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Nell's Quilt
Susan Terris
Hardcover (Farrar Straus & Giroux, Aug. 1, 1987)Urged at the age of eighteen to marry a man she doesn't want, Nell delays the event by working on a quilt, slowly starving herself, and observing the unhappy lot of many women in turn-of-the century Massachusetts before arriving at a decision to rescue herself from the brink of death and take charge of her life.Yearning to attend college and work for the women's suffrage movement, eighteen-year-old Nell feels trapped by her parents' inability to manage the farm without her and seeks refuge in the creation of a quilt, in a story set at the turn of the century
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The Pout-Pout Fish Book and Fish Tank
DeborahDiesen
Hardcover (FarrarStrausGiroux, Oct. 31, 2014)Title: The Pout-Pout Fish Book and Fish Tank [With Plush] <>Binding: Hardcover <>Author: DeborahDiesen <>Publisher: FarrarStrausGiroux
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Everything That Rises Must Converge
Flannery O'Connor, Flannery O7connor
Hardcover (Farrar Straus Giroux, Jan. 15, 1965)269 page hard cover novel by Flannery O'Connor.
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Caleb and Kate
William Steig
Hardcover (Farrar Straus & Giroux, Dec. 1, 1977)Caleb the carpenter is changed by the witch Yedida into a dog and Kate the weaver, his wife, cares for the red-haired animal because it reminds her of her missing husband
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Don't Call Me Little Bunny
Gregoire Solotareff
Hardcover (Farrar Straus & Giroux, Sept. 1, 1988)Jack, the Little Bunny, doesn't like being called that and he doesn't think being the smallest rabbit is much fun, either. Why can't he be a normal rabbit with a normal name just like everyone else?
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Ulaq and the Northern Lights
Harriet Peck Taylor
Hardcover (Farrar Straus & Giroux, Sept. 1, 1998)Ulaq, an arctic fox, and his friends Seal, Wolf, Polar Bear, Caribou, Rabbit, and Snowy Owl travel across the tundra to discover that everyone sees the Northern Lights differently, in a story that captures all the wonder of aurora borealis.
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Heads or Tails
JackGantos
Paperback (FarrarStrausGiroux, Sept. 30, 1995)Title: Heads or Tails( Stories from the Sixth Grade) <>Binding: Paperback <>Author: JackGantos <>Publisher: FarrarStrausGiroux
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Snow-White and the Seven Dwarfs: A Tale from the Brothers Grimm
Nancy Ekholm Burkert, Randall Jarrell
Hardcover (Farrar Straus & Giroux, Jan. 1, 1972)Burkert's tapestrylike paintings, strong yet delicately detailed, radiate a spiritual beauty that enriches the movement of the story in its medieval setting. Jarrell's style, graceful and dignified, stays close to the original."-Starred/Booklist
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Blue Remembered Hills: A Recollection
Rosemary Sutcliff
Paperback (Farrar Straus & Giroux, April 1, 1992)The historical novelist recalls her childhood and struggle with rheumatoid arthritis that made her unable to walk as a child and describes the family and friends who encouraged her to become a writer
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Laughing Latkes
M. B. Goffstein
Hardcover (Farrar Straus & Giroux, Sept. 1, 1980)Looks at the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah, lightly touching on the history and customs of this celebration and exploring the Jewish scholarly tradition of answering a question with a question
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A Swiftly Tilting Planet
Madeleine L' Engle
Paperback (Farrar Straus Giroux, March 15, 1978)mass market paperback.
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Friska, the Sheep That Was Too Small
Rob Lewis
Hardcover (Farrar Straus & Giroux, March 1, 1988)A lamb who never seems to grow saves her flock from a wolf and is never laughed at again.
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