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Alice's adventures in Wonderland
by Lewis Carroll
This edition brings together the complete and unabridged text with more than 70 stunning illustrations by Robert Ingpen, each reflecting his unique style and extraordinary imagination in visualising this enchanting story.
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The mouse and the motorcycle
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Beverly Cleary
A reckless young mouse named Ralph makes friends with a boy in room 215 of the Mountain View Inn and discovers the joys of motorcycling
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The Watsons go to Birmingham--1963 : a novel by Christopher Paul Curtis When his parents decide it is time to visit Grandma, ten-year-old Kenny and his siblings, including the "juvenile delinquent" Byron, journey to Alabama during a dark period in American history. Newbery Honor. Coretta Scott King Honor.
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James and the giant peach
by Roald Dahl
When a mysterious old man gives James some magical, tiny green things, he certainly never imagines that they will grow into an enormous peach
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The birchbark house
by
Louise Erdrich
Omakayas, a seven-year-old Native American girl of the Ojibwa tribe, lives through the joys of summer and the perils of winter on an island in Lake Superior in 1847
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The great brain
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John Dennis Fitzgerald
In a small town in turn-of-the-century Utah, a precocious ten-year-old boy hatches scheme after scheme to gain prestige and money. Reissue.
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The phantom tollbooth
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Norton Juster
Discovering a large toy tollbooth in his room, bored ten-year-old Milo drives through the tollbooth's gates and begins a memorable journey to the Kingdom of Wisdom with a watchdog named Tuck. Tour.
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From the mixed-up files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
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E. L. Konigsburg
Having run away with her younger brother to live in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, twelve-year-old Claudia strives to keep things in order in their new home and to become a changed person and a heroine to herself
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Rabbit Hill
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Robert Lawson
New folks are coming to live in the Big House. The animals of Rabbit Hill wonder if they will plant a garden and thus be good providers
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A wrinkle in time
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Madeleine L'Engle
Meg Murry and her friends become involved with unearthly strangers and a search for Meg's father, who has disappeared while engaged in secret work for the government
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Strawberry girl
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Lois Lenski
Ten-year-old Birdie Boyer's cannot wait to pick some ripe and juicy strawberries, but she and her family, just moved to the Florida backwoods, have to deal first with some natural obstacles and some feuding neighbors. Winner of the Newbery Medal. Reprint.
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Homer Price,
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Robert McCloskey
Six episodes in the life of Homer Price including one in which he and his pet skunk capture four bandits and another about a donut machine on the rampage
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Anne of Green Gables
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L. M. Montgomery
Anne, an eleven-year-old orphan, is sent by mistake to live with a lonely, middle-aged brother and sister on a Prince Edward Island farm and proceeds to make an indelible impression on everyone around her
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Five children and it
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E. Nesbit
A series of phenomenal adventures follows when young Anthea discovers a sand-fairy who can grant wishes
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Mrs. Frisby and the rats of Nimh
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Robert C. O'Brien
Having no one to help her with her problems, a widowed mouse visits the rats whose former imprisonment in a laboratory made them wise and long lived
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The little prince
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Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
An aviator whose plane is forced down in the Sahara Desert encounters a little prince from a small planet who relates his adventures in seeking the secret of what is important in life
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Black Beauty
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Anna Sewell
A horse in nineteenth-century England recounts his experience with both good and bad masters
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Roll of thunder, hear my cry
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Mildred D. Taylor
Facing a year of night riders and burnings, Cassie and her family continue their struggle to keep their land and hold onto what rightfully belongs to them, despite the difficult battles they must continue to endure. Reprint. Winner of the Newbery Medal.
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All-of-a-kind family
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Sydney Taylor
Portrays the joys and troubles of five high-spirited Jewish sisters as they grow up in New York City
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Twenty thousand leagues under the sea
by
Jules Verne
Professor Aronnax sets out in search of a dangerous sea monster, only to learn that the monster is really Captain Nemo's powerful submarine
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