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Glue on the windowsill and toothpaste in the shoes. Who did the deed?Twelve-year-old Cub Scout twins Julieta and Rafaela have to deal with their older sister's ugly tricks, which get them into trouble.At school, Julieta is being mocked for the freckles on her face and her crooked teeth. Forgetting her own plight, however, she stands up to a bully, Claudius, in order to protect her friend Montano from being persecuted. Out of kindness she agrees to...
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Great Grampa's Giving Garden was inspired by my father-in-law, Dick, and my great-nephew Landon Dick's great-grandson. Their connection, forged through their time spent in the garden together, and mutual love for growing things was the seed (pun intended) of inspiration for this book as well as the generosity of my father-in-law with the food he labors so lovingly to grow, only to give most away. He sets a fundamental example for Landon in demonstrating...
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Jamie Kangas struggles with turbulent emotions caused by the death of his father, who perished in a logging accident--an accident for which Jamie blames himself. While his mother works as cook in a logging camp, Jamie is run ragged as chore boy. The grinding dreariness fades when Jamie meets a Native American boy, Gray Feather, who carries a burden of his own. The two boys become close friends as they face the challenges of a harsh environment and...
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The summer had just started and most of Nikolka's friends are now away. He is bored and longs for adventures. One night, he hears a strange noise and sees one of his toys disappear inside the radiator. He discovers strange tiny people who exist in the world beyond. The tiny people ask for help in rescuing one of their own. Nikolka embarks on an incredible adventure of magic, friendship and fun.
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The first in a series of children's books for ages 3 - 6 which is written in a fun way but also will teach children about camels and their desert habitat.This book is a fun story about 'Scooter' who is a Dromedary camel and who is a boy who likes adventure. It is the school holidays and Scooter and his friends are bored so they go to his Poppy and ask him to give them some suggestions for some fun and to keep them busy.Poppy made a suggestion and...
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Young Archie Martin and the railway robbersBy David BoulterThe book is set in the 1950s, and based in a Staffordshire town. Young Archie Martin is a ten year old boy and an only child.With his parents and their pet Welsh collie dog, Tam, they go on a visit to his Fathers friend's house to help cut up a fallen tree. After a while he gets bored and pesters his Father for some money and goes off in search of a sweet shop.On his way, a gang of boys approach...
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Interactive Adventure: Zoey the CatInteractive Adventure - Zoey the Cat is an interactive adventure story of a cat named Zoey. It begins with ONE story but ends up with FOUR different adventures and endings.Interactive Adventure - Zoey the Cat begins with Zoey as a well-fed and pampered cat who lives in Casey's house. Zoey likes to eat tuna fish and sleeps a lot. She has not experienced what life in the outside world is like. One day, Casey has idea...
8) Pegi the Pig
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This humorous children's book demonstrates the power of the gospel of the lord Jesus Christ using Pegi, a pet pig who the Mr. Stew, the man who owned Pegi tried to make into a son.
Pegi being a pig had the nature of a pig and did not mind wallowing in mud and dirtying his polished shining skin. In fact, he loved it.
Mr. Stew who owned Pegi, out of desperation had an operation performed on Pegi by changing his brain to that of a...
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A spring flood bursts a dam on the river and four young beaver friends – Marc, Denny, Vince, and Remy – are swept away by a whirlpool, along an underground river and into a huge dark cave.How to find their way home? A friendly plesiosaur helps the beavers reach the surface and suggests that they ask the wise White Salamander, who lives far away. On a journey filled with adventures the friends meet Alison, the cat, who joins them on their travels....
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The following stories are fiction. I do have a grand daughter named Emily who inspired these stories while visiting one summer. But, there is no real Emily with super powers except in the minds of Grandparents everywhere.If there were a young girl with super powers, it would be Emily. Just the name exudes power.I invite you to sit back, suspend reality for a few moments and enter the life of an eight-year-old super hero:Super Emily.You don't have...
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El apocalipsis ha llegado, Maria Escalante yFill del Bosque, dos jòvenes apuestos, luchan grandemente para solucionar el conflicto final entre los humanos y los Zombies. Despuès de la pandemia 2020, surge en la comunidad, ubicada dentro de los collados, la amenza de los muertos vivientes, esta amenaza arrebatò la paz que habia en las montañanas. Maria y Fill, dos jòvenes ilustres, descubrieron una vacuna infalible para acabar con los zombies,...
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Dave and his mum are all set to take a train when there is an announcement that the next train heads to a strange destination, Wonderland. Mum goes to make an enquiry and Dave takes the train by himself. On the train he find a magic shoes that takes him on an adventure which he was not fully prepared for.
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This book is the second in a series about a group of young camels who are on their school holidays. 'Scooter' the lead character takes is friend to his Poppy for suggestions on how to occupy themselves during their time off school. Poppy makes a suggestion which, even surprising him, turns results into a desert adventure for the group of friends.Before they start on their adventure they find a lamp and to their excitement a Genie appears. Within a...
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Young Jon Michaels has traveled all over the world, but he's never been anywhere as dangerous - or as strangely beautiful - as Antarctica. Isolated at the bottom of the planet, it is the coldest, windiest place on Earth. The journey begins aboard the S.S. Windhover, as they battle 100-foot waves in the Drake Passage. Like every true explores, Jon records is adventure in his journal. "It's stranger than anything I ever imagined," he writes. On his...
15) Creaking Dawn
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The final book in the series sees Pod Fifteen finally navigate their way home, but have they made the mistake of their lives? They are still convicted Denounced. Hunted by a System desperate to hang them. Ned and the rest of the Pod need a place to bide their time and think, finding refuge in a Doubter's Camp. But is their safe haven really that safe, or just another deadly trap waiting to spring? With the Unification War looming and nobody willing...
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Nugget, ein Transgender-Junge mit außergewöhnlicher Fantasie, sucht nach einem Heilmittel für die unheilbare Krankheit seiner Mutter. Angeregt durch Geschichten über den Heilschlamm und die Fabelwesen des Mud Lake begibt sich Nugget zusammen mit seiner Freundin Greta auf ein Abenteuer im Zauberwald. Wird es ihnen gelingen, schlaue Gnome und schelmische Elfen auszutricksen und die Geheimnisse von Mud Lake zu lüften? Können Nuggets Entschlossenheit...
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Nugget, un garçon transgenre doté d'une imagination extraordinaire, cherche un remède à la maladie incurable de sa mère. Attiré par les histoires sur la boue curative et les créatures mythiques de Mud Lake, Nugget et son amie Greta se lancent dans une aventure dans la forêt enchantée. Seront-ils capables de déjouer les gnomes intelligents, les lutins espiègles et de percer les secrets de Mud Lake ? La détermination de Nugget et les conseils...
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Too bad Derek, Cole's new foster brother, shows up. Late one night, Cole overhears Derek's thug friends, but he thinks it's none of his business. A week later, he's caught up in trouble he didn't ask for, with no way out. With his savings, dirt bike, and a backpack of clothes, Cole flees south for Texas where what's left of his real family lives. His funds dwindling, he wonders if leaving Alaska was smart. Two kids lead him into a streetwise world...
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Nugget, un niño transgénero con una imaginación extraordinaria, busca una cura para la enfermedad incurable de su madre. Atraído por las historias sobre el lodo curativo y las criaturas míticas de Mud Lake, Nugget, junto con su amiga Greta, se embarcan en una aventura en el bosque encantado. ¿Podrán burlar a los inteligentes gnomos, a los traviesos duendes y desentrañar los secretos de Mud Lake? ¿Podrán la determinación de Nugget y la guía...
20) A Grey Sun
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A convicted Denounced. Sentenced to Death. In a future divided into Secular and Non-Secular Quadrants, a crime punishable by death is to cross Quadrants and become a Denounced. When sixteen-year-old Ned is wrongly convicted and kidnapped to a secret location, he meets ninety Denounced, and a terrifying truth begins to unfold-one that will change the world forever. Forced to lead a Pod of five, Ned begins to realise thousands of lives could depend...
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