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1) Pollyanna

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Porter, Eleanor H

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An abridged version of the tale of orphaned, eleven-year-old Pollyanna, who comes to live with austere and wealthy Aunt Polly, bringing happiness to her aunt and other members of the community through her philosophy of gladness. Pollyanna knows the secret to finding a smile -- even when really bad things happen. From the moment she arrives in Beldingsville, she shares her Glad Game with everyone around her. But the person who needs Pollyanna's help...

2) Around the World in 80 Days

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"A mysterious gentleman named Phileas Fogg wagers his fortune that he can travel around the world in just eighty days. Accompanied by his hapless servant Passepartout, Fogg sets out on a journey through jungles, deserts and mountains, across oceans and into great dangers"--

3) Gulliver's travels

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Woodside, Martin

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An abridged version of the voyages of the eighteenth-century Englishman Lemuel Gulliver, that carry him to such strange places as Lilliput, where people are six inches tall, and Brobdingnag, a land peopled by giants.

4) Robinson, Crusoe

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"Widely acknowledged as the first English novel, Daniel Defoe's adventure story of a shipwrecked sailor became an instant classic upon its publication in 1719 and the yardstick for countless castaway narratives to follow." "Robinson Crusoe, an English sailor, finds himself marooned on a desert island after the rest of his shipmates drown in a terrible wreck. He survives on the island for nearly three decades, domesticating livestock, cultivating plants,...

5) The Swiss family Robinson

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An abridged version of the story that relates the fortunes of a shipwrecked family as they imaginatively adapt to life on an island with abundant animal and plant life.

6) The strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

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Olmstead, Kathleen

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An abridged version of the tale of a kind and well-respected doctor who can turn himself into a murderous madman by taking a secret drug he has created.

7) Bringing Asha home

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Krishnaswami, Uma

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Eight-year-old Arun waits impatiently while international adoption paperwork is completed so that he can meet his new baby sister from India.

8) Twenty-two cents: Muhammad Yunus and the Village Bank

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"A biography of Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus, who from a young age was determined to make difference in the world and eventually revolutionized global antipoverty efforts by developing the innovative economic concept of micro-lending. Includes an afterword and author's sources"--

9) Tan to tamarind: poems about the color brown

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Iyengar, Malathi Michelle

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Swirls of henna decorating the hands and feet of Indian women at a wedding, a rich cup of coffee steaming in a mug, and fallen leaves blowing on the ground are presented in this colorful collection of poetry celebrating the color brown and all its diverse shades.

10) Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm: retold from the Kate Douglas Wiggin original

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McFadden, Deanna

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An abridged version of Kate Douglas Wiggin's classic story of talkative, ten-year-old Rebecca's adventures after she leaves her home at Sunnybrook Farm to go live in town with her spinster aunts, one harsh and demanding, the other soft and sentimental.

11) The prince and the pauper

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Olmstead, Kathleen

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An abridged version of the Mark Twain classic in which young Edward VI of England and a poor boy who resembles him exchange places and each learns something about the other's very different station in life.

12) The war of the worlds

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An abridged version of H.G. Wells' classic science fiction tale in which, as life on Mars becomes impossible, Martians and their terrifying machines invade the Earth.

13) The red badge of courage / retold from the Stephen Crane original by Oliver Ho ; illustrated by Jamel Akib

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An abridged version of the tale set in the spring of 1863 when, while engaged in the fierce battle of Chancellorsville in Virginia, a young Union soldier matures to manhood and finds peace of mind as he comes to grips with his conflicting emotions about war.

14) Pollyanna

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Olmstead, Kathleen

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An abridged version of the tale of orphaned, eleven-year-old Pollyanna, who comes to live with austere and wealthy Aunt Polly, bringing happiness to her aunt and other members of the community through her philosophy of gladness.

15) Around the world in 80 days

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McFadden, Deanna

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In 1872, English gentleman Phileas Fogg has many adventures as he tries to win a bet that he can travel around the world in eighty days.

16) The three musketeers

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An abridged version of an adventure in seventeenth-century France, when young d'Artagnan initially quarrels with, then befriends, three musketeers and joins them in trying to outwit the enemies of the king and queen.

17) Frankenstein

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McFadden, Deanna

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An abriged version of the novel in which a monster assembled by a scientist from parts of dead bodies develops a mind of his own as he learns to loathe himself and hate his creator.

18) Monsoon

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Krishnaswami, Uma

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A child describes waiting for the monsoon rains to arrive and the worry that they will not come.

19) The three musketeers

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Dumas, Alexandre

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"A swashbuckling epic of chivalry, honor, and derring-do, it is set in France during the 1620s and richly populated with romantic heroes, unattainable heroines, kings, queens, cavaliers, and criminals in a whirl of adventure, espionage, conspiracy, murder, vengeance, love, scandal, and suspense. Dumas transforms major and minor historical figures into larger-than-life characters: the brave d'Artagnan, an impetuous young man in pursuit of glory; the...