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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
by Mark Twain, Victor Doyno, Justin Kaplan

ISBN 0449912728 (0-449-91272-8)
Softcover, Ballantine Books

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A seminal work of American Literature that still commands deep praise and still elicits controversy, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is essential to the understanding of the American soul. The recent discovery of the first half of Twain's manuscript, long thought lost, made front-page news. And this unprecedented edition, which contains for the first time omitted episodes and other variations present in the first half of the handwritten manuscript, as well as facsimile reproductions of thirty manuscript pages, is indispensable to a full understanding of the novel. The changes, deletions, and additions made in the first half of the manuscript indicate that Mark Twain frequently checked his impulse to write an even darker, more confrontational book than the one he finally published. [via]
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
by Barry Moser, Mark Twain

ISBN 0520053389 (0-520-05338-9)
Hardcover, Univ of California Pr

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A seminal work of American Literature that still commands deep praise and still elicits controversy, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is essential to the understanding of the American soul. The recent discovery of the first half of Twain's manuscript, long thought lost, made front-page news. And this unprecedented edition, which contains for the first time omitted episodes and other variations present in the first half of the handwritten manuscript, as well as facsimile reproductions of thirty manuscript pages, is indispensable to a full understanding of the novel. The changes, deletions, and additions made in the first half of the manuscript indicate that Mark Twain frequently checked his impulse to write an even darker, more confrontational book than the one he finally published. [via]
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
by Outlet Book Company Staff, Random House Value Publishing Staff

ISBN 0517415100 (0-517-41510-0)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing

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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
by Mark Twain

ISBN 0451526538 (0-451-52653-8)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics

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This childhood classic relates a small-town boy's pranks and escapades with timeless humor and wisdom. In addition to his everyday stunts (searching for buried treasure, trying to impress the adored Becky Thatcher), Tom experiences a dramatic turn of events when he witnesses a murder, runs away, and returns to attend his own funeral and testify in court. A selection of the Common Core State Standards Initiative.
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
by Jean Craighead George, Mark Twain

ISBN 0531169782 (0-531-16978-2)
Hardcover, Scholastic Library Pub

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Few books capture both the simplicity and complexities of American life quite like these enduring "boyhood" classics by Mark Twain.

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Take a lighthearted, nostalgic trip to a simpler time, seen through the eyes of a special boy named Tom Sawyer. It is a summertime world of hooky and adventure, pranks and punishment, villains and young love. [via]
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
by Mark Twain, James Dickey

ISBN 0451522729 (0-451-52272-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)

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The Amber Spyglass
by Philip Pullman

ISBN 0440238153 (0-440-23815-3)
Softcover, Laurel Leaf

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From the very start of its very first scene, The Amber Spyglass will set hearts fluttering and minds racing. All we'll say here is that we immediately discover who captured Lyra at the end of The Subtle Knife, though we've yet to discern whether this individual's intent is good, evil, or somewhere in between. We also learn that Will still possesses the blade that allows him to cut between worlds, and has been joined by two winged companions who are determined to escort him to Lord Asriel's mountain redoubt. The boy, however, has only one goal in mind--to rescue his friend and return to her the alethiometer, an instrument that has revealed so much to her and to readers of The Golden Compass and its follow-up. Within a short time, too, we get to experience the "tingle of the starlight" on Serafina Pekkala's skin as she seeks out a famished Iorek Byrnison and enlists him in Lord Asriel's crusade:
A complex web of thoughts was weaving itself in the bear king's mind, with more strands in it than hunger and satisfaction. There was the memory of the little girl Lyra, whom he had named Silvertongue, and whom he had last seen crossing the fragile snow bridge across a crevasse in his own island of Svalbard. Then there was the agitation among the witches, the rumors of pacts and alliances and war; and then there was the surpassingly strange fact of this new world itself, and the witch's insistence that there were many more such worlds, and that the fate of them all hung somehow on the fate of the child.
Meanwhile, two factions of the Church are vying to reach Lyra first. One is even prepared to give a priest "preemptive absolution" should he succeed in committing mortal sin. For these tyrants, killing this girl is no less than "a sacred task."
In the final installment of his trilogy, Philip Pullman has set himself the highest hurdles. He must match its predecessors in terms of sheer action and originality and resolve the enigmas he already created. The good news is that there is no critical bad news--not that The Amber Spyglass doesn't contain standoffs and close calls galore. (Who would have it otherwise?) But Pullman brings his audacious revision of Paradise Lost to a conclusion that is both serene and devastating. In prose that is transparent yet lyrical and 3-D, the author weaves in and out of his principals' thoughts. He also offers up several additional worlds. In one, Dr. Mary Malone is welcomed into an apparently simple society. The environment of the mulefa (again, we'll reveal nothing more) makes them rich in consciousness while their lives possess a slow and stately rhythm. These strange creatures can, however, be very fast on their feet (or on other things entirely) when necessary. Alas, they are on the verge of dying as Dust streams out of their idyllic landscape. Will the Oxford dark-matter researcher see her way to saving them, or does this require our young heroes? And while Mary is puzzling out a cure, Will and Lyra undertake a pilgrimage to a realm devoid of all light and hope, after having been forced into the cruelest of sacrifices--or betrayals.
Throughout his galvanizing epic, Pullman sustains scenes of fierce beauty and tenderness. He also allows us a moment or two of comic respite. At one point, for instance, Lyra's mother bullies a series of ecclesiastical underlings: "The man bowed helplessly and led her away. The guard behind her blew out his cheeks with relief." Needless to say, Mrs. Coulter is as intoxicating and fluid as ever. And can it be that we will come to admire her as she plays out her desperate endgame? In this respect, as in many others, The Amber Spyglass is truly a book of revelations, moving from darkness visible to radiant truth. --Kerry Fried [via]
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- The Amber Spyglass: ISBN 0440418569 (0-440-41856-9)
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The Annotated Huckleberry Finn
by Mark Twain

ISBN 0517530317 (0-517-53031-7)
Hardcover, Random House Value Pub

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A seminal work of American Literature that still commands deep praise and still elicits controversy, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is essential to the understanding of the American soul. The recent discovery of the first half of Twain's manuscript, long thought lost, made front-page news. And this unprecedented edition, which contains for the first time omitted episodes and other variations present in the first half of the handwritten manuscript, as well as facsimile reproductions of thirty manuscript pages, is indispensable to a full understanding of the novel. The changes, deletions, and additions made in the first half of the manuscript indicate that Mark Twain frequently checked his impulse to write an even darker, more confrontational book than the one he finally published. [via]
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- The Annotated Huckleberry Finn: ISBN 0517530317 (0-517-53031-7)
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Around the World in Eighty Days
by Jules Verne, Random House Value Publishing Staff

ISBN 0517141418 (0-517-14141-8)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing

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A Child's Garden of Verses
by Robert Louis Stevenson, Thea Kliros

ISBN 0486273016 (0-486-27301-6)
Softcover, Dover Pubns

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A Child's Garden of Verses
by Tasha Tudor, Robert Louis Stevenson

ISBN 0528800736 (0-528-80073-6)
Hardcover, Rand McNally

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A Child's Garden of Verses Vol. 2 : A Collection of Scriptures, Prayers and Poems
by Robert Louis Stevenson, Jessie Willcox Smith, Random House Value Publishing Staff

ISBN 0517123975 (0-517-12397-5)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing

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"The world is so full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings."
With this "Happy Thought," Robert Louis Stevenson speaks for all the delights of childhood. But he doesn't stop there. A Child's Garden of Verses, written over a century ago, is filled to the brim with what are usually considered to be the first real poems written for children. This classic volume is an old friend to the generations of readers who were brought up on "I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me/ And what can be the use of him is more than I can see." In this perfectly lovely edition, the gossamer art of Jessie Willcox Smith (who first illustrated Stevenson's poems in the early years of the 20th century) is reproduced in all its charming glory. Black and white drawings throughout and eight full-page, warmly colorful paintings show beautiful, yet pleasantly imperfect children, busy at their daily activities--climbing trees, watching their reflections in a river, or sick in bed with an army of toy soldiers on guard. Place this on the shelf next to Mother Goose, Dr. Seuss, and Peter Rabbit. (All ages) --Emilie Coulter [via]
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- A Child's Garden of Verses Vol. 2 : A Collection of Scriptures, Prayers and Poems: ISBN 0517489244 (0-517-48924-4)
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- A Child's Garden of Verses Vol. 2 : A Collection of Scriptures, Prayers and Poems: ISBN 0517123975 (0-517-12397-5)
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D'Aulaires' Book of Greek Myths
by Ingri D'Aulaire, Edgar D'Aulaire

ISBN 0440406943 (0-440-40694-3)
Softcover, Dragonfly

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No education is complete without a large slice of Greek mythology. And there's no better way of meeting that literary quota than with the D'Aulaires' book. All the great gods and goddesses of ancient Greece are depicted in this big, beautiful classic, lovingly illustrated and skillfully told. Young readers will be dazzled by mighty Zeus, lord of the universe; stirred by elegant Athena, goddess of wisdom; intimidated by powerful Hera, queen of Olympus; and chilled by moody Poseidon, ruler of the sea. These often impetuous immortals flounce and frolic, get indiscreet, and get even. From petty squabbles to heroic deeds, their actions cover the range of godly--and mortal--personalities.
The D'Aulaires' illustrations have a memorable quality: once pored over, they will never leave the minds of the viewer. Decades later, the name Gaea will still evoke the soft green picture of lovely Mother Earth, her body hills and valleys and her eyes blue lakes reflecting the stars of her husband, Uranus the sky. No child is too young to appreciate the myths that have built the foundation for much of the world's art and literature over the centuries. This introduction to mythology is a treasure. (Ages 10 to adult) --Emilie Coulter [via]
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- D'Aulaires' Book of Greek Myths: ISBN 0440406943 (0-440-40694-3)
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Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz
by L. Frank Baum, John R. Neill

ISBN 0486247147 (0-486-24714-7)
Softcover, Dover Pubns

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Emily of New Moon
by Lucy Maud Montgomery, L.M. Montgomery, Priscilla Galloway

ISBN 0440416132 (0-440-41613-2)
Softcover, Random House Childrens Books

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Gyo Fujikawa's Original a Child's Garden of Verses
by Robert Louis Stevenson, Gyo Fujikawa

ISBN 0448092786 (0-448-09278-6)
Softcover, Putnam Berkley

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Harriet Spies Again
by Helen Ericson

ISBN 0440416884 (0-440-41688-4)
Softcover, Yearling Books

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Harriet the Spy
by Louise Fitzhugh

ISBN 0440416795 (0-440-41679-5)
Softcover, Random House Childrens Books

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- Harriet the Spy: ISBN 0440434475 (0-440-43447-5)
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Heidi
by Johanna Spyri

ISBN 0517141493 (0-517-14149-3)
Softcover, Random House Value Pub

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Huckleberry Finn / Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
by Mark Twain, Robert Blaisdell, John Green

ISBN 0486403491 (0-486-40349-1)
Softcover, Dover Pubns

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A seminal work of American Literature that still commands deep praise and still elicits controversy, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is essential to the understanding of the American soul. The recent discovery of the first half of Twain's manuscript, long thought lost, made front-page news. And this unprecedented edition, which contains for the first time omitted episodes and other variations present in the first half of the handwritten manuscript, as well as facsimile reproductions of thirty manuscript pages, is indispensable to a full understanding of the novel. The changes, deletions, and additions made in the first half of the manuscript indicate that Mark Twain frequently checked his impulse to write an even darker, more confrontational book than the one he finally published. [via]
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Just So Stories
by Rudyard Kipling

ISBN 0451528360 (0-451-52836-0)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics

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A dozen fables by one of the world's great storytellers propose whimsical explanations of how certain animals acquired their distinctive physical characteristics: "How the Camel Got His Hump," "How the Whale Got His Throat," "How the Leopard Got His Spots," "How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin," "The Elephant's Child," and 7 others. Includes a selection from the Common Core State Standards Initiative.
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Just So Stories for Little Children
by Rudyard Kipling

ISBN 0517266555 (0-517-26655-5)
Hardcover, Random House Value Pub

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Twelve stories about animals, insects, and other subjects include "How the Camel Got His Hump," "The Butterfly That Stamped," and "How the Alphabet Was Made." [via]
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- Just So Stories for Little Children: ISBN 0517436310 (0-517-43631-0)
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Just So Stories Set : For Little Children
by Rudyard Kipling

ISBN 0451524330 (0-451-52433-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)

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Twelve stories about animals, insects, and other subjects include "How the Alphabet Was Made", "How the Camel Got His Hump", and "The Elephant's Child". [via]
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The Land of Oz
by L. Frank Baum, John R. Neill

ISBN 0528871889 (0-528-87188-9)
Softcover, Rand McNally

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...After "The Wonderful Wizard of OZ", Frank Baum promised a little girl he would write the next "journey" of the Tin Woodman and Scarecrow. This is that book,,,,, [via]
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Listen & Read a Child's Garden of Verses
by Robert Louis Stevenson

ISBN 048629305X (0-486-29305-X)
Softcover, Dover Pubns

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Stage and screen actress Suzanne Toren charms listeners with readings of 64 poems that capture the wonder and magic of being very young. The 55-minute audio cassette is accompanied by an attractive, illustrated edition of Stevenson's A Childs Garden of Verses, which is perfect for reading along with or without the tape.
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Little Lord Fauntleroy
by Frances Hodgson Burnett

ISBN 044044764X (0-440-44764-X)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept

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- Little Lord Fauntleroy: ISBN 0451525590 (0-451-52559-0)
  Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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Little Lord Fauntleroy
by Frances H. Burnett

ISBN 0486423689 (0-486-42368-9)
Softcover, Dover Pubns

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Marvelous Land of Oz
by L. Frank Baum, John R. Neill

ISBN 0486206920 (0-486-20692-0)
Softcover, Dover Pubns

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Ozma Of Oz
by L. Frank Baum, John R. Neill

ISBN 0486247791 (0-486-24779-1)
Softcover, Dover Pubns

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Fantasy and adventure in the fairy land of Ev with Dorothy Gale (from The Wizard of Oz), Princess Ozma, a wicked Nome King, an enchanted royal family and more. 111 black-and-white illustrations.
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The Railway Children
by E. Nesbit

ISBN 0486410226 (0-486-41022-6)
Softcover, Dover Pubns

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Packed off to a small house in the country to wait out the war, Roberta, Peter, and Phyllis spend their days waiting at the railroad tracks at the foot of their field for word of their father. Reprint. [via]
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Ramona the Pest
by Beverly Cleary

ISBN 0440472091 (0-440-47209-1)
Softcover, Bantam Books

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The engaging tale of young Ramona Quimby's first days in kindergarten, Ramona the Pest takes a pint-sized perspective on the trials and delights of beginning school. Ramona can't wait to learn all the important things. But she's disappointed when her teacher can't fill in missing parts of story lines, such as how Mike Mulligan (of Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel) went to the bathroom while digging the basement of the town hall. Nonetheless, Ramona loves her teacher, and loves going to school in spite of the torments--having to wear hand-me-down boots, for example, or having to (sometimes) suppress the urge to pull on another girl's "boing-boing" curls. Ramona's energetic take on life appeals to children who have passed through this stage, or who are dealing with a kindergarten-age sibling who is exhibiting Ramona-ish tendencies. (Ages 7 to 12) --Richard Farr [via]
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- Ramona The Pest: ISBN 0440772095 (0-440-77209-5)
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Subtle Knife
by Philip Pullman

ISBN 0440238145 (0-440-23814-5)
Softcover, Laurel Leaf

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With The Golden Compass Philip Pullman garnered every accolade under the sun. Critics lobbed around such superlatives as "elegant," "awe-inspiring," "grand," and "glittering," and used "magnificent" with gay abandon. Each reader had a favorite chapter--or, more likely, several--from the opening tour de force to Lyra's close call at Bolvangar to the great armored-bear battle. And Pullman was no less profligate when it came to intellectual firepower or singular characters. The dæmons alone grant him a place in world literature. Could the second installment of his trilogy keep up this pitch, or had his heroine and her too, too sullied parents consumed him? And what of the belief system that pervaded his alternate universe, not to mention the mystery of Dust? More revelations and an equal number of wonders and new players were definitely in order.
The Subtle Knife offers everything we could have wished for, and more. For a start, there's a young hero--from our world--who is a match for Lyra Silvertongue and whose destiny is every bit as shattering. Like Lyra, Will Parry has spent his childhood playing games. Unlike hers, though, his have been deadly serious. This 12-year-old long ago learned the art of invisibility: if he could erase himself, no one would discover his mother's increasing instability and separate them.
As the novel opens, Will's enemies will do anything for information about his missing father, a soldier and Arctic explorer who has been very much airbrushed from the official picture. Now Will must get his mother into safe seclusion and make his way toward Oxford, which may hold the key to John Parry's disappearance. But en route and on the lam from both the police and his family's tormentors, he comes upon a cat with more than a mouse on her mind: "She reached out a paw to pat something in the air in front of her, something quite invisible to Will." What seems to him a patch of everyday Oxford conceals far more: "The cat stepped forward and vanished." Will, too, scrambles through and into another oddly deserted landscape--one in which children rule and adults (and felines) are very much at risk. Here in this deathly silent city by the sea, he will soon have a dustup with a fierce, flinty little girl: "Her expression was a mixture of the very young--when she first tasted the cola--and a kind of deep, sad wariness." Soon Will and Lyra (and, of course, her dæmon, Pantalaimon) uneasily embark on a great adventure and head into greater tragedy.
As Pullman moves between his young warriors and the witch Serafina Pekkala, the magnetic, ever-manipulative Mrs. Coulter, and Lee Scoresby and his hare dæmon, Hester, there are clear signs of approaching war and earthly chaos. There are new faces as well. The author introduces Oxford dark-matter researcher Mary Malone; the Latvian witch queen Ruta Skadi, who "had trafficked with spirits, and it showed"; Stanislaus Grumman, a shaman in search of a weapon crucial to the cause of Lord Asriel, Lyra's father; and a serpentine old man whom Lyra and Pan can't quite place. Also on hand are the Specters, beings that make cliff-ghasts look like rank amateurs.
Throughout, Pullman is in absolute control of his several worlds, his plot and pace equal to his inspiration. Any number of astonishing scenes--small- and large-scale--will have readers on edge, and many are cause for tears. "You think things have to be possible," Will demands. "Things have to be true!" It is Philip Pullman's gift to turn what quotidian minds would term the impossible into a reality that is both heartbreaking and beautiful. --Kerry Fried [via]
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- Subtle Knife: ISBN 044041833X (0-440-41833-X)
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The Tale of Peter Rabbit
by Beatrix Potter, Alex Vining

ISBN 0448435217 (0-448-43521-7)
Softcover, Grosset & Dunlap

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Peter disobeys his mother by going into Mr. McGregor's garden and almost gets caught. [via]
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Tale of Peter Rabbit
by Outlet Book Company Staff, Random House Value Publishing Staff

ISBN 0517142139 (0-517-14213-9)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing

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Thief Lord
by Cornelia Funke, Christian Burmingham

ISBN 0439771323 (0-439-77132-3)
Softcover, Scholastic Paperbacks

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Imagine a Dickens story with a Venetian setting, and you'll have a good sense of Cornelia Funke's prizewinning novel The Thief Lord, first published in Germany in 2000. This suspenseful tale begins in a detective's office in Venice, as the entirely unpleasant Hartliebs request Victor Getz's services to search for two boys, Prosper and Bo, the sons of Esther Hartlieb's recently deceased sister. Twelve-year-old Prosper and 5-year-old Bo ran away when their aunt decided she wanted to adopt Bo, but not his brother. Refusing to split up, they escaped to Venice, a city their mother had always described reverently, in great detail. Right away they hook up with a long-haired runaway named Hornet and various other ruffians who hole up in an abandoned movie theater and worship the elusive Thief Lord, a young boy named Scipio who steals jewels from fancy Venetian homes so his new friends can get the warm clothes they need. Of course, the plot thickens when the owner of the pawn shop asks if the Thief Lord will carry out a special mission for a wealthy client: to steal a broken wooden wing that is the key to completing an age-old, magical merry-go-round. This winning cast of characters--especially the softhearted detective with his two pet turtles--will win the hearts of readers young and old, and the adventures are as labyrinthine and magical as the streets of Venice itself. (Ages 9 and older) --Karin Snelson [via]
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Tom Sawyer: Library Edition
by Mark Twain, Robert Blaisdell, John Green

ISBN 0486291561 (0-486-29156-1)
Softcover, Dover Pubns

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Specially abridged version of the beloved classic about a mischievous but well-meaning young lad who barely avoids calamity as he bounds along from one adventure to another. Memorable cast of characters includes Aunt Polly, Becky Thatcher, Huck Finn, Injun Joe, and others. 31 black-and-white illustrations. A selection of the Common Core State Standards Initiative.
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The Twits
by Roald Dahl

ISBN 0553153439 (0-553-15343-9)
Softcover, Bantam Books

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Mr and Mrs Twit are extremely nasty, so the Muggle-Wump monkeys and the Roly-Poly Bird hatch an ingenious plan to give them the ghastly surprise they deserve! This edition has a great new Quentin Blake cover as well as a new author biography. [via]
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- The Twits: ISBN 0553153439 (0-553-15343-9)
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The Very Hungry Caterpillar
by Eric Carle

ISBN 0529007754 (0-529-00775-4)
Hardcover, Collins Publishers

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- The Very Hungry Caterpillar: ISBN 0529007762 (0-529-00776-2)
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A Wind in the Door
by Madeleine L'Engle

ISBN 0440487617 (0-440-48761-7)
Softcover, Random House Childrens Books

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"There are dragons in the twins' vegetable garden," announces six-year-old Charles Wallace Murry in the opening sentence of The Wind in the Door. His older sister, Meg, doubts it. She figures he's seen something strange, but dragons--a "dollop of dragons," a "drove of dragons," even a "drive of dragons"--seem highly unlikely. As it turns out, Charles Wallace is right about the dragons--though the sea of eyes (merry eyes, wise eyes, ferocious eyes, kitten eyes, dragon eyes, opening and closing) and wings (in constant motion) is actually a benevolent cherubim (of a singularly plural sort) named Proginoskes who has come to help save Charles Wallace from a serious illness.
In her usual masterful way, Madeleine L'Engle jumps seamlessly from a child's world of liverwurst and cream cheese sandwiches to deeply sinister, cosmic battles between good and evil. Children will revel in the delectably chilling details--including hideous scenes in which a school principal named Mr. Jenkins is impersonated by the Echthroi (the evil forces that tear skies, snuff out light, and darken planets). When it becomes clear that the Echthroi are putting Charles Wallace in danger, the only logical course of action is for Meg and her dear friend Calvin O'Keefe to become small enough to go inside Charles Wallace's body--into one of his mitochondria--to see what's going wrong with his farandolae. In an illuminating flash on the interconnectedness of all things and the relativity of size, we realize that the tiniest problem can have mammoth, even intergalactic ramifications. Can this intrepid group voyage through time and space and muster all their strength of character to save Charles Wallace? It's an exhilarating, enlightening, suspenseful journey that no child should miss.
The other books of the Time quartet, continuing the adventures of the Murry family, are A Wrinkle in Time; A Swiftly Tilting Planet, which won the American Book Award; and Many Waters. (Ages 9 and older) --Karin Snelson [via]
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- A Wind in the Door: ISBN 044098761X (0-440-98761-X)
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The Tale of Peter Rabbit in French
by Beatrix Potter

ISBN 0486253139 (0-486-25313-9)
Softcover, Dover Pubns

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