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43) The long winter
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Little house books volume 6
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"The town of De Smet is hit with terrible, howling blizzards and Laura and her family must ration their food and coal. When the supply train doesn't arrive, Almanzo Wilder and his brother realize something must be done. They begin an impossible journey in search of provisions, before it's too late"--P. [4] of cover.
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Anne, an eleven-year-old orphan, is sent by mistake to live with a lonely, middle-aged brother and sister on a Prince Edward Island farm and proceeds to make an indelible impression on everyone around her. When Anne Shirley arrives at Green Gables farm on Prince Edward Island, she surprises everyone: first of all, she is a girl. Marilla Cuthbert and her brother, Matthew, had specifically asked for an orphan boy. She has bright red hair that won't...
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Jack Russell dog detective volume 1
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I applied my super sniffer to the job. The strange dog scent was stronger. That meant the strange dog was in the dog den. Had the dog nappers struck already? Were they planning a wave of dognappings all over Doggeroo? When Jack and Sarge move to the town of Doggeroo, Jack soon notices that things are going missing. He doesn't mind when an old boot from the yard disappears, but when his squeaker bone, dinner, dinner bowl and blanket vanish, Jack knows...
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Magic tree house volume 2
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Eight-year-old Jack and his younger sister Annie use the magic treehouse to travel back to the Middle Ages, where they explore a castle and are helped by a mysterious knight.
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Life hasn't been the same since Mickey's grandmother died and her best friend Sal moved away. But no one at home is interested in hearing her whinge, so she begins to write letters to the living and the dead - the Minister of Education, Bill Gates, J.R.R. Tolkien, Napoleon, Freddo the Frog (she's a chocoholic) and most of all her late grandmother.
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The large young Shire horses made the retired seaside donkey's life unpleasant until the night she saved them from being rustled and made into horse pies.
Nosy and Banty are friends, so it's a pity that their families are so rude about each other. But when the terrible Tyrannosaurus rex arrives, the dinosaur families join forces to help one another out of trouble.