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- A good team / by Burnell, Heather Ayris.; Quintanilla, Hazel,1982-;
- New friends Unicorn and Yeti are having a little trouble finding something they are both good at; Yeti is good at kicking a ball, Unicorn is not, Unicorn is fast, Yeti is not--so they finally try ice skating, which neither of them has ever done, because they have a chance to be equally good (or bad) at it.LSC
- Subjects: Humorous fiction.; Fantasy fiction.; Unicorns; Yeti; Ability; Friendship;
- Esio trot / by Dahl, Roald.; Blake, Quentin.;
- High up in a tall building lives Mr Hoppy all alone. Downstairs lives Mrs Silver. Mr Hoppy loves her. And Mrs Silver loves her tortoise, Alfie. Oh, if only Mr Hoppy could perform some great feat that would make him a hero in her eyes! Then one day his mind goes click and an amazing idea rushes into his head. With the help of a magical spell, some cabbage leaves and one hundred and forty tortoises, can shy Mr Hoppy win Mrs Silver's heart?
- Subjects: Fantasy fiction.; Humorous fiction.; Turtles; Size; Magic;
- The battle for Crystal Castle : the thirteenth adventure in the Kingdom of Fantasy / by Stilton, Geronimo.; Bigolin, Silvia.; Bebernardi, Carla.; Bigarella, Ivan,1984-; Heim, Julia.; Dami, Elisabetta.;
- The Harmony Stone has been stolen from the Crystal Castle, and without it the Kingdom of Fantasy is vulnerable to an ancient enemy, The Invisible Army; Geronimo, together with Queen Blossom's daughter, Winglet, embarks on a mission to find the ancient crown which will defeat the Invisible Army and restore harmony to the empire--but they must make it back to the Crystal Castle before it is overwhelmed by the enemyLSC
- Subjects: Adventure fiction.; Fantasy fiction.; Humorous fiction.; Stilton, Geronimo; Mice; Princesses; Fairies; Crowns; Quests (Expeditions);
- Good as gold / by Mlynowski, Sarah.;
- The magic mirror has a crack and it sends Abby, Jonah, and Prince into the mixed up tale of Goldilocks and the Three Bears, and they soon find that Goldy is in need of a lot of gold to get her father out of jail, and so they find themselves negotiating between the Bears, who want honey, and Rumpelstiltskin, who just wants a friend or two--but King Ned is just plain greedy and somehow the children and Goldy's father have to escape from the king's jail, and get back to the portal to return home.LSC
- Subjects: Fantasy fiction.; Humorous fiction.; Abby (Fictitious character); Jonah (Fictitious character from Mlynowski); Three Bears (Tale); Characters and characteristics in literature; Magic mirrors; Brothers and sisters; Friendship;
- Spill the beans / by Mlynowski, Sarah.;
- Abby and Jonah take a trip through the magic mirror and finally end up in Jack and the beanstalk (which happens to be Jonah's favorite story ever)--but things soon start to go wrong, and the children have to try and set the tale right, even if it means trading their dog, Prince, for the magic beans, climbing the beanstalk (three times!), and reaching an amicable settlement with the giants (Magnus and Philippa, who are really quite nice), and the sneaky trader, Devin, to get their dog back.LSC
- Subjects: Fantasy fiction.; Humorous fiction.; Abby (Fictitious character); Jonah (Fictitious character from Mlynowski); Jack and the beanstalk; Characters and characteristics in literature; Giants; Brothers and sisters; Magic mirrors; Magic;
- The keepers of the empire : the fourteenth adventure in the Kingdom of Fantasy / by Stilton, Geronimo.; Barozzi, Danilo.; Dami, Elisabetta.; Clement, Emily(Translator);
- Drawn once again into the Kingdom of Fantasy, Geronimo discovers that the Land of Books is being threatened by a wave of grayness spreading from the Kingdom of Swamp Valley rotting books and turning all the characters gray, sad and worried--and it will be up to Geronimo, Winglet (daughter of Blossom and newly crowned empress), and the intrepid characters from fiction who join them along the way, to locate the source of this new evil and put a stop to it.Ages 7-10.LSC
- Subjects: Adventure fiction.; Fantasy fiction.; Humorous fiction.; Stilton, Geronimo; Mice; Magic; Quests (Expeditions);
- Dinosaur pie / by Wallace, Jen.; O'Rourke, Alan.;
- A hilarious and heart-warming story about a boy with ADHD who is transformed into a dinosaur. Rory is having a weird week. A really weird week. He has been turned into a ridiculous, small, feathered dinosaur. Pretty awkward. Rory can't use a human toilet. He can't hold a video game controller in his little dino claws. His breath smells really bad. And his new carnivore body can't stop craving sausages. Rory finally gets his friends to take his embarrassing situation seriously, and together they embark on Operation Make Rory Human Again. But it's not easy. Will Rory be stuck as a dinosaur forever?
- Subjects: Humorous fiction.; Fantasy fiction.; Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder; Shapeshifting; Dinosaurs; Friendship;
- Muskoka / by Samuel, Julian,author.;
- "A man down on his luck meets the woman of his dreams in an adult education course. But this is no ordinary male fantasy: the man is a Pakistani-Canadian artist with a treatable recurrent cancer; the young lady is an Indigenous princess just returned from art school in Europe to her father's glass summer palace in Muskoka. This Romance Comedy, set in mid-Toronto and on Lake Rosseau, plays with the intersection of Indigenous, settler, and immigrant success stories against the background of mortality and the stars"--
- Subjects: Humorous fiction.; Psychological fiction.; Novels.; Cancer; Indigenous women; Man-woman relationships;
- The quest of danger / by Gibbs, Stuart,1969-; Curtis, Stacy.;
- Tim and his ragtag crew have been rescued from certain doom by a mermaid princess--but now, she wants something in return for saving their lives: her father King Neptuna's stolen trident. To pay their debt, Tim, Belinda, Ferkle, Rover, and Princess Grace once again brave the Sea of Terror to track down the trident in the glorious city of Atlantis, which hasn't sunk into the sea yet. (In fact, it is famed as the safest city on earth.) But there is plenty of danger en route--and the notorious Prince Ruprecht is lurking about as well. Can the junior knights evade the scheming royal and complete their quest?Ages 7-10.
- Subjects: Humorous fiction.; Sea fiction.; Fantasy fiction.; Knights and knighthood; Adventure and adventurers; Voyages and travels;
- Fairy science : solid, liquid, gassy / by Spires, Ashley,1978-;
- Esther the fairy doesn't believe in magic. But fairies are all about magic, despite Esther's best efforts to reveal the science of their world. This time around, though, she's got her fairy pals Clover and Fig, along with trusty sidekick Albert the bird, to help create a more science-oriented entry for their school's "Magic Fair" -- Pixieville's magical answer to a science fair, which has never gone well for Esther before. When the local pond disappears, Esther realizes this might be the perfect opportunity for a real experiment! It's up to Esther and her fairymates to ask questions, make hypotheses, do research and show their conclusions -- this time, all about the water cycle. But when everyone Esther knows believes that Jack Frost is responsible for ice and that moon sneezes cause evaporation, she'll have to learn that sometimes discovery is its own reward.LSC
- Subjects: Fantasy fiction.; Humorous fiction.; Fairies; Scientists; Magic;
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