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The Lightning Thief
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Rick Riordan
Now in paperback--the first novel of a new series that mixes classic Greek mythology with modern adventure. After learning he is a demigod, Percy Jackson is sent to a summer camp on Long Island, where he meets the father he never knew--Poseidon, god of the sea.
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Harold and the Purple Crayon
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Crockett Johnson
"An ingenious and original picture story in which a small boy out for a walk--happily with crayon in hand--draws himself some wonderful adventures. A little book that will be loved".--The Horn Book. Full-color illustrations.
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Richard Scarry's Cars and Trucks and Things That Go
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Richard Scarry
On their way to the beach for a picnic the Pig family encounters almost every kind of transportation vehicle imaginable--and imaginary.
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Where the Red Fern Grows: The Story of Two Dogs and a Boy
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Wilson Rawls
This classic about a 10-year-old boy growing up in the Ozark mountains with his inseparable pair of coonhounds will warm the hearts of young and old alike. Great Stone Face Award.
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The Complete Anne of Green Gables: The Life and Adventures of the Most Beloved and Timeless Heroine in All of Fiction
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Lucy Maud Montgomery
Here is a deluxe gift-box edition of L.M. Montgomery's classic stories about one of the most beloved fictional heroines of all time--Anne of Green Gables.
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Pat the Bunny
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Dorothy Kunhardt
In this classic book, readers can play along as Paul and Judy pat their stuffed bunny, look in the mirror, play peek-a-boo, touch their daddy's rough whiskers, and try on their mother's wedding ring. Color illustrations accompany the text.
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The Little House Set
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Laura Ingalls Wilder, Garth Williams (Illustrator)
This rich, handsomely designed case holds nine favorite classics about the Ingalls family and their life on the prairie.
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Runaway Bunny
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Margaret Wise Brown
Once there was a bunny who wanted to run away. No matter how or where he decided to go, his mother was always there to look after him. By the author of "Goodnight Moon" and "Three Little Animals".
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The Chronicles of Narnia Set
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C S Lewis
A handsome new hardcover set of these classic fantasies. Features include new, full-color jackets; uniformly reset type; original Pauline Baynes drawings; and an elegant blue-and-silver-lettered clothbound slipcase. Boxed.
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Return to the Hundred Acre Wood
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David Benedictus, Mark Burgess (Illustrator)
It's been 80 years since the publication of "The House at Pooh Corner," in which Christopher Robin says good-bye to Winnie-the-Pooh and his friends in the Hundred Acre Wood. Now they are all back in new adventures, for the first time approved by the Trustees of the Pooh Properties.
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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
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Mark Twain
Twain spent seven years writing HUCKLEBERRY FINN--the book Hemingway claimed is the basis for all American fiction. The story of Huck's and Jim's quest for freedom on a raft on the Mississippi provides a panoramic view of Southern society, which Twain saw as beset by greed, violence, and coldhearted brutality in the guise of virtue. At the end of ...
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Le Petit Prince
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Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Part fable, part fairy tale, part philosophy of life, THE LITTLE PRINCE tells the story of a pilot who crashes his airplane in the Sahara Desert, where he meets the Little Prince, a visitor from another planet. The Little Prince tells the pilot he has been traveling to many distant asteroids to get advice on how to care for his rose, the only ...
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Pride & Prejudice
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Jane Austen
It's hard to believe that Jane Austen wrote the sophisticated and acerbic PRIDE AND PREJUDICE when she was only 21 years old, in 1797. Originally entitled FIRST IMPRESSIONS, the novel was rejected, revised, retitled, and finally published--anonymously--in 1813, only four years before Austen's untimely death. In PRIDE AND PREJUDICE, Austen calls on ...
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Jane Eyre
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Charlotte Bronte
Charlotte Brontė's first novel, published in 1847, was based in part on the author's own days in a brutal boarding school where two of her sisters died of tuberculosis; her characterization of the place in her first published work was an act of revenge. The novel's heroine is a plain, impoverished, but spirited young governess who not only wins ...
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Brian's Return
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Gary Paulsen
The continuing story of Brian Robeson, a now 16-year-old boy who, two years earlier, spent a harrowing winter in the Canadian wilderness after surviving a plane crash. Having endured such a cataclysmic event, Brian finds it difficult to adjust to life in regular society and decides that he must return to the wilderness in order to help himself ...
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Important Book
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Margaret Wise Brown
Originally published in 1949, this charming, careful examination of the natural world and various objects--from spoons to the sky--shares clear, simple ideas about the most important qualities of each one chosen. With generous repetition, readers will learn that "the important thing about grass is that it is green," or "the important thing about ...
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Horton Hears a Who!
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Dr Seuss
Horton, the lovable elephant, tries to protect tiny creatures on a speck of dust. An easy reader with delightful verse and pictures. Full-color illustrations.
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Miss Nelson is Missing
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Harry Allard
The rowdy kids in Miss Nelson's class spend their school days throwing spitballs, giggling, and refusing to do their assignments--basically taking full advantage of their teacher's easygoing nature. But then, one day, Miss Nelson is absent, and in her place is a substitute teacher: Miss Viola Swamp. The kids plan to use this opportunity to really ...
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Lord of the Flies
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Sir William Golding (Read by)
In this now-classic tale--a terrifying variation on the traditional boys' adventure story--the brutal behavior of a group of English schoolboys left stranded on a deserted island after an atomic war is an allegory for the defects of society.
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Frankenstein
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Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Written in 1816 when she was only 19, for a horror-writing contest suggested by Byron, Mary Shelley's novel of "the modern Prometheus" chillingly dramatized the dangerous potential of life created in the laboratory. A frightening creation myth for our own time, "Frankenstein" remains one of the greatest horror stories ever written, and an ...
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Scarlet Letter
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
This is part of a series called "Bloom's ReViews", which are college-level study guides prepared under the aegis of Harold Bloom, distinguished Yale professor and author of "The Western Canon". Each guide includes an introductory essay by Bloom as well as extracts from renowned scholars on key topics in the work. Good for independent study and ...
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Wuthering Heights
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Emily Bronte
Drawing on the Gothic tradition, Emily Bronte's WUTHERING HEIGHTS is the tale of Catherine Earnshaw, a wilfull and romantic girl brought up to be a lady, and Heathcliff, the mysterious gypsy orphan. Bronte's use of a series of unreliable narrators to unfold their story heightens the mythic quality of the passionate attachment that is at the heart ...
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Jamberry
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Bruce Degen (Illustrator)
A young boy and a bear visit the land of berries, where strawberry ponies dance in meadows of strawberry jam.
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Paper Bag Princess
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Robert N Munsch
Princess Elizabeth is to marry Prince Ronald when a dragon attacks the castle and kidnaps Ronald. In resourceful and humorous fashion, Elizabeth finds the dragon and rescues Ronald --- who is less than pleased at her un-princess-like appearance.
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1984
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George Orwell
George Orwell's celebrated and always timely 1948 vision of a world subsumed in tyranny and war describes the process of events by which Winston Smith, a London clerk at the Ministry of Truth, comes to understand the true nature and aims of the government he works for, and portrays his doomed attempt to create a private life for himself and his ...
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