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Editorial Review: There are many words that could be used to describe Daniel Pinkwater's books. Wacky comes to mind. Outrageous. Lively. Real. Unreal. Comic genius Jules Feiffer, in his foreword to 5 Novels, says, "Pinkwater's thoughts don't connect like yours or mine.

A Wizard of Earthsea (Earthsea Trilogy, Book 1)
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by Spectra
Mass Market Paperback (28 September, 2004)
(284 reviews)

Editorial Review: Often compared to Tolkien's Middle-earth or Lewis's Narnia, Ursula K. Le Guin's Earthsea is a stunning fantasy world that grabs quickly at our hearts, pulling us deeply into its imaginary realms. Four books (A Wizard of Earthsea,

A Wrinkle in Time
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by Farrar Straus Giroux
Hardcover (01 June, 1962)
(787 reviews)

Editorial Review: Everyone in town thinks Meg is volatile and dull-witted and that her younger brother Charles Wallace is dumb. People are also saying that their father has run off and left their brilliant scientist mother.

All Creatures Great and Small
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by Bantam
Paperback (01 March, 1985)
(75 reviews)

Customer Review: Long But Good: Monique Gammon Sunnyvale C.A. 6/5/98 The book All Creatures Great and smallby James herriot was not my first pick.

All-of-a-kind Family
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by Yearling
Paperback (01 December, 1984)
(63 reviews)

Editorial Review: There's something to be said for a book that makes you wish you'd been part of a poor immigrant family living in New York's upper east side on the eve of World War I. Sydney Taylor's time-honored classic does just that.

Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret.
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by Atheneum/Richard Jackson Books
Hardcover (31 October, 1990)
(252 reviews)

Customer Review: Must Read For Young Girls: Are You There God? It's Me Margaret is written by Judy Blume. It is a fantastic book. It takes place in New Jersey.

Beyond the Mango Tree
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by Greenwillow Greenwillow Greenwillow
Hardcover (01 October, 1998)
(6 reviews)

Customer Review: Mango Tree Brilliant: BEYOND THE MANGO TREE is a sparkling debut. Ms. Zemser is a unique and jazzy talent. I'm looking forward to more of her work.

Bridge to Terabithia
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by HarperTrophy
Paperback (17 June, 1987)
(548 reviews)

Customer Review: From the first word: I was hooked from the first word. I understood the idea of wanting to be the best of wanting to be someone and of wanting someone to care.

Bunnicula : A Rabbit Tale of Mystery
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by Atheneum
Hardcover (01 March, 1979)
(75 reviews)

Editorial Review: This immensely popular children's story is told from the point of view of a dog named Harold. It all starts when Harold's human family, the Monroes, goes to see the movie Dracula, and young Toby accidentally sits on a baby rabbit wrapped in a bundle on his seat.

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
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by Knopf Books for Young Readers
Hardcover (12 September, 1964)
(254 reviews)

Editorial Review: For the first time in a decade, Willy Wonka, the reclusive and eccentric chocolate maker, is opening his doors to the public--well, five members of the public to be exact. The lucky five who find a Golden Ticket in their Wonka chocolate bars will receive a private tour of the factory,

Charlotte's Web
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by HarperCollins
Hardcover (15 October, 1952)
(306 reviews)

Editorial Review: An affectionate, sometimes bashful pig named Wilbur befriends a spider named Charlotte, who lives in the rafters above his pen. A prancing, playful bloke, Wilbur is devastated when he learns of the destiny that befalls all those of porcine persuasion.

Clockwork: Or All Wound Up
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by Arthur A. Levine Books
Hardcover (01 October, 1998)
(44 reviews)

Editorial Review: While Philip Pullman's greatest popularity is as a creator of novel-length magical realism for young adults, such as The Golden Compass, he continues to explore and stretch the limits of other children's and young adult genres.

D'aulaire's Book of Greek Myths
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by Doubleday Books for Young Readers
Hardcover (19 September, 1962)
(78 reviews)

Editorial Review: No education is complete without a large slice of Greek mythology. And there's no better way of meeting that literary quota than with the D'Aulaires' book. All the great gods and goddesses of ancient Greece are depicted in this big,

Echoes of the Elders: The Stories and Paintings of Chief Lelooska
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by Dk Ink
Hardcover (01 October, 1997)
(3 reviews)

Editorial Review: A famous Northwest Indian storyteller and his artistic contributions are immortalized in this beautiful collection of tribal folk stories. As a result, thepackage is as much a tribute to the late Chief Lelooska,

Eleventh Hour
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by Harry N Abrams
Hardcover (20 September, 1993)
(41 reviews)

Editorial Review: Reading The Eleventh Hour is like running a marathon: one finishes exhausted but satisfied. Graeme Base, creator of the popular Animalia, has crafted another intricately wrought, gorgeously illustrated picture book,

Ella Enchanted (Newbery Honor Book)
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by HarperCollins
Hardcover (30 May, 1997)
(893 reviews)

Customer Review: Utterly Enchanting Read for All Ages!: There's a terribly interesting subgenre that's dedicated to retelling the classic Fairy Tales,

From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
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by Aladdin
Paperback (01 April, 1998)
(223 reviews)

Customer Review: An educational yet exciting book for readers of all ages.: Claudia and Jaime are two very intelligent characters that enlighten the reader as to the workings of a child's mind.

Ghosts in the Family
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by Dutton Books
Hardcover (01 October, 1995)
(1 reviews)

Customer Review: The Bomb!: The best, I would love to read again and again. I reccomend this book to everyone! It is so exciting and fun to read with mixed emotions.

Half Magic
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by Harcourt Childrens Books (J)
Hardcover (01 June, 1954)
(98 reviews)

Customer Review: One of the best books of my youth!: I have always remembered reading all of the Edward Eager books when I was younger although one or two eluded me until I was in University.

Halinka
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by Henry Holt & Company
Hardcover (01 October, 1998)
(3 reviews)

Customer Review: reccomended for older international adopted children: I read this book with my 13 year old daughter (adopted at age 11 from Russia.)

Harriet the Spy
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by HarperTrophy
Paperback (01 May, 1990)
(113 reviews)

Editorial Review: Ages 8-12. Thirty-two years before it was made into a movie, Harriet the Spy was a groundbreaking book: its unflinchingly honest portrayal of childhood problems and emotions changed children's literature forever.

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Book 1)
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by Scholastic
Hardcover (01 September, 1998)
(4768 reviews)

Editorial Review: Say you've spent the first 10 years of your life sleeping under thestairs of a family who loathes you. Then, in an absurd, magical twist of fate you find yourself surrounded by wizards, a caged snowy owl,

Her Stories: African American Folktales, Fairy Tales, and True Tales (Coretta Scott
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by Blue Sky Press (AZ)
Hardcover (01 October, 1995)
(12 reviews)

Editorial Review: Virginia Hamilton, who previously won a Newbery Medal and a MacArthur Foundation grant, gives us 17 pugnacious and heroic female characters in a collection of tales that demonstrates the breadth of African-American cultural tradition.

Holes (Newbery Medal Book)
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by Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
Hardcover (20 August, 1998)
(2566 reviews)

Editorial Review: "If you take a bad boy and make him dig a hole every day in the hot sun,it will turn him into a good boy." Such is the reigning philosophy at Camp Green Lake, a juvenile detention facility where there is no lake,

In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson
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by HarperCollins
Hardcover (12 October, 1984)
(45 reviews)

Customer Review: nice book about cultural changes: On the other side of the world from Brooklyn, New York there lives a little girl known as Bandit.

Island of the Blue Dolphins (Illustrated)
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by Houghton Mifflin
Hardcover (29 October, 1990)
(338 reviews)

Editorial Review: Scott O'Dell won the Newbery Medal for Island of the BlueDolphins in 1961, and in 1976 the Children's Literature Associationnamed this riveting story one of the 10 best American children's booksof the past 200 years.

Jade and Iron: Latin American Tales from Two Cultures
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by Groundwood Books
Hardcover (01 September, 1996)
Editorial Review: Subtitled, "Latin American Tales from Two Cultures" this anthology is guaranteed to captivate young minds. Part One contains mythic tales from the native inhabitants explaining how the world came to be.

James and the Giant Peach
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by Knopf Books for Young Readers
Hardcover (19 March, 1996)
(122 reviews)

Customer Review: A review of James And The Giant Peach (Alice Z): During early December, I read a very interesting book named "James and the Giant Peach" that I would like to recommend.

Johnny Tremain (Yearling Newbery)
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by Yearling
Paperback (01 April, 1987)
(221 reviews)

Editorial Review: This story of a tragically injured young silversmith who ends up hip-deep in the American Revolution is inspiring, exciting, and sad. Winner of the prestigious Newbery Award in 1944, Esther Forbes's story has lasted these 50-plus years by including adventure,

Jungle (Eyewitness Books)
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by Knopf Books for Young Readers
Hardcover (10 September, 1994)
(3 reviews)

Editorial Review: Feeling bored with your day-to-day environment? A journey through a tropical rain forest could be the perfect "pick-me-up." And thanks to Jungle, you can visit the life-teeming tropics without ever leaving the comforts and conveniences of your own home.

Junior Chronicle of the 20th Century
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by Dorling Kindersley Publishing
Hardcover (01 September, 1997)
(3 reviews)

Editorial Review: This 20th-century scrapbook for budding historians is a great trip through a remarkable century. Though it stops in 1996, the year-by-year survey is packed with information about advances in flight technology,

Just Juice
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by Hyperion Books for Children
Hardcover (01 November, 1998)
(9 reviews)

Editorial Review: Newbery Medal-winning novelist Karen Hesse--known for her painterlyability to re-create historical worlds for young readers--turns her attention this time to a contemporary family that lives as if in another era.

Lincoln : A Photobiography
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by Clarion Books
Hardcover (16 November, 1987)
(12 reviews)

Customer Review: Fabulous Introduction On Abraham Lincoln: This is a wonderful book about Abraham Lincoln. It's the very first book that I read on him when i was about eleven or twelve years old.

Little Women (Illustrated Junior Library)
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by Grosset & Dunlap
Hardcover (01 June, 1983)
(246 reviews)

Customer Review: Little Women-Touching and Thought Provoking: Little Women, being one of the classics of American literature, is not surprising to be said one of the best books I have ever read.

Macmillan Dictionary for Children
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by Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing
Hardcover (01 August, 1997)
(2 reviews)

Editorial Review: Learning to use a dictionary is an important skill for young scholars, and MacMillan offers a great edition for 8 to 14 year olds. The Dictionary for Children is sensible, well designed, and illustrated with plenty of pictures.

Matilda
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by Viking Books
Hardcover (01 December, 1988)
(260 reviews)

Editorial Review: Matilda is a little girl who is far too good to be true. At age five-and-a-half she's knocking off double-digit multiplication problems and blitz-reading Dickens. Even more remarkably, her classmates love her even though she's a super-nerd and the teacher's pet.

Memories of Anne Frank: Reflections of a Childhood Friend
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by Scholastic
School & Library Binding (01 October, 1997)
(22 reviews)

Customer Review: A Classic for Anne Frank devotees: Alison Leslie Gold's splendid new book on the world of Anne Frank focuses on the plight of Anne's beloved 'Hanneli',a

My Name Is Georgia: A Portrait by Jeanette Winter
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by Silver Whistle
Hardcover (15 October, 1998)
(6 reviews)

Editorial Review: "When I was twelve years old, I knew what I wanted--to be an artist." So begins My Name Is Georgia, Jeanette Winter's lovely picture-book portrait of American artist Georgia O'Keeffe. It is a portrait of a strong-minded young girl who liked to play by herself,

Out of the Dust (Newbery Medal Book)
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by Hyperion Books for Children
Hardcover (01 October, 1997)
(628 reviews)

Editorial Review: Like the Oklahoma dust bowl from which she came, 14-year-old narrator Billie Jo writes in sparse, free-floating verse. In this compelling, immediate journal, Billie Jo reveals the grim domestic realities of living during the years of constant dust storms: That hopes--like the crops--blow away in the night like skittering tumbleweeds.

Perloo the Bold
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by Scholastic
Hardcover (01 November, 1998)
(28 reviews)

Customer Review: Perloo the Bold RULES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!: Okay, heres how it goes. You walking through a library and you see a book called Perloo the Bold you read a little and come upon an attractive ending to a chapter.

Rose Daughter
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by Greenwillow
Hardcover (16 September, 1997)
(127 reviews)

Customer Review: McKinley tells the Beauty and the Beast legend one more time: McKinley's book, "Beauty", ranks as one of my top ten favorite books,

Sarah, Plain and Tall (Sarah, Plain and Tall)
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by HarperTrophy
Paperback (03 August, 2004)
(122 reviews)

Customer Review: A poetic story about love and family: "Sarah, Plain and Tall," by Patricia MacLachlan, received the 1986 Newbery Medal, a distinguished honor in the world of literature for young people.

Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World : The Extraordinary True Story of Shackeleton
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by Crown Books for Young Readers
Hardcover (17 November, 1998)
(15 reviews)

Editorial Review: The harrowing survival story of English explorer Sir Ernest Shackletonand the ill-fated Endurance has intrigued people since the 1914 expedition--spurring astounding books such as Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage and The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition.

So You Want to Be a Wizard (Young Wizards (Paperback))
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by Magic Carpet Books
Paperback (01 May, 1996)
(146 reviews)

Editorial Review: Ages 10 & up. In the spirit of Madeleine L'Engle's classic A Wrinkle in Time, this is a fascinating and powerfully involving story about two lonely kids who are inadvertently caught up in the never-ending battle between good and evil.

Summer Reading Is Killing Me (Time Warp Trio)
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by Viking Books
Hardcover (01 July, 1998)
(13 reviews)

Customer Review: Absolutely Terrific!: The Time Warp Trio set out on their best adventure yet, when Fred leaves their school's summer reading list stuck inside the pages of their time travel vehicle,

Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing
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by Dutton Books
Hardcover (01 March, 1972)
(101 reviews)

Customer Review: The misadventures of Fudge.: How does one handle having a little brother who is a terror? Just ask 9-year-old Peter Hatcher, because he has one named Farley Drexel "Fudge" Hatcher.

The Adventures of Pippi Longstocking
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by Viking Books
Hardcover (01 October, 1997)
(23 reviews)

Editorial Review: Pippi is an irrepressible, irreverent, and irrefutably delightful nine-year-old girl who lives alone (with a monkey) in her wacky house, Villa Villekulla. When she's not dancing with the burglars who were just trying to rob her house,

The Beauty of the Beast : Poems from the Animal Kingdom
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by Knopf Books for Young Readers
Hardcover (30 September, 1997)
(3 reviews)

Editorial Review: The Beauty of the Beast : Poems from the Animal Kingdom is astunning collection of poems celebrating "the beauty and wonder of the animalkingdom." Poet and anthologist Jack Prelutsky has chosen 200 works by 123 poetsfrom Carl Sandburg to Seamus Heaney,

The Borrowers
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by Harcourt
Paperback (01 November, 1993)
(35 reviews)

Editorial Review: Anyone who has ever entertained the notion of "little people" living furtively among us will adore this artfully spun classic. The Borrowers--a Carnegie Medal winner, a Lewis Carroll Shelf Award book, and an ALA Distinguished Book--has stolen the hearts of thousands of readers since its 1953 publication.

The Chi-Lin Purse: A Collection of Ancient Chinese Stories
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by Farrar Straus Giroux
Hardcover (01 September, 1994)
(4 reviews)

Customer Review: A wonderful book for youngster: This book was given to my son as a Christmas gift last year and he didn't bother to read it at first.

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