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Stuart Little
E. B. White - Harper & Row
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A paperback edition of E.B. White's classic novel about one small mouse on a very big adventure! With black and white illustrations.Stuart Little is no ordinary mouse. Born to a family of humans, he lives in New York City with his parents, his older brother George, and Snowbell the cat.... |
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The Mouse and the Motorcycle
Beverly Cleary - W. Morrow
Format: Print book
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In this imaginative adventure from Newbery Medal-winning author Beverly Cleary, a young mouse named Ralph is thrown into a world of excitement when a boy and his shiny toy motorcycle check into the Mountain View Inn.When the ever-curious Ralph spots Keith's red toy motorcycle, he vows to ride... |
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The Cricket in Times Square
George Selden - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover
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After Chester lands, in the Times Square subway station, he makes himself comfortable in a nearby newsstand. There, he has the good fortune to make three new friends: Mario, a little boy whose parents run the falling newsstand, Tucker, a fast-talking Broadway mouse, and Tucker's sidekick,... |
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Strawberry Girl
Lois Lenski - HarperCollins Publishers
Format: Paperback
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Birdie Boyer was a Florida Cracker. She belonged to a large "strawberry family," who lived on a flatwoods farm in the lake section of the state. They raised strawberries for a living.Through all the hazards of the uncertain crop -- battling against dry weather and grass fires,... |
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Wizard of Oz
L Frank Baum - Robert Frederick Ltd.
Format: Print book
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Illustrated child's edition of the classic Wizard of Oz. |
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Alice in Wonderland
Lewis Carroll - Firefly Books
Format: Paperback
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A beautiful new edition of Steadman's 1968 work, now available in paperback. The force of social satire and fantasy in the original text of Alice in Wonderland is as relevant today as when the book was first published in 1865. In this edition, Ralph Steadman's drawings remain... |
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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Roald Dahl - Knopf Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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Fifty years ago, Roald Dahl created a world that captured the imagination of millions of readers, and a boy who captured their hearts. Now featuring an introduction by award-winning author Jon Scieszka, this special edition of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is perfect for longtime Roald... |
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Island of the Blue Dolphins
Scott O'Dell - Listening Library
Format: Audio CD
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In the Pacific there is an island that looks like a big fish sunning itself in the sea. Around it, blue dolphins swim, otters play, and sea elephants and sea birds abound. Once, Indians also lived on the island. And when they left and sailed to the east, one young girl was left behind.This... |
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Shiloh
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor - Atheneum
Format: Hardcover
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Eleven-year-old Marty Preston loves to spend time up in the hills behind his home near Friendly, West Virginia. Sometimes he takes his .22 rifle to see what he can shoot, like some cans lined up on a rail fence. Other times he goes up early in the morning just to sit and watch the fox and deer.... |
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The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle
Avi - Orchard Books
Format: Print book
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As the lone "young lady" on a transatlantic voyage in 1832, Charlotte learns that the captain is murderous and the crew rebellious. |
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Anne of Green Gables
L M Montgomery - Children's Classics
Format: Print book
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Anne (with an 'e' of course) starts out as a mistake. The elderly Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert had planned on adopting a boy to help Matthew with the chores on their Prince Edward Island farm. What are they to do with the red-haired, high-spirited girl who arrives instead?Anne Shirley,... |
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Little House on the Prairie
Laura Ingalls Wilder - HarperCollins
Format: Print book
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The adventures continue for Laura Ingalls and her family as they leave their little house in the Big Woods of Wisconsin and set out for Kansas. They travel for many days in their covered wagon until they find the best spot to build their little house on the prairie. Soon they are planting... |
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Robinson Crusoe
Daniel Defoe - Cosmopolitan Book
Format: Print book
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During one of his several adventurous voyages in the 1600's an Englishman becomes the sole survivor of a shipwreck and lives for nearly thirty years on a deserted island. |
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Homer Price
Robert McCloskey - Viking Press
Format: Book
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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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The Dark Is Rising
Susan Cooper - Simon Pulse
Format: Paperback
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Continuing the story begun in OVER SEA, UNDER STONE, THE DARK IS RISING is the second book in Susan Cooper's popular fantasy quintet. Here readers meet Will Stanton, the seventh son of a seventh son, who, on his 11th birthday, discovers that he is an Old One, a group of immortals charged... |
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Lassie Come-Home
Eric Knight - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Print book
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A beloved classic gets a beautiful new look.Lassie is Joe's prize collie and constant companion. But when Joe's father loses his job, Lassie must be sold. Three times she escapes from her new owner, and three times she returns home to Joe, until finally she is taken to the remotest part... |
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The Indian in the Cupboard
Lynne Reid Banks - Doubleday
Format: Hardcover
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Full of magic and appealing characters, this classic novel takes readers on a remarkable adventure.It's Omri's birthday, but all he gets from his best friend, Patrick, is a little plastic Indian brave. Trying to hide his disappointment, Omri puts the Indian in a metal cupboard and locks... |
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The Jungle Book
Rudyard Kipling - Children's Classics
Format: Print book
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One of the all-time favorite stories from Rudyard Kipling is back, featuring delightful full-color and black-and-white illustrations. |
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Misty of Chincoteague
Marguerite Henry - Aladdin Books
Format: Paperback
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Nobody could capture the Phantom. She was the wildest mare on Assateague Island. They said she was like the wind, that the white "map" on her shoulders was her mark of freedom. Paul and Maureen Beebe had their hearts set on owning her. They were itching to buy and tame her; and worked... |
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My Side of the Mountain
Jean Craighead George - Dutton
Format: Print book
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A young boy relates his adventures during the year he spends living alone in the Catskill Mountains including his struggle for survival, his dependence on nature, his animal friends, and his ultimate realization that he needs human companionship. |
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The phantom tollbooth
Norton Juster - Yearling
Format: Print book
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A journey through a land where Milo learns the importance of words and numbers in providing a cure for his boredom. |
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The Borrowers
Mary Norton - Harcourt
Format: Paperback
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The Borrowers - the Clock family: Homily, Pod, and their fourteen-year-old daughter, Arrietty, to be precise - are tiny people who live underneath the kitchen floor of an old English country manor. All their minuscule home furnishings, from postage stamp paintings to champagne cork chairs,... |
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Mary Poppins
P L Travers - Harcourt Children's Books
Format: Print book
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By P.L. Travers, the author featured in the upcoming movie Saving Mr. Banks. |
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The Penderwicks on Gardam Street
Jeanne Birdsall - Knopf Books for Young Readers
Format: Library Binding
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With over one million copies sold, this series of modern classics about the charming Penderwick family from National Book Award winner and New York Times bestseller Jeanne Birdsall is perfect for fans of Noel Streatfeild and Edward Eager.The Penderwick sisters are home on Gardam Street... |
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Tuck Everlasting
Natalie Babbit - Square Fish
Format: Paperback
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Doomed to -- or blessed with -- eternal life after drinking from a magic spring, the Tuck family wanders about trying to live as inconspicuously and comfortably as they can. When ten-year-old Winnie Foster stumbles on their secret, the Tucks take her home and explain why living forever... |
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Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Washington Irving - Creative Education
Format: Print book
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A superstitious schoolmaster, in love with a wealthy farmer's daughter, has a terrifying encounter with a headless horseman. |
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Treasure Island
Robert Louis Stevenson - Scribner
Format: Print book
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Masterfully crafted, "Treasure Island" is a stunning yarn of piracy on the fiery tropic seas -- an unforgettable tale of treachery that embroils a host of legendary swashbucklers, from honest young Jim Hawkins to sinister, two-timing Israel Hands, to evil incarnate, blind Pew.... |
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Heidi
Johanna Spyri - Children's Classics
Format: Print book
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A Swiss orphan is heartbroken when she must leave her beloved grandfather and their happy home in the mountains to go to school and to care for an invalid girl in the city. |
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The Egypt Game
Zilpha Keatley Snyder
Format: Print book
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A group of children, entranced with the study of Egypt, play their own Egypt game, are visited by a secret oracle, become involved in a murder, and befriend the Professor before they move on to new interests, such as Gypsies. |
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Pilgrim's Progress
Gary D. Schmidt - Eerdmans Books for Young Readers; First Edition edition
Format: School & Library Binding
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This volume offers a superb retelling in contemporary language of John Bunyan's beloved classic, masterfully illustrated with fifty watercolor paintings by Barry Moser. Here again is the tale of Christian's spiritual journey from the City of Destruction to the Heavenly Palaces,... |
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The Yearling (Aladdin Classics)
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings - Aladdin
Format: Paperback
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An American classic - and Pulitzer Prize-winning story - that shows the ultimate bond between child and pet.No novel better epitomizes the love between a child and a pet than The Yearling. Young Jody adopts an orphaned fawn he calls Flag and makes it a part of his family and his best friend.... |
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A Long Way from Chicago: A Novel in Stories
Richard Peck - Dial; 1st edition
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This Newbery Honor Winner and National Book Award Finalist is an unforgettable modern classic and features the debut of the larger-than-life Grandma Dowdel What happens when Joey and his sister, Mary Alice—two city slickers from Chicago—make their annual summer visits... |
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Hatchet
Gary Paulsen - Listening Library
Format: Audio CD
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ALONEThirteen-year-old Brian Robeson is on his way to visit his father when the single-engine plane in which he is flying crashes. Suddenly, Brian finds himself alone in the Canadian wilderness with nothing but a tattered Windbreaker and the hatchet his mother gave him as a present - and the dreadful... |
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The Secret Garden
Frances Hodgson Burnett - Oxford University Press, USA
Format: Hardcover
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A beautiful and timeless story about friendship, secrets, and the human spirit, The Secret Garden tells the story of orphaned Mary Lennox, who is sent to live in her uncle's house on the Yorkshire moors. Her uncle's wife died tragically ten years earlier, and the house is an unhappy... |
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Sarah, Plain and Tall
Patricia MacLachlan - HarperCollins
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"Did Mama sing every day?" Caleb asks his sister Anna."Every-single-day," she answers. "Papa sang, too."This Newbery Medal–winning book is the first of five books in Patricia MacLachlan's chapter book series about the Witting family. Set in the late... |
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The Little Prince
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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Few stories are as widely read and as universally cherished by children and adults alike as The Little Prince. Richard Howard's translation of the beloved classic beautifully reflects Saint-Exupry's unique and gifted style. Howard, an acclaimed poet and one of the preeminent translators... |
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Charlotte's Web
E. B. White - Harper & Brothers; 1st edition
Format: Large print book
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This beloved book by E. B. White, author of Stuart Little and The Trumpet of the Swan, is a classic of children's literature that is "just about perfect."Some Pig. Humble. Radiant. These are the words in Charlotte's Web, high up in Zuckerman's barn. Charlotte's... |
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James and the Giant Peach
Roald Dahl - Puffin Books
Format: Paperback
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A little magic can take you a long way...Roald Dahl was a champion of the underdog and all things little - in this case, an orphaned boy oppressed by two nasty, self-centered aunts. How James escapes his miserable life with the horrible aunts and becomes a hero is a Dahlicious fantasy of the highest... |
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The BFG
Roald Dahl - Everyman's Library
Format: Hardcover
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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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Matilda (Puffin Modern Classics)
Roald Dahl
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"The Trunchbull" is no match for Matilda! Matilda is a sweet, exceptional young girl, but her parents think she's just a nuisance. She expects school to be different but there she has to face Miss Trunchbull, a kid-hating terror of a headmistress. When Matilda is attacked by the Trunchbull... |
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Caddie Woodlawn
Carol Ryrie Brink - Aladdin
Format: Hardcover
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An illustrated edition of the Newberry Medal-winning Caddie Woodlawn, which has been captivating young readers since 1935.. Caddie Woodlawn is a real adventurer. Shed rather hunt than sew and plow than bake, and tries to beat her brothers dares every chance she gets. Caddie is friends with... |
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Mr. Poppers Penguins
Richard Atwater - Little, Brown Books for Young Readers; Illustrated edition
Format: Hardcover
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The classic Newbery Honor book that inspired the hilarious Jim Carrey movie--and a childhood favorite book for generations.Mr. Poppers Penguins is one of the handful of American books... |
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The Black Stallion
Walter Farley
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THE SOLE SURVIVORS of a devastating shipwreck, Alec Ramsay and the Black Stallion must learn to rely on each other to survive. As a strong bond develops between them, Alec gains the trust of the magnificent beast and eventually the Black allows Alec to ride. Finally, they are rescued, but will... |
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The Boxcar Children
L. Kate Deal - Albert Whitman & Company
Format: Library Binding
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The Aldens begin their adventure by making a home in a boxcar. Their goal is to stay together, and in the process they find a grandfather. |
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The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
Hiawyn Oram - HarperCollins
Format: Print book
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A picture book retelling of C. S. Lewis's classic story, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, for the youngest fans! Introduce them to the magic of Narnia with this picture book featuring illustrations by Tudor Humphries.Now younger children can share the magical experience, entering... |
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