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If You Like Lemony Snicket, Try...
- Aiken
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Besieged by wolves and under the care of a cruel governess, can Bonnie and Sylvia reclaim their home?
- Ardagh
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When Eddie's parents go a bit crinkly around the edges, he's sent to live with Mad Uncle Jack and Even Madder Aunt Maud.
- Colfer
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When a 12-year-old evil genius tries to restore his family fortune by kidnapping a fairy and demanding a ransom in gold, the fairies fight back.
- Dahl
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Sophie discovers that not only do giants exist, there are a great many who like to guzzle and swallomp nice little chiddlers. But not the Big Friendly Giant!
- DiCamillo
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The story of a small mouse with unusually large ears, a princess, a servant girl, and a devious young rat determined to destroy them all.
- DiTerlizzi
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In this series, the Grace children move into the dilapidated Spiderwick estate and are quickly sucked into the dark world of faeries.
- Elliott
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After eating dinner every night at the new fast food restaurant, Roscoe begins turning into a giant bug.
- Gaiman
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Looking for excitement, Coraline ventures through a mysterious door in her house and meets her "other mother."
- Gliori
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When their father is kidnapped, the Strega-Borgia children, their mysterious new nanny and a giant tarantula must travel through the Internet to save him.
- Hiaasen
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Roy chases after a mysterious boy and discovers potty-trained alligators, burrowing owls, and several extremely poisonous snakes with unnaturally sparkling tails.
- Horowitz
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After the death of his uncle, Alex Rider is forced to continue his uncle's dangerous work for Britain's intelligence agency, MI6.
- Horvath
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Primrose Squarp has hair the color of carrots in apricot glaze and an unshakeable belief that her parents will return from being lost at sea.
- Ibbotson
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Arriman the Awful will marry the witch who can perform the darkest magic - how can a white witch possibly compete?
- Juster
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When a tollbooth suddenly appears in his bedroom, Milo (who is bored, bored, bored) pays the toll and begins his journey to Dictionopolis.
- Kurzweil
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To survive fourth grade, Leon must overcome an evil ice-maker, Lumpkin the Pumpkin, glass eyeballs, and his tyrannical teacher, Miss Hagmeyer.
- Maguire
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Chaos descends when seven deadly, prehistoric Siberian spiders invade a classroom in rural Vermont.
- Pullman
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Charlotte and Lucy must outwit their uncle, Count Karlstein, who plans to sacrifice them to Zamiel the Demon Huntsman.
- Stroud
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Young Nathaniel summons a 5,000-year-old djinni to steal the Amulet of Samarkand, and starts a chain of events that threatens to destroy England.
- Wallace
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Emily knows something awful is happening at Sugar Hill Hall, but what?