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81) The quiet place
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2012.
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English
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A little girl moves to the United States from Mexico with her family and writes letters to her aunt in Mexico about her new life.
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2015.
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English
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Experience a day in the life of Pilot Stacey and her nephew Little Harry as they take a flight aboard Crow-Flies Airline flight #6. You will learn, along with Little Harry, all about the inner workings of the airplane, and the many individual steps every pilot goes through before taking off and landing.
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Auntie Claus volume 2
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English
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When Chris expresses doubt about the existence of Santa Claus, his older sister Sophie reveals that their aunt is really Santa's sister and helper and then sends him on a strange journey.
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English
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A bold, heartfelt tale of life at Green Gables ... before Anne: A marvelously entertaining and moving historical novel, set in rural Prince Edward Island in the nineteenth century, that imagines the young life of spinster Marilla Cuthbert, and the choices that will open her life to the possibility of heartbreak'and unimaginable greatness. Plucky and ambitious, Marilla Cuthbert is thirteen years old when her world is turned upside down. Her beloved...
85) Bad neighbors
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English
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"Agnes Blythe and her glamorous Aunt Effie must take a break from restoring their inn to rake in the clues when a local mechanic is murdered"--Amazon.com.
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Heidi Heckelbeck volume 5
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
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When she gets glasses, Heidi's friend Lucy gets a lot of attention at school, and eight-year-old Heidi decides that she must have glasses too, until her Aunt Trudy helps her to see that she really does not need them.
87) The king of bees
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[2018]
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English
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Henry is fascinated by the bees his Aunt Lilla cares for and he would love to help, but she says he must wait until he is older.
88) Birthday blues
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Nikki and Deja volume 2
Pub. Date
2009.
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English
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As her eighth birthday approaches, Deja's biggest concern is whether her father will attend her party, until her aunt is called away on business and a classmate schedules a "just because party" on the same afternoon.
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English
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"Every winter, a young girl flies to Haiti to visit her Auntie Luce, a painter. The moment she steps off the plane, she feels a wall of heat, and familiar sights soon follow - the boys selling water ice by the pink cathedral, the tap tap buses in the busy streets, the fog and steep winding road to her aunt's home in the mountains. The girl has always loved Auntie Luce's paintings - the houses tucked into the hillside, colorful fishing boats by the...
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[2023]
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English
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A party? Oh no! Parties are full of tias with their flashy fashions and boom-and-bellow laughter. It's far too much for Martina! At least with all the noise, no one notices when she slips away. She finds herself in a magical place: a warm, familiar island where she can finally play in peace and quiet. Martina is home at last-- or is she? Lively and magical, this is a fresh retelling of the beloved Caribbean folktale "La Cucaracha Martina."
92) Terciel & Elinor
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Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
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"In this prequel to Sabriel, ... Nix returns to the world of the Old Kingdom and introduces the people who will eventually become Sabriel's parents. Teenaged Abhorsen-in-Waiting Terciel meets genteel, impoverished Elinor when a Dead entity attacks Elinor's Ancelstierre home and Elinor discovers her Old Kingdom Clayr heritage. She takes on work at Wyverley College before journeying across the Wall to find her family, where she and Terciel meet again...
94) Not all heroes
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Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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Moving halfway across the country did not help eleven-year-old Zinnia deal with her little brother's death, but joining her neighbors and aunt as a Real Life Super Hero does that and more.
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Pub. Date
[2004]
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Español
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Esta novela "cuenta la deliciosa historia de una familia dominicana, instalada en Vermont, que recibe la visita de una pariente muy especial. La irresistible, incontrolable e incluso mágica tía Lola transforma la vida de su familia. Sombreros, pañuelos, vestidos alegres, tacones, maracas, un tambor para las fiestas, café, hierbabuena, orégano, anís, hojas de guanábana, ajíes--su alegría invade la casa y--poco a poco--a todo el pueblo. Un...
97) Garmann's summer
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Garmann books (Stian Hole) volume 1
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English
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As the summer ends, six-year-old Garmann's three ancient aunts visit and they all talk about the things that scare them.
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Schuler sisters volume 1
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English
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"Manhattan, 1964. Vivian Schuyler, newly graduated from Bryn Mawr College, has recently defied the privilege of her storied old Fifth Avenue family to do the unthinkable for a budding Kennedy-era socialite: break into the Mad Men world of razor-stylish Metropolitan magazine. But when she receives a bulky overseas parcel in the mail, the unexpected contents draw her inexorably back into her family's past, and the hushed-over crime passion of an aunt...
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