The Neverfear (Book 3 of Impossible Creatures)
by Katherine Rundell
Knopf Books for Young Readers
If you haven't read the first two in this series, do go back to Impossible Creatures and The Poisoned King. Every part of this series is amazing, but it does help to start at the beginning. Glimouria is a world not like our own - peopled with amazing, strange and sometimes deadly creatures - but with many of the same needs - friendships, family, trust and bravery.
This is listed for ages 10 and up but it is a great place for us "up"s to avoid our world and imagine how it could be.
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