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Get ready for Jack's adventures out West, as Smiling Jack Candle crosses paths with a grim sheriff from back East who carries no gun.

Seventeen-year-old Fable joins the young, motley crew of the Marigold to escape the island where her father abandoned her, but she quickly realizes life off the island is more dangerous than she imaged.

The Marigold and its crew were set to start over with Fable free of her father, until she becomes a pawn in a notorious thug's scheme, needing to get him to the notorious gem dealer, Holland. As she learns that her mother was keeping secrets that endanger the people Fable has come to care about, she must risk everything, including the boy she loves and the home she has finally found, in order to save it.

A mouse begs a lion for mercy and, after he is set free, promises that he will help the lion some day in return.

"In this modern-day re-telling of Aesop's fable 'The Lion and the Mouse, ' James doesn't turn in a misbehaving kindergartner and in turn, she helps him"--

"In this modern-day re-telling of Aesop's fable 'The Boy Who Cried Wolf, ' Andrew ruins a surprise his sisters are making for his mom when he gets bored and cries 'wolf' too many times"--

"Animal Farm is an allegorical and dystopian novella by George Orwell, first published in England on 17 August 1945. According to Orwell, the book reflects events leading up to the Russian Revolution of 1917 and then on into the Stalinist era of the Soviet Union. Orwell, a democratic socialist, was a critic of Joseph Stalin and hostile to Moscow-directed Stalinism, an attitude that was critically shaped by his experiences during the Spanish Civil...

"In this modern-day re-telling of Aesop's fable 'The City Mouse and the Country Mouse, ' Liz turns up her nose at farm cooking while Abby learns she prefers the peace of the farm to the excitement of the city"--

Charlie Mackesy offers inspiration and hope in uncertain times in this beautiful book, following the tale of a curious boy, a greedy mole, a wary fox and a wise horse who find themselves together in sometimes difficult terrain, sharing their greatest fears and biggest discoveries about vulnerability, kindness, hope, friendship and love. The shared adventures and important conversations between the four friends are full of life lessons that have connected...

Annith's worst fears are realized when she discovers that, despite her lifelong training to be an assassin, she is being groomed by the abbess as a Seeress, to be forever shut up in the convent of Saint Mortain.