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Series
Fractured fables volume 1
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"USA Today bestselling author Alix E. Harrow's A Spindle Splintered brings her patented charm to a new version of a classic story. Featuring Arthur Rackham's original illustrations for The Sleeping Beauty, fractured and reimagined. "A vivid, subversive and feminist reimagining of Sleeping Beauty, where implacable destiny is no match for courage, sisterhood, stubbornness and a good working knowledge of fairy tales." -Katherine Arden It's Zinnia Gray's...
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Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
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"Celebrating her forty-fifth birthday at her local pub, popular podcaster Alix Summers crosses paths with an unassuming woman called Josie Fair. Josie, it turns out, is also celebrating her forty-fifth birthday. They are, in fact, birthday twins. A few days later, Alix and Josie bump into each other again, this time outside Alix's children's school. Josie has been listening to Alix's podcasts and thinks she might be an interesting subject for her...
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Language
English
Description
"Their lives began together, but their worlds couldn't be more different. After thirty years of missed connections, they're about to meet again.."--
Down-to-earth baker Minnie Cooper knows two things with great certainty: that her New Year's birthday has always been unlucky, and that it's all because of Quinn Hamilton, a man she's never met. Minnie and Quinn were born at the same hospital just after midnight on New Year's Day thirty years before,...
Author
Series
Mallory McDonald books volume 4
Publisher
Carolrhoda Books
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
After a difficult year, Mallory plans a month-long celebration of her ninth birthday in hopes that her next year will be wonderful.
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English
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"When Brie was younger, her mama used to surprise her with treasure hunts around their island town. After she died three years ago, these became Brie's favorite memories. Now, on her twelfth birthday, her mama has another surprise: a series of letters leading Brie on one last treasure hunt. The first letter guides Brie to a special place. The next urges her to unlock a secret. And the last letter will change life as she knows it"--Provided by publisher....
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Series
Publisher
Orca Book Publishers
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"How do you celebrate the day you joined the world? Find out whose party includes a horse race, which culture does a coming-of-age fire-ant ritual, and other wonderful ways birthdays are celebrated around the world"--
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Series
Publisher
Kensington Books
Language
English
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Description
A ninetieth-birthday celebration may be ruined by a nefarious killer, in a mystery filled with "believable and lovable characters" (Publishers Weekly).
The town of Tinker's Cove is looking forward to the celebration marking former librarian Julia Ward Howe Tilley's ninetieth birthday. Lucy Stone, Miss Tilley's closest friend, dreamed up the party idea—around the same time she decided she's not getting old without...
The town of Tinker's Cove is looking forward to the celebration marking former librarian Julia Ward Howe Tilley's ninetieth birthday. Lucy Stone, Miss Tilley's closest friend, dreamed up the party idea—around the same time she decided she's not getting old without...
17) Crafty Chloe
Author
Series
Crafty Chloe volume 1
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Chloe is very good at sewing and crafts and when her best friend's birthday approaches, she creates a fabulous gift but also saves the day for a classmate who had been unkind to her.
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