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Earliest Publication Date
1962
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Playaway
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"Professor Aronnax sets off in search of a giant sea monster, only to find the monster is really a steel-plated submarine. Captured by the mysterious Captain Nemo, Aronnax witnesses the exploration of the Nautilus, the remarkable submarine Nemo has invented. But Aronnax comes to learn that Nemo is near insanity and must escape. It's an incredible journey into a mysterious world of excitement and danger!"--Page 4 of cover
Earliest Publication Date
1902
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A collection of poems evoking the world and feelings of childhood, including The land of Counterpane, My Shadow, The Swing, The Moon, and Looking Forward.
3) Bearskin
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Earliest Publication Date
1997
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A brave young man who has been raised by a bear with unusual powers rescues a princess from a menacing dragon and fulfills a long-ago prophecy that he would marry the king's daughter.
4) Excalibur
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Earliest Publication Date
1996
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The young King Arthur asks for and receives the noble sword Excalibur from the Lady of the Lake and promises to be deserving of it through acts of valor.
Earliest Publication Date
1998
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A collection of ghost stories by such authors as H. G. Wells, Madeleine L'Engle, and Bram Stoker.
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Earliest Publication Date
1995
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Retells the story of how the young Arthur became High King of all Britain and assembled his Knights of the Round Table.
7) Lancelot
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Earliest Publication Date
1999
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Lancelot is welcomed into the court of King Arthur as a valiant fighter and later rescues Queen Guinevere, fights the tournament at Astolat, and pursues other adventures.
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Earliest Publication Date
1982
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A collection of puns based on animals, including "Lemming meringue pie, " "Crocoduel, " and "Pupsicle."
Earliest Publication Date
2000
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Various writers and artists express the influence that the book "The Wizard of Oz" had on them.
Earliest Publication Date
1962
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In early twentieth century New England, talkative, ten-year-old Rebecca goes to live with her spinster aunts, one harsh and demanding, the other soft and sentimental, and spends seven difficult but rewarding years growing up in their company.
11) Rip Van Winkle
Earliest Publication Date
1888
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An idle man falls asleep in the Catskill Mountains only to wake up twenty years later, bewildered as to how life passed him by. Includes an analysis of the story and a biography of the author.
Author
Earliest Publication Date
1931
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Playaway
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Playaway Bookpack
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Fresh from his escapades with Tom Sawyer, with six thousand dollars in the bank and the Widow Douglas as his guardian, Huck Finn faces a new challenge: his father, Pap, who is so determined to get his hands on Huck's fortune that he kidnaps Huck and threatens to kill him. Escaping from Pap, Huck meets the runaway slave, Jim, who plans to head north and buy his wife and children our of slavery. Huck joins Jim on a salvaged raft, and together the two...
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Earliest Publication Date
1995
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An illustrated collection of stories from the "Arabian Nights, " including those of Sinbad, Ali Baba, and Aladdin.
Author
Earliest Publication Date
1992
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Here are sixteen of the best stories by one of America's most popular storytellers. For nearly a century, the work of O. Henry has delighted readers with its humor, irony and colorful, real-life settings. The writer's own life had more than a touch of color and irony. Born William Sidney Porter in Greensboro, North Carolina in 1862, he worked on a Texas ranch, then as a bank teller in Austin, then as a reporter for the Houston "Post." Adversity struck,...
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Earliest Publication Date
1987
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An illustrated collection of fourteen short stories reflecting various aspects of American life at the turn of the nineteenth century.
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Earliest Publication Date
1995
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Selected stories from Kipling's two "Jungle Books" chronicle the adventures of Mowgli, the boy reared by a pack of wolves in an Indian jungle. Also includes "Rikki-Tikki-Tavi."
17) The other dog
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Earliest Publication Date
2001
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The family poodle protests at first when the master and mistress bring home a new "dog" to share the household.
Earliest Publication Date
1993
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A collection of more than thirty fairy tales for young readers of all ages.
Earliest Publication Date
1915
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The adventures of Trot and Cap'n Bill take them to Jinxland where they help Pon, the gardener's assistant, break the spell that turned his true love's heart to ice.
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Earliest Publication Date
1995
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The adventures of a kind-hearted doctor, who is fond of animals and understands their language, as he travels to Africa with some of his favorite pets to cure the monkeys of a terrible sickness.

