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  • The House With a Clock in Its Walls

    John Bellairs

    Hardcover (Peter Smith Pub Inc, Dec. 1, 1973)
    Orphaned Lewis Barnavelt tries to help his uncle Jonathan and next-door neighbor turn back the hands of time and save the world from the disaster that will begin when the clock stops ticking within the walls of Jonathan's house. Reissue. NYT. PW.
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  • The Riddle of the Red Purse

    Patricia Reilly Giff

    Hardcover (Peter Smith Pub Inc, June 1, 1987)
    With three people claiming ownership and not many clues to go on, Dawn Bosco faces a tough mystery when she attempts to identify the rightful owner of the shiny red purse she finds in the schoolyard
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  • Mr. Revere And I

    Robert Lawson

    Hardcover (Peter Smith Pub Inc, April 30, 2005)
    A horse tells how he helped Paul Revere become a hero of the American Revolutionary War
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  • The Giant

    William Pene Dubois

    Hardcover (Peter Smith Pub Inc, Dec. 1, 1987)
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  • The Little Silver House

    Jennie Lindquist, Garth Williams

    Hardcover (Peter Smith Pub Inc, June 1, 1985)
    Lindquist, Jennie
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  • The Edge of the Sea

    Rachel Carson, Bob Hines, Sue Hubbell

    Hardcover (Peter Smith Pub Inc, June 1, 1999)
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  • Mustang-Wild Spirit of the West

    Marguerite Henry

    Hardcover (Peter Smith Pub Inc, June 1, 1996)
    A fictional retelling, from the point of view of Annie Bronn Johnston, of how this Nevada woman fought to protect the American wild horse, the mustang, from extinction because of professional killers who chased the horses for use in dog food.

  • Independent People

    Halldor Laxness

    Hardcover (Peter Smith Pub Inc, June 1, 1999)
    First published in 1946, this humane epic novel is set in rural Iceland in the early twentieth century. Bjartus is a sheep farmer determined to eke a living from a blighted patch of land. Nothing, not merciless weather, nor his family will come between him and his goal of financial independence. Only Asta Solillja, the child he brings up as his daughter, can pierce his stubborn heart. As she grows up, keen to make her own way in the world, Bjartus' obstinacy threatens to estrange them forever.

  • A Very Young Dancer

    Jill Krementz

    Hardcover (Peter Smith Pub Inc, June 1, 1992)
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  • A Day No Pigs Would Die

    Robert Newton Peck

    Hardcover (Peter Smith Pub Inc, June 1, 1999)
    To a thirteen-year-old Vermont farm boy whose father slaughters pigs for a living, maturity comes early as he learns "doing what's got to be done," especially regarding his pet pig who cannot produce a litter.
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  • The Well-wishers

    Edward Eager

    Hardcover (Peter Smith Pub Inc, June 1, 1960)
    Charming story about a group of children and their adventures.
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  • Beowulf

    Rosemary Sutcliff

    Hardcover (Peter Smith Pub Inc, June 1, 1984)
    A retelling of Beowulf's battle with the monster, Grendel
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