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10-year-old Alanna, a determined noble girl with a dream to be a knight in the magical and feudal lands of Tortall has a problem. Girls can't be knights. Alanna instigates a swindle and arrives at the Royal Court disguised as a boy to begin training as a page, the first step to her dream. She makes friends and enemies, accepts her magical talent and warrior nature, and earns more than a few knocks in this first book of the "Song of the Lioness" series by noted fantasy author Tamora Pierce.
Greg Heffley's meticulous observations of a callous middle school social ecosystem and his own complicated family dynamics are captured in all their trenchant details and enhanced visually with a handwritten-font and hilarious line drawings in this New York Time Best-Selling graphic novel. The rather self-centered sixth grader unflinchingly chronicles hiw own incessant efforts to manipulate every situation for either physical survival or social popularity. Efforts that meet with decidedly mixed but always funny results.
Hiccup Haddock Horrendous III really, really doesn't want to end up in miserable exile from his barbaraic Viking tribe, the Hairy Hooligans. But his repeated failures to train his ridiculously small dragon, Toothless, in time for the Initiation Test at Thors'day Festival is worrying him. And then his problems get much worse in this light-hearted, clever, and original fantasy.
Plucky time-travelers Annie and Jack are called once again to the Magic Tree House and charged with an important mission. This time they send themselves to a very wet 1862 Ireland in pursuit of finding and inspiring a young Miss. Augusta to use her gifts. The mission gets complicated when they discover the young girl's gifts will put them face to face with the Irish faery folk, the Shee. Another crisp and educational read from Mary Pope Osborne's Magic Tree House series.