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Fairytales

A new variation of an old tale works only if you’re familiar with the original story. Before you open the pages of any of the delightful tales that follow, read the originals and discuss them with your students. After they’ve enjoyed the classics, a new kind of fun can begin: discussing similarities and discovering the twists.

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By: Kathryn Lasky
Publisher: Scholastic Press

The latest in Kathryn Lasky’s hit series – a stunning spin-off set among the wolves of Ga’hoole.

A great cold has seized the Beyond. The warmth of summer, the smell of sweet grass and the great caribou migrations are distant memories. Now the wolves know only ice, dark, snow and endless cold. The order that kept the wolf clans strong for thousands of years has broken down completely.

The wolves have only one chance for survival. They must find their way to a new land, a land of warmth and summer. But …

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Written for J.R.R. Tolkien’s own children, The Hobbit has sold many millions of copies worldwide and established itself as a modern classic.

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By: Anne Ursu, Erin McGuire
Publisher: Walden Pond Press

Hazel and Jack are best friends until an accident with a magical mirror and a run-in with a villainous queen find Hazel on her own, entering an enchanted wood in the hope of saving Jack’s life. 25,000 first printing.

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By: Cathy Hapka
Publisher: Disney Press

Meet Sofia, a little girl who lives a rather ordinary life. But everything changes when her mother, Miranda, marries the king. Overnight, Sofia becomes a princess, moves into the castle, gains a step-brother, a step-sister… and the ability to talk to her new animal friends thanks to a magical amulet! Now, life is anything but ordinary for Sofia the First!

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Dream Snow
By: Eric Carle
Publisher: Penguin Group

A simple story, lively collage-like illustrations and a fun gimmick for little hands…”

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A Christmas Memory
By: Truman Capote
Publisher: Random House Children's Books

Seven-year-old Buddy inaugurates the Christmas season by crying out to his cousin, Miss Sook Falk: “It’s fruitcake weather!” Thus begins an unforgettable portrait of an odd but enduring friendship between two innocent souls–one young and one old–and the memories they share of beloved holiday rituals.

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The Christmas Sweater: A Picture Book
By: Glenn Beck
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing

Just in time for the holidays, a picture book adapation of the #1 New York Times bestselling book from author and popular radio/tv host Glenn Beck.

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The Night Before Christmas
By: Tom Browning
Publisher: Sterling Publishing

T’was the night before Christmas, and all through the house…for decades families have gathered together to read Clement C. Moore’s eternally enchanting holiday poem. And now there’s a magical new version to ring in the season with joy.

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Christmas
Publisher: DK Publishing.

With padded covers, simple images, and an amazing range of novelty textures, Baby Touch and Feel books capture the attention of the very youngest children, and create an experience they’ll want to repeat again and again.

It’s the most wonderful time of the year! Baby Touch and Feel: Christmas is a festive treat that will get your baby excited about the holidays while learning about new shapes, colors, and objects.

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Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Harry Potter #2)

The Dursleys were so mean and hideous that summer that all Harry Potter wanted was to get back to the Hogwarts School for Witchcraft and Wizardry. But just as he’s packing his bags, Harry receives a warning from a strange, impish creature named Dobby who says that if Harry Potter returns to Hogwarts, disaster will strike.

And strike it does. For in Harry’s second year at Hogwarts, fresh torments and horrors arise, including an outrageously stuck-up new professor, Gilderoy Lockheart, a spirit named Moaning Myrtle who haunts the girls’ bathroom, and …

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