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1) The search for delicious

Author

Babbitt, Natalie

Series

Ariel book

Publisher

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Pub. Date

1969.

Language

English

Description

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The Prime Minister is compiling a dictionary and when no one at court can agree on the meaning of delicious, the King sends his twelve-year-old messenger to poll the country.

2) The golden key

Author

MacDonald, George

Series

Ariel book

Language

English

Formats

Book, eAudiobook

Description

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The adventurous wanderings of a boy and girl to find the keyhole which fits the rainbow's golden key.

3) Dick Foote and the shark

Author

Babbitt, Natalie

Series

Ariel book

Language

English

Formats

Book, eBook

Description

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The poetic son of a briney Cape Cod fisherman saves his father and their craft by reciting an ode to a shark.

4) The day they gave babies away

Author

Eunson, Dale

Series

Ariel book

Publisher

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Pub. Date

1970.

Language

English

Description

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When the six Eunson children were left orphans the day before Christmas, 1868, the oldest, twelve-year-old Robbie, took the responsibility of finding homes for his younger brothers and sisters.

5) Cecily Parsley's nursery rhymes

Author

Potter, Beatrix

Series

World of Beatrix Potter Peter Rabbit
Ariel book
Original Peter Rabbit books ; 23

Language

English

Formats

Book, Board Book, eAudiobook, eBook

Description

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Eight short nursery rhymes about Cecily Parsley, Goosey Gander, The Five Pigs, Pussy-cat, three blind mice, Tom Tinker's dog, a garden, and Ninny Nanny Netticoat.

6) American painter in Paris: a life of Mary Cassatt

Author

Wilson, Ellen Janet

Series

Ariel book

Publisher

Farrar, Straus & Giroux

Pub. Date

[1971]

Language

English

Description

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The biography of the nineteenth-century Pennsylvania woman who became one of America's best known artists.

7) Black bondage: the life of slaves in the South

Author

Goodman, Walter

Series

Ariel book

Publisher

Farrar, Straus & Giroux

Pub. Date

[1969]

Language

English

Description

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Describes the capture and transportation of African slaves and their treatment in the New World.

8) Mazel and Shlimazel: or, the Milk of a lioness

Author

Singer, Isaac Bashevis

Series

Ariel book

Publisher

Farrar, Straus & Giroux

Pub. Date

[1967]

Language

English

Description

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The spirit of good luck outwits the spirit of bad luck and helps a poor but honest peasant lad marry the king's daughter.

9) The journey with Jonah: [play]

Author

L'Engle, Madeleine

Series

Ariel book

Publisher

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Pub. Date

[1967]

Language

English

Description

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A dramatization of the Biblical story of Jonah, unwilling prophet to Nineveh, who spent three days in the belly of a whale and learned a lesson of compassion from a withering vine.

10) Alone in the wild forest

Author

Singer, Isaac Bashevis

Series

Ariel book

Publisher

Farrar, Straus & Giroux

Pub. Date

[1971]

Language

English

Description

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A young orphan's life is changed when the angel he meets in the forest gives him an amulet that will fulfill every wish.

11) Sir Tristan of all time

Author

Holbrook, Sabra

Series

Ariel book

Publisher

Farrar, Straus & Giroux

Pub. Date

[1970]

Language

English

Description

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Traces the origins and history of the legend of Tristan and Iseut, examines its many variations, and discusses its appearance inand influence on modern opera and poetry.