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1) Old school
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Diary of a wimpy kid volume 10
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Life was better in the old days. Or was it? That's the question Greg Heffley is asking as his town voluntarily unplugs and goes electronics-free. But modern life has its conveniences, and Greg isn't cut out for an old-fashioned world. With tension building inside and outside the Heffley home, will Greg find a way to survive? Or is going 'old school' just too hard for a kid like Greg?
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A boy who turns into a TV set and a girl who eats a whale are only two of the characters in a collection of humorous poetry illustrated with the author's own drawings. Come in - for where the sidewalk ends, Shel Silverstein's world begins. The Unicorn and the Bloath live there, and so does Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout who will not take the garbage out. It is a place where you wash your shadow and plant diamond gardens, a place where shoes fly, sisters...
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A series of unfortunate events volume 1
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After the sudden death of their parents, the three Baudelaire children must depend on each other and their wits when it turns out that the distant relative who is appointed their guardian is determined to use any means necessary to get their fortune. Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire are intelligent children. They are charming, and resourceful, and have pleasant facial features. Unfortunately, they are exceptionally unlucky. Imagine tales so terrible...
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Hank the Cowdog volume 22
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English
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Hank the Cowdog sticks his nose where it does not belong and ends up with what he thinks is a double bumblebee sting, but when his nose swells up and he starts feeling woozy he suspects he was nipped by something worse than a bee.
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Hank the Cowdog volume 30
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English
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Hank the Cowdog's adventures include being trapped in a runaway pickup truck and later discovering a nest of trespassing stray cats in a haystack.
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Hank the Cowdog volume 15
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English
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Pete the barncat swindles the intrepid cowdog out of his job as Head of Ranch Security.
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Hank the Cowdog volume 3
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English
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Duped into thinking the world is coming to an end, Hank the Cowdog winds up in town for some more adventures including getting in and out of a case of "soap hydrophobia."
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Henry Huggins volume 4
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English
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Henry Huggins gets carried away with his own ambitions when he longs for a paper route of his own, and gets some unexpected help from the irrespressible and inescapable ramona Quimby.
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Hank the Cowdog volume 2
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English
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Hank the Cowdog almost loses his job as Head of Ranch Security when he develops a case of Eye-Crosserosis.
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Wayside School volume 3
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English
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Unusual things continue to happen in the classroom on the thirtieth floor of Wayside School, which was accidentally built sideways with one classroom on each story.
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Anastasia Krupnik volume 6
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English
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Anastasia continues the perilous process of growing up as her thirteenth year involves her in conquering the art of rope climbing, playing Cupid for a recently widowered uncle, and surviving a crush on her gym teacher.
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Hank the Cowdog volume 16
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English
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While battling a "blinded" blizzard to get cough syrup for Baby Mollie, fearless Hank charms Miss Beulah the Collie Dog, saves Slim and Drover from freezing, sings a love song about fleas, and outwits Pete the Barncat.
19) Henry Huggins
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Henry Huggins picks up a stray dog, names him Ribsy and sets out on numerous adventures with him, including breeding hundreds of fish and collecting over a thousand worms.
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Hank the Cowdog volume 13
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On the night before Christmas Hank the Cowdog and Slim, on their way into town for some last-minute shopping, are struck by a twenty-five-pound buzzard who crashes through their windshield; when they finally get to town, they are caught up in the Christmas celebration.