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Books > Children's & Educational > Fiction > Fantasy & magical realism
After a summer spent trying to prevent a catastrophic war among the Greek gods, Percy Jackson finds his seventh-grade school year unnervingly quiet. His biggest problem is dealing with his new friend, Tyson―a six-foot-three, mentally challenged homeless kid who follows Percy everywhere, making it hard for Percy to have any “normal” friends.
But things don’t stay quiet for long. Percy soon discovers there is trouble at Camp Half-Blood: the magical borders which protect Half-Blood Hill have been poisoned by a mysterious enemy, and the only safe haven for demigods is on the verge of being overrun by mythological monsters. To save the camp, Percy needs the help of his best friend, Grover, who has been taken prisoner by the Cyclops Polyphemus on an island somewhere in the Sea of Monsters, the dangerous waters Greek heroes have sailed for millennia―only today, the Sea of Monsters goes by a new name…the Bermuda Triangle.
Now Percy and his friends―Grover, Annabeth, and Tyson―must retrieve the Golden Fleece from the Island of the Cyclopes by the end of the summer or Camp Half-Blood will be destroyed. But first, Percy will learn a stunning new secret about his family―one that makes him question whether being claimed as Poseidon’s son is an honor or simply a cruel joke.
In order to survive on her own, twelve-year-old Rooney de Barra
collects precious moonlight, which she draws from the evening sky
with her (very rare and most magical) lunar mirror. All the while
she tries to avoid the rival roughhouse boys, and yet another, more
terrifying danger: the dreaded thing that's been disappearing
children in the night. When Trick Aidan, the worst of the
roughhouse boys, steals her lunar mirror, Rooney will do whatever
it takes to get it back. Even if it means leaping into a pool of
darkness after it swallows Trick and her mirror. Or braving the
Plentiful Darkness, a bewitching world devoid of sky and stars. Or
begrudgingly teaming up with Trick to confront the magician and
unravel the magic that has trapped Warybone's children.
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The Magic Vest
(Hardcover)
Shereen Quraeshi; Illustrated by Madeleine Sibthorpe
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