Barbara Caruso
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Thirteen-year-old Meg Murry, her little brother Charles Wallace, and their friend Calvin are guided by unearthly strangers as they go on a journey through space and time to search for Meg's and Charles' scientist father who disappeared while experimenting with a new form of space travel.
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Anne of Green Gables has grown up, but Rainbow Valley holds a special magic for Anne and Gilbert's offspring, the Blythe children. It is a refuge from adult eyes where they share secrets and plan adventures. It is there they meet the Merediths, the new minister's children, and become close friends.
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Mrs. Frisby, a widowed mouse with four small children, must move her family to their summer quarters immediately, or face almost certain death. But her youngest son, Timothy, lies ill with pneumonia and must not be moved. Fortunately, she encounters the rats of NIMH, an extraordinary breed of highly intelligent creatures, who come up with a brilliant solution to her dilemma.
9) Ribsy
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Ribsy has many wildly unpredictable adventures before he and Henry are reunited.
10) Homecoming
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Abandoned by their mother, four children begin a search for a home and an identity.
11) Dicey's song
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Now that the four abandoned Tillerman children are settled in with their grandmother, Dicey finds that their new beginnings require love, trust, humor, and courage.
12) Little women
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For generations, children around the world have come of age with Louisa May Alcott's March girls: hardworking eldest sister Meg, headstrong, impulsive Jo, timid Beth, and precocious Amy. With their father away at war, and their loving mother Marmee working to support the family, the four sisters have to rely on one another for support as they endure the hardships of wartime and poverty. We witness the sisters growing up and figuring out what role...
13) Rose in bloom
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Everyone but Rose seems to think she should get married. Rose, however, is determined to establish herself as an independent young woman.
14) Misty's twilight
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Captivated by the story of Misty of Chincoteague, a women with a horse farm in Florida raises one of Misty's descendants to become a champion show horse.