Newbery
1. *Recommended*  2006 Criss Cross - by: Lynne Rae Perkins - ISBN: 0060092726
- 2006 Newbery award winner - From School Library Journal Starred Review. Grade 6-9?The author of the popular All Alone in the Universe (HarperCollins, 1999) returns with...
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2.  2005 Kira Kira - by: Cynthia Kadohata - ISBN: 0689856393
- In Cynthia Kadohata's lively, lovely, funny and sad novel -- winner of the 2005 Newbery Medal -- the Japanese-American Takeshima family moves from...
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3.  2004 The Tale of Despereaux - by: Kate DiCamillo - ISBN: 0763617229
- Kate DiCamillo, author of the Newbery Honor book Because of Winn-Dixie, spins a tidy tale of mice and men where she explores the powerful...
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4.  2003 Crispin: The Cross of Lead - by: Avi - ISBN: 0786808284
- Genre-jumping author Avi clocks in here with his 50th book, Crispin: The Cross of Lead, an action-packed historical narrative that follows the...
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5.  2002 A Single Shard - by: Linda Sue Park - ISBN: 0395978270
- From Publishers Weekly Park (Seesaw Girl) molds a moving tribute to perseverance and creativity in this finely etched novel set in mid- to late 12th-century...
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6.  2001 A Year Down Yonder - by: Richard Peck - ISBN: 0803725183
- Grandma Dowdel's back! She's just as feisty and terrifying and goodhearted as she was in Richard Peck's A Long Way from Chicago, and every bit as...
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7.  2000 Bud Not Buddy - by: Christopher Paul Curtis - ISBN: 0385323069
- It's funny how ideas are, in a lot of ways they're just like seeds. Both of them start real, real small and then... woop, zoop, sloop...
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8.  1999 Holes - by: Louis Sachar - ISBN: 0440414806
- If you take a bad boy and make him dig a hole every day in the hot sun, it will turn him into a good boy. Such is the reigning philosophy at Camp...
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9.  1998 Out of the Dust - by: Karen Hesse - ISBN: 0590371258
- Like the Oklahoma dust bowl from which she came, 14-year-old narrator Billie Jo writes in sparse, free-floating verse. In this compelling...
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10.  1997 The View From Saturday - by: E. L. Konigsburg - ISBN: 0689817215
- A powerhouse sixth-grade Academic Bowl team from Epiphany Middle School; the art of calligraphy; the retirees of Century Village, Florida; a genius...
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11.  1996 The Midwifes Apprentice - by: Karen Cushman - ISBN: 006440630x
- Karen Cushman likes to write with her tongue firmly planted in her cheek, and her feisty female characters firmly planted in history...
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12.  1995 Walk Two Moons - by: Sharon Creech - ISBN: 0060233346
- Thirteen-year-old Salamanca Tree Hiddle's mother has disappeared. While tracing her steps on a car trip from Ohio to Idaho with her grandparents...
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13.  1994 The Giver - by: Lois Lowry - ISBN: 0395645662
- In a world with no poverty, no crime, no sickness and no unemployment, and where every family is happy, 12-year-old Jonas is chosen to be the...
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14.  1993 Missing May - by: Cynthia Rylant - ISBN: 0440408652
- This wonderful book revolves around a few delightfully named characters: Summer, Uncle Ob, Aunt May and Cletus Underwood. After being passed among...
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15.  1992 Shiloh - by: Phyllis Reynolds Naylor - ISBN: 0689835833
- When 11-year-old Marty Preston chances upon a mistreated beagle pup in his hometown of Friendly, West Virginia, he is not prepared for the ethical...
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16.  1991 Maniac Magee - by: Jerry Spinelli - ISBN: 0316807222
- Maniac Magee is a folk story about a boy, a very excitable boy. One that can outrun dogs, hit a home run off the best pitcher in the neighborhood...
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17.  1990 Number the Stars - by: Lois Lowry - ISBN: 0395510600
- The evacuation of Jews from Nazi-held Denmark is one of the great untold stories of World War II. On September 29, 1943, word got out in Denmark...
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18.  1989 Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices - by: Paul Fleischman - ISBN: 0060218525
- Winner of the 1989 Newbery Award, Joyful Noise is a children's book of poetry about insects that was designed for two readers to enjoy...
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19.  1988 Lincoln: A Photobiography - by: Russell Freedman - ISBN: 0395518482
- This work is perhaps the most complete and enjoyable children's book ever written about one of the nation's most fascinating and important figures...
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20.  1987 The Whipping Boy - by: Sid Fleischman - ISBN: 0688062164
- For kids to get their dose of action and thrills, they need not always go to the local multiplex for the latest bang 'em up film...
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21.  1986 Sarah Plain and Tall - by: Patricia Maclachlan - ISBN: 0060241012
- MacLachlan, author of Unclaimed Treasures, has written an affecting tale for children. In the late 19th century a widowed midwestern farmer with two...
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22.  1985 The Hero and the Crown - by: Robin Mckinley - ISBN: 0141309814
- Book description Although she is the daughter of Damar's king, Aerin has never been accepted as full royalty. Both in and out of the royal court, people...
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23.  1984 Dear Mr. Henshaw - by: Beverly Cleary - ISBN: 0380709589
- When, in second grade, Leigh writes to an author to tell him how much he licked his book, he never suspects that he'll still be writing to him...
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24.  1983 Diceys Song - by: Cynthia Voigt - ISBN: 0689309449
- Letting Go The four Tillerman children finally have a home at their grandmother's rundown farm on the Maryland shore. It's what Dicey has...
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25.  1982 A Visit To William Blakes Inn - by: Nancy Willard - ISBN: 0152938230
- From Publishers Weekly The Newbery Medal-winning, Caldecott Honor book about an imaginary inn belonging to William Blake, where remarkable guests are attended...
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26.  1981 Jacob Have I Loved - by: Katherine Paterson - ISBN: 0064403688
- Publishers Weekly - Simply irresistible. New York Times Book Review - A novel of special brilliance...
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27.  1980 A Gathering of Days - by: Joan W. Blos - ISBN: 068971419x
- Card catalog description The journal of a fourteen-year-old girl, kept the last year she lived on the family farm, records daily events in her small New...
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| 28. 1979 The Westing Game - by: Ellen Raskin - ISBN: 0140386645
- From AudioFile THE WESTING GAME is a sly murder mystery. (Puzzle might be a better word--there's really only cartoon grisliness in this book.) Woodman's...
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| 29. 1978 Bridge To Terabithia - by: Katherine Paterson - ISBN: 0690013590
- The story starts out simply enough: Jess Aarons wants to be the fastest boy in the fifth grade--he wants it so bad he can taste it...
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| 30. 1977 Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry - by: Mildred D. Taylor - ISBN: 0140384510
- In all Mildred D. Taylor's unforgettable novels she recounts not only the joy of growing up in a large and supportive family, but my own feelings...
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| 31. 1976 The Grey King - by: Susan Cooper - ISBN: 0689500297
- From School Library Journal Gr 5-8-While recovering from hepatitis, Will Stanton is sent to a farm in Wales where he is soon caught up in the battle against...
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| 32. 1975 M.C. Higgins the Great - by: Virginia Hamilton - ISBN: 068971694x
- From a perch on his 40-foot pole (a gift from his father for swimming across the Ohio River), M.C. likes to slide his hand over the rolling...
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| 33. 1974 The Slave Dancer - by: Paula Fox - ISBN: 0440404029
- From AudioFile In a tale at once fascinating and horrible, young Jessie suffers capture and indenture on a slave ship. His job is to dance the slaves by...
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| 34. 1973 Julie of the Wolves - by: Jean Craighead George - ISBN: 0064400581
- Miyax, like many adolescents, is torn. But unlike most, her choices may determine whether she lives or dies. At 13, an orphan, and unhappily...
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| 35. 1972 Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh (aladdin) - by: Robert C. Obrien - ISBN: 0689710682
- There's something very strange about the rats living under the rosebush at the Fitzgibbon farm. But Mrs. Frisby, a widowed mouse with a sick child...
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| 36. 1971 The Summer of the Swans - by: Betsy Cromer Byars - ISBN: 0140314202
- Publishers Weekly A compelling story of the longest day in a fourteen-year-old’s life. --This text refers to the Paperback edition...
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| 37. 1970 Sounder - by: William H. Armstrong - ISBN: 0064400204
- Sounder is no beauty. But as a coon dog, this loyal mongrel with his cavernous bark is unmatched. When the African American sharecropper who has...
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| 38. 1969 The High King - by: Lloyd Alexander - ISBN: 0440435749
- Review Greater, more disastrous, and demanding more courage are the battles into which Taran leads his followers against Arawn Death-Lord...
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| 39. 1968 From the Mixed-up File of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler - by: E. L. Konigsburg - ISBN: 0689205864
- Claudia is bored. She's ready for a big change, but wants to make sure she does it with style. When she decides to run away, Claudia plans to be a...
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| 40. 1967 Up a Road Slowly - by: Irene Hunt - ISBN: 0425202054
- Book description The Newbery Award-winning novel From the author of Across Five Aprils and No Promises in the Wind comes her most...
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| 41. 1966 I Juan De Pareja - by: Elizabeth Borton De Trevino - ISBN: 0374435251
- From AudioFile This 1965 publication won a Newbery Medal and top awards in England and France. De Trevino's masterpiece is enhanced by Ward's glorious...
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| 42. 1965 Shadow of a Bull - by: Maia Wojciechowska - ISBN: 0689300425
- From School Library Journal Grade 4-7. Haunted by the legend of his father, a world-famous bull fighter, 11-year-old Manolo Olivar searches for the courage to...
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| 43. 1964 Its Like This Cat - by: Emily Cheney Neville - ISBN: 0064400735
- The thoughts, feelings, and activities of an adolescent boy in contemporary New York City, perceptively revealed in a skillfully written narrative...
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| 44. 1963 A Wrinkle in Time - by: Madeleine Lengle - ISBN: 0395137195-title-1962_The_Bronze_Bow-author-Elizabeth_George_Spearehttp:/www.readingbee.com/bookdetail-0440498058
- A Wrinkle in Time...
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| 45. 1961 Island of the Blue Dolphins - by: Scott Odell - ISBN: 0440439884
- Scott O'Dell won the Newbery Medal for Island of the Blue Dolphins in 1961, and in 1976 the Children's Literature Association named this...
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| 46. 1960 Onion John - by: Joseph Krumgold - ISBN: 0064401448
- SLJ. One of the distinguished books of our time. . . . The writing has dignity and strength. H. [A] penetrating...
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| 47. 1959 The Witch of Blackbird Pond - by: Elizabeth George Speare - ISBN: 0440495962
- Forced to leave her sunny Caribbean home for the bleak Connecticut Colony, Kit Tyler is filled with trepidation. As they sail up the river to Kit's...
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| 48. 1958 Rifles for Watie - by: Harold Keith - ISBN: 006447030x
- Book description Jeff Bussey walked briskly up the rutted wagon road toward Fort Leavenworth on his way to join the Union volunteers. It was 1861 in Linn...
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| 49. 1957 Miracles on Maple Hill - by: Virginia Eggertsen Sorensen - ISBN: 0590431455
- From School Library Journal Grade 3-5–Virginia Sorensen's 1957 Newbery Award winner (Harcourt, 1956) is skillfully dramatized by a cast of experienced...
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| 50. 1956 Carry on Mr Bowditch - by: Jean Lee Latham - ISBN: 0881037524
- Review Illustrations, rich in detail, by John O'Hara Cosgrave II add authenticity and value. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition...
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| 51. 1955 The Wheel on the School - by: Meindert De Jong - ISBN: 0064400212
- From School Library Journal Grade 4-7-This 1955 Newbery Award-winner by Meindert Dejojng, set in a small Dutch fishing village, tells the story of a young girl...
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| 52. 1954 And Now Miguel - by: Joseph Krumgold - ISBN: 006440143x
- A memorable and deeply moving story of a family of New Mexican sheepherders, in which Miguel, neither child nor man, tells of his great longing to...
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| 53. 1953 Secret of the Andes
- Secret of the Andes...
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| 54. 1952 Ginger Pye - by: Eleanor Estes - ISBN: 0152025057
- Book description Meet Ginger Pye, the smartest dog you'll ever know. Jerry Pye and his sister, Rachel, feel pretty smart themselves for buying Ginger. It was...
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| 55. 1951 Amos Fortune Free Man - by: Elizabeth Yates - ISBN: 0140341587
- Card catalog description The life of the eighteenth-century African prince who, after being captured by slave traders, was brought to Massachusetts where he...
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| 56. 1950 The Door in the Wall - by: Marguerite De Angeli - ISBN: 0440402832
- From School Library Journal Grade 4-8-This Newbery Medal winning story, set in medieval times, is about a boy who learns his own strength when he saves the...
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| 57. 1949 King of the Wind - by: Marguerite Henry - ISBN: 0026887584
- From School Library Journal Grade 4-8-The Newbery Medal-winning tale about a stallion, a stable boy, and their globe-spanning adventures.Copyright 1998 Reed...
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| 58. 1948 The Twenty-one Balloons - by: William Paene Du Bois - ISBN: 0140320970
- Professor William Waterman Sherman intends to fly across the Pacific Ocean. But through a twist of fate, he lands on Krakatoa, and discovers a...
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| 59. 1947 Miss Hickory
- Miss Hickory
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| 60. 1946 Strawberry Girl - by: Lois Lenski - ISBN: 0064405850
- Basic Book Collection for Junior High Schools (ALA). Full of the flavor of Florida lake country. --This text refers to the Library...
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| 61. 1945 Rabbit Hill - by: Robert Lawson - ISBN: 014031010x
- Card catalog description New folks are coming to live in the Big House. The animals of Rabbit Hill wonder if they will plant a garden and thus be good...
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| 62. 1944 Johnny Tremain - by: Esther Forbes - ISBN: 0440442508
- This story of a tragically injured young silversmith who ends up hip-deep in the American Revolution is inspiring, exciting, and sad. Winner of the...
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| 63. 1943 Adam of the Road - by: Elizabeth Janet Gray - ISBN: 014032464x
- Book description Eleven-year-old Adam loved to travel throughout thirteenthcentury England with his father, a wandering minstrel, and his dog, Nick. But when...
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| 64. 1942 The Matchlock Gun - by: Walter D. Edmonds - ISBN: 0698116801
- Book description In 1756, New York State was still a British colony, and the French and the Indians were constant threats to Edward and his family. When his...
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| 65. 1941 Call It Courage - by: Armstrong Sperry - ISBN: 0020452705
- From AudioFile Ever since his mother was killed in a hurricane, Mafatu, the son of the Great Chief of the people of Hikueru, an island in the southern Pacific...
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| 66. 1940 Daniel Boone - by: James Daugherty - ISBN: 0670255890
- Daniel Boone...
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| 67. 1939 Thimble Summer - by: Elizabeth Enright - ISBN: 0440486815
- From AudioFile One dry summer day early in the twentieth century, 9-year-old Garnet Linden finds a silver thimble near her southwestern Wisconsin home, and...
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| 68. 1938 The White Stag - by: Kate Seredy - ISBN: 0140312587
- Card catalog description Retells the legendary story of the Huns' and Magyars' long migration from Asia to Europe where they hope to find a permanent home...
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| 69. 1937 Roller Skates - by: Ruth Sawyer - ISBN: 0140303588
- From School Library Journal Grades 4-7--This recording of the 1937 Newbery Award-winning book by Ruth Sawyer (Penguin Putnam, pap. 1986) is read by television...
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| 70. 1936 Caddie Woodlawn - by: Carol Ryrie Brink - ISBN: 0689815212
- At age 11, Caddie Woodlawn is the despair of her mother and the pride of her father: a clock-fixing tomboy running wild in the woods of Wisconsin...
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| 71. 1935 Dobry
- Dobry
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| 72. 1934 Invincible Louisa: The Story of the Author of Little Women - by: Cornelia Meigs - ISBN: 0316565946
- Tnvincible Louisa: The Story...
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| 73. 1933 Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze - by: Elizabeth Foreman Lewis - ISBN: 0440227860
- Young Fu is bound for seven years to be an apprentice to Tang the coppersmith, and his new life in the Chinese city Chungking is both exciting...
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| 74. 1932 Waterless Mountain - by: Laura Adams Armer - ISBN: 112106437x
- Waterless Mountain...
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| 75. 1931 The Cat Who Went To Heaven
- The Cat Who Went To Heaven
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| 76. 1930 Hitty: Her First Hundred Years - by: Rachel Field - ISBN: 0689822847
- Book description Presented for the first time in audio, here are the charming and adventurous memoirs of an exceptional doll named Hitty. Her story begins in...
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| 77. 1929 The Trumpeter of Krakow - by: Eric P. Kelly - ISBN: 0689715714
- Card catalog description A Polish family in the Middle Ages guards a great secret treasure and a boy's memory of an earlier trumpeter of Krakow makes it...
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| 78. 1928 Gay Neck - Readingbee - by: Dhan Gopal Mukerji - ISBN: 0525304002
- Gay Neck Author: Dhan Gopal...
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| 79. 1927 Smoky the Cowhorse - Readingbee - by: Will James - ISBN: 087842413x
- The horse is not appreciated and never will be appreciated enough, few humans, even them that works him, really know him, but then...
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| 80. 1926 Shen of the Sea - Readingbee - by: Arthur Bowie Chrisman - ISBN: 0525392440
- Shen of the Sea...
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| 81. 1925 Tales From the Silver Lands - Readingbee - by: Charles Finger - ISBN: 0590424475
- Tales From the Silver Lands...
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| 82. 1924 The Dark Frigate - Readingbee - by: Charles Boardman Hawes - ISBN: 0316350095
- From School Library Journal Grade 7 Up-In 17th century England, an accident forces orphaned Philip Marsham to flee London in fear for his life. He signs on...
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| 83. 1923 The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle - by: Hugh Lofting - ISBN: 0451527690
- From School Library Journal Grade 4-8-Doctor Dolittle sets sail towards the mysterious Spider Monkey Island accompanied by by nine-and-a-half-year-old Tommy...
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| 84. 1922 The Story of Mankind - by: Hendrik Willem Van Loon - ISBN: 0871401754
- Anyone who can chronicle world history from 500,000 B.C. to present times--and do so in a lively, entertaining style--deserves a medal. Luckily...
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