Cornelia Funke
2) Dragon rider
Author
Series
Dragon rider (Cornelia Funke) volume 1
Language
English
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After learning that humans are headed toward his hidden home, Firedrake, a silver dragon, is joined by a brownie and an orphan boy in a quest to find the legendary valley known as the Rim of Heaven, encountering friendly and unfriendly creatures along the way, and struggling to evade the relentless pursuit of an old enemy.
3) Inkspell
Author
Series
Inkheart trilogy volume 2
Language
English
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Description
Now thirteen, Meggie "reads" herself into Inkworld, where she, her family, and the characters in the book face chaos and danger as the original creator of the world frantically tries to redirect the story.
Author
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
Escaping the aunt who wants to adopt only one of them, two orphaned brothers run away from Hamburg to Venice, finding shelter with a gang of street children and their leader, the thirteen-year-old "Thief Lord," while also eluding the detective hired to return them to Germany.
Two brothers, having run away from the aunt who plans to adopt the younger one, are sought by a detective hired by their aunt, but they have found shelter with--and protection...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Publisher Annotation: Dragons, myth, and magic unite in the third installment of Cornelia Funke's bestselling Dragon Rider series. Ben and the Greenblooms must protect a mythical new creature rising from the ocean -- a creature who can bring either light or darkness to whoever it first meets.
Author
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
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The daughter of two magicians, twelve-year-old Igraine wants nothing more than to be a knight, and when their castle is attacked by a treacherous neighbor bent on stealing their singing magic books, Igraine has an opportunity to demonstrate her bravery.
Author
Series
Dragon rider (Cornelia Funke) volume 2
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Ben and his adopted parents are devoting their lives to protecting rare and fabulous creatures (like dragons) and at the moment they are trying to save the last of the winged horses, Pegasus unicus; there are three eggs, but without their mother they will not survive and the only hope is to obtain a Griffin feather--but Griffins are enemies of the dragons, and may not be willing to help.
Author
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
Español
Description
When he and his caravan come crashing down to earth during a thunderstorm two weeks before Christmas, Santa is befriended by two children who try to help him save the holiday from the tricks and moneymaking schemes of Valdemar and to take off in time for his annual rounds.
10) Inkdeath
Author
Series
Inkheart trilogy volume 3
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
As Bluejay--Mo's fictitious double--tries to keep the Book of Immortality from unraveling, Adderhead kidnaps all the children in the kingdom, asking for Bluejay's surrender or the children will be doomed to slavery in the silver mines.
11) The Thief Lord
Author
Pub. Date
[2002, c2000]
Language
English
Description
Prosper and Bo are orphans on the run from their cruel aunt and uncle. The brothers decide to hide out in Venice, where they meet a mysterious thirteen-year-old boy who calls himself the "Thief Lord." Brilliant and charismatic, the Thief Lord leads a ring of street children who dabble in petty crime.--Container
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Spanish Civil War. Ofelia and her pregnant mother, Carmen, have come to live with her mother's new husband in a forest north of Spain. Ofelia is afraid of her new stepfather, whom she has nicknamed "The Wolf," and worries that he will hurt her mother. In the forest she encounters a small twiglike creature that she knows immediately is actually a fairy. She follows it through the forest, where she meets a half-man, half-goat creature, the Faun. He...