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  • THE DANCING CATS OF APPLESAP
    JANET TAYLOR LISLE
    In a forgotten small town, one girl and a hundred cats are about to do something spectacular Applesap is a small town smack dab in the middle of New York state, and beyond that geographical oddity, there isn't much special about it. It has a dress shop, a run-down movie theater, and two old-fashioned drug stores: Jiggs' and the Super Queen. But nobody goes to Jiggs'. The roof i...

    $85.00

  • AFTERNOON OF THE ELVES
    JANET TAYLOR LISLE
    In "this enchanting story about friendship," two fourth grade girls discover a magical world hidden in one's backyard ( Publishers Weekly).   No fourth grader trusts Sara-Kate Connolly. Her boots are dirty, her clothes are weird, and she's so maladjusted that the school had to hold her back a grade. But Hillary is her next-door neighbor, and can't say no when the unusual loner ...

    $119.00

  • ANGELA'S ALIENS
    JANET TAYLOR LISLE
    When their best friend changes drastically, the Investigators suspect extraterrestrial trouble Georgina and Poco should not be climbing an apple tree in the dark. But Poco, who talks to animals, has recently developed a serious crush on a robin, and she gets worried when the bird doesn't return to his nest one night. Poco convinces her friend to come with her to check on the ne...

    $119.00

  • THE GOLD DUST LETTERS
    JANET TAYLOR LISLE
    While searching for her fairy godmother, a young girl uncovers a world of magic It starts with chocolates. Dreaming of a box of chocolates that never empties, Angela writes a letter to her fairy godmother asking for one. To her surprise, the fairy writes back! A letter appears on her mantelpiece from "Pilaria of the Kingdom of the Faeries," written on ancient parchment with pur...

    $119.00

  • THE GREAT DIMPOLE OAK
    JANET TAYLOR LISLE
    An ancient oak tree has seen glory and tragedy—but nothing quite as spectacular as the showdown that's brewing For nearly a thousand years, the Dimpole Oak has towered over this small East Coast town, witnessing the passage of history: duels and revolution, lovers' trysts and traitors' hangings, victory parades and midnight conspiracies. The farmer who owns the land beneath the...

    $85.00

  • THE LAMPFISH OF TWILL
    JANET TAYLOR LISLE
    On the unforgiving coast of Twill, a boy is sucked into a fantastic adventure The country of Twill has a notoriously treacherous coastline: rough, rocky, and primed for shipwrecks and drownings. In the salt-scarred port town of Twickham, the locals are dependent on fishing. Everyone pitches in, devising new ways to catch fish and crabs without falling prey to the dangerous rock...

    $119.00

  • LOOKING FOR JULIETTE
    JANET TAYLOR LISLE
    Poco is horrified when Angela's cat disappears while under her watch. Is magic involved? Together, Angela, Poco, and Georgina have investigated some peculiar happenings. They are just on the verge of a major magical breakthrough when Angela's father moves to Mexico, taking Angela and breaking up the trio of friends. As consolation, Angela gives Poco her cat, Juliette, to care f...

    $119.00

  • A MESSAGE FROM THE MATCH GIRL
    JANET TAYLOR LISLE
    In search of the truth about his heritage, Walter only finds more mystery Walter Kew has grown up without a past. Orphaned since birth and raised by his grandparents, he knows nothing about his parents, who died in an accident. Obsessively curious about the mother he never knew, he turns to the occult, using Ouija boards, crystal balls, and spells to reach out to the other worl...

    $119.00

  • HOW I BECAME A WRITER AND OGGIE LEARNED TO DRIVE
    JANET TAYLOR LISLE
    Winner of Italy's 2006 Premio Andersen Award:  A young writer's fantasy world becomes dangerously entangled with reality Eleven-year-old Archie and his six-year-old brother, Oggie, are constantly going back and forth between their mother's home and the apartment that their father shares with his girlfriend. To distract Oggie from the turbulence of endlessly bouncing from "Satur...

    $85.00

  • FOREST
    JANET TAYLOR LISLE
    War is coming, and it will take two very unusual friends to avert a showdown in the town of Forest Upper Forest is the kingdom of an ancient clan of squirrels. For years they have lived and died in the trees, building an elaborate civilization high above the earth. Since man came to Forest, the trees have been thinned, but there are still enough thick groves where the squirrels...

    $119.00

  • THE LOST FLOWER CHILDREN
    JANET TAYLOR LISLE
    Two grieving sisters resolve to break a spell cast by evil fairies After the death of their mother, Olivia and Nellie are shipped off to their great-aunt's house for the summer. Nine-year-old Olivia is not excited about the trip—she has to keep one eye on kind but eccentric Aunt Minty and the other on her younger sister, Nellie, who's been behaving oddly. But the summer takes a...

    $119.00

  • SIRENS AND SPIES
    JANET TAYLOR LISLE
    After their violin teacher is attacked, two sisters stumble on dark secrets from her girlhood in France during World War II Elsie and Mary's lives are changed when they meet Miss Fitch, a fascinating Frenchwoman who makes her living teaching children the violin. She seems to be everything an instructor should be: stern when her students are slacking; inspiring when they lose he...

    $119.00