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  • Tiger, Tiger

    Lynne Reid Banks

    eBook (Laurel Leaf, March 25, 2009)
    Two tiger cub brothers are torn from the jungle and taken to Rome. The stronger cub is trained as a killer at the Coliseum. Emperor Caesar makes a gift of the smaller cub to his beautiful daughter, Aurelia. She adores her cub, Boots. Julius, a young animal keeper, teaches Aurelia how to earn Boots’s trust. Boots is pampered while his brother, known as Brute, lives in the cold and darkness, let out only to kill. Caesar trusts Julius to watch Aurelia and her prized pet. But when a prank backfires, Boots temporarily escapes and Julius must pay with his life. Thousands watch as Julius is sent unarmed into the arena to face the killer Brute.
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  • Lynne Reid Banks: Return of the Indian, Secret of the Indian, Mystery of the Cupboard, Indian in the Cupboard

    Lynne Reid Banks

    Paperback (Camelot, Nov. 1, 1994)
    Including all four Indian in the Cupboard titles, this set features The Indian in the Cupboard, The Return of the Indian, The Secret of the Indian and The Mystery of the Cupboard in the Camelot edition format.
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  • Tiger, Tiger

    Lynne Reid Banks

    Hardcover (Delacorte Books for Young Readers, June 14, 2005)
    Two tiger cub brothers are torn from the jungle and taken to Rome. The stronger cub is trained as a killer at the Coliseum. Emperor Caesar makes a gift of the smaller cub to his beautiful daughter, Aurelia. She adores her cub, Boots. Julius, a young animal keeper, teaches Aurelia how to earn Boots’s trust. Boots is pampered while his brother, known as Brute, lives in the cold and darkness, let out only to kill. Caesar trusts Julius to watch Aurelia and her prized pet. But when a prank backfires, Boots temporarily escapes and Julius must pay with his life. Thousands watch as Julius is sent unarmed into the arena to face the killer Brute.
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  • The Fairy Rebel

    Lynne Reid Banks

    language (Yearling, April 6, 2011)
    The Fairy Queen strictly forbids fairies from using their magic power on humans. But after Tiki accidentally meets Jan, a woman who is desperate for a baby daughter, she finds it impossible to resist fulfilling her wish. Now up against the dark and vicious power of evil, this fairy rebel must face the Queen’s fury with frightening and possibly fatal results.
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  • The Key to the Indian

    Lynne Reid Banks

    eBook (HarperCollinsChildren'sBooks, June 20, 2013)
    The fifth title in this gripping series about Omri and his plastic North American Indian – Little Bull – who comes alive when Omri puts him in a cupboardOmri and his father travel back in time to find Little Bull and his people in deep trouble, torn between staying in the West and facing extinction or starting a long trek to a new life in Canada. Omri’s final parting with Little Bull is incredibly moving yet the book is also very funny.We meet other favourite characters as well as some new ones and there are wonderful descriptive passages about Little Bull’s longhouse and the Iroquois lifestyle. Even though this seems like the end of the story, Lynne does have ideas for a sequel.
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  • Tiger, Tiger

    Lynne Reid Banks

    Mass Market Paperback (Laurel Leaf, Feb. 13, 2007)
    Two tiger cub brothers are town from the jungle and taken to Rome. The stronger cub is trained as a killer at the Coliseum. Emperor Caesar makes a gift of the smaller cub to his beautiful daughter, Aurelia. She adores her cub, Boots, and Julius, a young animal keeper, teaches her how to earn the tiger's trust. Boots is pampered while his brother, known as Brute, lives in a cold and dark cage, let out only to kill. Caesar trusts Julius to watch Aurelia and her prized pet. But when a prank backfires, Boots temporarily escapes and Julius must pay with his life. Thousands watch as Julius is sent unarmed into the arena to face the killer Brute.
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  • The Secret Of The Indian

    Lynne Reid Banks

    Library Binding (Turtleback, Feb. 9, 2010)
    FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Omri and his friend Patrick must risk grownups discovering their secret when they find themselves in need of a friend's toy plastic doctors to save wounded people from the dangerous world of the Old West, which the cupboard enables them to enter.
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  • The Indian in the Cupboard Series: The Indian in the Cupboard; The Return of the Indian; The Secret of the Indian

    Lynne Reid Banks

    language (Delacorte Books for Young Readers, July 3, 2012)
    Acclaimed New York Times selected "best book of the year," The Indian in the Cupboard, joins The Return of the Indian, and The Secret of the Indian for this eomni special. With magical and fantastical elements, these three extraordinary novels have withstood the test of time to become beloved classics. Young readers are drawn to the endearing characters, the fast-paced and convincingly portrayed action, and themes of friendship, responsibility, and burgeoning independence. This eomni edition will surely take a prominent place on everyone's virtual bookshelves!
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  • My Darling Villain

    Lynne Reid Banks

    Hardcover (Harper & Row, Jan. 1, 1977)
    Fifteen-year-old Kate becomes aware of the class consciousness of her middle class family and friends when she falls in love with a boy from a working class family.
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  • I, Houdini

    Lynne Reid Banks

    Paperback (Yearling, Nov. 11, 2003)
    One family’s household has been in a state of disarray because of one small furry problem. Meet Houdini, an extraordinarily brilliant escapologist. No, not that Houdini. This one is a hamster. Once you meet him, you will understand that his owners just couldn’t name him anything else, for his name is quite fitting. He can escape from anything—a cage or the clutches of a mean cat. While on his escapades, he causes all kinds of trouble from chewing through wires to causing a flood. But Houdini thinks it’s all worth it, because he is desperate to explore the great Outdoors. But once he gets out, will he ever come back? Or will this be his final escape?
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  • The Secret of the Indian

    Lynne Reid Banks

    Paperback (Collins Publishers, Jan. 1, 2010)
    Secret of the Indian
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  • I, Houdini: The Autobiography of a Self-Educated Hamster

    Lynne Reid Banks

    Paperback (HarperCollins Children's Books, Feb. 1, 2010)
    He may look like a small, furry pet, but really he is a Wild Creature - a freedom-loving hamster with a life-long passion for escape and a yearning for the Great Outside, leaving chaos and destruction as he goes.He tells his hilarious adventures with great intelligence and no modesty - for the world beyond carpets and floorboards can be a terrifying place...
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