she tells, leading her to unlocking years of fear that have tormented and silenced the kingdom, and soon she is dreaming of bigger, more terrible magic, power enough to save a king, if she can put an end to rule of a monster....
3) Stone soup
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Three wise monks trick a poor,frightened community into finding happiness by teaching them the magic of generosity
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The formerly glorious god Apollo, cast down to earth in punishment by Zeus, is now an awkward mortal teenager named Lester Papadopoulos. In order to regain his place on Mount Olympus, Lester must restore five Oracles that have gone dark. But he has to achieve this impossible task without having any godly powers and while being duty-bound to a confounding young daughter of Demeter named Meg. Thanks a lot, Dad. With the help of some demigod friends,...
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After Kludd's death, his mate Nyra is determined that her hatchling, Nyroc, will fulfill his father's destiny of viciously oppressing all of the owl kingdomes, but Nyroc, fed by scraps of forbidden legend and news of a place where goodness and nobility reign, defies his mother and his destiny.
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When the goddess Artemis disappears while hunting a rare, ancient monster, a group of her followers joins Percy and his friends in an attempt to find and rescue her before the winter solstice, when her influence is needed to sway the Olympian Council regarding the war with the Titans.
10) Valkyrie
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2016.
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"Freya is a Valkyrie, a reaper of souls. But she hates what she must do. She doesn't like humans and the pain they inflict on each other, and she never wants to visit another battlefield. But when a soldier begs her to help his family back in the human realm, she agrees and discovers a world of friends. Now she'll have to find a way to keep her promise to the soldier and prevent the wrath of Odin from destroying the world"--
11) Genie meanie
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"In this partially-illustrated chapter book, an 8-year-old girl confronts a bully with the help of a genie she discovers has been living in a spice bottle her grandmother left her."--
12) Spindle
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"Yashaa sets out to break the curse over the kingdom with his three friends and the princess herself in this lush, transformative retelling of Sleeping Beauty"--
13) Aesop's fables
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A retelling of over 50 classic Aesop fables, including The fox and the grapes and The donkey in the lion's skin.
18) Rumpelstiltskin
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A strange little man helps the miller's daughter spin straw into gold for the king on the condition that she will give him her first-born child
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2023.
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Nico, the son of Hades, and his boyfriend Will, the son of Apollo, travel to Tartarus, the deepest, darkest part of the Underworld, as they attempt to rescue an old friend.
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