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1. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

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Author:
Rowling, J. K.
Series:
Harry Potter (Original series) volume 2.
Average Rating:
4.8 stars
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Description:
When the Chamber of Secrets is opened again at the Hogwarts School for Witchcraft and Wizardry, second-year student Harry Potter finds himself in danger from a dark power that has once more been released on the school.

2. Harry Potter and the prisoner of Azkaban

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Author:
Rowling, J. K.
Series:
Harry Potter (Original series) volume 3.
Average Rating:
4.8 stars
Formats:
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Description:
During his third year at Hogwarts School for Witchcraft and Wizardry, Harry Potter must confront the devious and dangerous wizard responsible for his parents' deaths.

3. Harry Potter and the sorcerer's stone

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Author:
Rowling, J. K.
Series:
Harry Potter (Original series) volume 1.
Average Rating:
4.8 stars
Formats:
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Description:
Rescued from the outrageous neglect of his aunt and uncle, a young boy with a great destiny proves his worth while attending Hogwarts School for Wizards and Witches.

4. Heidi

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Author:
Spyri, Johanna, 1827-1901
Average Rating:
5 stars
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Description:
A Swiss orphan is heartbroken when she must leave her beloved grandfather and their happy home in the mountains to go to school and to care for an invalid girl in the city.

5. Inside out & back again

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Author:
Lại, Thanhhà
Average Rating:
3.6 stars
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Description:
Through a series of poems, a young girl chronicles the life-changing year of 1975, when she, her mother, and her brothers leave Vietnam and resettle in Alabama.

6. Little women

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Author:
Alcott, Louisa May, 1832-1888
Series:
Little Women series volume 1.
Average Rating:
4.6 stars
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Description:
Chronicles the joys and sorrows of the four March sisters as they grow into young ladies in nineteenth-century New England.

7. A long walk to water: a novel

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Author:
Park, Linda Sue
Average Rating:
4.2 stars
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Description:
When the Sudanese civil war reaches his village in 1985, eleven-year-old Salva becomes separated from his family and must walk with other Dinka tribe members through southern Sudan, Ethiopia, and Kenya in search of safe haven. Based on the life of Salva Dut, who, after emigrating to America in 1996, began a project to dig water wells in Sudan. When the Sudanese civil war reaches his village in 1985, eleven-year-old Salva becomes separated from his...