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  • Knitwits

    William Taylor

    Paperback (Apple/Scholastic, Nov. 1, 1994)
    The impending birth of a family's expected baby has everyone up in arms, especially the soon-to-be big brother, nine-year-old Charlie, who plays hockey during the day and finds himself knitting sweaters at night. Reprint.
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  • At The Big Red Rooster: Stories by William Taylor

    William Taylor

    (Longacre Press, Nov. 1, 1998)
    Ever had to be a pall bearer? Gone pig hunting with a desperate uncle: Had to dance with a giantess in public? Had the worlds most boring job? Been ripped off by a little old lady? These stories will take you places youll never want to visit in real life the first dance to the first funeral to the first job and the first sexual experience well, okay, maybe that last one. This is a great collection of funny, sad, dramatic and sometimes frightening stories from William Taylor, one of New Zealands most acclaimed writers.

  • Agnes the Sheep

    William Taylor

    Library Binding (Scholastic, Feb. 1, 1991)
    An eccentric old lady leaves her large and nasty sheep, Agnes, to Belinda and Joe, setting off a wild and woolly sheep chase.
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  • Numbskulls

    William Taylor

    Library Binding (Scholastic, Oct. 1, 1995)
    A sequel to Knitwits finds Charlie being swindled out of his lifetime allowance by nasty neighbor Alice Pepper, who, in return, has promised to help him get smart, get rich, and get girls.
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  • Agnes the Sheep

    William Taylor

    Hardcover (Scholastic, Jan. 1, 1990)
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  • Break a Leg

    William Taylor

    Paperback (Puffin Books, March 15, 1990)
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  • Knitwits

    William Taylor

    Library Binding (Scholastic, Sept. 1, 1992)
    Bound by his wager with obnoxious Alice Pepper--that he knit something for the baby sibling his mother is about to give him--Charlie Kenny races against the clock to finish his project without letting his hockey teammates find out.
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  • Making Big Bucks

    William Taylor

    Paperback (Puffin Books, March 15, 1990)
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  • Agnes the Sheep

    William Taylor

    Paperback (Scholastic Hippo, March 21, 1997)
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  • Paradise Lane

    William Taylor

    Library Binding (Scholastic, Oct. 1, 1987)
    When fifteen-year-old Rosie Perkins, an outcast at school, saves the life of a baby opossum, she finds an unlikely friend and ally in Michael Geraghty, a classmate who is her complete opposite

  • Blue Lawn

    William Taylor

    School & Library Binding (Rebound by Sagebrush, May 16, 1999)
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  • Agnes the Sheep

    William Taylor

    Paperback (Scholastic, March 17, 1995)
    For a class project, Joe and Belinda interview and eccentric "oldie," Mrs. Carpenter. In exchange for her wild stories of circus days and gangster nights, Joe and Belinda promise to take care of her woolly attack sheep, Agnes, should anything happen to Mrs. Carpenter. Well, something does happen to her, and Joe and Belinda are responsible for the meanest sheep that ever lived.
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