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Relates how Arthur became king, won a queen, and came to establish the Round Table.
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"Tales from Uncle Remus" "More Tales from Uncle Remus", "Further Tales from Uncle Remus" and "Last Tales from Uncle Remus" have been brought together for this colorfully illustrated compilation for readers of all ages.
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The princess and the pea - the tinderbox - Thumbelina - the emperor's new clothes - the little mermaid - the steadfast tin soldier - wild swans - the flying trunk - the ugly duckling - the nightingale - the snow queen - the little match girl - the goblin at the grocer's
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A collection of nearly sixty fables from Aesop, including such familiar ones as "The Grasshopper and the Ants," "The North Wind and the Sun," "Androcles and the Lion," "The Troublesome Dog," and "The Fox and the Stork."
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Follows the lives of the Wright brothers and describes how they developed the first airplane.
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uba has fought three wars for independence, and still she is not free. This history in verse creates a lyrical portrait of Cuba. (2009 Pura Belpré winner)
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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.
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Jacqueline Woodson, one of today's finest writers, tells the moving story of her childhood in mesmerizing verse. Raised in South Carolina and New York, Woodson always felt halfway home in each place. In vivid poems, she shares what it was like to grow up as an African American in the 1960s and 1970s, living with the remnants of Jim Crow and her growing awareness of the Civil Rights movement. (2015 Coretta Scott King Award winner)
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When her beloved country, Chile, is taken over by a militaristic, sadistic government, Celeste is sent to America for her safety and her parents must go into hiding before they "disappear."
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Chronicles the joys and sorrows of the four March sisters as they grow into young women in nineteenth-century New England.
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Taran, Assistant Pig-Keeper to a famous oracular sow, sets out on a hazardous mission to save Prydain from the forces of evil.
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The unexpected delivery of a large crate containing an Antarctic penguin changes the life and fortunes of Mr. Popper, a house painter obsessed by dreams of the Polar regions.
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The Tuck family is confronted with an agonizing situation when they discover that a ten-year-old girl and a malicious stranger now share their secret about a spring whose water prevents one from ever growing any older.
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The adventures of Peter Pan, the boy who would not grow up.
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After a cyclone transports her to the land of Oz, Dorothy must seek out the great wizard in order to return to Kansas.