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1) Jane Eyre
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Orphaned Jane Eyre grows up in the home of her heartless aunt, where she endures loneliness and cruelty, and at a charity school with a harsh regime. This troubled childhood strengthens Jane's natural independence and spirit - which prove necessary when she takes a position as governess at Thornfield Hall. But when she finds love with her sardonic employer, Rochester, the discovery of his terrible secret forces her to make a choice. Should she stay...
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Chronicles of Narnia volume 1
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When Digory and Polly try to return the wicked witch Jadis to her own world, the magic gets mixed up and they all land in Narnia where they witness Aslan blessing the animals with human speech.
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CLASSIC FICTION (CHILDREN'S / TEENAGE). Follow Alice on her journey through Lewis Carroll's brilliantly odd and highly inventive Wonderland - a world where (to Alice's great dismay) nothing happens as one might expect it to. With a stunning foiled jacket, ribbon marker and beautiful original colour illustrations throughout, this is a book to treasure.
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Lively, absorbing, often outrageously funny, Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales is a work of genius, an undisputed classic that has held a special appeal for each generation of readers. The Tales gathers twenty-nine of literature’s most enduring (and endearing) characters in a vivid group portrait that captures the full spectrum of medieval society, from the exalted Knight to the humble Plowman.
This new edition includes a comprehensive...
This new edition includes a comprehensive...
9) Kidnapped
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In 1751 in Scotland, cheated out of his inheritance by a greedy uncle who has him kidnapped and put on a ship to the Carolinas, seventeen-year-old David Balfour escapes to the Highlands with the help of the Jacobite Alan Breck Stewart and there encounters further danger and intrigue as he attempts to clear his name and regain his property.
11) Now we are six
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A collection of poetry, including King John's Christmas, Sneezles, Us Two, Cradle Song, and other poems from the life and imagination of a small child.
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"Explore 50 enchanting tales from one of the most famous storytelling partnerships of all time. More than 500 beautifully illustrated pages of timeless tales in which charming princesses dance, straw is spun into gleaming gold, and hungry wolves should not be trusted."--Publisher's description.
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This nineteenth-century tale of an electric submarine, its eccentric captain, and the undersea world, anticipated many of the scientific achievements of the twentieth century. The adventures of a French scientist and his companions who travel the seven seas as prisoners in the submarine of the mysterious Captain Nemo.
15) Rinkitink in Oz
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When all the inhabitants of Pingaree are kidnapped by the mongrel hordes of twin island kingdoms, Prince Inga and his friend King Rinkitink decide to go to the rescue.
16) Tik-Tok of Oz
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Introduces Ann Soforth, Queen of Oogaboo, whom Tik-Tok, the clockwork man, assists in conquering the Nome King.
19) The Wizard of Oz
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After a cyclone transports her to the land of Oz, Dorothy must seek out the great wizard in order to return to Kansas.
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