Kevin Hawkes
2) I was a rat
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English
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A little boy turns life in London upside down when he appears at the house of a lonely old couple and insists he was a rat.
4) Library lion
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Candlewick Press
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English
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A lion starts visiting the local library but runs into trouble as he tries to both obey the rules and help his librarian friend.
5) Dial-a-ghost
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English
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A family of nice ghosts protects a British orphan from the diabolical plans of his evil guardians. When orphaned Oliver Smith inherits gloomy Helton Hall, his scheming cousins are determined to get rid of him and hire some terrifying ghosts from the Dial-a-Ghost agency to scare Oliver to death. But the creatures don't behave as expected, and soon join Oliver against his cousins. However, they may have all underestimated the depth of the cousins' evil...
7) Weslandia
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Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
[1999]
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English
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Wesley's garden produces a crop of huge, strange plants which provide him with clothing, shelter, food, and drink, thus helping him create his own civilization and changing his life.
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After twelve-year-old Annika, a foundling living in late nineteenth-century Vienna, inherits a trunk of costume jewelry, a woman claiming to be her aristocratic mother arrives and takes her to live in a strangely decrepit mansion in Germany.
11) Dogosaurus Rex
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Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Ben selects from the shelter a most unusual "dog" that wreaks havoc in town until she has a chance to prove her worth.
12) Not just a witch
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Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
2003.
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English
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Determined to be more than just an ordinary witch, Heckie, whose speciality is changing people into animals, settles in a small town determined to use her powers for good purposes.
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Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2024
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English
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"On a street of old houses, a big hairy spider is searching for a home with dark corners to hide in. But when he wakes up, he finds a hand reaching for him and a lady proclaiming that she has always wanted a kitten—and will name him Luigi! At first, a somewhat puzzled Luigi, used to being left alone to creep and dangle and spin webs, resists her kind advances. But soon, tasty breakfasts and getting tucked into bed (no one’s ever wished him good...