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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
The God of Small Things	Arundhati Roy	The God of Small Things is the debut novel of Indian writer Arundhati Roy. It is a story about the childhood experiences of fraternal twins whose lives are destroyed by the "Love Laws" that lay down …	OL1052138W
Angelina at the fair	Helen Craig,Katharine Holabird	Angelina's annoyance at having to take her little cousin Henry to the fair turns into friendship after a day filled with adventures and surprises.	OL109072W
Angelina on stage	Helen Craig	When Cousin Henry gets all the attention in the grown-up musical in which they have roles, Angelina becomes jealous, but she demonstrates her fondness for him when a crisis occurs on opening night.	OL109075W
Novels (Agnes Grey / Jane Eyre / Wuthering Heights)	Charlotte Brontë,Emily Brontë,Anne Brontë	The three great novels collected here are set in a beautiful by awe-inspiring landscape and they explore the darkest and most extreme emotions. Here are some of the most memorable characters in liter…	OL1095411W
Melonhead	Katy Kelly	DANNY'S TALL AND skinny. Even though he's not built, his arms are long enough to give his pitch a power so fierce any college scout would sign him on the spot. A 95 mph fastball, but the boy's not ev…	OL11764312W
Ethnographic atlas	George Peter Murdock	The Ethnographic Atlas is a database on 1167 societies coded by George P. Murdock and published in 29 successive installments in the journal ETHNOLOGY, 1962-1980. It gives ethnographic codes and geog…	OL1181936W
Blackbeard's treasure	Craig Michaels	While attending summer camp on Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, four cousins, aged eight to fourteen, become involved in the search for the pirate Blackbeard's lost treasure ship, the "Queen Anne's Rev…	OL12017380W
Adventure in the Wilderness	Veda Boyd Jones	In the early nineteenth-century, thirteen-year-old Betsy Miller and her pesky eleven-year-old cousin, George Lankford, travel with their parents from Boston to their new home in Cincinnati and have m…	OL13256W
What could go wrong?	Willo Davis Roberts	During a frightening trip spent in airplanes and airports between Seattle and San Francisco, eleven-year-old Gracie and her two cousins Charlie and Eddie get involved with sinister characters, identi…	OL13321W
One of the Third Grade Thonkers	Phyllis Reynolds Naylor	Ashamed of his wimpy younger cousin, eight-year-old Jimmy is determined to keep him out of his special club for rough, tough, and terrible boys, until an accident involving Jimmy's father demonstrate…	OL13462W
Sometimes we're always real same-same	Mattox Roesch	Troubled Cesar leaves his gangbanging life behindin Los Angeles to help his mother reconnect withher estranged family in rural Alaska, where shehopes they both can carve out a fresh start. WhenCesar …	OL13780324W
Addie's long summer	Laurie Lawlor	Twelve-year-old Addie eagerly awaits her cousins' summer visit to her prairie home but, once they arrive, finds things much more complicated than she had ever imagined.	OL145225W
Aunt Crete's emancipation	Grace Livingston Hill	Lucretia Ward, or Aunt Crete to her family, lived with her sister and niece. As an older unmarried lady, she depended on family for room and board, and her family was more than willing to work her f…	OL14848554W
Right from wrong	Cindy Bonner	This is the fouth of Cindy Bonner's deliciously romantic historic novels. And once again she perfectly captures the spirit of another time. Here are Texas farm families swept up in the drama of World…	OL14852491W
Eva's summer vacation	Jan Machálek	Eva, who lives in Prague, spends her summer vacation with her cousins in the Moravian countryside village of Hluk, where she attends her aunt's wedding and explores the countryside.	OL14864182W
Summer of the war	Gloria Whelan	It's the summer of 1942. At her grandparents' island cottage in Michigan, 14–year–old Belle excitedly awaits the arrival of her exotic older cousin, Carolyn. Belle's expecting worldly sophistication …	OL14866593W
Dark water	Laura McNeal	Living in a cottage on her uncle's southern California avocado ranch since her parent's messy divorce, fifteen-year-old Pearl Dewitt meets and falls in love with an illegal migrant worker, and is tra…	OL14919518W
Scots on the Rocks	Mary Daheim	When Judith and her cousin Renie go on vacation in a remote and possibly haunted Scottish castle owned by a rich whiskey distillery baron strange things start occurring. They meet Harry Gibbs, a diss…	OL14937629W
Lovestruck Summer	Melissa Walker	Austin music festYay, summer in Austin!Good food, good times. Fun for everyone!Okay, living with my sorority-brainwashed cousin, who willingly goes by "Party Penny," is not exactly what I had in mind…	OL14993920W
On guard	Jake Maddox	Trey Smith, the captain of the Wildcats, knows he's one of the best players on the team. He doesn't worry about anything when he's on the court. But then he finds out that he knows someone on a rival…	OL15037864W