"Includes brand-new full color illustrations! Celebrate Christmas with Jack, Annie, and the Magic Tree House with this oversized, gorgeously illustrated deluxe holiday edition from the #1 bestselling chapter book series. When Jack and Annie receive an invitation to spend Christmas Eve in Camelot--a magical place that exists only in myth and fantasy--they know they are in for their biggest adventure yet. What they don't know is that the invitation...

Young wizard's apprentice Connwaer travels to the city of Desh to find the source of the malevolent Shadows who are plaguing Wellmet City.

Gangly Tristan Hunt joins others who have special talents in the water at a special summer camp in the Florida Keys, but soon he must put fun and games aside to help respond to distress calls coming in from ocean animals.

"She and her brother, Charles Sebastian, were taught to be careful -- as all mice are -- but caution is no match for the sea, which took their mother, and it is certainly no match for Special Lady, the horrid cat who ate their sister. Now the siblings hide in their pantry crate, knowing every move they make could be their last. When a shocking mutiny forces Clarice onto a small, leaky boat with Special Lady and a dozen hungry sailors with deadly boots,...

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