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1) Matilda
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Classics - Middle Grade Books
Read Before You Watch - Middle Grade
Rebecca Caudill Winners
Women's History Month
Read Before You Watch - Middle Grade
Rebecca Caudill Winners
Women's History Month
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Matilda longs for her parents to be good and loving and understanding. But they are none of these things. They are perfectly horrid to her. Matilda invents a game of punishing them each time they treat her badly and she soon discovers she has supernatural powers. She applies her untapped mental powers to rid the school of the evil, child-hating headmistress, Miss Trunchbull, and restore her nice teacher, Miss Honey, to financial security.
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Eccentric geologist Professor Hardwigg is intrigued by the encrypted message he finds between the leaves of an ancient manuscript. His nephew Harry helps him crack the code, revealing a message from a medieval alchemist claiming to have found a route to the very bowels of the Earth. The professor becomes obsessed with the quest, waving aside the siren warnings of his fearful nephew. Their subterranean adventure begins at an Icelandic volcano, where...
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"When Princess Irene and her nurse Lootie accidentally stay out too late one evening, they come face to face with the terrifying creatures that inhabit the countryside around the princess's castle ... Will the Princess be able to uncover and overcome the plots that the Goblins have planned?" -- From backcover.
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"Princess Irene's great-great-grandmother has a testing task for Cirdie. He will not go alone through, she provides him with a companion - the oddest and ugliest creature Curdie has ever seen, but one who turns out to be the most loyal friend he could have hoped for."--Cover p.[4].
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Over the course of summers spent with a much wealthier friend, a country girl struggles to stay true to herself and her values in this tender story from Louisa May Alcott, author of Little Women! When fourteen-year-old Polly Milton goes to stay with her friend Fanny for the summer, she finds that the Shaw family's wealthy city life couldn't be more different from her country upbringing. With her plain clothes and more practical interests, Polly is...
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When Father goes away with two strangers one evening, the lives of Roberta, Peter and Phyllis are shattered. They and their mother have to move from their comfortable London home to go and live in a simple country cottage, where Mother writes books to make ends meet. However, they soon come to love the railway that runs near their cottage, and they make a habit of waving to the Old Gentleman who rides on it. They befriend the porter, Perks, and through...
10) Jo's boys
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Better known for her novels Little Women and Little Men, Louisa May Alcott continued the story of her feisty protagonist Jo in this final novel chronicling the adventures and misadventures of the March family. Entertaining, surprising, and overall a joy to read, Jo's Boys is nevertheless shaded by a bittersweet tone, for with it Alcott brought her wonderful series to an end. Beginning ten years after Little Men, Jo's Boys revisits Plumfield, the New...
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"Anne Shirley Cuthbert's dream to go to Redmond finally comes true-- she, with Gilbert Blythe, Charlie Sloane, and Priscilla Grant join Redmond. Diana Barry was unhappy to see Anne go, but she has Fred-- would they marry soon? Redmond brought many surprises for Anne-- new friends-- Philippa Gordon, Roy Gardner, and Christine Stuart. What role would they play in Anne's life? What was the surprise that changes everything for Anne, just when she thought...
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In the late-nineteenth century, seven-year-old Cedric leaves America to live with his grandfather in England, where he becomes heir to a title, an estate, and a fortune.
An American boy goes to live with his grandfather in England, where he becomes heir to a title and a fortune.
14) To be a slave
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A compilation, selected from various sources and arranged chronologically, of the reminiscences of slaves and ex-slaves about their experiences from the leaving of Africa through the Civil War and into the early twentieth century. Paired with historical commentary and powerful paintings, Julius Lester's book presents what it felt like to be a slave in America through the words of black men and women who lived it rather than filtering through the eyes...
16) Good wives
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The second story about the March family. Three years on from 'Little women' the March girls and their friend Laurie are young adults with their futures ahead of them. Although they all face painful trials along the way -- from Meg's sad lesson in housekeeping to Laurie's disappointment in love and a tragedy which touches them all -- each of the girls finally finds happiness, if not always in the way they expect.
17) Little men
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Little Women series volume 3
Everyman's library volume no. 512
Puffin classics
Louisa May Alcott library
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Everyman's library volume no. 512
Puffin classics
Louisa May Alcott library
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With two young sons of her own, and twelve rescued orphan boys filling the unusual school at Plumfield, Jo March, now Mrs Jo Bhaer, couldn't be happier. But the boys have a habit of getting into scrapes, and their mischievous antics call for the warm and affectionate support of the whole March family to help avoid disaster.
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"Rose Campbell, tired and ill, has come to live at "The Aunt Hill" after the death of her beloved father. Six aunts fussing and fretting over her are bad enough, but what is a quiet 13-year-old girl to do with seven boisterous boy cousins? It is the arrival of Uncle Alec that changes everything. Much to the horror of her aunts, Rose's forward-thinking uncle insists that the child get out of the parlor and into the sunshine. And with a little courage...
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Willy Wonka tells the Bucket family of his plans to give Charlie his entire candy empire. Reluctantly joining Wonka on a ride in the Glass Elevator, the Buckets embark on a wild adventure when a mistake skyrockets the vessel into space. Now, Wonka, Charlie, Grandpa Joe, and the rest of the family must fight off Vermicious Knids if they are to make it home in one piece.
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