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1) The rescuers
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English
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Miss Bianca, a white mouse of great beauty and self-confidence, travels with the ambassador's son to Norway on behalf of the Prisoner's Aid Society in a perilous mission to rescue a poet imprisoned in the dreadful Black Castle.
5) Pinocchio
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English
Description
Pinocchio, a wooden puppet full of tricks and mischief, with a talent for getting into and out of trouble, wants more than anything else to become a real boy.
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English
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After the presumed death of their long-absent father, Edred inherits the title of Lord Arden and moves with his sister Elfrida into the decrepit family castle where they find an ancient spell that conjures up the magical Mouldiwarp and, with his help, set off on a journey through time in search of the lost Arden treasure.
7) Blast off
Author
Publisher
New York Review Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"When her friends tease her for dreaming of being an astronaut, a young African American girl uses discarded items to make a spaceship for her interstellar journey."--
9) Too big
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English
Description
Little Ola daydreams of a time when--no longer too small or too big--he will be just the right size to go on adventures.
12) The abandoned
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English
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An eight-year old London boy named Peter, with a distant nanny and neglectful parents, is injured while rescuing a stray cat named Jennie from being hit by a car. During the resultant coma, he is transformed into a cat, and taken care of by Jennie in spite of her contempt for humans.
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English
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When, in the late 1930s, Penelope is sent to stay with relatives in a remote ancient farmhouse in Derbyshire, she finds herself mysteriously transported to Elizabethan times where her sixteenth-century family is scheming to free the imprisoned Mary, Queen of Scots, but, even with her twentieth-century knowledge, Penelope remains helpless in the face of danger.
15) Wee Gillis
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Language
English
Description
Wee Gillis couldn't decide whether he wanted to be a Highlander and stalk stags, like his father, or a Lowlander like his mother, and raise long-haired cows.
17) Our fort
Author
Publisher
New York Review of Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Three friends set out to visit their secret fort at the edge of the woods, but as they are enjoying the freedom and nature all around them a big storm rolls in."--
20) The backward day
Author
Publisher
New York Review children's Collection
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Having decided that it is backward day, a boy dresses himself first in his coat, last in his socks, and continues in that way with the cooperation of his family.
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