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14,300 | 13 | Favorite athletes from sports such as baseball, basketball, football, tennis, skiing, gymnastics and track-and-field are presented here. An American Bookseller Pick of the Lists, New York Public Library -- Books for the Teen Age.From the Trade Paperback edition.; Title: Draw 50 Athletes | [
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14,301 | 13 | Old English sheep dogs, German Shepherds and Malamutes are just a few of the fun-loving, furry breeds that anyone can create by following these sketches.An American Bookseller Pick of the Lists.Old English sheep dogs, German Shepherds andMalamutes are just a few of the fun-loving, furrybreeds that anyone can create by ... | [
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14,302 | 0 | Presented in easy-to-read language, We The People makes the Constitution fun and approachable for children. Spier gives the historical facts behind the writing of the document, while his colorful and realistic illustrations depict scenes of past and present American life. "...A joyful celebration of the people whose le... | [
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14,303 | 0 | Grade 4-8 Within this enticing collection is material enough to bring sighs of satisfaction from confirmed unicorn lovers and make converts of skeptical newcomers. The author of Sarah's Unicorn (Lippincott, 1979) pulls together a wide variety of stories and poems which deal in one way or another with unicorns, introduc... | [
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14,304 | 7 | From the author of The Indian in the Cupboard and its sequel comes a story of earthly enchantment. When Tiki, a fairy, is "earthed" on Jan's human foot, both are terrified. But because Jan, unlike most adults, believes in fairies, the two become friends. When Tiki learns that Jan is sad because she and her husband Char... | [
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14,305 | 13 | This book brings to life Siamese, Persians, lions, tigers, panthers and such celebrity felines as Felix, Top Cat and Snaggle Puss.ings to life Siamese, Persians, lions, tigers, panthers and such celebrity felines as Felix, Top Cat and Snaggle Puss.; Title: Draw 50 Cats: The Step-by-Step Way to Draw Domestic Breeds, Wil... | [
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14,306 | 13 | "Takes would-be artists from the first tentative pencil line to the completed drawing of such vehicles as a Corvette, a BMW motorcycle, and a Euclid dump truck." -- Booklist. An IRA-CBC Children's Choice, An American Bookseller Pick of the Lists.would-be artists from the firsttentative pencil line to the completed draw... | [
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14,307 | 7 | "There are some delicious shivers here, with plenty of fodder for an active imagination." School Library Journal"Demons, vampires, skeletons, goblins, werewolves, witches, wizards, and ghosts aplenty inhabit these tales from various parts of the world." BooklistRobert D. San Souci, acclaimed for his retellings of "The ... | [
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14,308 | 0 | Grade 6 Up Good news for the Blossom Culp cult! Peck's feisty 14-year-old psychic returns for a fourth adventure, set, as always, in Bluff City, sometime around 1914. As in earlier installments of Blossom's antic autobiography, . . .the Sleep of Death incorporates elements of both the topical and the occult (women's su... | [
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14,309 | 2 | PreSchool-Grade 2-- Since the fact of big buck best-sellerdom carries little weight in children's library selection circles, these jackets' front flaps cozily coax belief in Steel's expertise with the very young by sharing the information that she is the mother of nine. Rogers seems hopelessly indebted to the never-to-... | [
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14,310 | 20 | Grade 4-8-- Are we neglecting our Bible heritage? This retelling may help children value it anew. Among the 13 stories (taken from Genesis through Kings) are many once well-known to all (Eden, Noah, Babel) and a few less familar (Deborah, Jotham's Fable). Even the best-known Old Testament stories, however, take on new ... | [
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14,311 | 2 | Max's Daddy is a fireman in New York. One day, while rescuing three children from a hotel fire, he has an accident. Four-year-old Max and his Mommy are worried when they hear that Daddy has been hurt.Luckily, Daddy is taken to the very same hospital where Max's Mommy works as a nurse. She tells Max that Daddy will get ... | [
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14,312 | 2 | Kindergarten-Grade 3-- The narrator shares her family album with readers, and highlights moments of passage from her infancy to adulthood. The first and last illustrations, similarly posed, complete a cycle. At first, the storyteller is herself a baby, looking up to her mother, father, two other children, and Uncle Tom... | [
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14,313 | 2 | Martha is five years old and lives in San Francisco with her Mommy. Her parents are divorced. Even though they don't live together anymore, Martha sees her Daddy every week. Martha loves him very much.Now mommy has some news: she is going to marry John. At first Martha is disappointed, even though she likes John. She w... | [
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14,314 | 2 | Max is eagerly awaiting a visit from his Grandma and Grampa Winky. They now live in Arizona and he hardly ever gets to see them. But Grampa calls to say that Grandma is ill, and before long the terrible news comes that Grandma has died.Max and his family are very sad, but Max's Mommy helps him to understand that Grandm... | [
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14,315 | 0 | PreSchool-Grade 2-- Clifton's newly illustrated story of a young African-American girl who realizes the value of friendship is as fresh and vital today as it was when first published (Viking, 1976; o.p.). The pictures, done in blue, brown, and pink oils on double-page spreads, are luminous and soft-edged; they have a h... | [
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14,316 | 0 | Christmastime and the Newbery Medal seem an almost irresistable combination. For what better time than Christmas, that most family-oriented of holidays, to read stories written by authors honored as winners of the John Newbery Medal for their contribution for literature for children? This collection comprises stories b... | [
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14,317 | 2 | It's Martha's Mommy's turn to pick Martha and her friends up after school and something happens to make her late. When that happens, the girls are supposed to wait inside.But Hilary dawdles on her way back into the school. Suddenly, there is a woman in a car who wants to take her away.How Hilary gets away and how the p... | [
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14,318 | 13 | Miata is proud of her family's Mexican heritage. Lately, she has been practicing with her folklorico dance troupe for a performance, and she has even brought her costume to school to show her classmates. But on the Friday before the show Miata forgets her decorative skirt on the school bus. Afraid to tell her parents a... | [
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14,319 | 2 | Alda's breezy rhyming text and arresting photographs make this a most engaging bedtime read-aloud. The bottoms of two small feet lying in bed, surrounded by a bevy of cheerful stuffed animals, are all that is seen of the book's young narrator, who is unable to get to sleep. At mother's suggestion, the child closes his ... | [] | Train |
14,320 | 0 | A spine-tingling sense of foreboding saturates the pages of Naylor's ( Witch's Sister ; The Witch Herself ) latest installment of Lynn and Mouse's ongoing battle with the malevolent Mrs. Tuggle. Although the witch herself was killed in the fire that destroyed her house, her spirit seems to have taken up residence in th... | [
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14,321 | 5 | Sutcliff, who died last year, authored numerous retellings of canonical texts for younger readers. Here she brings into vivid focus the mythic story of the Trojan War, with all of its visually dramatic elements. While carefully tempering the bias towards the Greeks that exists in the original poem, Sutcliff's text leav... | [
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14,322 | 17 | This fictionalized encounter between Emily Dickinson and a young neighbor is, like a Dickinson sonnet, a quiet gem: unassuming upon first glance, it is in fact deeply lustrous, with new facets becoming apparent the longer one looks. The narrator and protagonist is a child who has just moved into the house across the st... | [
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14,323 | 13 | PreSchool-Grade 4?A short narrative highlighting Monet's painting is brought to life by Le Tord's impressionistlike illustrations of the artist and some of his most notable subjects. She comments that she was careful to use Monet's limited palette in her own pictures?not an easy accomplishment, since he claimed to use ... | [
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14,324 | 0 | Here's a real knock 'em, sock 'em, ripsnorter guaranteed to keep any boy (and any girl who doesn't mind a dearth of female characters) enthralled from first page through last. In 1848, a 14-year-old boy is captured from an Oregon-bound wagon train by Pawnee Indians and saved by one-armed mountain man Mr. Grimes. Paulse... | [
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14,325 | 2 | Grade 5-8-Baby refers to two characters in this beautifully written and moving novel-12-year-old Larkin's infant brother (who has died before the story begins) and Sophie, who is literally left in a basket in the driveway at Larkin's house. The girl's parents and Byrd, her grandmother, have been hiding their grief over... | [
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14,326 | 0 | In a lucid text and characteristically vivid cut-paper collages, Roth tells the story of Buddha, from his mother's dream of "carrying a milky-white elephant in her swollen belly" to the day he casts off his finery to become a holy man. She chronicles his transition from sheltered prince to concerned young man as he ven... | [
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14,327 | 14 | Grade 3 Up-A collection of short stories and excerpts of novels by Newbery-winning authors. This anthology is similar in style to the editors' A Newbery Christmas (Delacorte, 1991). Here they present 12 enthralling tales that include delightfully humorous Halloween escapades from characters such as Beverly Cleary's Ram... | [
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14,328 | 0 | Polacco's (Chicken Sunday) characteristically rich pencil and gouache artwork depict a neighborhood in her Oakland, Calif., hometown, showing how it weathered the devastating firestorms of 1992. Mr. Roth and his young neighbors Duane and Justine have built a Sukkah to celebrate Sukkoth, the Jewish festival of thanksgiv... | [
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14,329 | 2 | With this whimsical animal story, Hinton serves up an entry as memorable in its genre as her classic The Outsiders is in YA literature. From the time they bring her home, the Davidsons treat narrator Aleasha, a lovable Australian shepherd, just as if she were young Nick's "puppy sister." When Aleasha finally realizes t... | [
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14,330 | 0 | Among the most powerful of Paulsen's works ( Hatchet ; The Winter Room ; Dogsong ), this impeccably researched novel sheds light on cruel truths in American history as it traces the experiences of a 12-year-old slave girl in the 1850s. Narrator Sarny exposes the abuse (routine beatings, bondage, dog attacks, forced "br... | [
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14,331 | 5 | Kindergarten-Grade 4-Sootface's mother is dead, her sisters beat her, and her father doesn't intervene. Her face is always smeared with soot, and her hair is horribly singed from the cookfire. In spite of all this, she remains resilient-she knows that one day she will escape her circumstances. A mighty warrior who has ... | [
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14,332 | 13 | Eclipsed by his perfect cousin Herbert, Bernie languishes at family gatherings until Uncle Louie takes him under his wing, offering trumpet lessons. After a rocky start ("the notes squawked and screeched, and the pigeons flew off the windowsill"), Bernie perseveres, but he still can't play "the most beautiful song in t... | [
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14,333 | 7 | Fourteen-year-old Cody Pierce, a.k.a. the White Fox, is on a mission. After 18 months in the evil CCR (Confederation of Consolidated Republics) prison camp, Cody makes an ingenious escape and embarks on a plan to carry out his revenge and liberate the children remaining in the camp. The year is 2057, and the USA has be... | [
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14,334 | 7 | "The brief tales are scary enough to satisfy anyone attending a slumber party or sitting around a campfire; the source notes at the end of the volume add an educational element." --The Horn Book Magazineosties, and long-leggedy beasties inhabit these 30 chilling tales gathered from around the world. Creepy classic and ... | [
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14,335 | 0 | Life is hard for poor Irish potato farmers, but 12-year-old Nory Ryan and her family have always scraped by... until one morning, Nory wakes to the foul, rotting smell of diseased potatoes dying in the fields. And just like that, all their hopes for the harvest--for this year and next--are dashed. Hunger sets in quickl... | [
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14,336 | 7 | Thirty hair-raising stories from around the world fill this spooky collection with delicious shivers and spine-tingling chills. Sit down and meet "The Vampire Cat," "The Draug" and "The Rolling Head"; or take a stroll with "The Thing in the Woods." You'll find favorites such as "The Golden Arm" and startling new storie... | [
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14,337 | 18 | From Wheaties to telephones, microwave ovens to yo-yos, here are the inspiring and often funny stories of 50 mistakes and misunderstandings that helped bring about life as we know it. With hilarious cartoons and wacky facts, this fascinating compendium illustrates the adage "If you don't learn from your mistakes, there... | [
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14,338 | 14 | Grade 2-4-After a long period of war, from which his father has never returned, Finder sets out to petition the king for food and aid for his starving family. He enters the forest and discovers a blind old hunter who tells him that he can barely hear or smell since he lost his son in the war. The boy unwillingly leads ... | [
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14,339 | 12 | Droll cartoons illustrate the stories behind the invention of such everyday items as Silly Putty, trouser cuffs, popsicles and penicillin. Ages 8-up. Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc."Jones gathers together in a splendid book that is as informative as it is entertaining. Jones has great fun with facts, dre... | [
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14,340 | 0 | Gr. 4^-7. Fourteen short stories published in magazines during the early 1900s and two Christmas episodes from Anne of Green Gables and Anne of Windy Poplars make up this collection of Christmas tales. Although the sentimentality of the magazine stories can be a bit cloying, the best ones have a certain vigor as well. ... | [
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14,341 | 0 | knight time Robert D. San Souci turns out the third book of his Arthurian cycle with Young Lancelot, illus. by Jamichael Henterly (see Young Guinevere, p. 78). The text is hampered by clicheed dialogue (Lancelot: "You yourself say this is my destiny. Yet you hold me back"; his guardian: "Oh, King's Son... it breaks my ... | [
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14,342 | 0 | "It's funny how ideas are, in a lot of ways they're just like seeds. Both of them start real, real small and then... woop, zoop, sloop... before you can say Jack Robinson, they've gone and grown a lot bigger than you ever thought they could." So figures scrappy 10-year-old philosopher Bud--"not Buddy"--Caldwell, an orp... | [
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14,343 | 2 | Grade 3-6-Valentine's Day is coming and love is in the air between Beth Malloy and Josh Hatford. When they are seen holding hands, Josh tells his brothers that he's simply spying on the girls to see what tricks they're plotting. Beth's younger sister Caroline wants to know what falling in love is like, and chooses Wall... | [
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14,344 | 2 | Despite recent media attention, obsessive-compulsive disorder remains perplexing to those who haven't experienced the illness firsthand. In her compassionate debut novel, Terry Spencer Hesser skillfully and credibly explains exactly what OCD feels like, as well as the effects it has on surrounding friends and family. T... | [
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14,345 | 1 | When second grader Gregory Sampson wakes up one morning to discover that he has become a giant beetle, his ensuing day is distinctly Kafka-esque, yet in a totally childlike way. For one blighted day, young hard-shelled Gregory faces an extreme version of the common outrage of the 6- to 8-year-old whose parents have cea... | [
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14,346 | 11 | From the same team that produced Spirit Walker and Dancing Moons, Shaman's Circle by Nancy Wood, illus. by Frank Howell, takes its inspiration from the lives and cosmology of the Pueblo Indians to meditate upon our connections to nature. A typically wordy and didactic stanza reads, "Daylight is nighttime's other face, ... | [
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14,347 | 0 | Joanna Cole and Stephanie Calmenson, creators of the well-loved anthology Ready... Set... Read!, are back again to lure unsuspecting children into the world of words. They have gathered together stories, poems, and jokes, lavished with artwork by all-time favorite illustrators including James Marshall, Dr. Seuss, and M... | [
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14,348 | 1 | Grade 4 Up?Paulsen reveals bits and pieces of his own life story through his experiences with eight of his dogs. After a heartfelt dedication to Cookie, the sled dog who saved his life, the author introduces readers first to Snowball, the puppy he acquired when he was seven years old and living in the Philippines, and ... | [
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14,349 | 14 | Kindergarten-Grade 2-Entertaining, easy-to-read books. Poploff combines humor with horror to create a suspenseful story. When Henry is invited to spend Halloween with his new friend Artie Doomsday, he is frightened. The Doomsdays live in an old house that is rumored to be haunted and both Artie's sister and grandmother... | [
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14,350 | 2 | Eighteen-year-old Francis Cassavant has returned from World War II an unwilling hero. Although he can still see and hear, a grenade has blown away his nose, his ears, his teeth, and his cheeks, leaving him faceless. Hiding his ghastly wounds with bandages and a white silk scarf, Francis welcomes the anonymity his mutil... | [
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14,351 | 15 | The prolific author of such titles as Hatchet and Soldier's Heart turns from adventure and high action to contemplative moments in this not particularly childlike mood piece. Describing a canoe trip around a lake, his prose poem homes in on quiet encounters with nature: "Sometimes when it is still," it begins, "so stil... | [
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14,352 | 2 | In Cuneo's occasionally clever but often forced debut, a slip of the tongue means a loss of manners. "Pass the pancakes, poop," young Mary Louise demands, startling her parents and herself. "I've paid no attention to my manners, and now they've run away," the red-haired girl decides. She combs her neighborhood for them... | [
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14,353 | 0 | Addressing the most fundamental themes of life and death, the versatile Paulsen produces a searing antiwar story. He bases his protagonist, Charley Goddard, on an actual Civil War soldier, a 15-year-old from Minnesota who lied about his age and ended up participating in most of the war's major battles. At first Paulsen... | [
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14,354 | 11 | "An entertaining and informative presentation of all sorts of tidbits concerning the history and meaning of food-related words."--Kirkus Reviews"This is a great title for browsing, and youngsters will want to share these stories with their friends."--School Library Journal"An entertaining and informative presentation o... | [
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14,355 | 11 | Grade 7 Up?Wood has organized her cycle of poems in homage to Native American philosophy around the Twelve Great Paths of the Moon of the Pueblo Indians. Each section is preceded by a meditation (January's Man Moon begins?"January's great path of the moon is solitude. Each day is part of an infinite puzzle, interlocked... | [
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14,356 | 7 | What if your Dad loved books, owned a bookstore, and even called his cherished volumes "my little bookies"? You would probably despise books--just like the young protagonist in Eric Sanvoisin and illustrator Martin Matje's deliciously bizarre story The Ink Drinker. One summer vacation, while the boy is working in the s... | [
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14,357 | 11 | This uneven first novel is narrated by Anna, the first-born daughter of the Emperor of Byzantium, poised to inherit the throne. Inspired by the real Anna Comnena (1083-1153) who chronicled her father's reign in The Alexiad, the story begins in a convent, where 17-year-old Anna lives in exile. Most of the book flashes b... | [
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14,358 | 11 | Grade 7 Up-For the Pueblo people, the Sacred Fire is associated with wisdom, purification, potential, longevity, and hope, and it must be kept burning so that the they can "remember the ways of their ancestors." These themes are explored here in poems and poetic prose that discuss the Native American experience, includ... | [
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14,359 | 0 | What do you do when you're being charged by a red-eyed furious wall of brown fur that is an insane moose? How do you make a weapon with your bare hands? How do you sneak up on a grouse or a rabbit, kill it with a well-aimed arrow, and cook it over a fire--without a pot? All this and lots more is essential learning for ... | [
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14,360 | 0 | Based on actual events, this latest offering from the accomplished Cooney (The Face on the Milk Carton; Driver's Ed) is a gripping and thought-provoking account of the 1704 Indian raid on the English settlement of Deerfield, Mass. After their village is burned and many of its residents killed, Mercy and more than 100 o... | [
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14,361 | 7 | Orphan Phoebe, along with an attractive prince, cares for the king's birds in a strange, extraordinary aviary. But at his father's death, the prince leaves to assume his kingly duties and leaves his uncle in charge of the aviary. The uncle forces Phoebe to capture an unusual river flute, and Phoebe rescues a hunter who... | [
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14,362 | 2 | In this warmhearted story of a faithful toy, a girl acquires a menagerie of stuffed animals but declares the first her favorite. Blue Kangaroo, who belongs to Lily, is an aquamarine-hued plaything with a faint smile on his long, pointy face. "Every night, Lily said, 'I love you, Blue Kangaroo!' And Blue Kangaroo fell f... | [
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14,363 | 14 | Each of the girls has a choice to make about the beautiful brooch.Meg's Christmas Dream: Meg would gladly exchange it for a gift for her father....Jo's Christmas Dream: Jo behaves like a total scrooge and must learn the true spirit of Christmas.Beth's Christmas Dream: Beth discovers what her sisters' and parents' lives... | [
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14,364 | 2 | Donna Jo Napoli's fiction for teens often puts a contemporary twist on old fairy tales, offering new depth and psychological insight. In previous young adult novels she has retold "Hansel and Gretel" from the point of view of the witch (The Magic Circle) and the story of "Rapunzel" from a multitude of perspectives (Zel... | [
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14,365 | 2 | Like David Almond's 1998 Whitbread-winning Skellig, this powerful, eerie, elegantly written novel celebrates the magic that is part of our existence--the magic that occurs when we dream at night, the magic that connects us to family long gone, the magic that connects humans to the land, and us all to each other. As Kit... | [
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14,366 | 2 | Giff (Lily s Crossing; All the Way Home) again introduces a carefully delineated and sympathetic heroine in this quiet contemporary novel. Artistically talented Hollis Woods, age 12, has made a habit of running away from foster homes, but she s found a place on Long Island where she wants to stay for a while. She immed... | [
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14,367 | 8 | ould do just about anything to help someone in need. She's kind-hearted, loyal, and caring. So when she catches Sean O'Neill stealing apples from Aunt March's garden, Beth listens to the hungry boy's sad story. She's moved to hear that Sean's widowed mother and younger siblings are immigrants from poverty-stricken Irel... | [
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14,368 | 2 | Each Christmas, Santa's son, Peter, has the unpleasant task of checking the lists twice to see who's been naughty or nice. Destined for his second stint on the naughty list, Peter questions the fairness of the system. Still, "I didn't make the rules," Santa says. "But you know what they are." Peter certainly does--but ... | [
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14,369 | 0 | Gr 3-6-A story based on the life of Maria Rind, who lived in Williamsburg during the 1770s. On the eve of the War for Independence, the child is mourning the death of her father, official printer to the House of Burgesses. Of necessity, her mother takes over the printing business, and the nine-year-old must take over t... | [
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14,370 | 8 | Little girls, parents, and teachers will cherish these original stories, inspired by the timeless classic Little Women, which capture each of the March sisters at age 10, as they experience the joys and sorrows of sisterhood, family life, and a changing America. Written by award-winning author Susan Beth Pfeffer, each ... | [
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14,371 | 2 | Though worlds apart, city girl Mariel and Brick, a farmer's son from upstate New York, have a lot in common. They're both strong-willed, fiercely independent, and fervent Brooklyn Dodgers fans. Their divergent paths merge when Brick's family's orchard is destroyed by fire, and his parents send him to stay with Mariel a... | [
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14,372 | 2 | Grade 4-6Molly McGinty, a sixth-grader at Our Lady of Mercy Middle School, is panicked over the loss of her three-ring binder. In it she keeps everything she needs to be organized, such as homework assignments, addresses, and due dates of library books and her grandmother's bills. To make things worse, her extraverted ... | [
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14,373 | 0 | First-time author De Young uses her own family history to create a Depression-era story about first-generation Italian-Americans living in Johnstown, Pa., in 1933. Eleven-year-old Margo Bandini, her parents and young brother, Charlie, face losing their house if they do not find a way to pay back the bank loan used to c... | [
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14,374 | 11 | This moving picture book offers a shining testament to the ability of human beings to find "something beautiful" in even the most unlikely places. An African American girl initially sees only the ugliness of her neighborhood. There is "trash in the courtyard and a broken bottle that looks like fallen stars." On her fro... | [
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14,375 | 7 | The teen queen of horror fiction Amelia Atwater-Rhodes is on the prowl again! Continuing in much the same vampire vein that established her reputation, the young writer's sophomore novel also includes a touch of autobiography. Jessica Allodola is a high school senior who pens vampire tales under the pseudonym Ash Night... | [
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14,376 | 18 | Grade 6 Up-Murphy boldly broaches the near-mythical battle of the Alamo, a Spanish mission in San Antonio whose name has become synonymous with Texas's independence. Acknowledging in his notes that "[m]ost of these questions [regarding "unresolved issues" of Alamo legend] will probably never be answered definitively," ... | [
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14,377 | 0 | This first novel, set in 14th-century England, succeeds more as an extended fairy tale than a work of historical fiction. When 13-year-old Lady Judith meets her intended husband at her betrothal banquet, she is repulsed by his base behavior. She decides, at the prompting of one of the King's minstrels, who entertains a... | [
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14,378 | 5 | PreSchool-Grade 3?Upon their father's death, three brothers inherit different gifts. The eldest receives the farm, workhorse, and plow; the second, a fine horse; and the youngest a dala horse?a hand-carved, brightly painted wooden toy. Although the older young men scoff at Per's gift, he maintains that it might be usef... | [
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14,379 | 0 | Grade 4-6-A well-researched story told from the point of view of a nine-year-old slave. Caesar misses his happy-go-lucky childhood when he could play freely with the plantation owner's son. He resents the separation of his family when his sister is sent to the big house, and his father is hired out to do carpentry work... | [
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14,380 | 0 | Grade 4-7-Cesa's story of life as a wealthy Californio takes place in the early days following the war ceding the territory from Mexico to the United States. At 13, the girl hangs onto her tomboy ways even as she moves into womanhood. Her first-person narrative details life with her five brothers, their relatives, and ... | [
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14,381 | 0 | Little girls, parents, and teachers will cherish these original stories, inspired by the timeless classic Little Women, which capture each of the March sisters at age 10, as they experience the joys and sorrows of sisterhood, family life, and a changing America. Written by award-winning author Susan Beth Pfeffer, each ... | [
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14,382 | 8 | nts to be a great artist. She's got the talent; now all she needs is a way to afford art lessons. Her solution: befriend her rich and snobby classmate, Jenny Snow, who'll then invite Amy to sit in on her private art instructions. But Jenny can't be bothered with Amy's friendly overtures--until Diana Hughes, a new and e... | [
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14,383 | 0 | Grade 3-6-It has been over a year since 12-year-old Valentine Harper's father went to Colorado in 1885 hoping to strike silver, and she has grown tired of waiting for him to send for her. Though her aunt treats her nicely, her uncle is resentful of having an extra person in the house, and her nasty cousin plays increas... | [
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14,384 | 12 | Introducing each section of this memoir with an excerpt from one of her novels, the author "unfolds her history in a glorious arc, invisibly threading its parts into a unified whole. Her connection of the everyday details of her life to the larger scope of her work adds a new dimension to her novels," said PW in a boxe... | [
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14,385 | 7 | Fourth grader Akiko continues her adventures on Planet Smoo after being selected as the one earthling suited for the job of rescuing Prince Froptoppit from the evil Alia Rellapor (read all about it in Akiko on the Planet Smoo). Akiko and the extraterrestrial crew of her flying boat--prim Mr. Beeba, gallant Spuckler, ro... | [
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14,386 | 2 | Gr. 3-6. At 11 Ruth Di Marco is the star baseball shortstop who can play better than any of the boys, and not just those in her small town on the coast of Maine. In fact, she's so good that a writer from Sports Illustrated comes to do a feature about her. The trouble is where can she go with her talent? When she overhe... | [
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] | Test |
14,387 | 2 | Grade 3-6-In the ninth of this series, the Hatford boys and the Malloy girls spend more time cooperating than fighting. Eddie and Jake both play for the Buckman Badgers in the sixth-grade baseball championship; after she chokes in the first game, he decides to practice with her for the good of the team. Meanwhile the c... | [
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14,388 | 8 | Little girls, parents, and teachers will cherish these original stories, inspired by the timeless classic Little Women, which capture each of the March sisters at age 10, as they experience the joys and sorrows of sisterhood, family life, and a changing America. Written by award-winning author Susan Beth Pfeffer, each ... | [
14363,
14381,
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] | Train |
14,389 | 6 | It's not easy being a vampire-hunting witch, but Sarah Tigress Vida has learned from the best. The witches of the Vida family line have been successfully stalking and staking the undead for centuries, and Sarah is immensely proud of her ancestry. So, the last thing she would ever do is befriend one of the enemy. She ha... | [
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14400,
14837,
14847
] | Test |
14,390 | 2 | "I thought he was dead. He was sitting with his legs stretched out and his head tipped back against the wall. He was covered with dust and webs like everything else and his face was thin and pale. Dead bluebottles were scattered on his hair and shoulders. I shined the flashlight on his white face and his black suit."Th... | [
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14,391 | 14 | Is Hanukkah really all about dancing dreidels and high-flying latkes? Maybe not, but Eric Kimmel and Jon Goodell have put these devilish phenomena to good use in a lighthearted story that teaches Hanukkah traditions--from kazatzkas to gelt--along with a wise, timeless moral. The tale's decidedly unscary antagonists are... | [
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14,392 | 2 | British author David Almond is on a roll. His first book for young readers, Skellig, won a prestigious 2000 Michael L. Printz Honor award, and his second, Kit's Wilderness, won the Printz outright in 2001. Now comes a third, Heaven Eyes, which features a series of haunting, sepia-toned landscapes and a young narrator (... | [
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] | Train |
14,393 | 0 | Purists may shudder, but Harriet the Spy is back--even though her original creator, Louise Fitzhugh, is long gone. Author Helen Ericson has developed an intriguing new episode in Harriet's life for her latest fans, many of whom were introduced to Harriet the Spy--the book--only after the movie. When Harriet's former nu... | [
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14,394 | 8 | Meet Sport, Harriets best friend, in this hilarious companion to Harriet the Spynow available in paperback!From the Trade Paperback edition.old Sport Rocque is living a happy life, keeping his father?s absentmindedness under control, and managing the family budget. When Kate, Sport?s new?and nice?stepmother enters the ... | [
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] | Test |
14,395 | 2 | *Starred Review* Set in a coal-mining town, "long, long ago," this is the story of Claire, who lives with her father, a miner, and her mother, who knits for the town's richer residents. Claire learns the craft, and when her mother dies, she carries on. Two days before Christmas, a wealthy woman orders three pairs of st... | [
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14,396 | 7 | Akiko in the Castle of Alia Rellapor marks the final installment in Mark Crilley's interplanetary series. Fourth grader Akiko and her crew at long last make it to the castle where Prince Froptoppit is imprisoned. But unforeseen problems threaten the mission, including a meeting face to face with Alia Rellapor herself (... | [
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14,397 | 0 | In this novel based on Susanna Hutchinson's true-life abduction in 1643, Kirkpatrick (Keeping the Good Light) presents a searing portrait of divided loyalties. Susanna fears trouble follows her as it did her mother, the infamous Anne Hutchinson, whom the Puritans persecuted for preaching lay sermons about her visions f... | [
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14,398 | 0 | Gr 4-6-Will Pelham, a real person in history, lives with his family in housing attached to the public gaol, where his father is the gaoler. The 12-year-old helps out by feeding the prisoners. He finds the family's circumstances unsettling, especially his nightly walk down a dark passageway past the prisoners' cells to ... | [
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24588,
25438,
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14,399 | 7 | Losing your way in the woods. . . . Prowling a castle in the dead of night. . . . Finding a treasure in a dusty attic. . . . Finding a frightening force in your own home. . . . The March sisters--Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy--never imagined they'd encounter beings from the spirit world. But in each of these four new eerie st... | [
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