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Each succeeding spring brings a young Illinois boy closer to manhood as he faces the harsh realities of the American Civil War.
Young Jethro Creighton grows from a boy to a man when he is left to take care of the family farm in Illinois during the difficult years of the Civil War.
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All-of-a-kind family volume 1.
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4.8 stars
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Portrays the joys and troubles of five high-spirited Jewish sisters as they grow up in New York City.
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All-of-a-kind family volume 4.
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5 stars
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The further adventures of five sisters and their brother growing up on New York's East Side in the early twentieth century.
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All-of-a-kind family volume 3.
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5 stars
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The continuing adventures of five sisters growing up in a Jewish family in New York in the early twentieth century. Ella finds a boyfriend and Henny disagrees with Papa over her curfew; a single uncle finds romance; World War I approaches and the family heads to Rockaway Beach to avoid infection during an outbreak of infantile paralysis.
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Anne of Green Gables volume 2.
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4.7 stars
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In this sequel to Anne of Green Gables, teenage Anne Shirley becomes a schoolteacher in a small village on Prince Edward Island.
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Anne of Green Gables volume 1.
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4.8 stars
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Anne, an eleven-year-old orphan, is sent by mistake to live with a lonely, middle-aged brother and sister on a Prince Edward Island farm and proceeds to make an indelible impression on everyone around her.
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Anne of Green Gables volume 6.
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4.3 stars
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Anne is the mother of five, with never a dull moment in her lively home. She now has a new baby on the way and ready to make her cherished husband fall in love with her all over again.
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Anne of Green Gables volume 3.
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4.4 stars
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Anne moves from Prince Edward Island, and goes off to Redmond College and finds new friends, new romances, and new insights into life and the people around her.
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Anne of Green Gables volume 4.
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4.2 stars
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Anne Shirley settles into the cozy tower room at Windy Poplars and begins a new chapter of her life away from Green Gables as the principal of Summerside High School. Written as a series of letters to her fiance Gilbert Blythe.
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4 stars
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Jess Aarons gains the strength to cope with unexpected tragedy by going to a secret kingdom in the woods invented by Leslie Burke, a newcomer to his rural Virginia community.
11. The bronze bow
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4.1 stars
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A young boy seeks revenge against the Romans for killing his parents, but is turned away from vengeance by Jesus.
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Little house (Laura Ingalls Wilder) volume 5.
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5 stars
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Ma and the girls follow Pa west by train where they make their home at a rough railroad camp and plan for their own homestead.
13. Caddie Woodlawn
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4.2 stars
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The adventures of an eleven-year-old tomboy growing up on the Wisconsin frontier in the mid-nineteenth century.
14. Call it courage
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3.5 stars
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Relates how Mafatu, a young Polynesian boy whose name means Stout Heart, overcomes his terrible fear of the sea and proves his courage to himself and his people.
15. The cay
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4 stars
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When the freighter on which they are traveling is torpedoed by a German submarine during World War II, a twelve-year-old white boy, blinded by a blow on the head, and an old Negro are stranded on a small desert island in the Caribbean where the boy acquires a new kind of vision, courage, and love from his old companion.
16. Charlotte's web
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4.6 stars
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A little girl named Fern raises the little runt pig, Wilbur, only to have her father give him away. At his new home, Wilbur is desolate when he discovers that he is destined to be the farmer's Christmas dinner until his spider friend, Charlotte, decides to help him.
Wilbur, the pig, is desolate when he discovers that he is destined to be the farmer's Christmas dinner until his spider friend, Charlotte, decides to help him.
17. Coot Club
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Swallows and Amazons volume 5.
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Danger and excitement await a vacationing brother and sister when they team up with local children to stop poachers in eastern England.
Dick and Dorothea Callum came to the Norfolk Broads during the Easter holidays, eager to learn to sail. There, they run into the Coot Club Bird Protection Society―children who protect the local birds from thoughtless tourists.
Trouble begins when a coot’s nest is disturbed by a ship
18. Daddy-Long-Legs
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4.4 stars
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At the age of eighteen, the orphan Jerusha Abbott is plucked from the institution and put through college by a mysterious benefactor. His only condition is that she write him a letter every month, to practice the writers' craft. Her colorful letters about college life are accompanied by drawings from Webster's own pen.
19. The deerslayer
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Leatherstocking tales volume 1.
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5 stars
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The last of the five Leatherstocking tales recalls Natty Bumppo's adventures as a young man among the Delaware Indians of New York.
20. Farmer boy
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Little house (Laura Ingalls Wilder) volume 3.
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4.9 stars
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Describes the daily activities of nine-year-old Almanzo Wilder, who would grow up to become the husband of Laura Ingalls Wilder, as he lives with his family on a New York farm at the end of the nineteenth century.