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81. The long winter
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Little house (Laura Ingalls Wilder) volume 6.
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4.5 stars
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After an October blizzard, Laura's family moves from the claim shanty into town for the winter, a winter that an Indian has predicted will be seven months of bad weather.
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Chronicles of Narnia volume 1.
Average Rating:
4.3 stars
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When Digory and Polly try to return the wicked witch Jadis to her own world, the magic gets mixed up and they all land in Narnia where they witness Aslan blessing the animals with human speech.
Average Rating:
2 stars
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9 and up
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In 1756, during the French and Indian War in upper New York state, ten-year-old Edward is determined to protect his home and family with the ancient, and much too heavy, Spanish gun that his father had given him before leaving home to fight the enemy.
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Moffats volume 2.
Average Rating:
5 stars
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Janey, the middle Moffat, has an imagination that leads her into many difficulties.
85. Miss Hickory
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3.3 stars
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Miss Hickory's fight for survival in a deserted New Hampshire town with only animals for company--Crow, Bull Frog, and Ground Hog
Miss Hickory, a country woman with an applewood twig body and a hickory nut head, survives a New Hampshire winter in the company of Crow, Bullfrog, and Groundhog.
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4.3 stars
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The determination of Paul and his sister Maureen to own a Chincoteague pony is greatly increased when the Phantom and her colt are among those rounded up for the yearly auction.
87. Misty's twilight
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5 stars
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Captivated by the story of "Misty of Chincoteague," a woman with a horse farm in Florida raises one of Misty's descendants to become a champion show horse.
88. Moccasin trail
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5 stars
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A pioneer boy, brought up by Crow Indians, is reunited with his family and attempts to orient himself in the white man's culture.
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Moffats volume 4.
Average Rating:
5 stars
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Jane Moffat decides to open a family museum in the barn behind the little grey house at Twelve Ashbellows Place in Cranbury, Connecticut.
90. The Moffats
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Moffats volume 1.
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4.3 stars
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Meet the Moffats. There is Sylvie, the oldest, the cleverest, and—most days at least—the responsible one; Joey, who though only twelve is the man of the house ... sometimes; Janey, who has a terrific upside-down way of looking at the world; and Rufus, who may be the littlest but always gets in the biggest trouble.
Even the most ordinary Moffat day is packed with extraordinary fun. Only a Moffat could get locked in a bread box all...
Even the most ordinary Moffat day is packed with extraordinary fun. Only a Moffat could get locked in a bread box all...
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Great Brain books volume 2.
Average Rating:
5 stars
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In 1896 the Great Brain of Adenville, Utah, is almost twelve years old and more mischievous than ever in his practical jokes and schemes against everyone in town.
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All-of-a-kind family volume 2.
Average Rating:
5 stars
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The story of five young Jewish girls growing up in New York's Lower East Side before the first world war.
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3.4 stars
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The unexpected delivery of a large crate containing an Antarctic penguin changes the life and fortunes of Mr. Popper, a house painter obsessed by dreams of the Polar regions.
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5 stars
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Having no one to help her with her problems, a widowed mouse visits the rats whose former imprisonment in a laboratory made them wise and long lived.
With nowhere else to turn, a field mouse asks the clever escaped lab rats living under the rosebush to help save her son, who lies in the path of the farmer's tractor, too ill to be moved.
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4.3 stars
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A young boy relates his adventures during the year he spends living alone in the Catskill Mountains, including his struggle for survival, his dependence on nature, his animal friends, and his ultimate realization that he needs human companionship.
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4 stars
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Five Union prisoners of war escape from a Confederate prison camp in a hot-air balloon, only to crash land on an unknown island where they must learn to survive on their own.
98. Old Yeller
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4.3 stars
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In the late 1860s in the Texas hill country, a big yellow dog and a fourteen-year-old boy form a close, loving relationship.
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Little house (Laura Ingalls Wilder) volume 4.
Average Rating:
4.4 stars
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Laura and her family move to Minnesota where they live in a dugout until a new house is built and face misfortunes caused by flood, blizzard, and grasshoppers.
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"For fans of All-of-a-Kind Family, here is the true story of how Sarah Brenner, a poor girl from New York City's Lower East Side, became Sydney Taylor: dancer, actress, and successful children's book author. Sarah Brenner might have come from an all-of-a-kind family (five sisters who all dressed alike), but she was always one of a kind. Growing up in a Jewish immigrant family on New York's impoverished Lower East Side, Sarah loved visiting the library,...