Barry Moser
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Series
Language
English
Description
"Kit Tyler must leave behind shimmering Caribbean islands to join the stern Puritan community of her relatives. She soon feels caged, until she meets the old woman known as the Witch of Blackbird Pond. But when their friendship is discovered, Kit herself is accused of witchcraft!"--
Author
Language
English
Description
English literature's first and greatest superhero, Sherlock Holmes still fascinates readers more than 100 years after Sir Arthur Conan Doyle created the beloved detective. In this, the first collection of Holmes's stories, the detective uses his uncanny skills to rescue a king from blackmail, to capture an ingenious bank robber, and to save an innocent son accused of patricide. Though readers have good reason to believe Holmes will somehow triumph...
4) Earthquack!
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
When Chucky Ducky feels the earth beneath him grumble and rumble, he runs to alert the other barnyard animals to the coming earthquake, but just as a wily weasel is about to take advantage of their fears, the true source of the rumbling is revealed.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
[1990]
Language
English
Description
A retelling of Andersen's classic tale of a brave soldier who finds love and fortune in a magic tinderbox, set in the post-Civil War South. A soldier's fortune is made after he steals a magical tinderbox from a witch: striking it brings three huge dogs to grant their master's wishes. In the edition retold by Moser, the story is set in the post-Civil War Tennessee mountains, and the witch has been replaced by a wily mountain man.
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Language
English
Description
An adventure novel by the French writer Jules Verne, first published in 1873. In the story, Phileas Fogg of London and his newly employed French valet Jean Passepartout, attempt to circumnavigate the world in 80 days on a wager set by his friends at the Reform Club.
Author
Publisher
Disney/Jump at the Sun Books
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
When Ellie makes three wishes and begins to believe in the magic of Christmas, all kinds of miracles occur, from broken tree lights twinkling again, to angel shapes appearing in snow, to the biggest of all: a baby brother arriving soon. It all happened in the time of Billy Lee.
12) Just so stories
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Language
English
Description
A collection of stories, drawn from the tales Kipling's Indian nurses told to him, in which Kipling creates the enchantment of the dawn of the world, when animals could talk and think like people. The laziness of the Camel, the curiosity of the Elephant Child, the cleverness of the hedgehog, the confusions of the Painted Jaguar and all the rest of Kipling's delightful menagerie come alive.
Offers Kipling's well-known imaginative animal story collection...
19) Casey at the bat
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Series
Language
English
Description
A narrative poem about a celebrated baseball player who strikes out at the crucial moment of a game.
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Language
English
Description
The adventures of an unusual dog, part St. Bernard, part Scotch shepherd, who is forcibly taken to the Klondike gold fields where he eventually becomes the leader of a wolf pack. Buck is a dog born to luxury, but his life changes dramatically when he is sold to be a sled dog in the Yukon Terrority. He earns a reputation for his strength and courage, and is rescued from a series of bad owners by John Thornton, who teaches him to love. When John is...