Michael Buckley
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ABRAMS, Inc
Pub. Date
2017
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English
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First in the New York Times–bestselling series! “A world in which humans and fairy-tale creatures live side-by-side . . . Madcap adventure.” —School Library Journal
Orphaned sisters Sabrina and Daphne are sent to live with their newly discovered grandmother, Relda Grimm, in the strange town of Ferryport Landing. The girls soon learn a family...
Orphaned sisters Sabrina and Daphne are sent to live with their newly discovered grandmother, Relda Grimm, in the strange town of Ferryport Landing. The girls soon learn a family...
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The excitement of international espionage combined with the awkwardness of elementary makes for non-stop laughs in NERDS, the hilarious series from New York Times bestselling author Michael Buckley!
Meet the NERDS, a team of eleven-year-old super spies:
Duncan "Gluestick" Dewey: He's a paste-eater who can stick to walls.
Ruby "Pufferfish" Peet: Her allergies help her detect danger and dishonesty.
Heathcliff "Choppers" Hodges: He controls minds...
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Travels in the Tibetan World was winner of a Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism Award for Best Travel Book (2003). Extreme travel author Michael Buckley sets off on a decade-long quest to explore the bizarre Tibetan world. Join him for a remarkable journey--encompassing sacred realms and skulduggery, chats with the Dalai Lama, and rough trips over snowbound passes.
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Grany Relda's body has been hijacked by the Master, and it's up to Sabrina, Daphne, and the rest of the Grimms to fight for her freedom and that of Ferryport Landing in the series's grand finale. As war rips the town apart, Sabrina consults a team of magic mirrors, who prophesize that the only way the good guys will win is if she leads the army herself. Now, Sabrina controls the fate of all the Everafters, the very people who have made her life so...
5) Tibet
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This new, thoroughly updated edition of Bradt's Tibet encompasses the wider region of ethnic Tibet with more detailed coverage of the Amdo and Kham regions than is found in other guides. It also includes essential information on new border openings and is particularly strong on map data, which is extremely difficult to find in Tibet itself, including new theme maps covering a range of topics, from Tibetan regions to the Three Parallel Rivers UN World...
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Eccentric Explorers was Winner of the Biographycategory at the 2009 Indie Excellence Book Awards, California, USA. In this extensively researched book, the rich culture and history of Tibet are viewed through a rather special lens--through the eyes of ten wild and wacky adventurers, each bent on unlocking the strange riddles and secrets of Tibet.
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Shangri-La is one of the most evocative myths of our time -so powerful that it has entered the dictionary as a synonym for paradise.As myths go, it is a young one: Shangri-La made its debut with the 1933 publication of British author James Hilton's novel, Lost Horizon. No sooner was Shangri-La created by Hilton than a host of places staked claims to being the real location that inspired the book.
This guide to the mythical site of Shangri-La is...
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Tibetans have experienced waves of genocide since the 1950s. Now they are facing ecocide. The Himalayan snowcaps are in meltdown mode, due to climate change-accelerated by a rain of black soot from massive burning of coal and other fuels in both China and India. The mighty rivers of Tibet are being dammed by Chinese engineering consortiums to feed the mainland's thirst for power, and the land is being relentlessly mined in search of minerals to feed...
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The author indulges in the sport of tracking strange creatures to their lairs--including an unknown mammal in Bhutan, a very ugly waterbird in Cambodia, a bizarre primate in Borneo--and the highly dangerous Cassowary, in Australia. Not zoology--more like cryptozoology--coming face-to-face with near-mythical creatures.
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An illustrated, comprehensive guide to the New York Times–bestselling Sisters Grimm series.
Fascinating and funny, this behind-the-scenes look at the world of the Sisters Grimm is the perfect companion to the bestselling series that's full of magic and adventure, combining classic fairy tales and modern sensibilities.
Gathered here are maps, case files, journal entries, records of life in Ferryport Landing, character biographies, a Grimm family...
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A diabolical character is out to rewrite the fate of all fairytales in the eighth adventure in the New York Times—bestselling children's series.
Sabrina and Daphne Grimm have studied hundreds of stories as part of their training as fairy-tale detectives. But they're about to get caught up in the action when they follow the scheming Master into the Book of Everafter. Inside this mysterious tome, copies of the world's fairytale characters live out...
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Sisters Grimm volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
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English
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Orphans Sabrina and Daphne Grimm are sent to live with an eccentric grandmother that they have always believed to be dead.
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Sisters Grimm volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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Fairy-tale detectives Sabrina and Daphne Grimm face their first case without Granny Relda's help when the future gets mixed up with the past in Ferryport Landing, and because some of the future does not look bright, Puck helps them try to make some changes.
14) The inside story
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Sisters Grimm volume 8
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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Sabrina, Daphne, and Puck, stuck in the Book of Everafter, chase the Master through a series of stories, where they're willing to change what they need in order to save their baby brother. Soon, however, they are confronted by the Editor--the book's guardian--who, along with an army of tiny monsters known as Revisers, threatens the children with dire consequences if they don't stick to the stories. Faced with a challenge like this, will they be able...
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Sisters Grimm volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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When a kangaroo court of Everafters, led by Judge Mad Hatter, tries Mr. Canis for his past crimes as the Big Bad Wolf, the Grimms seek evidence to save their friend, although Sabrina questions whether he should be saved.
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Sisters Grimm volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 9
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English
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Although filled with anger over her parents' disappearance, eleven-year-old Sabrina Grimm-- along with her grandmother, sister, and several fairy-tale characters-- tries to discover who has killed her teacher.
17) Undertow
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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Lyric Walker witnessed the arrival of 30,000 Alpha, a five-nation race of ocean-dwelling warriors, on her beach in Coney Island. The world's awe over the Alpha quickly turns ugly and paranoid and violent, and Lyric's small town transforms into a military zone with humans on one side and Alpha on the other. When Lyric is recruited to help the crown prince, a boy named Fathom, assimilate, she begins to fall for him. But their love is a dangerous one,...
18) Raging sea
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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"Lyric Walker was there when the Alpha arrived. Like many, she wondered if they were invaders, never suspecting that they were on the run from a greater terror. When the real threat arrived, it came with a tidal wave that destroyed Coney Island. Everything and everyone Lyric ever cared for, including the Alpha prince Fathom, was either killed or lost forever. It changed the world. Now the military fights a war it cannot win against an enemy that will...
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Phaidon Press
Pub. Date
20190401
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English
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Buckley, the "New York Times"-bestselling author of the Sisters Grimm and NERDS series, and his 10-year-old son Finn deliver a laugh-out-loud, choose-your-own-ending tale of a distinguished lobster and a fateful dinner party. Full color.
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Sisters Grimm volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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When the fairy-tale detectives rush to New York City hoping to find an Everafter who can cure Puck, they trigger a chain of events that includes a murder mystery, and learn many new things about their mother who, along with their father, is still in an enchanted sleep.