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4.2 stars
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The adventures of an eleven-year-old boy in 13th century England as he searches for his father and his dog.
In thirteenth-century England an eleven-year-old boy roams the countryside as he searches for his father and his stolen dog
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5 stars
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Shares the life of the white seminary student who was killed fighting for civil rights for African Americans in the segregated South.
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Harry, bored with her sheltered life in the remote orange-growing colony of Daria, discovers magic in herself when she is kidnapped by a native king with mysterious powers.
4. The Boggart
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5 stars
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After visiting the castle in Scotland which her family has inherited and returning home to Canada, twelve-year-old Emily finds that she has accidentally brought back with her a boggart, an invisible and mischievous spirit with a fondness for practical jokes.
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Brian's saga volume 4.
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5 stars
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After his experiences surviving alone in the Canadian wilderness, sixteen-year-old Brian finds it increasingly difficult to live as a normal high school student and begins planning to return to the place where he feels he really belongs.
6. The far west
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Frontier magic volume 3.
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5 stars
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When the unlucky magical twin Eff joins an expedition to map the Far West, she endures a long prairie winter and encounters with previously unknown creatures before realizing the importance of ending a magical flood.
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Little house (Laura Ingalls Wilder) volume 9.
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4.3 stars
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During their first four years of marriage, Laura and Almanzo Wilder have a child and fight a losing battle in their attempts to succeed at farming on the South Dakota prairie.
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3.5 stars
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Lucy lives on the twenty-fourth floor. Owen lives in the basement. It's fitting, then, that they meet in the middle — stuck between two floors of a New York City apartment building, on an elevator rendered useless by a citywide blackout. After they're rescued, Lucy and Owen spend the night wandering the darkened streets and marveling at the rare appearance of stars above Manhattan. But once the power is back, so is reality. Lucy soon moves abroad...
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Harry Potter (Original series) volume 6.
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4.9 stars
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Harry searches for the full and complex story of the boy who became Lord Voldemort, and thereby finds what may be his only vulnerability.
Sixth-year Hogwarts student Harry Potter gains valuable insights into the boy Voldemort once was, even as his own world is transformed by maturing friendships, schoolwork assistance from an unexpected source, and devastating losses.
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Temeraire volume 1.
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4.1 stars
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When the HMS Reliant captures a French ship and its priceless cargo, an unhatched dragon egg, Captain Will Laurence is swept into an unexpected kinship with an extraordinary creature and joins the elite Aerial Corps as a master of the dragon Temaraire, in which role he must match wits with the powerful dragon-borne forces of Napoleon Bonaparte.
11. The hot zone
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Each letter of the alphabet is represented by an important woman in the history of the United States, as well as others in her same field of accomplishment.
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Like water for chocolate volume 1.
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4 stars
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Despite the fact that she has fallen in love with a young man, Tita, the youngest of three daughters born to a tyrannical rancher, must obey tradition and remain single and at home to care for her mother.
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Three teenagers in Boston narrate their experiences of a year of new friendships, first loves, and coming into their own.
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4.5 stars
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The autobiography of the famous abolitionist and statesman who escaped to the north after twenty-one years of enslavement.
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The cabin boy on the "Santa Maria" keeps a diary which records his experiences when he sails with Columbus on his first voyage to the New World in 1492.
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Describes the geography, plants and animals, history, economy, language, religions, culture, and people of the People's Republic of China, home of one of the world's oldest continuous civilizations.
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Tells the story of Phineas Gage, a railroad construction foreman who survived eleven years years after an accident in which a thirteen-pound iron rod shot through his brain.
19. Physik
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Septimus Heap volume 3.
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4.6 stars
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Pulled through a glass that brings him back in time, Septimus Heap becomes the apprentice of an alchemist.
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Princess diaries volume 6.
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In a series of diary entries, Princess Mia describes celebrating Christmas with her friends in Genovia.