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1) Go, dog, go!
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A story for beginning readers about busy dogs of all sizes and colors, engaged in all manner of silly activities.
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Since thier father died, the five Pepper children and their mother have been living in poverty, with only potatoes and brown bread for supper. Ben chops wood to help support the family, and Polly looks after the little ones while their mother earns what she can by sewing. The Peppers are so poor, they've never even had a Christmas. But from measles to monkeys, through bad times and good, the cozy kitchen in the little brown house rings with laughter...
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Beginner books volume B-17
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A large, spotted animal discovers he really belongs in a circus, not a zoo.
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Harriet the spy volume 1
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The story about eleven-year-old Harriet, who is a spy, plans to be a writer, and keeps a secret notebook filled with thoughts and notes on her schoolmates and people she observes on her after-school "spy route". However, when her classmates find and read her notebook, their anger and retaliation and Harriet's unexpected responses explode in a hilarious and often touching way.
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Anastasia Krupnik volume 1
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For ten-year-old Anastasia, life is full of problems like teachers, boys, a grandmother who does not remember her name, and the arrival of a new baby brother.
10) The foxman
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A town boy sent to live on a remote wilderness farm forms a friendship with an elderly, disfigured man who teaches him many things.
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Among Mrs. Brice's 25 mice, all but one do everything together. And this mouse's difference comes in handy when the mice meet a cat, and while twelve run this way and twelve run that, this mouse runs this way and that, wearing out the cat and saving them all.
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For Milo, everything's a bore. What a tollbooth mysteriously appears in his room, he drives through only because he's got nothing better to do. But on the other side, things seem different. Milo visits the Island of Conclusions (you get there by jumping), learns about time from a ticking watchdog named Tock, and even embarks on a quest to rescue Rhyme and Reason! Somewhere along the way, Milo realizes something astonishing: life is far from dull....
15) Doctor De Soto
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Dr. De Soto, a mouse dentist, copes with the toothaches of various animals except those with a taste for mice, until the day a fox comes to him in great pain.
16) "B" is for Betsy
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Betsy experiences an interesting first year in school and looks forward to summer vacation at her grandfather's farm.
17) The sea wolf
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An epic of action-filled excitement. Rescued from drowning, a pampered gentleman awakes in a special kind of hell. He's aboard the Ghost, a sealing schooner outbound for months of hunting. Wolf Larson, the devilish captain, a fiendish crew, the cruel sea, and unlikely love make this tale immortal
20) The little house
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A country house is unhappy when the city, with all its buildings and traffic, grows up around her.