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1) Ruby Holler
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Thirteen-year-old fraternal twins Dallas and Florida have grown up in a terrible orphanage but their lives change forever when an eccentric but sweet older couple invites them each on an adventure, beginning in an almost magical place called Ruby Holler.
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"Meek little Mole, willful Ratty, Badger the perennial bachelor, and petulant Toad. Since their first appearance over a hundred years ago in 1908, they've become emblematic archetypes of eccentricity, folly, and friendship. And their misadventures--in gypsy caravans, stolen sports cars, and their beloved Wild Wood--continue to capture readers' imaginations and warm their hearts long after they grow up. Begun as a series of letters from Kenneth Grahame...
4) Little Ree
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Little Ree is excited about her move from the city to a ranch, and even though she finds that life on a ranch can be tough, it also has its good points.
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Chester Cricket volume 7
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Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
c1987
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193 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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"Deep in the woods, in a rustic cabin, lives an old man and the boy he's raised as his own. This sage old man has taught the boy the power of nature and how to live in it, and more importantly, to respect it. In Fishbone's Song, this boy reminisces about the magic of the man who raised him and the tales that he used to tell--all true, but different each time."--
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Major Ernest Pettigrew (retired) leads a quiet life in the village of St. Mary, England, until his brother's death sparks an unexpected friendship with Mrs. Jasmina Ali, the Pakistani shopkeeper from the village. Drawn together by their shared love of literature and the loss of their respective spouses, the Major and Mrs. Ali soon find their friendship blossoming into something more. But will their relationship survive in a society that considers...
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Village mystery volume 5
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Severn House
Pub. Date
2016.
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148 pages ; 23 cm
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The British town of Frog End is preparing for its annual Christmas pantomime. Local busybody Marjorie Cuthbertson is on the hunt for her leading lady - and who better that beautiful new resident,ex-model Joan Dryden. Mystery is about to engulf the village, however, when a cast member collapses and dies at the Christmas party at the Manor, having consumed a rogue mince pie. Was the death and accident - or a malicious murder masked asn an allergic reaction?...
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Marshall Cavendish Children
Pub. Date
c2009
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1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 24 cm.
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A child spends a wonderful summer in the country, in a big old house with plenty of mice but no running water, and begs to stay there, but summer's end and a cross-country journey bring a wonderful surprise.
15) Wet dog!
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Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2005
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1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 23 x 26 cm.
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A dog's attempts to cool off on a hot day get him into trouble with a series of people and finally lead him to interrupt a country wedding.
17) Seven steeples
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Mariner Books
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2022.
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181 pages ; 22 cm.
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It is the winter following the summer they met. A couple, Bell and Sigh, move into a remote house in the Irish countryside with their dogs. Both solitary with misanthropic tendencies, they leave the conventional lives stretched out before them to build another—one embedded in ritual, and away from the friends and family from whom they’ve drifted. They arrive at their new home on a clear January day and look up to appraise the view. A mountain...
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Farrar Straus Giroux
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2014.
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228 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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When Tommy Smythe, a high school junior and particle physics genius, goes missing, multiple lives intersect--or don't--as the residents of a small Texas town relate, in their separate voices, what each thinks might have happened to Tommy.
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"It's March 2020 and a calamity is unfolding. A group of friends and friends-of-friends gathers in a country house to wait out the pandemic. Over the next few months new bonds of friendship and love will take hold, while old betrayals will emerge among this unlikely cast of characters, each richly drawn and achingly human: a Russian-born novelist; his Russian-born psychiatrist wife; their precocious child obsessed with K-pop; a struggling Indian American...
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