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1) Knight Owl
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After achieving his dream of becoming a knight, a small owl protects the castle from a hungry dragon.
2) The capture
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Guardians of Ga'Hoole volume 1
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The reader is introduced to Soren, a barn owl and the centerpiece of the series. When Soren is pushed from his family's nest by his older brother, he is rescued from certain death on the forest floor by agents from a mysterious school for orphaned owls, St. Aggie's. When Soren arrives at St. Aggie's, he suspects there is more to the school than meets the eye. He and his new friend, the clever and scrappy Gylfie, find out that St. Aggie's is actually...
3) Frostbite
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Modern knights volume 1
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Colin Fisher is a young man with a lot of problems on his plate: a dying father, a dead car doubling as a home, and a mysteriously disappeared fiancée. You'd think with a magical inclination he'd be able to turn it all around, but not so much. But his bad luck appears to be on the way out when he's hired as the personal wizard to the CEO of a multinational corporation.
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White man -- Wall of America -- Ringtime -- Owl and the pussycat -- Canned goods -- Abduction of Bunny Steiner, or, A shameless lie -- Jour de Fete -- Voices of the kill -- Nights in the gardens of the Kerhonkson prison for the aged and infirm -- Family of the post-apocalypse -- In praise of older women -- Painting eggplants -- Three chronicles of Xglotl and Rwang -- In Xanadu -- Torah! Torah! Torah!: Three Bible tales for the third millennium --...
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"After dark, when we are thinking about going to sleep, many amazing animals are just waking up. What do they do in the dark of the night? *Bats fly out of caves, zigzagging into the sky. * Wolf pups wrestle, growl, and romp. *Tarantulas emerge from their lairs--leg by leg by leg. *Fireflies flit through lawns, their flashes lighting up the dark. With this engaging collection of twenty-one poems, learn about the hidden lives of these nocturnal animals...
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Otulissa's compendium becomes a catchall guide to the history, life, and spirit of the tree and its heroes: Joss, brave messenger of legends; the brothers Ifghar and Ezylryb; Theo, the peaceful warrior; Gylfie, Digger, and Twilight's lives before they came to the tree; Strix Struma, Uglamore, Trader Mags, and others.
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For twelve long years, the dread fortress of Azkaban held an infamous prisoner named Sirius Black. Convicted of killing thirteen people with a single curse, he was said to be the heir apparent to the Dark Lord, Voldemort. Now he has escaped, leaving only two clues as to where he might be headed: Harry Potter's defeat of You-Know-Who was Black's downfall as well. And the Azkaban guards heard Black muttering in his sleep, "He's at Hogwarts... he's at...
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