The Chestnut Soldier

The Chestnut Soldier
Author: Jenny Nimmo
Publisher:
Total Pages: 167
Release: 1990
Genre: Magic
ISBN:

In this thrilling conclusion to the Magician trilogy, Gwyn senses danger from a broken toy horse that holds the evil spirit of a prince who lived long ago. When Gwyn discovers that the prince's dark soul has escaped and is seeking revenge, Gwyn, Emlyn, and Nia must figure out how to save the mysterious soldier.

Emlyn's Moon

Emlyn's Moon
Author: Jenny Nimmo
Publisher:
Total Pages: 157
Release: 1996-07
Genre: Children's stories, English
ISBN: 9780749701406

The Snow Spider

The Snow Spider
Author: Jenny Nimmo
Publisher:
Total Pages: 160
Release: 2004-04
Genre: Children's stories
ISBN: 9781405211383

Gwyn's grandmother gives him five mysterious birthday presents that help him find out if he is a magician.

Soldier Dog

Soldier Dog
Author: Sam Angus
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
Total Pages: 235
Release: 2013-04-16
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1250037646

With his older brother gone to fight in the Great War, and his father prone to sudden rages, 14-year-old Stanley devotes himself to taking care of the family's greyhound and puppies. Until the morning Stanley wakes to find the puppies gone. Determined to find his brother, Stanley runs away to join an increasingly desperate army. Assigned to the experimental War Dog School, Stanley is given a problematic Great Dane named Bones to train. Against all odds, the pair excels, and Stanley is sent to France. But in Soldier Dog by Sam Angus, the war in France is larger and more brutal than Stanley ever imagined. How can one young boy survive World War I and find his brother with only a dog to help?

Soldier on Her Doorstep

Soldier on Her Doorstep
Author: Soraya Lane
Publisher: Harlequin
Total Pages: 187
Release: 2011-07-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1459208129

Soldier Alex Dane promised his dying comrade he'd make sure his wife and daughter were okay, and so he finds himself on a doorstep with his heart in his mouth. Lisa Kennedy loved her husband, but she must focus on her daughter, Lilly, who hasn't spoken since her daddy's death. Still, the least she can do is offer this battle-weary hero a place to rest. When Lilly's little hand reaches for Alex's big, strong one, for the first time Lisa feels her buried emotions begin to stir.…

The Stone Mouse

The Stone Mouse
Author: Jenny Nimmo
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2007
Genre: Anger in children
ISBN: 9781406306057

When Elly and her family come to look after aunt's house, she sees at once that Stone Mouse is special, but her brother Ted says he's just a dirty old pebble. Magical story about change and moving on. 7 yrs+

Shades of Grey

Shades of Grey
Author: Jasper Fforde
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 419
Release: 2009-12-29
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1101159650

From the New York Times bestselling author of the Thursday Next series comes a “laugh-out-loud funny” (Los Angeles Times) and “brilliantly original” (Booklist, starred review) novel of a man attempting to navigate a color-coded world. “A rich brew of dystopic fantasy and deadpan goofiness.”—The Washington Post Welcome to Chromatacia, where the Colortocracy rules society through a social hierarchy based on one’s limited color perception. In this world, you are what you can see. Eddie Russet wants to move up. When he and his father relocate to the backwater village of East Carmine, his carefully cultivated plans to leverage his better-than-average red perception and marry into a powerful family are quickly upended. Eddie must content with lethal swans, sneaky Yellows, inviolable rules, an enforced marriage to the hideous Violet deMauve, and a risky friendship with an intriguing Grey named Jane who shows Eddie that the apparent peace of his world is as much an illusion as color itself. Will Eddie be able to tread the fine line between total conformity—accepting the path, partner, and career delineated by his hue—and his instinctive curiosity that is bound to get him into trouble?

Chestnut

Chestnut
Author: Jennifer Li Shotz
Publisher: HMH Books For Young Readers
Total Pages: 339
Release: 2020-10-06
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0358108705

From the #1 New York Times best-selling author of Max comes a heartwarming, middle grade adventure story about a rescue dog, Chestnut, who befriends a girl trying to save her family's Christmas tree farm in North Carolina. Chestnut is a dog without a family. After being abandoned in the wild, Chestnut is wandering the North Carolina countryside trying to survive. When twelve-year-old Meg stumbles upon him on the outskirts of her family's Christmas tree farm, she just knows that they're meant to be together forever. The only problem? The farm is on the brink of closing down, and her family can't afford a pet. Meg knows she has what it takes to save the business and take care of Chestnut--she'll just need to keep him a secret until then. Will Meg and Chestnut get their Christmas miracle?

Soldier of the Mist

Soldier of the Mist
Author: Gene Wolfe
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 350
Release: 1986
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0312937342

Latro, a mercenary soldier, lost his memory after a head wound and must continually rediscover his identity. However, he is now able to converse with supernatural creatures which is both a triumph and a danger.

All the Light We Cannot See

All the Light We Cannot See
Author: Anthony Doerr
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 560
Release: 2014-05-06
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1476746605

*NOW A NETFLIX LIMITED SERIES—from producer and director Shawn Levy (Stranger Things) starring Mark Ruffalo, Hugh Laurie, and newcomer Aria Mia Loberti* Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist, the beloved instant New York Times bestseller and New York Times Book Review Top 10 Book about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II. Marie-Laure lives with her father in Paris near the Museum of Natural History where he works as the master of its thousands of locks. When she is six, Marie-Laure goes blind and her father builds a perfect miniature of their neighborhood so she can memorize it by touch and navigate her way home. When she is twelve, the Nazis occupy Paris, and father and daughter flee to the walled citadel of Saint-Malo, where Marie-Laure’s reclusive great uncle lives in a tall house by the sea. With them they carry what might be the museum’s most valuable and dangerous jewel. In a mining town in Germany, the orphan Werner grows up with his younger sister, enchanted by a crude radio they find. Werner becomes an expert at building and fixing these crucial new instruments, a talent that wins him a place at a brutal academy for Hitler Youth, then a special assignment to track the Resistance. More and more aware of the human cost of his intelligence, Werner travels through the heart of the war and, finally, into Saint-Malo, where his story and Marie-Laure’s converge. Doerr’s “stunning sense of physical detail and gorgeous metaphors” (San Francisco Chronicle) are dazzling. Deftly interweaving the lives of Marie-Laure and Werner, he illuminates the ways, against all odds, people try to be good to one another. Ten years in the writing, All the Light We Cannot See is a magnificent, deeply moving novel from a writer “whose sentences never fail to thrill” (Los Angeles Times).