Brandon Mull, S&S/Aladdin, $19.99 (464p) ISBN 978-1-4169-9792-4
Mull (the Fablehaven series) launches the Beyonders trilogy with a dark tale that updates classic tropes with solid contemporary characters. Thirteen-year-old Jason is transported (via hippopotamus gullet, no less) from Colorado to Lyrian, a magical
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Brandon Mull. Scholastic, $12.99 (224p) ISBN 978-0-545-52243-4
Mull (the Beyonders books) kicks off the multiplatform Spirit Animals series with an exciting first installment (volume two arrives in January 2014, written by Maggie Stiefvater). In the world of Erdas, 11-year-olds must all drink the Nectar to see...
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Brandon Mull. S&S/Aladdin, $16.99 (432p) ISBN 978-1-4424-9700-9
Mull (the Beyonders books) opens the Five Kingdoms series with this fanciful, action-packed adventure in which a sixth-grader is stranded in a strange world where magic is real and dreams have power. After Cole and his friends are lured into a...
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Brandon Mull, read by Nicola Barber. Scholastic Audio, unabridged, five CDs, 5.5 hrs., $29.99 ISBN 978-0-545-60038-5
Set in the world of Erdas, this first book in Mull’s new series follows four young children who drink magical Nectar and discover that they have spirit animals—a wolf, a leopard, a panda, and a falcon. As Greencloaks (those in possession of spirit...
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Brandon Mull, Author, Brandon Dorman, Illustrator , illus. by Brandon Dorman. Shadow Mountain $17.95 (32p) ISBN 978-1-60641-109-4
Mull's (the Fablehaven series) mischievous story introduces a boy named Chad with a furry, goblinlike imaginary friend, Pingo, who sports polka-dotted boxers and a striped scarf. For a time, Pingo and Chad happily battle ninjas and concoct...
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Brandon Mull, read by Keith Nobbs. Audioworks, , unabridged, 11 CDs, 12.5 hrs., $39.99 ISBN 978-1-4423-6767-8
The first in Mull’s Five Kingdom series begins on Halloween, as sixth-grader Cody and his friends venture into a haunted house and unexpectedly embark on a journey into a world called the Outskirts. This in-between world proves hard to escape. Cody’s
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Brandon Mull, illus. by Mike Walton. Shadow Mountain, $17.99 (32p) ISBN 978-1-62972-610-6
Mull and Walton’s message-heavy picture book aims to diffuse the anxiety of imagined horrors at bedtime. The way to banish monsters, the text sensibly suggests, is for kids to arm themselves with knowledge about their characteristics, behaviors, and
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