| The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Classic Literature with Classical Music)
| Tom Sawyer lives with his strict Aunt Polly on the banks of the Mississippi River, yet loves to run wild with his friend Huckleberry Finn. Episodes include whitewashing the fence, the murder in the graveyard and the pursuit of Injun Joe. The music is from Janacek and Delius.
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| The Jungle Book (Looking Glass Library)
| Imagine growing up among wolves, being friends with a panther and a bear, and hunting the most fearsome animal in the wild—the man-killing tiger Shere Khan. Rudyard Kipling portrays the exciting and adventurous jungle upbringing of Mowgli in this timeless classic. Still amazingly contemporary even though it was written more than 100 years ago, the pacing, language, and characters will keep readers young and old turning the pages, and then begging for more. Originally published in two volumes, ...More
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| Middle School, The Worst Years of My Life - Free Preview: The First 20 Chapters
| Rafe Khatchadorian has enough problems at home without throwing his first year of middle school into the mix. Luckily, he's got an ace plan for the best year ever, if only he can pull it off: With his best friend Leonardo the Silent awarding him points, Rafe tries to break every rule in his school's oppressive Code of Conduct. Chewing gum in class-5,000 points! Running in the hallway-10,000 points! Pulling the fire alarm-50,000 points! But when Rafe's game starts to catch up with him, he'll have...More
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| The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn (Apple Classics)
| Wild child Huck has to get away. His violent drunk of a father is back in town again, raising Cain. He won't rest until he has Huck's money. So the enterprising boy fakes his own death and sets out in search of adventure and freedom. Teaming up with Jim, an escaped slave with a price on his head, the two fugitives go on the run, travelling down the wide Mississippi River. But Huck finds himself wrestling with his conscience. Should he save Jim, or turn his friend over to a terrible fate?
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| Little Men
| Little Men brilliantly extends the March family saga begun in Louisa May Alcott's classic Little Women. Jo-now married to the good-natured Professor Bhaer and with sons of her own-has become the unflappable matron of an extended family at Plumfield, a school that the Bhaers have founded with Aunt March's legacy. Jo's rambunctious youngsters grow up in an atmosphere full of high spirits and misadventure-a world enlivened by Alcott's unique powers of observation and sympathy.
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| Middle School, The Worst Years of My Life
| Rafe Khatchadorian has enough problems at home without throwing his first year of middle school into the mix. Luckily, he's got an ace plan for the best year ever, if only he can pull it off: With his best friend Leonardo the Silent awarding him points, Rafe tries to break every rule in his school's oppressive Code of Conduct. Chewing gum in class-5,000 points! Running in the hallway-10,000 points! Pulling the fire alarm-50,000 points! But when Rafe's game starts to catch up with him, he'll have...More
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| Diary of Wimpy Kid. The Last Straw (Diary of a Wimpy Kid)
| Greg's dad, Frank, is on a mission - a mission to make this wimpy kid, well, less wimpy. All manner of 'manly' physical activities are planned, but Greg just about manages to find a way out of them. That is until military academy is mentioned and Greg realizes that he's going to have to come up with something very special to get out of this one...
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| The Werewolf Whisperer (Vampire Love Story Book #2)
| The Werewolf Whisperer - the second installment in the Vampire Love Story series...For Josiah Reign, life as he knows it has been forever changed. In two shorts months he went from unbeliever to the "The Chosen" - savior of the Mani people (a vampire race that has been living underground for 10,000 years). Now Josiah must learn to control his powerful new body, all while understanding his destiny...and falling deeper in love.Soon Josiah realizes that to understand his calling, he must save a you...More
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| Diary of a Wimpey Kid: Roderick Rules (Diary of a Wimpy Kid)
| It's a brand-new year and a brand-new journal and Greg is keen to put the humiliating (and secret!) events of last summer firmly behind him. But someone knows everything - someone whose job it is to most definitely not keep anything embarrassing of Greg's private - his big brother, Rodrick. How can Greg make it through this new school year with his cool(ish) reputation intact?
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| The Boy's Body Book: Everything You Need to Know for Growing Up YOU (Boys World Books)
| As boys reach adolescence, everything changes: their bodies, their feelings, and their relationships. Their world turns shaky just when they find it hardest to talk with the adults in their lives. But even if they won’t say what’s on their mind, they still want straight answers. The Boy’s Body Book provides them, in a readable, reassuring, and illustrated guide. It covers a boy’s every concern: hygiene, exercise, teachers, peer pressure, sex, and siblings. He’ll learn about what...More
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| The Florida Chase
| What would you do if your father went missing? When two brothers find out that their dad is missing, they drive to Washington DC to investigate. What they find propels them to get on the first flight to Florida. Arriving, they get caught up in Hurricane Adam as it hits the coastline. Now they have to find their father AND battle nature's fury.Follow the brothers as they make their way through the state in an effort to uncover the mystery of why their father has s...More
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| Breaking Stalin's Nose
| One of Horn Book’s Best Fiction Books of 2011 Sasha Zaichik has known the laws of the Soviet Young Pioneers since the age of six:The Young Pioneer is devoted to Comrade Stalin, the Communist Party, and Communism.A Young Pioneer is a reliable comrade and always acts according to conscience.A Young Pioneer has a right to criticize shortcomings.But now that it is finally time to join the Young Pioneers, the day Sasha has awaited for so long, everything seems to go a...More
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| Chugga-Chugga Choo-Choo
| Kids love trains, and Kevin Lewis and illustrator Daniel Kirk`s Chugga-Chugga Choo-Choo will do nothing but encourage the obsession. “ Sun`s up! / Morning`s here. / Up and at `em, / engineer,“ cheerfully begins this rhyming picture book. As the simple large-lettered text chugs along, Daniel Kirk brings a child`s playroom and train set to life with bold, bright illustrations reminiscent of his work in Bigger. In the course of the book, the toys bustle about to make sure the steam engine is lo...More
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| Tom Sawyer Abroad
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| Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
| Complete with stunning new movie art for the cover and an eight-page full-color insert of movie stills, Roald Dahl’s treasured novel appears unabridged and complete in this movie tie-in edition of Dahl’s best-selling beloved classic.
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| Middle School: Get Me out of Here!
| James Patterson's winning follow-up to the #1 New York Times bestseller Middle School, The Worst Years of My Life--which the LA Times called "a perfectly pitched novel"--is another riotous and heartwarming story about living large.After sixth grade, the very worst year of his life, Rafe Khatchadorian thinks he has it made in seventh grade. He's been accepted to art school in the big city and imagines a math-and-history-free fun zone.Wrong! It's more competitive...More
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| Little Lord Fauntleroy
| Young Cedric Errol lives in poverty in New York with his mother. When his father, who was disinherited for marrying an American, dies, Cedric is summoned to his grandfather's English estate. While the crotchety old Earl planned to transform the boy into a docile, traditional lording, it is Little Lord Fauntleroy who does the converting. Through his goodness and innocence, he wins the hearts of his English relatives who welcome his mother with open arms, and he teaches the Earl some valuable less...More
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| The Complete Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer
| Easy to navigate Kindle version of every published Twain novel that features Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer (The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Tom Sawyer Abroad, and Tom Sawyer Detective). Also includes plot overview for each work.
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| The Sign of the Beaver
| A brand-new paperback edition of the Newbery Honor book, with an introduction by Joseph Bruchac. Although he faces responsibility bravely, thirteen-year-old Matt is more than a little apprehensive when his father leaves him alone to guard their new cabin in the wilderness. When a renegade white stranger steals his gun, Matt knows he has no way to shoot game or to protect himself. Only after meeting the proud, resourceful Indian boy Attean does Matt begin to understand the way of the Beaver cla...More
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