Tag: fantasy
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Title: The Last Mapmaker Author: Christina Soontornvat Publication Info: 2022 Candlewick Press The Plot: Sai lives in the kingdom of Mangkon and works as an assistant to the famous mapmaker Paiyoon Wongyai. Unbeknownst to her master, Sai comes from the troubled underclass of Mangkon society and has little room for advancement in life. When the…
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The Plot: Twelve year old Lalani lives on the island of Sanlagita, in a village that is suffering from drought and an oppressive patriarchal structure. The village elders have long warned of staying away from Mount Kahana, the dangerous mountain on the island, as well as the beauty of Mount Isa, the mythical mountain across…
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The Plot In Five Sentences Or Less: Every year the members of the Proctectorate have taken an infant and left it in the woods as a sacrifice to the witch. Unbeknownst to them, the witch, who name is Xan, has shepherded each baby to another town so that it can be raised by a loving…
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The Plot In Five Sentences Or Less: The one thing that Penelope wants to be is a writer, but she has no time in her busy schedule to put her thoughts on paper. But that’s all about to change, because one day, while looking at her schedule, she falls into the Realm of Possibility. It’s…
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The Plot In 5 Sentences: After Emily and Navin’s dad perishes in a horrible accident, their mother moves them to a spooky, rural house once owned by their grandfather. The children soon discover his old workshop as well as an amulet that Emily ties around her neck. That night, when a creature kidnaps their mom,…
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The Plot In Five Sentences Or Less: Will, raised as a ward of the castle and having never known his parents, faces his destiny on his Choosing Day. Hoping that he will go to fighting school, Will is surprised when the shadowy figure of Halt requests that Will join his team of Rangers, a stealthy…
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The Plot In Five Sentences Or Less: Daphne and Sabrina have bounced among foster homes for the past few years ever since their parents passed away. Their latest foster mother is an eccentric old woman calling herself Mrs. Grimm and claiming to be the girls’s grandmother. She takes the girls to her old house stocked…
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The Plot In Five Sentences Or Less: While mourning the disappearance of his father two years prior, Gregor and his younger sister Boots are sucked into an underworld through a grate in their apartment building’s laundry room. They soon discover thriving societies of crawlers (cockroaches), humans, spiders, and rats that live together through a fragile…
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The Story in 5 Sentences Or Less: Rump lives with his Gran in a village in the mountains where people pass their miserable days working the gold mines to receive their weekly food rations from the town Miller. Rump’s life changes when he salvages a spinning wheel that was once his mothers and soon discovers…
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The Plot (in 5 sentences or less): Leven Thumps is a 14 year old boy in Oklahoma whose life changes when he meets Clover, a small fantastical furry creature. Through his time with Clover, Leven finds that he has the power to summon lightning and also to see into the future. They soon meet…
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