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The birthday burglar
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Margaret Mahy |
In the first of these two short stories, Bassington, a rich little boy who has never had a birthday, decides to steal one from Mrs. Herringbone and Joanna Joy. In the second story, headmistress Tatia… |
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The Ornament Tree
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Jean Thesman |
When fourteen-year-old Bonnie moves to her cousin's boardinghouse in Seattle in 1918, she learns about life from the boarders and progressive women who live and work there. |
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Naomi's song
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Selma Silverberg |
Elaborates on the biblical story of Naomi, who grows up and marries in twelfth century B.C. Judaea, moves with her husband and sons to Moab, and returns home with her daughter-in-law Ruth, facing man… |
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Pippi Långstrump
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Astrid Lindgren |
Pippi Longstocking is the strongest and kindest and funniest and richest girl in the whole world. She lives all alone in Villa Villekulla with her horse and her monkey Mr. Nilsson. She also has a who… |
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Envy (Luxe Series, Book 3)
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Anna Godbersen |
Jealous whispers.Old rivalries.New betrayals.Two months after Elizabeth Holland's dramatic homecoming, Manhattan eagerly awaits her return to the pinnacle of society. When Elizabeth refuses to rejoin… |
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Family
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Micol Ostow |
In the 1960s, seventeen-year-old Melinda leaves an abusive home for San Francisco, meets the charismatic Henry, and follows him to his desert commune where sex and drugs are free, but soon his "famil… |
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The Lilith summer
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Hadley Irwin |
A 12-year-old girl relates her experiences during the summer she spends as a companion to a 77-year-old woman. |
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Hazel
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Julie Hearn |
Thirteen-year-old Hazel leaves her comfortable, if somewhat unconventional, London home in 1913 after her father has a breakdown, and goes to live in the Caribbean on her grandparents' sugar plantati… |
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The Teeny tiny woman
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Benrei Huang |
A teeny tiny woman, who puts a teeny tiny bone she finds in a churchyard away in a cupboard before she goes to sleep, is awakened by a teeny tiny voice demanding the return of the bone. |
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Doña Flor
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Pat Mora |
Doña Flor, a giant lady with a big heart, sets off to protect her neighbors from what they think is a dangerous animal, but soon discovers the tiny secret behind the huge noise. |
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Mrs Lather's laundry
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Allan Ahlberg |
Sick of socks and sheets and undershirts, the Lathers decide that in future they will wash anything except laundry. |
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Mrs. Armitage and the big wave
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Quentin Blake |
Mrs. Armitage and her dog Breakspear head out surfing, but each time they paddle out they think of another outlandish thing they need. |
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Women and Fiction
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CAHILL, Susan, edited by,Susan (edited by) Cahill,Susan Cahill,Kate Chopin |
Contains:
[The story of an hour](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20078864W) / Kate Chopin
The other two / Edith Wharton
A Wagner matinee / Willa Cather
The secret woman / Sidonie-Gabrielle Colett… |
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Lady Muck
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William Mayne |
Sowk and Boark, two greedy pigs, plot to become rich from the sale of the truffles they have found in the woods, but their greed proves to be their undoing. |
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That early spring
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Gunnel Beckman |
During one eventful spring, a young Swedish girl learns about love, independence, and death. |
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Annabelle Starr, E.S.P
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Lila Perl |
Convinced she has ESP, Annabelle has second thoughts about her "gift" when she sees the fear a prediction causes in her adopted brother. |
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Sarah Bishop
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Scott O'Dell |
Left alone after the deaths of her father and brother who take opposite sides in the War for Independence, and fleeing from the British who seek to arrest her, Sarah Bishop struggles to shape a new l… |
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Mable Riley
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Marthe Jocelyn |
Mable Riley dreams of having adventures and of becoming a writer. When she travels far from home to act as assistant to her sister, a schoolmistress, Mable hopes her new world will be full of peril … |
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Labyrinth
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Louise Gikow |
Sarah's thoughtless remark that she wished the goblins would take her little brother lead her and the boy into the dangerous world of the goblin king. |
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The Bride
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D. E. Athkins |
Jamie's thrilled to be invited to her cousin Blaine's wedding - after all it's going to be the event of the year. Blaine Harrod, the gorgeous supermodel, marrying the wealthy handsome Preston Alden -… |
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