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4) Texas!
Author
Series
Wagons West. Main series volume 5
Language
English
Description
In the 1840s a band of stalwart volunteers from Oregon make the treacherous journey through Mexican territory to lead a wagon train to the Texas frontier. Among their protectors is a ruggedly handsome young captain who holds the destiny of Texas in his hands and another man's woman in his heart.
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Language
English
Description
The adventures of a mischievous young boy and his friends growing up in a Mississippi River town in the nineteenth century. Who could forget the pranks, the adventures, the sheer fun of Tom Sawyer? It's something every child should experience and every child will love. From Tom's sly trickery with the whitewashed fence, when he cleverly manipulates everyone so they happily do his work for him, to his and Becky Thatcher's calamities in Bat Cave, the...
Author
Language
English
Description
Treasure Island is an adventure novel for young adults written by Robert Louis Stevenson, which was serialized in 1881 and 1882 and published in 1883. It is frequently dramatized in plays, television, and film, and has had an enormous influence on popular culture, particularly on public perceptions of pirate and sea-faring life. It is considered a coming-of-age tale and belongs to a genre of sea novels popular in the 19th century.
8) Stink treck
Author
Series
Adventures of Uncle Stinky volume 2
Publisher
Tricycle Press
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
Assisted by his nephews Zack and Billy and his pickle sidekick, Uncle Stinky deals with disappearing people, a carload fo evil clowns, and his enemy Theo Durzindapance.
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Series
Bravelands. Original series volume 4
Publisher
Harper Collins Publishers
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Set in the African savannah and told from three different animals' points of view, Bravelands will thrill readers who love Spirit Animals and Wings of Fire, as well as the fans who've made Erin Hunter a #1 nationally bestselling phenomenon. A false leader has been destroyed--but Bravelands is still in grave danger. Stinger's death should have brought peace to the land; but no Great Parent has stepped forward, and now the fate of Bravelands hangs...
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Series
Mad Wolf's daughter volume 1
Language
English
Description
***A New York Times Editors' Choice*** A Scottish medieval adventure about the youngest in a war-band who must free her family from a castle prison after knights attack her home--with all the excitement of Ranger's Apprentice and perfect for fans of heroines like Alanna from The Song of the Lioness series. One dark night, Drest's sheltered life on a remote Scottish headland is shattered when invading knights capture her family, but leave Drest behind....