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Animal Folk Tales Around the World
Kathleen Arnott
Hardcover (Random House Childrens Books, Feb. 1, 1971)Birds, animals, fishes, and insects exhibit wisdom and cleverness, forming magical alliances and proposing moral maxims in these collected animal stories
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Jennifer Jones Won't Leave Me Alone
Frieda Wishinsky, Neal Layton
Paperback (Random House Childrens Books, Jan. 31, 2004)She writes me love poems, full of words like adore. Then she sticks on red hearts, she bought at the store. This is a hilarious rhyming story about a little boy who is fed up with the loving attentions of the little girl who sits next to him. But when the girl in question, Jennifer Jones, goes away, our hero realises how much he misses her. Soon he's the one buying red hearts at the store. You'll fall in love too with this heart-warming and highly amusing story coupled with Neal Layton's witty and quirky illustrations. This title is winner of the Sheffield Children's Book Award 2004, The Stockport Children's Book Award 2004 and the Portsmouth Children's Book Award 2005.
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CASTLE OF FROME
Edward Packard
Mass Market Paperback (Random House Children's Books, )None
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The Olden Days
Joe Mathieu
Paperback (Random House Childrens Books, Feb. 12, 1981)Text and pictures portray life in a New England village in the early 19th century.
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HOW TO FALL
Jane Casey
Paperback (Random House Children s Books, Jan. 31, 2013)How to Fall
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Jack and Police Dog Rebel
Patricia Finney
Paperback (Random House Childrens Books, March 31, 2002)Jack, a labrador dog, takes the family car for a drive, tries to protect a new pack-member (a parrot) from the claws of the family's cat and gets involved with burglars and New Age anti-road protestors. As a reward Jack gets a whole steak to eat. The whole story is told in Jack's own words.
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Johnny and the Bomb
TERRY PRATCHETT
Paperback (Random House Children's Books, April 29, 2004)It's May 21 1941, thought Johnny. It's war. Johnny Maxwell and his friends have to do something when they find Mrs Tachyon, the local bag lady, semi-conscious in an alley ...as long as it's not the kiss of life. But there's more to Mrs Tachyon than a squeaky trolley and a bunch of dubious black bags. Somehow she holds the key to different times, different eras - including the Blackbury Blitz in 1941. Suddenly now isn't the safe place Johnny once thought it was as he finds himself caught up more and more with then ...
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Annie Finds a Home.
Amy Ehrlich
Paperback (Random House Childrens Books, May 1, 1982)Annie escapes from the orphanage, rescues her dog, Sandy, from a group of cruel boys, and is adopted by the wealthy Mr. Warbucks
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Davy Crockett
Steward Holbrook
Hardcover (Random House Childrens Books, June 1, 1955)A biographical account of the frontier hero who became a symbol of the restless westward movement across the American continent
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Beck and the Great Berry Battle
Laura Driscoll, Judith H. Clarke
Paperback (Random House Childrens Books, Jan. 10, 2006)As an animal-talent fairy, there’s nothing Beck likes better than speaking Bird, or Chipmunk. So when a conflict breaks out between the hummingbirds and the chipmunks, she steps forward to act as a mediator, but nothing she says seems to help. Will Beck be able to bring peace to the animals?
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The Story of Masada
Yigael Yadin, Gerald Gottlieb
Hardcover (Random House Childrens Books, June 1, 1969)Describes the two year archeological dig on the high rock known as Masada in the Judean desert, the site of Herod's palace and later the camp of about one thousand Zealots in their last stand against the Romans.
