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Books published by publisher Marshall Cavendish Corp/Ccb

  • The Rabbi and the Twenty-nine Witches

    Marilyn Hirsh

    Hardcover (Marshall Cavendish Corp/Ccb, Aug. 20, 2009)
    Once a month, when the moon is full, twenty-nine of the meanest, scariest, ugliest, wickedest witches that ever lived come out of their cave to terrify the villagers . . . until one day the wise rabbi invents a plan to rid his village of those wicked witches forever. The rabbi's clever plan works--with hilarious results!
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  • Coco The Carrot

    Steven Salerno

    Hardcover (Marshall Cavendish Corp/Ccb, March 31, 2005)
    Tired of life in the refrigerator, Coco the Carrot sets off for Paris via a cruise ship where she starts a whirlwind career as a famous hat designer.
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  • Louds Move In!

    Carolyn Crimi, Regan Dunnick

    Hardcover (Marshall Cavendish Corp/Ccb, March 15, 2006)
    Things have always been quiet on Earmuffle Avenue until the Loud family--who do everything they do very LOUDLY--moves in, but when the Louds disappear one day, the neighborhood suddenly seems too quiet.
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  • Tanuki's Gift: A Japanese Tale

    Tim Myers, Robert Roth

    Hardcover (Marshall Cavendish Corp/Ccb, April 1, 2003)
    One winter, a priest takes in a furry tanuki and the two become friends, but when the tanuki tries to repay the priest, they both learn a lesson.
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  • Creation of the World

    Claude-Catherine Ragache

    Library Binding (Marshall Cavendish Corp, Sept. 1, 1991)
    Explores the numerous myths and legends attempting to explain the creation of the world.
  • Shibumi and the Kitemaker

    Mercer Mayer

    Hardcover (Marshall Cavendish Corp/Ccb, Oct. 1, 1999)
    After seeing the disparity between the conditions of her father's palace and the city beyond its walls, the Emperor's daughter has the royal kitemaker build a huge kite to take her away from it all.
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  • Little Wolf and the Moon

    Marjorie Dennis Murray, Stacey Schuett

    Hardcover (Marshall Cavendish Corp/Ccb, Sept. 1, 2002)
    After lying awake underneath the stars, staring at the moon and wondering about the world around him, Little Wolf eventually drifts off to sleep, in an inviting bedtime story that is a celebration of both nature and youthful curiosity.
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  • Young Larry

    Daniel Manus Pinkwater, Jill Pinkwater

    Hardcover (Marshall Cavendish Corp/Ccb, Aug. 1, 1997)
    After being hit on the head by his mother and told to fend for himself, Larry the polar bear floats from Baffin Bay to New Jersey where he gets a job as a lifeguard
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  • Yonder Mountain: A Cherokee Legend

    Robert H. Bushyhead, Jean L. Bushyhead, Kay T. Bannon, Kristina Rodanas

    Hardcover (Marshall Cavendish Corp/Ccb, Oct. 1, 2002)
    Sky, an aging Cherokee chief, chooses his successor by asking three candidates to climb a mountain, thus testing their character and strength, in an authentic and instructive Eastern Cherokee Nation "lesson story."
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  • Kallaloo!: A Caribbean Tale

    David Gershator, Phillis Gershator, Diane Greenseid

    Hardcover (Marshall Cavendish Corp/Ccb, March 31, 2005)
    In a retelling of the Stone Soup fable set in the West Indies, an old woman claims to have found a magic shell that can make kallaloo, a popular Caribbean soup.
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  • Jack Quack

    Lucy A. Nolan, Andrea Wesson

    Hardcover (Marshall Cavendish Corp/Ccb, Oct. 1, 2001)
    When an awkward duckling named Otis finds growing up to be full of mishaps and near misses, he assumes a new identity as Jack Quack, Renegade Drake, and wins new respect from his family and friends.
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  • Resistance

    Janet Graber

    Hardcover (Marshall Cavendish Corp/Ccb, April 30, 2005)
    In German-occupied Normandy, France, fifteen-year-old Marianne worries that her mother is exposing the family, especially Marianne's deaf younger brother, to great danger by volunteering for more perilous assignments in the resistance movement.
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