Emily Rodda, Author . Scholastic $16.99 (342p) ISBN 978-0-545-03535-4
At the start of Rodda's (the Deltora Quest series) proficient, old-fashioned fantasy, Leo's great-aunt Bethany has bequeathed him the Langlander family treasure: a music box with minutely painted details of a realm populated, as Leo...
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Emily Rodda, Author Greenwillow Books $15.99 (176p) ISBN 978-0-06-029775-6
Emily Rodda's Rowan and the Travelers follows up on the magic begun in Rowan of Rin. Now, Rowan struggles to understand the mysterious sleeping sickness that takes over the town with the arrival of a nomadic tribe called the Travelers. ( Oct.)
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Emily Rodda, Author Greenwillow Books $15.99 (208p) ISBN 978-0-06-029776-3
Back for a third installment in Emily Rodda's Rowan and the Keeper of the Crystal, the hero faces his greatest challenge yet when the poisoning of his mother thrusts him into the role of selecting a new ""keeper of the crystal"" as he also...
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Emily Rodda. Scholastic Press, $16.99 (272p) ISBN 978-0-545-42990-0
Mining folktale tropes, veteran Australian author Rodda (the Deltora Quest series) opens her Three Doors trilogy with promising urgency and a twist of historical consciousness. The enclave of Weld, surrounded by a wall with no opening, is under...
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Emily Rodda, Author, Raoul Vitale, Illustrator . HarperCollins $8.99 (128p) ISBN 978-0-06-009584-0
Rodda (Rowan of Rin series) launches the Fairy Realm series with this taut, engaging fantasy tale. Jessie visits her maternal grandmother, Jessica, at Blue Moon, a rambling old house with a "secret garden" where Jessie feel safe and peaceful.
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Emily Rodda, Author, Geoff Kelly, Illustrator Greenwillow Books $15 (0p) ISBN 978-0-688-14214-8
A video game overlaps with family dynamics in this rousing but possibly overstimulating picture book from an Australian author and artist. When the narrator receives the game ""Power and Glory"" as a birthday present, he begins trying to defeat its...
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Emily Rodda, Author, Noela Young, Illustrator Greenwillow Books $12.95 (184p) ISBN 978-0-688-10516-7
Patrick's skill at a computer game earns him a place on Finders Keepers , a positively dizzy and dizzying game show transmitted from a parallel dimension, in which Finders from our dimension win valuable prizes by hunting for objects that have...
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Emily Rodda, Author, Noela Young, Illustrator Greenwillow Books $15 (0p) ISBN 978-0-688-08130-0
Rodda takes a funny ideapigs might flyand expands it to an entertaining novel for middle readers. On a rainy day, Rachel is tired of being cooped up with a cold, and wishes somethinganythingwould happen. She gets her wishthe next time she awakens...
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Emily Rodda, Author, Craig Smith, Illustrator Greenwillow Books $15 (40p) ISBN 978-0-688-15255-0
Set at an amusement park, this hyperbolic escapade, an Australian import, follows a loop-de-loop pattern of ups (""yay!"") and downs (""oh""). The freckled narrator loves all the attractions at Crazy Family Fun World, but his faint-hearted relatives
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