Michael Bedard

• Jul-1989
• / General Fiction
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It began innocently enough with the discovery of an old flyer announcing a long-forgotten magic show held on Saturday, August 8, 1936. But since then, Emily and her teacher, Miss Potts, have been drawn into sinister and frightening shadows from a...

• Nov-1989
• / General Fiction
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• May-1990
• / General Fiction
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One, two! One, two! The soldier comes marching down the road on his way home from the wars. Little does he know that the old woman who waits by the gnarled tree will change his life forever. Copper, silver and more gold than he could ever have imagin...

• Nov-1990
• / Horror
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• Mar-1992
• / General Fiction
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Long, long ago there was an Emperor of China whose palace was quite the most wonderful in all the world. But when visitors came from afar, it wasn''t the palace that impressed them. Instead, they spoke of the song of the nightingale that lived i...

• Apr-1994
• / Fantasy
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A visit from strange Aunt Emily invokes in Alice a foreboding sense of evil, as they find connections between the local library's collection of old puppets and a sinister magic show that took place twenty-eight years earlier...

• Sep-1997
• / General Fiction
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A revealing glimpse inside the secret world of the four Bronte+a5 children describes their strict lives in an English parsonage and the rich imagination that spawned some of the classic works of English literature....

• Sep-2000
• / Historical
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When Willa Cather was a girl, her family moved west to the open prairie of Nebraska, leaving behind a world Willa loved dearly. Gone were the wooded hills and the meadows marbled with sheep. In their place was a flat, empty land, as bare as a strip o...

• Oct-2000
• / General Fiction
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At night we lay in bed and listened to the howl of the wolf on the hill. In sleep, we saw his shadow slink along the moonlit wall as the great beast circled the town.

No one in Gubbio is safe from the monstrous wolf that stalks them. The ...

• Jul-2001
• / General Fiction
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Day after day, brand new ducks roll off a giant assembly line operated by alligators at the Colossal Duck Factory. They are loaded into trucks and taken to Ducktown, where they are fattened up in preparation for their final destination -- into the st...

• Sep-2002
• / General Fiction
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The clock mounted on the face of the organ loft made a muted click as it measured off another minute. Charles glanced up at it â€" 4:30. It would soon be safe to leave for home.

The inside of the old church was dim. The only light came th...

• Nov-2002
• / General Fiction
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From Michael Bedard and two-time Caldecott Medal-winning illustrator Barbara Cooney comes a story about American poet Emily Dickinson and the young girl who befriends her.

What if your neighbor were the reclusive poet Emily Dickinson? And wha...

• Oct-2003
• / General Fiction
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Honor Book for the Society of School Librarians International’s Best Book Award - Language Arts, Grades K-6 Novels

Selected as one of four recipients of the 2004 Aesop Accolade

Selected by the Pennsylvania School Librarians Associatio...

• Apr-2012
• / General Fiction
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Teenaged O â€" never call her Ophelia â€" is about to spend the summer with her aunt Emily. Emily is a poet and the owner of an antiquarian book store, The Green Man. A proud, independent woman, Emily’s been made frail by a heart attack. O will be ...

• Mar-2021
• / Mystery
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A darkly fantastic middle-grade mystery with the ominous atmosphere loved by fans of Jonathan Auxier and Jonathan Stroud

Thirteen-year-old Simon’s life has been knocked askew ever since his family moved into his dece...