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  • The Whale Rider

    Witi Ihimaera

    Paperback (Harcourt, May 1, 2003)
    Eight-year-old Kahu, a member of the Maori tribe of Whangara, New Zealand, fights to prove her love, her leadership, and her destiny. Her people claim descent from Kahutia Te Rangi, the legendary "whale rider." In every generation since Kahutia, a male heir has inherited the title of chief. But now there is no male heir, and the aging chief is desperate to find a successor. Kahu is his only great-grandchild--and Maori tradition has no use for a girl. But when hundreds of whales beach themselves and threaten the future of the Maori tribe, it is Kahu who saves the tribe when she reveals that she has the whale rider's ancient gift of communicating with whales. Now available in simultaneous hardcover and paperback editions. Feature film in theaters in June 2003!
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  • Harcourt School Publishers Math: Practice Workbook Student Edition Grade 3

    Evan M Maletsky

    Paperback (Harcourt, April 1, 2002)
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  • Social Studies: The United States: Making a New Nation

    Michael J Berson

    Hardcover (Harcourt, Feb. 1, 2007)
    Social Studies. Making a new nation.
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  • Life of Pi, Deluxe Illustrated Edition

    Yann Martel, Tomislav Torjanac

    Hardcover (Harcourt, Oct. 7, 2007)
    “Will the tiger be menacing; will the ocean be threatening; will the island be something out of Frankenstein or will it be an Eden?”—Yann MartelLife of Pi, first published in 2002, became an international bestseller and remains one of the most extraordinary and popular works of contemporary fiction.In 2005 an international competition was held to find the perfect artist to illustrate Yann Martel’s Man Booker Prize–winning novel. From thousands of entrants, Croatian artist Tomislav Torjanac was chosen. This lavishly produced edition features forty of Torjanac’s beautiful four-color illustrations, bringing Life of Pi to splendid, eye-popping life. Tomislav Torjanac says of his illustrations: “My vision of the illustrated edition of Life of Pi is based on paintings from a first person’s perspective—Pi’s perspective. The interpretation of what Pi sees is intermeshed with what he feels and it is shown through [the] use of colors, perspective, symbols, hand gestures, etc.”
  • Madcap Mystery

    Karin Anckarsvard

    Hardcover (Harcourt, June 15, 1962)
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  • Science, Grade 6

    HARCOURT SCHOOL PUBLISHERS

    Hardcover (Harcourt, Sept. 1, 2006)
    Science, Grade 6 (View amazon detail page) ASIN: 0153609427
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  • Winterdance: The Fine Madness of Running the Iditarod

    Gary Paulsen

    Hardcover (Harcourt, March 1, 1994)
    Paulsen and his team of dogs endured snowstorms, frostbite, dogfights, moose attacks, sleeplessness, and hallucinations in the relentless push to go on. Map and color photographs.
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  • Harcourt Social Studies: The United States - Making a New Nation

    HARCOURT SCHOOL PUBLISHERS

    Paperback (Harcourt, April 1, 2005)
    occassional marks and writing throughout
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  • Star Rangers

    Andre Norton

    Hardcover (Harcourt, Jan. 1, 1953)
    One of several printings, "First Edition" so states on copyright page. The author's second book - common in ex-library state, scarce otherwise. Norton later wrote a sequel entitled "Star Guard."
  • Gifts

    Ursula K. Le Guin

    Hardcover (Harcourt Inc., Sept. 1, 2004)
    Scattered among poor, desolate farms, the clans of the Uplands possess gifts. Wondrous gifts: the ability--with a glance, a gesture, a word--to summon animals, bring forth fire, move the land. Fearsome gifts: They can twist a limb, chain a mind, inflict a wasting illness. The Uplanders live in constant fear that one family might unleash its gift against another. Two young people, friends since childhood, decide not to use their gifts. One, a girl, refuses to bring animals to their death in the hunt. The other, a boy, wears a blindfold lest his eyes and his anger kill. In this beautifully crafted story, Ursula K. Le Guin writes of the proud cruelty of power, of how hard it is to grow up, and of how much harder still it is to find, in the world's darkness, gifts of light.
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  • The Double

    Jose Saramago, Margaret Jull Costa

    Hardcover (Harcourt, Oct. 4, 2004)
    Tertuliano Máximo Afonso is a history teacher in a secondary school. He is divorced, involved in a rather one-sided relationship with a bank clerk, and he is depressed. To lift his depression, a colleague suggests he rent a certain video. Tertuliano watches the film and is unimpressed. During the night, noises in his apartment wake him. He goes into the living room to find that the VCR is replaying the video, and as he watches in astonishment he sees a man who looks exactly like him-or, more specifically, exactly like the man he was five years before, mustachioed and fuller in the face. He sleeps badly.Against his own better judgment, Tertuliano decides to pursue his double. As he establishes the man's identity, what begins as a whimsical story becomes a dark meditation on identity and, perhaps, on the crass assumption behind cloning-that we are merely our outward appearance rather than the sum of our experiences.
  • The Christmas Cobwebs

    Odds Bodkin

    Hardcover (Harcourt, Inc., March 15, 2002)
    A poor shoemaker and his family move from Germany to Chicago with only a box of glittering glass ornaments. But when a tragic fire destroys their new house and shop, the family has to move into an abandoned shack, with cobwebs dangling from the rafters. Soon the shoemaker must sell his family's cherished decorations. But on Christmas morning, they all awaken to a shimmering surprise hanging from their tree. Spun by the Christmas spirit, a wonderful magic weaves throughout this holiday tale.