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Journey to the river sea
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Eva Ibbotson |
Sent with her governess to live with the dreadful Carter family in exotic Brazil in 1910, Maia endures many hardships before fulfilling her dream of exploring the Amazon River. |
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Jane Eyre
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Charlotte Brontë |
The novel is set somewhere in the north of England. Jane's childhood at Gateshead Hall, where she is emotionally and physically abused by her aunt and cousins; her education at Lowood School, where s… |
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Chancy and the grand rascal
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Sid Fleischman |
Skinny Chancy and his newly found friend, the great rascal, enjoy humorous escapades as they travel by their wits up and across the Midwest in search of Chancy's family. |
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Bo and Mzzz Mad
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Sid Fleischman |
When his father dies, Bo Gamage warily moves to the Mojave Desert home of his distant and estranged relatives, the Martinkas, and finds that "Mad" lives up to her name, PawPaw despises him, and Aunt … |
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Stone Voice Rising
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C. Lee Tocci |
In a world of whispering stones and corporate evil, Lilibit and six other orphaned children with mysterious powers battle a shape-shifting enemy and his helipcopter army to reach Kiva, a sacred place… |
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City boy
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Jan Michael |
In the southern African country of Malawi, after the AIDS-related deaths of both of his parents, a boy leaves his affluent life in the city to live in a rural village, sharing a one-roomed hut with h… |
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Jack Blank and the Imagine Nation
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Matt Myklusch |
Twelve-year-old Jack, freed from a dismal orphanage, makes his way to the elusive and impossible Imagine Nation, where a mentor saves him from dissection and trains him to use his superpower, despite… |
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Batman's dark secret
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Kelley Puckett |
Batman's Dark Secret is an inspiring story of how a young child overcame his fear of the dark and became a crime-fighting superhero. |
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The magic sewing machine
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Sunny Warner |
An orphaned brother and sister are saved from the cruelty of the orphanage's headmistress by a magic sewing machine and the goodness of their hearts. |
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Take me with you
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Carolyn Marsden |
Raised in an Italian orphanage in the years following World War II, a biracial girl named Susanna and her best friend Pina want to be adopted but fear being separated. |
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Hetty Feather
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Jacqueline Wilson |
A wonderful and original Jacqueline Wilson novel, featuring Hetty Feather(who is a bitch), a Victorian Tracy Beaker!London, 1876 and Hetty Feather is just a tiny baby when her mother leaves her at th… |
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Demons and druids
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James Patterson,Adam Sadler |
As Daniel X continues to hunt for intergalactic aliens, he and his friends go to England searching for Beta, an outlaw who takes the form of fire and who killed Daniel's parents when he was two years… |
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A little princess
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Bob Blaisdell,Thea Kliros |
Throughout her long and successful career, Frances Hodgson Burnett (1849-1924) had a reputation for delighting readers with stories about people whose desperate situations always seemed to improve by… |
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All the king's horses
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Dandi Daley Mackall |
One month before sophomore year begins, Scoop volunteers to work with some newly donated horses at the Horsefeathers Stable. |
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Rough waters
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S. L. Rottman |
After their parents' death in an automobile accident, two teenage brothers are sent to Colorado to live with an estranged uncle, owner of a white-water rafting business. |
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The Dog-Gone Mystery
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Gertrude Chandler Warner,Robert Papp |
When they take their dog, Watch, for obedience training, the Alden children discover that some of the dogs in the class have vanished and decide to try to solve the mystery of their disappearance. |
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The Ghost Ship Mystery
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Gertrude Chandler Warner,Charles Tang,Aimee Lilly |
While visiting the seaport town of Ragged Cove, Massachusetts, the Alden children find the ship's log of the Flying Cloud, shipwrecked in 1869, supposedly during a mutiny. |
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The Guide Dog Mystery
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Gertrude Chandler Warner,Charles Tang |
When they help out at a guide dog training school, the Alden children meet several people who seem obsessed with a particular dog named Ginger. |
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The Haunted Clock Tower Mystery
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Gertrude Chandler Warner,Hodges Soileau |
The Aldens accompany their grandfather to his class reunion and investigate the possibility of a buried Civil War treasure, and of a ghost in the bell tower, at Goldwin University. |
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The Mystery Cruise
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Gertrude Chandler Warner,Charles Tang |
While on a cruise with their grandfather, the Alden children help discover who is behind the mysterious troubles of the ship--disconnected phone lines, engine trouble, a man overboard--and still have… |
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