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1) Jo's boys
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Jo's Boys (1886) is a novel by American author Louis May Alcott. Written while Alcott was living in the historic Thoreau-Alcott House in Concord, Massachusetts, Jo's Boys picks up ten years after the events of Little Men, which followed the young sons of Jo Bhaer (née March) and Professor Friedrich Bhaer at their newly established Plumfield Estate School. As with the rest of the series, Jo's Boys was inspired by the educational reforms theorized...
4) Mary Poppins
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Mary Poppins series volume 1
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Mary Poppins is blown into the lives of the Banks children by the East Wind, and takes them on many adventures.
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A brand-new title from Michael Bond chronicling new and exciting adventures of Paddington Bear!
Somehow Paddington always finds himself in extraordinary situations, so it is no surprise when he appears in a popular TV cooking show, finds himself on a stage giving one of his hard stares to a hypnotist, and performing some precarious tricks at Mr. Gruber's birthday party. For nearly sixty years, Paddington has enchanted readers around the world with...
7) Shadow
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Discover the beautiful stories of Michael Morpurgo, author of Warhorse and the nation's favourite storyteller
A stunning and moving novel from Michael Morpurgo, the nation's favourite storyteller - featuring the bravest dog in all the world...
This is the story of Aman, as told in his own words - a boy from Afghanistan fleeing the horror of the Afghan war. When a western dog shows up outside the caves where Aman lives with his mother, Aman is initially...
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Miss Penelope Lumley assuages the disappointments of her sixteenth birthday by accepting an invitation to speak at her former school, the Swanburne Academy for Poor Bright Females, which will be closed if she cannot prove the academic progress of her incorrigible charges.
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Wishes and Wellingtons volume 2
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From award-winning author Julie Berry comes the second installment in the fantastically adventurous Wishes and Wellingtons series, in which our heroine, Maeve Merritt, embarks on a magic-powered and most dangerous quest to help her friends
Now that Maeve Merritt has surrendered Mermeros, the djinni she found in a sardine can, she expects her life in London will be dull as dirt. But villains from Maeve's previous escapades are still searching for...
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Hello, Gerald. I hope this isn't too weird for you-a letter from beyond the grave! By now you are my heir and worth a good deal of money. I hope you don't mind... I expect you've figured out that I was murdered. I would like you to find out who did it.
Gerald Wilkins had only been hoping for a ski holiday, but plans change when a great aunt he's never met leaves him her entire estate worth twenty billion pounds! Whisked by his parents to London,...
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Wishes and Wellingtons volume 1
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Maeve Merritt, chafing against the rigid rules of her London boarding school, finds her life transformed by the genie she happens upon--and by those who want to steal him.
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Magic bone volume 1
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Sparky the sheepdog puppy digs up a magic bone that transports him to London, where he makes new friends, sees the sites, and gets into a bit of trouble.
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Eleven-year-old Danny s life is turned upside down when his Chinese grandmother comes to live with his family in England. Things get worse when Danny finds out he ll have to share his room with her, and she took the top bunk! At first, Danny is frustrated that he can t communicate with her because she doesn t speak English and because he s on the verge of failing math and Nai Nai was actually a math champion back in the day.
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