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Whale Portby Foster, MarkLong before the invention of electricity or the discovery of underground reservoirs of fossil fuels, people depended on whale oil to keep their lamps lit. A fe... |
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The Golden Dream of Carlo Chuchioby Alexander, LloydNaive and bumbling Carlo, his shady camel-puller Baksheesh, and Shira, a girl determined to return home, follow a treasure map through the deserts and cities o... |
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BeowulfA Hero's Tale Retoldby Rumford, JamesA simplified and illustrated retelling of the exploits of the Anglo-Saxon warrior, Beowulf, and how he came to defeat the monster Grendel, Grendel's mother, an... |
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The Wednesday Warsby Schmidt, Gary D.During the 1967 school year, on Wednesday afternoons when all his classmates go to either Catechism or Hebrew school, seventh-grader Holling Hoodhood stays in ... |
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The Red Shoeby Dubosarsky, UrsulaFunny, tough-minded and tender, this is the story of Matilda and her two sisters growing up in Sydney, Australia, in the early 1950s. Their father is mentally ... |
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Rex Zero and the End of the Worldby Wynne-Jones, TimIn the summer of 1962 with everyone nervous about a possible nuclear war, ten-nearly-eleven-year-old Rex, having just moved to Ottawa from Vancouver with his p... |
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How It Happened in Peach Hillby Jocelyn, MartheWhen fifteen-year-old Annie Grey and her "clairvoyant" mother arrive in Peach Hill, New York, in 1924, each finds a reason for wanting to finally settle down, ... |
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