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141. Timothy of the cay
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Having survived being blinded and shipwrecked on a tiny Caribbean island with the old black man Timothy, twelve-year-old white Phillip is rescued and hopes to regain his sight with an operation. Alternate chapters follow the life of Timothy from his days as a young cabin boy.
142. Treasure Island
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4.2 stars
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While going through the possessions of a deceased guest who owed them money, Jim Hawkins and his innkeeper mother find a treasure map that may lead them to a pirate's fortune.
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3 stars
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A Polish family in the Middle Ages guards a great secret treasure and a boy's memory of an earlier trumpeter of Krakow makes it possible for him to save his father.
144. Understood Betsy
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Timid and small for her age, nine-year-old Elizabeth Ann discovers her own abilities and gains a new perception of the world around her when she goes to live with relatives on a farm in Vermont.
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Chronicles of Narnia volume 5.
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4.3 stars
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Lucy and Edmund, accompanied by their peevish cousin Eustace, sail to the land of Narnia where Eustace is temporarily transformed into a green dragon because of his selfish behavior and skepticism.
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5 stars
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When his colleague Long Arrow disappears, Dr. Dolittle sets off with his assistant, Tommy Stubbins, his dog, Jip, and Polynesia the parrot on an adventurous voyage over tropical seas to floating Spidermonkey Island.
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An abridged retelling of the story in which Dr. Dolittle sets off with his assistant, Tommy Stubbins, his dog, Jip, and Polynesia the parrot on an adventurous voyage over tropical seas to floating Spidermonkey Island.
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14 years and up
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In the Great Smoky Mountains region, a fourteen-year-old girl struggles to keep her family together after their father dies.
149. The white stag
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4 stars
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Retells the legendary story of the Huns' and Magyars' long migration from Asia to Europe where they hope to find a permanent home.
150. Whose town?
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David Williams novels volume 3.
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A Negro family's hopes for a peaceful existence in North Town are shattered when their teen-age son becomes involved with the police after being attacked by a gang and the town erupts into riot and disorder.
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3.1 stars
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Now an orphan, Kit Tyler travels from Barbados, where she grew up, to live with her strict Puritan uncle in Connecticut.
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Sixteen-year-old Kit Tyler is marked by suspicion and disapproval from the moment she arrives on the unfamiliar shores of colonial Connecticut in 1687. Alone and desperate, she has been forced to leave her beloved home on the island of Barbados and join a family she has never met. Torn between her quest for belonging and her desire to be true to herself, Kit struggles to survive in a hostile place. Just when it seems she must give up, she finds
...153. The yearling
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4.8 stars
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A young boy living in the Florida backwoods is forced to decide the fate of a fawn he has lovingly raised as a pet.