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The Mail Must Go Through: The Story Of The Pony Express
Margaret Rau
Library Binding (Morgan Reynolds Pub, Aug. 30, 2005)Presents the history and development of the mail service that delivered mail almost two thousand miles across the United States in less than ten days on horseback during the nineteenth century.
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The Changeover: A Supernatural Romance
Margaret Mahy
Hardcover (J.M.Dent & Sons Ltd, May 1, 1984)None
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Crafty Parties for Kids: Creative Ideas, Invitations, Games, Favors, and More
Margaret Riley
Paperback (Design Originals, May 1, 2013)This collection of 10 craft-it-yourself children's party theme ensembles offers more than 70 unique projects for games, invitations, favors, centerpieces, edible creations, costumes, and more. Imaginative party options are provided for both girls' and boys' celebrations, with step-by-step instructions, detailed patterns, full-color photographs, and party planning tips.
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Beatrix Potter's Peter Rabbit: A Children's Classic at 100
Margaret Mackey
Hardcover (Scarecrow Press, Feb. 15, 2002)Thirteen essays explore the timeless appeal of Peter's antics, and the impact of this extraordinary book on children worldwide. Contributors, each a respected scholar in the field of children's literature, examine details of Potter's life, her history as an artist, her accomplishments as a naturalist, and the contextual factors affecting her writing and illustrations. Others investigate the timelessness of this story, exploring its psychological and sociological truths and comparing Peter Rabbit to present day literature.
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The Girl with the Green Ear: Stories About Magic in Nature
Margaret Mahy
Hardcover (Knopf Books for Young Readers, March 17, 1992)A collection of nine stories in which characters encounter talking plants, a pine-tree man, a merry-go-round with flying horses, mystical midnight birds, and a cake-eating tree.
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Stone Wizard
Margaret Storey
Paperback (Faber & Faber, Jan. 15, 1979)None
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Ngoni of Nyasaland.
Margaret Read
Hardcover (Oxford University Press, March 15, 1956)None
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The Changeover
Margaret Mahy
Paperback (Harpercollins Pub Ltd, June 30, 2003)Carnegie medal-winning supernatural romance from Margaret Mahy. The face in the mirror. From the moment she saw it, Laura Chant knwe that something dreadful was going to happen. It wasn't the first time she'd been forewarned. But never before had anything so terrible happened. The horrifyingly evil Carmody Braque touched and branded her little brother -- and now Jacko was very ill, getting steadily worse. There was only one way to save him. Laura had to change over: had to release her supernatural powers. And that meant joining forces with the extraordinary and enigmatic Sorenson Carlisle!
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Curious George and the Pizza
Margret Rey
Paperback (Scholastic Inc., Aug. 16, 1985)Curious George is up to his elbows in dough and trouble as he tries his hand at making pizza. Tony the baker chases him out of his restaurant, and George hides in a truck in the alley. An angry Tony becomes a grateful Tony when George helps him deliver a pizza in a way that only a monkey could.
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How to Write a Poem
Margaret Ryan
Library Binding (Franklin Watts, Oct. 1, 1996)Discusses the basics of writing poetry including finding a subject, using sound, understanding rhythm and meter, and going public with the finished results
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A Lion in the Meadow
Margaret Mahy
Paperback (Puffin Bks, May 25, 1995)What would you do if you knew there was a lion in the meadow, but your mother wouldn't believe you and gave you a matchbox with a dragon to scare the away the lion...and in fact the dragon was there too?
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A Lion in the Meadow
Margaret Mahy
Hardcover (Harry N. Abrams, June 1, 1992)A young boy uses a matchbox to chase away an unfriendly lion
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