Dragon's Blood -- by Jane Yolen (Author) (Book - Child)
"Jakkin, a bond boy who works as a Keeper in a dragon nursery on the planet Austar IV, secretly trains a fighting pit dragon of his own in hopes of winning his freedom." From Card Catalog
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Age groups: School Age (6-12)
Aesop's Fables -- by Fritz Kredel (Author) (Book - Child)
"Aesop's wisdom spills across the pages as freely as Pickney's glorious watercolors alight with the many creatures who people the tales, from fiddling, grasshoppers, and diligent ants to wily...
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Age groups: School Age (6-12)
Long After Midnight -- by Ray Bradbury (Author) (Book - Child)
"This fine collection of stories by a gifted science-fiction writer explores a variety of subjects. In one, two drifters in space search through the dead cities of Mars for a fabled Blue Bottle. In...
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Age groups: School Age (6-12)
The Endless Steppe -- by Esther Hautzig (Author) (Book - Child)
Ten-year-old Esther Rudomin movingly describes 'the end of my lovely world' when her family is arrested in 1941 and taken from their home and exiled to Siberia." From Publishers Weekly
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Age groups: School Age (6-12)
A Spirit to Ride the Whirlwind -- by Athena Lord (Author) (Book - Child)
"Twelve-year-old Binnie, whose mother runsa company boarding house in Lowell, Massachusetts, begins working in a textile mill and is caught up in the 1836 strike of women workers." From Card Catalog
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Age groups: School Age (6-12)
Far and Few -- by David McCord (Author) (Book - Child)
"Gems from a contemporary poet." From Choosing Books for Kids
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Age groups: School Age (6-12)
The Empty Window -- by Eve Bunting (Author) (Book - Child)
"With his younger brother's help, C.G. captures a wild parrot for his friend who is dying." From Card Catalog
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Age groups: School Age (6-12)
The Incredible Journey -- by Sheila Burnford (Author) (Book - Child)
"Instinct told them that the way home lay to the west. And so the doughty young Labrador retriever, the roguish bull terrier and the indomitable Siamese set out through the Canadian wilderness....
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Age groups: School Age (6-12), Adolescence (13-21)
What Every Mom Needs -- by Elisa Morgan (Author) (Book)
?Moms have needs, too! Nine, to be exact, and meeting them will help mothers to be more contented, well-rounded persons as well as better moms. Elisa Morgan and Carol Kuykendall of MOPS (Mothers of...
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Age groups: Adulthood (22+)
Five Children and It -- by E. Nesbit (Author) (Book - Child)
"When four brothers and sisters discover a Psammead, or sand-fairy in the gravel pit near the country house where they are staying, they have no way of knowing all the adventures its wish-granting...
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Age groups: School Age (6-12), Adolescence (13-21)