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Pub. Date
[2007]
Description
Jesse Aarons is in the 5th grade and has trained all summer to become the fastest runner in school. He becomes upset when new classmate Leslie Burke outruns him and everyone else. Despite this and some other striking differences, the two become fast friends. Together, they create Terabithia where they rule as king and queen and is a land filled with monsters, trolls, ogres, and giants. This friendship helps Jesse cope with a tragedy that makes him...
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Series
Hildafolk volume 2
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Hilda finds her world turned upside down as she faces the prospect of leaving her snow-capped birthplace for the hum of the megalopolis. Her mother, an architect, has been offered a prestigious position in the bustling metropolis that she would find hard to reject. Besides, the tiny elven creatures making a daily habit of bombarding them with threats isn't making Hilda's case any better. As she seeks ways to stall her mother's decision, Hilda rushes...
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Pub. Date
2018
Description
"In the welcoming town of Gableview, there lives a secret giant.... But little Billy thinks this Giant is just a tall tale Grandad likes to tell. After all, why would the Giant stay hidden in a town as nice as Gableview? Grandad knows why: People are afraid of things that look different. One morning, Billy comes face-to-face with the Giant.... Will he let his fear get the best of him, or will he make a new friend?" -- from front jacket flap.
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Pub. Date
2020.
Description
When Jack is sent to market to sell his family's cow, he makes a trade for some magical beans, much to his mother's chagrin. To Jack's surprise, the beans grow into a giant beanstalk. Jack climbs all the way up and encounters a frightening giant. But when the giant is fast asleep, Jack climbs up and steals his treasures.
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A platonic romance between a librarian and a teenage boy. The boy is James, who suffers from giantiam--never stops growing--while she is Peggy, a spinster 14 years his senior. During their 10-year relationship she redoes a house and a car to fit him. Only when he dies is there sex--with his father
96) Giant Tess
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Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
Being the only giant around, Tess wants more than anything to be like everyone else, but when she and Smokey, her dragon best friend, use their height to help save the big parade, Tess suddenly realizes that she is just the right size.
97) Giant steps
Author
Pub. Date
[2004]
Description
Five giants play a global game of tag, and while the first four run just as far as they can go, north, south, east, and west, the unlucky fifth giant has to count.
98) Tall tales
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Series
Once upon another time volume 2
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
Seeking revenge from his loss in the Cursed City, the Golden King starts spreading shadow magic over the kingdoms, and according the fairy queens sacred book, only Lena can defeat him and his dark spells, but first she must prove she is worthy but completing three challenges.
100) Giants
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Pub. Date
[2009]
Description
Examines the stories and legends about mythological giants, including the Centimanes, cyclops, ogres, trolls, Jotun, and others.