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The Tinysaurs Trick-or-Treat
by Patricia Hegarty (Author) and Dean Gray (Illustrator)
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Booktalk: Clawdie, Spike, and Roary prepare for Halloween by decorating the house and getting ready to welcome the trick-or-treaters who come to their door. But the Tinysaurs realize that they don’t have any candy to give out! Clawdie comes up with the idea that they should go trick-or-treating to get candy, and then they can give it out to the kids who come to their door. And while they’re able to collect some candy, they’re all having problems with their costumes. Can anything be done to save Halloween?

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It’s that spooky time of year again,
when ghosts and witches are seen.
There is dressing up to trick-or-treat —
the Tinysaurs LOVE Halloween!

The Dire Days of Willowweep Manor
by Shaenon K. Garrity (Author) and Christopher Baldwin (Illustrator)
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Booktalk: One dark and stormy night, Haley sees a stranger drowning in the river. Since her greatest passion is Gothic romance novels, she knows her moment has come. But when Haley leaps into the water to rescue the stranger, she awakens in Willowweep. It certainly looks like the setting of one of her favorite books: A stately manor. A sinister housekeeper. Three brooding brothers. There’s even a ghost.

Except Willowweep is not what it seems. Its romantic exterior hides the workings of a pocket universe–the only protection our world has against a great force of penultimate evil, and its defenses are crumbling. Could cruel fate make Haley the heroine that Willowweep needs?

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