Mary GrandPré
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The dragon lady Miss Drake is shocked when her new human pet, precocious Winnie, seems to believe that she--the dragon--is her pet. Miss Drake sets about showing Winnie that things are really the other way around--but then Winnie's sketches of San Francisco's fantastic, mysterious creatures come to life and escape into the city's streets.
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Winnie is challenged to adapt to a new school for girls where teaching is anything but ordinary and where the eclectic student body includes magicals as well as humans, and while Winnie uses her wits to find her own way, crusty dragon Miss Drake is secretly trying to discover and foil a new plot by Winnie's grandfather to gain custody of her.
6) Sweep dreams
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A man who loves a magical, dancing broom learns how to make her happy, finds her after she is stolen, and finally sets her free and hopes that she will someday return home.
9) Tickety tock
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Schmuel the tailor rushes through his life, not really doing what he wants to until a magic clock gives him the time to appreciate the world around him.
10) Pockets
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A stranger arrives at a remote village and becomes the tailor, sewing magical embroidered scenes into the pockets of their plain clothes, which transforms their humdrum lives forever.
12) Nancy and Plum
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Two orphaned sisters are sent to live at a boarding home run by the cruel and greedy Mrs. Monday, where they dream about someday having enough to eat and being able to experience a real Christmas.
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Harry Potter wants to get away from the pernicious Dursleys and go to the International Quidditch Cup with Hermione, Ron, and the Weasleys. He wants to dream about Cho Chang, his crush (and maybe do more than dream). He wants to find out about the mysterious event involving two other rival schools of magic, and a competition that hasn't happened for a hundred years. He wants to be a normal, fourteen-year-old wizard. Unfortunately for Harry Potter,...