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4.1 stars
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In winning a medal she is no longer there to receive, a tight-lipped little Polish girl teaches her classmates a lesson. Includes a note from the author's daughter, Helena Estes.
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5 stars
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A Siamese cat, an old bull terrier, and a young Labrador retriever travel together 250 miles through the Canadian wilderness to find their family.
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5 stars
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Little Mary, captured by Indians, learns to love them and refuses to leave when English soldiers try to rescue her.
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3.5 stars
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Presents the life of Louisa May Alcott, who was able through the success of her writings to achieve one thing that was very important to her--to be able to take care of all her family.
Profiles the life of the noted nineteenth-century writer, detailing her early, happy childhood in Pennsylvania and Boston, and her later success as author of the classic "Little Women."
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2 stars
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Although he acquired Cat only to defy his father, Dave Mitchell matures through the experiences that are instigated by his pet.
A quietly humorous story of one kind of contemporary New York City boyhood, a fourteen-year-old and his family, his friends, and a stray tomcat.
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"Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated . . ." With her grandmother's taunt, Louise knew that she, like the biblical Esau, was the despised elder twin. Caroline, her selfish younger sister, was the one everyone loved. Growing up on a tiny Chesapeake Bay island, angry Louise reveals how Caroline has robbed her of everything: her hopes for schooling, her friends, her mother, even her name. While everyone pampers Caroline, Wheeze (her sister's name...
67. Johnny Tremain
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4.4 stars
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12 and up
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After injuring his hand, a silversmith's apprentice in Boston becomes a messenger for the Sons of Liberty in the days before the American Revolution.
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4.7 stars
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An unusual work horse, raised in Vermont and known originally as "Little Bub," becomes the sire of a famous American breed and takes the name of his owner -- Justin Morgan.
70. Kidnapped
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After being kidnapped by his villainous uncle, sixteen-year-old David Balfour escapes and becomes involved in the struggle of the Scottish highlanders against English rule.
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Recounts the adventures of King Arthur and his legendary Knights of the Round Table.
72. King of the Wind
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4.5 stars
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Sham and the stable boy Agba travel from Morocco to France to England, where Sham's majesty is at last recognized and he becomes the "Godolphin Arabian," ancestor of the most superior thoroughbred horses.
Traces the abuses and triumphs of the Arabian stallion who became a founding sire of the Thoroughbred breed, and of the mute Arabian boy who tended him as long as he lived.
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5 stars
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Instead of leaving with the last of the Roman legions, Aquila, a young officer, decides that his loyalties lie with Britain, and he eventually joins the forces of the Roman-British leader Ambrosius to fight against the Saxon hordes.
74. Lassie come-home
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3 stars
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A collie undertakes a thousand-mile journey in order to once again meet her former master at the school gate.
75. The last battle
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Chronicles of Narnia volume 7.
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4.1 stars
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When evil comes to Narnia, Jill and Eustace help fight the great last battle and Aslan leads his people to a glorious new paradise.
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Leatherstocking tales volume 2.
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4.5 stars
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Chingachgook and Uncas are the last living members of the great Mahican tribe. Hawk eye, a colonial scout, is their companion and loyal friend. In the midst of the French and Indian War, the three take great risks to lead the two daughters of a British colonel to safety through the battle-torn northern wilderness. When the girls are captured by the vicious Huron tribe, Chingachgook, Uncas, and Hawk eye risk their very lives to rescue them.
77. Leopard's prey
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An orphan is pressed into service as a powderboy on a British ship and later into service on a Haitian pirate ship before he finally returns to relatives in Salem, Massachusetts.
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Chronicles of Narnia volume 2.
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4.4 stars
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Four English schoolchildren find their way through the back of a wardrobe into the magic land of Narnia and assist Aslan, the golden lion, to triumph over the White Witch, who has cursed the land with eternal winter.
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Little house (Laura Ingalls Wilder) volume 2.
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4.6 stars
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A family travels from the big woods of Wisconsin to a new home on the prairie, where they build a house, meet neighboring Indians, build a well, and fight a prairie fire.
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Little house (Laura Ingalls Wilder) volume 7.
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5 stars
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At fifteen, Laura earns her teacher's certificate, gets a job, and starts going to parties.