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Author
Series
Miss Peregrine volume 3
Language
English
Description
Time is running out for the Peculiar Children. With a dangerous madman on the loose and their beloved Miss Peregrine still in danger, Jacob Portman and Emma Bloom are forced to stage the most daring of rescue missions. They'll travel through a war-torn landscape, meet new allies, and face greater dangers than ever. Will Jacob come into his own as the hero his fellow Peculiars know him to be? (Features more than 50 all-new Peculiar photographs.)
2) Framed
Author
Language
English
Description
Dylan and his sisters have some ideas about how to make Snowdonia Oasis Auto Marvel into a more profitable business, but it is not until some strange men arrive in their small town of Manod, Wales, with valuable paintings, and their father disappears, that they consider turning to crime.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Gifts from Gwyn's grandmother on his ninth birthday open up a whole new world to him, as he discovers he has magical powers that help him heal the breach with his father that has existed ever since his sister's mysterious disappearance four years before.
Author
Series
Dark is rising sequence volume 5
Language
English
Description
In the Welsh hills Will Stanton, youngest of the immortal Old Ones, joins forces with Merriman, Bran, and the mortal Drew children in a quest through space and time against the powers of evil known as the Dark.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
A mysterious island. An abandoned orphanage. And a strange collection of very curious photographs. It all waits to be discovered in Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children. As our story opens, a horrific family tragedy sets sixteen-year-old Jacob journeying to a remote island off the coast of Wales, where he discovers the crumbling ruins of Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children. As Jacob explores its abandoned bedrooms and hallways, it becomes...
Author
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
319 pages : maps ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
While spending the summer in Tenby, Wales, with their grandfather, American cousins Zoé and Ian assemble an old glass puzzle, inadvertently unleashing ancient forces that threaten the island and allowing them to travel into the past.
8) Greenwitch
Author
Series
Dark is rising sequence volume 3
Language
English
Description
The Dark has stolen an object of great power--a golden grail that holds a vital secret. Will embarks on a new quest to reclaim the grail, and to drive back the Dark once again. But first he will need the help of three former grail seekers: Jane, Simon, and Barney Drew.
Author
Series
Dark is rising sequence volume 4
Language
English
Description
With the final battle between the Light and the Dark soon approaching, Will sets out on a quest to call for aid. Hidden within the Welsh hills is a magical harp that he must use to wake the Sleepers--six noble riders who have slept for centuries.
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Magic is fading from Wales--choked off by King Offa's Dyke, the enemy earthworks that spans the entire border. Even the dragons have disappeared. And now an attack is imminent. Prince Taliesin would love to watch magic die. Prince Dafydd fears it, and the throne. But when their father promises the crown to whichever son can destroy the dyke and restore magic to Wales, the brothers are forced into an uneasy rivalry. Ffion works hedgewitch magic for...
12) King of the sky
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 25 x 29 cm
Language
English
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Description
When a young boy moves from his home in Italy to Wales, the only thing that cheers him up are the racing pigeons that Mr. Evans keeps in a loft behind his house.
13) Longing
Author
Language
English
Description
"From New York Times bestselling legend and author of the Survivors' Club series comes a cherished novel about the risks and the compromises that come with falling in love ... Governess and mistress-he wanted her as both ... The illegitimate daughter of an English lord, Sian Jones abandoned her heritage to live in a stalwart coal mining community in South Wales. Empowered by their cause, she's engaged to be married to the leader of a revolutionary...
14) Rainbow garden
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Desc
163 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
When she is sent from her London home to live in the Welsh countryside with the large, boisterous Owen family, eleven-year-old Elaine feels miserable and resentful until she discovers an abandoned garden and determines to make it her secret sanctuary.
16) Dragon breath
Author
Pub. Date
[1997]
Physical Desc
46 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
While visiting a town in Wales, a boy encounters a legend of a sleeping dragon that wakes up to ravage the countryside every fifty years, a story that seems about to come true once more.
17) Lily
Author
Series
Horse diaries volume 15
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
145 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1939 Wales, a strawberry roan Welsh pony named Lily and her rider Gwen are Pony Club members who enjoy competing in gymkhana games, but the start of World War II brings changes to their routine and a new member to the Pony Club--a prickly girl named Bridget, sent to the country to escape the threat of bombings in London.
Author
Series
Ashbury/Brookfield books volume 4
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
480 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Student essays, scholarship committee members' notes, and other writings reveal interactions between a group of modern-day students at an exclusive New South Wales high school and their strange connection to a young Irishman transported to Australia in the early 1800s.
19) The Welsh girl
Author
Pub. Date
2007.
Physical Desc
338 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
At the height of World War II, a forbidden romance blossoms between seventeen-year-old Esther Evans, the daughter of a Welsh shepherd, and Karsten Simmering, a troubled young German POW, who questions what he has been fighting for.
Author
Series
Dark is rising sequence volume 2
Pub. Date
[2010?]
Physical Desc
1,082 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
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