Garth Williams
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An October blizzard and a warning from a passing Native American compel Charles Ingalls to move his family to town in the winter of 1880-81, and when the weather keeps the supply train from arriving, Almanzo Wilder and his brother make the brave decision to go in search of provisions.
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Little house (Laura Ingalls Wilder) volume 8
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Fifteen-year-old Laura learns that living away from home and teaching school can be a bit frightening when most of the students are taller than she is, but every week Almanzo Wilder arrives to take her to her family for the weekend.
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Little house (Laura Ingalls Wilder) volume 5
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Ma and the girls follow Pa west by train where they make their home at a rough railroad camp and plan for their own homestead.
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Chester Cricket volume 1
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Tucker is a streetwise city mouse. He thought he'd seen it all. But he's never met a cricket before, which really isn't surprising, because, along with his friend Harry Cat, Tucker lives in the very heart of New York City-the Times Square subway station. Chester Cricket never intended to leave his Connecticut meadow. He'd be there still if he hadn't followed the entrancing aroma of liverwurst right into someone's picnic basket. Now, like any tourist...
8) Farmer boy
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At the end of the nineteenth century, nine-year-old Almanzo lives with his family on a big farm in New York State where he raises his own two calves, helps cut ice and shear sheep, and longs for the day he can have his own colt.
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Little house (Laura Ingalls Wilder) volume 4
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Laura and her family move to Minnesota where they live in a dugout until a new house is built and face misfortunes caused by flood, blizzard, and grasshoppers.
11) Stuart Little
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The adventures of the debonair mouse Stuart Little as he sets out in the world to seek out his dearest friend, a little bird that stayed for a few days in his family's garden.
12) Charlotte's web
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Some Pig. Humble. Radiant. These are the words in Charlotte's Web, high up in Zuckerman's barn. Charlotte's spiderweb tells of her feelings for a little pig named Wilbur, who simply wants a friend. They also express the love of a girl named Fern, who saved Wilbur's life when he was born the runt of his litter. E. B. White's Newbery Honor Book is a tender novel of friendship, love, life, and death that will continue to be enjoyed by generations to...
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A Harper trophy book volume J24
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Harper & Row
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[1966, c1955]
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While nine-year-old Nancy is staying with her adopted Swedish grandparents for a year, everyone tries to figure out how she can celebrate a name day since her name isn't Swedish.
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"Laura Ingalls and her family are moving! They travel from Wisconsin to Kansas, where wide open land stretches as far as the eye can see. Sometimes farm life is difficult, even dangerous, but Laura and her family are kept busy and are happy with the promise of their new life on the prairie."--
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Chester Cricket volume 6
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Farrar Straus Giroux
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1986
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A hungry mouse and a lonely kitten become friends and seek adventure and fortune together in the streets and subways of New York City.
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Chester Cricket volume 4
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Farrar Straus Giroux
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1981
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Nostalgic for his country home, Chester Cricket braves the busy city streets in search of a tree and finds a new friend in the process.
20) Emmett's pig
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HarperCollins Publishers
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2002
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Emmett loves pigs, but when his parents refuse to move to a farm or let him raise a pig in their apartment, he runs out of ideas.