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Time Travelling with a Hamster
A truly original debut novel from an extraordinarily talented new voice in children�s books. Laugh, cry and wonder at this raceagainsttime story of a boy who travels back to 1984 to prevent a gokart accident, and save his father�s life �My dad died twice. Once when he was thirty nine and again four years later when he was twelve. The first time had nothing to do with me. The second time definitely did, but I would never even have been there if it hadn�t been for his �time machine� When Al Chaudhury discovers his late dad�s time machine, he finds that going back to the 1980s requires daring and imagination. It also requires lies, theft, burglary, and setting his school on fire. All without losing his pet hamster, Alan Shearer
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Tweenache In The Time Of Hashtags
#Tweenache101: First, there's PMS (it's real and it's painful and can someone please make it stop?). Second, there's #TheBoy. Yes, that's right. The BOY. And third, there's a #NewDad in the picture. Actually, he's an old dad, but if Nina's never met him before, he totally counts as new, right? And worst of all, there's the #NerdWars. There's a new nerd in the classroom - and she might be even nerdier than Nina. This. Can't. Be. Good
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Gay Neck The Story Of A Pigeon
Gay-Neck the Story of a Pigeon by Dhan Gopal Mukerji is literarily a story of a pigeon but much more captivating than a normal realistic fiction book. What makes this story different from other animal stories is that it's so amazingly told that you can't put it down. This story is about a boy in a high caste (Indian social classes) and a beautiful pigeon. At first, it talks about Gay-Neck's birth and training less thrillingly, but when you get to Gay-Neck's first experience against a hawk, you'll want to know what happens next. Soon you experience the battle field tension as Gay-Neck goes to war as a carrier pigeon for the first time. You can almost actually feel Gay-Neck's experience when he was shot and then healed by the lamas (the lamas are Buddhist monks in India). Dhan Mukerji's describes this story in such a great way. Imagine the distress to find out Gay-Neck's dad had perished in a rain storm after all Gay-Neck and his dad has gone through: pain, frustration, stress, and joy. For a few days Gay-Neck and his mother only sat on the tall roof top looking up at the sky through rain, sand, and wind storms waiting and hoping for a miracle that wouldn't come. Read this extraordinary novel. You'll love it. Being a bird lover, I really enjoyed the story. There was adventure, some excitement, and wonderful insights on bird and animal behavior. The author uses English in such an artistic manner that you'd think it was for young adults. He gives a wonderful descriptive story of the war life because he was a boy in India, something you don't get from history books. Sometimes I didn't really like it because it wasn't suspenseful enough and the chapters were too long. But other wise it's a great book!
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The Leaves
Imagine that somewhere on the other side of the planet, in a dusty little Indian village not on any tourist map, resides a palm leaf. And on that palm leaf, printed in an ancient Indian language is the story of your life. From the date and circumstance of your birth to your death and everything in between, it�s all there. Unfathomable? Now imagine that you're Max Marrick, world renowned New York physician on a trip to India, and you are the one person in the world whose leaf is blank. Are you a glitch in the Universe? A hole in the tapestry of time? Or are you a mythic threat to humanity, perceived as the bringer of the apocalypse? If you are Max Marrick, one thing � maybe the only thing � is for sure. You�d better
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The Tall Tales of Vishnu Sharma Panchatantra
Some old stories never lose their bite�Something�s invading the stories of our childhood, leaving death and oblivion in its wake. Now, a motley crew of animal heroes from ancient Indian fables must unite to survive. But first they must find the boy destined to save them, the chosen guardian of the Panchatantra. Thing is� Vishnu Sharma, would be boy-hero, is too busy playing in online tournaments to care about fighting storybook wars. But when a none-too-fictional talking lion, monkey and bull arrive at his doorstep, Vishnu must choose between protecting the tales of the Panchatantra , or silently standing by as they disappear into storybook history. With naughty boy wizards, cuddly anime-sociopaths, and a not-so-frightful King of the Jungle.
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The Cloud Castle
What is the secret of the clouds? The Thea Sisters have received an urgent message from their friend Will Mystery. The magical Land of Clouds is in danger. The mouselets must find out why the clouds are disappearing!
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Mouse House Hunter
Sally Ratmousen broke some shocking news: The Rodent's Gazette was out of money and in danger of closing. Then Grandfather William broke even worse news to me: I needed to sell my comfy, cozy house in order to save our paper! How terrible! But could I sell it -- and find a new home -- in time to help?