JFIC Stand Alone Books


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4.3 stars
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Kidsnatched from her orphanage by a BFG (Big Friendly Giant), who spends his life blowing happy dreams to children, Sophie concocts with him a plan to save the world from nine other man-gobbling cannybull giants.
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4.3 stars
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Taking up where "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" leaves off, Charlie, his family, and Mr. Wonka find themselves launched into space in the great glass elevator.
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4.8 stars
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A young English boy describes his relationship with his father and the special adventure they share together.
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4.5 stars
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The enormous crocodile devises secret plans and a few clever tricks to secure his lunch only to have them foiled by his neighbors.
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5 stars
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Shy Mr. Hoppy devises a plan to win the heart of his true love by teaching her a spell to make her tortoise grow bigger.
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4 stars
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Three farmers, each one meaner than the other, try all-out warfare to get rid of the fox and his family.
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George decides that his grumpy, selfish old grandmother must be a witch and concocts some marvelous medicine to take care of her.
Book cover for "The giraffe and the pelly and me"
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A small boy with a desire to own a candy shop meets a window-washing team composed of a giraffe, a pelican, and a monkey and together they go to work for the wealthy Duke of Hampshire, who makes all their dreams come true.
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When a mysterious old man gives James some magical, tiny green things, he certainly never imagines that they will grow into an enormous peach. A young boy escapes from two wicked aunts and embarks on a series of adventures with six giant insects he meets inside a giant peach.
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5 stars
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Angered by a neighboring family's sport hunting, an eight-year-old girl turns her magic finger on them.

11. Matilda

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Matilda applies her untapped mental powers to rid the school of the evil, child-hating headmistress, Miss Trunchbull, and restore her nice teacher, Miss Honey, to financial security.
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Little Billy enters the Forest of Sin and meets the Minpins, matchstick-sized people who live in tree cities besieged by the Smoke-Belching Gruncher whom Billy vows to destroy.
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3.5 stars
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The misadventures of two terrible old people who enjoy playing nasty tricks and are finally outwitted by a family of monkeys.
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The vicar's speech impediment leads to holy hysteria in an otherwise quiet country parish.
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4.6 stars
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A young boy and his Norwegian grandmother, who is an expert on witches, together foil a witches' plot to destroy the world's children by turning them into mice.
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5 stars
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A short story collection which is a mixture of fact and fiction. A collection of stories, mostly fiction, some fact, from the mind of Roald Dahl.