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Impossible Creatures (Impossible Creatures series)

Katherine Rundell

Illustrator: Ashley Mackenzie

Ages: 12+

Published: 2024

Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf/Random House Children's Books/PRH

ISBN: 978-0-593-80986-0

Keywords: Fantasy-Magic, Quests, Mythical animals

While rescuing a griffin, Christopher stumbles into a magical archipelago and meets a girl who can fly. Together they must save the world. Line drawings. Glossary of magical beasts.