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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 the Bat Cave, the enjoyment just never ends.
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"Simple country handyman Cedric O'Toole relies on his organic vegetable garden to supplement his meager income, so he's upset when vegetables begin disappearing. After several futile attempts to protect the garden, he stakes it out one night with his shotgun and spots a shadowy figure running into the woods. Cedric follows and finds a young boy living rough on his land. The boy has never been taught to read or write, and no one has reported him missing....
3) Coco
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Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment
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[2018]
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A boy accidentally gets transported to the world of the dead and with the help of his deceased musician great-great-grandfather returns back to his family.
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Walt Disney Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2006
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1 DVD (102 min. & 92 min.) : sd., b&w, col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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Wilby Daniels was just an ordinary teenager until a magical ring accidentally transforms him into a sheepdog...whose owner is the leader of a plot to destroy the Space Program! The first live-action comedy Walt Disney produced. B&W and color versions.
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"In response to a job advertisement, Struan Robertson, orphan, genius, and just seventeen, leaves his dour native town in Scotland, and arrives in London in the freakishly hot summer of 1989. His job, he finds, is to care for playwright and one-time literary star Phillip Prys, dumbfounded and paralyzed by a massive stroke, because, though two teenage children, two wives, and a literary agent all rattle 'round Phillip's large house, they are each too...
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Tim Colter novels volume 1
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1845, in the untamed Oregon Territory. Tim Colder escapes when his family is ambushed by a gang of cutthroats; his parents butchered, his sisters missing. Luckily he finds a friend in Jed Reno, a one-eyed trapper who's lived in the Rockies since the 20's-- and is looking for the same gang that attacked Tim's family. Colter has no choice but to grow up fast, face his fears, and fight back with everything he's got.
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Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2015.
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
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Elmore Green likes being an only child, so when his parents bring a new small person, his baby brother, into the house he is not pleased and does his best to keep the new small person out of his life.
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Winner of the 2002 Man Booker Prize for Fiction Life of Pi is at once a realistic, rousing adventure and a meta-tale of survival that explores the redemptive power of storytelling and the transformative nature of fiction. It's a story, as one character puts it, to make you believe in God. A fabulist novel that combines the delight of Kipling's Just So Stories with the metaphysical adventure of Jonah and the Whale.
9) The son
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Peter finds his already-hectic life upended when his ex-wife appears to discuss their teenage son, Nicholas, who has been missing school for months and is deeply troubled. Peter strives to take care of Nicholas as he would have wanted his own father to have taken care of him, but the rigors of raising a new son with Beth and a new position at work makes him lose sight of how to hold onto Nicholas.
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Wallace the brave volume 4
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Andrews McMeel Publishing
Pub. Date
[2022]
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171 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm + 1 poster
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Wallace the Brave enjoys a lifestyle of mischief, exploration, and summer vacation, along with his friends Rose, Spud, Amelia and a host of other new friends.
13) Small Walt
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Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
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[2017]
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 cm
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Small Walt is the smallest snow plow in the fleet and he always gets picked last, but when there is a big snowstorm in the city, he will have the chance to prove his worth.
14) A thousand steps
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"A Thousand Steps is a beguiling thriller, an incisive coming-of-age story, and a vivid portrait of a turbulent time and place by three-time Edgar Award winner and New York Times bestselling author T. Jefferson Parker. Laguna Beach, California, 1968. The Age of Aquarius is in full swing. Timothy Leary is a rock star. LSD is God. Folks from all over are flocking to Laguna, seeking peace, love, and enlightenment. Matt Antony is just trying get by. Matt...
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Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
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3 DVDs (284 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Enduring creepy freshmen and her aching crush on the most popular boy in school, a girl makes the most of her sixteenth birthday as her family forgets it amidst the chaos of her sister's wedding; five teenagers with nothing in common spend a Saturday detention in the school library; computer whiz kids create the "perfect woman", and she guides them through several aspects of teenage life.
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2019.
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"Before there was 'tourism' and souvenir ashtrays became 'kitsch,' the Lake of the Ozarks was a Shangri-La for middle-class Midwestern families on vacation, complete with man-made beaches, Hillbilly Mini Golf, and feathered rubber tomahawks. It was there that author Bill Geist spent summers in the sixties during his school and college years, working at Arrowhead Lodge--a small resort owned by his bombastic uncle--in all areas of the operation, from...
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"It's a hot summer, and life's going all right for Jackson and his family on the Mish. It's almost Christmas, school's out, and he's hanging with his mates, teasing the visiting tourists, and avoiding the racist boys in town. Just like every year, Jackson's Aunty and annoying little cousins visit from the city - but this time a mysterious boy with a troubled past comes with them. As their friendship evolves, Jackson must confront the changing shapes...
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Eddie Red undercover volume 2
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"On vacation in Mexico, Eddie Red and his best friend Jonah must once again rely on Eddie's talent for drawing and his photographic memory to uncover clues to catch a crook when Eddie's father is falsely accused of a crime"--
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