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1) Familiaris
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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"The story of the Sawtelle family and the remarkable dogs that carry the Sawtelle name. It is spring 1919, and John Sawtelle's imagination has gotten him into trouble, again. Now John and his newlywed wife, Mary, along with their two best friends and their three dogs, are setting off for Wisconsin's Northwoods, where they hope to make a fresh start, and, with a little luck, discover what it takes to live a life of meaning, purpose and adventure. But...
Author
Publisher
New York Review Books
Language
English
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Even as he lives his life, Jacques L'Aumône, its hero, daydreams a hundred other possible lives. A few lines on a page, a chance encounter, a remark overheard in passing, any of these are enough to kick things into gear and send him off outside of himself to become a boxer, a general, a bishop, or a lord. He lives alongside his life with diligence and steadfastness; and the passage from real to dream is so natural for him that he no longer knows...
3) Roxaboxen
Author
Publisher
Lothrop, Lee & Shepard
Pub. Date
[1991]
Language
English
Description
A hill covered with rocks and wooden boxes becomes an imaginary town for Marian, her sisters, and their friends.
Author
Series
Ghost mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
Allie knows it's not her imagination when she hears a voice and sees in her mind's eye the face of a girl who seems to be seeking Allie's help.
9) Hurricane
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
[1990]
Language
English
Description
The morning after a hurricane, two brothers find an uprooted tree which becomes a magical place, transporting them on adventures limited only by their imaginations.
10) August the tiger
Author
Publisher
Crocodile Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
When August's wild behavior gets him sent outside, he imagines he is a real tiger, able to do whatever he wants, but finds that being wild has disadvantages, too.
Author
Publisher
Albert Whitman & Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Sam has a very busy family. Mom works late; Dad's projects pile up. Even Sam's younger sister Marla is always doing something. Everyone in Sam's family has their own idea of what the perfect vacation would look like. But there's one thing they all agree on: they just can't get away right now. So Sam comes up with a different kind of getaway. With a little planning, a few supplies, and a touch of creativity, she finds that her family's dream vacation...
Author
Publisher
Europa Editions
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Imagine a child, a daydreamer, one of those boys who is always gazing out windows. His adoring grandmother, busy in the kitchen, keeps an eye on him. The child stares at the building opposite, watching a black-haired girl as she dances recklessly on her balcony. He is in love. And a love like this can push a child to extremes. He can become an explorer or a cabin boy, a cowboy or castaway; he can fight duels to the death, or even master unfamiliar...
15) Blue rider
Author
Publisher
Groundwood Books, House of Anansi Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
In a book without words, a child finds a book on a crowded city sidewalk and is transported beyond the repetitive sameness of an urban skyscape into an untamed natural world.
16) Warp
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"The lost literary origin story of #1 bestseller Lev Grossman - including a new foreword about how and why he wrote his first novel: "It is the intense, concentrated, boiled-down essence of the unhappiest years of my life." Twenty-something Hollis Kessler languishes in a hopelessly magician-less world (with the exception of a fleet-footed nymph named Xanthe) not too far from where he graduated college. His friends do, too. They sleep late, read too...
Author
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
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In 1939, the families in a remote Jewish village in Romania feel the war close in on them. Their tribe has moved and escaped for thousands of years, but now, there is nowhere else to go. At the suggestion of an eleven-year-old girl and a mysterious stranger who has washed up on the riverbank, the villagers decide to reinvent the world.
20) Ladybug Girl
Author
Series
Ladybug Girl volume 1
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
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Description
After her brother tells her she is too little to play with him, Lulu, dressed as Ladybug Girl, makes her own fun.
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