Lynne Reid Banks
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Series
Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
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Acclaimed New York Times selected "best book of the year," The Indian in the Cupboard, joins The Return of the Indian, and The Secret of the Indian for this eomni special. With magical and fantastical elements, these three extraordinary novels have withstood the test of time to become beloved classics. Young readers are drawn to the endearing characters, the fast-paced and convincingly portrayed action, and themes of friendship,...
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English
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In this third book about Omri and his magic cupboard, Omri and his friend Patrick must risk grownups' discovering their secret when they find themselves in need of a friend's toy plastic doctors to save wounded people from the dangerous world of the Old West which the cupboard enables them to enter.
8) Tiger, tiger
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English
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Two tiger cub brothers are taken from the jungle to ancient Rome, where one becomes the pampered pet of Caesar's daughter and the other becomes a man-eating "entertainment act" at the Colosseum.
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Series
Publisher
Avon Books
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
Nine-year-old Alice must write about herself for an assignment in her London school, and in doing so, she sorts out her feelings about her somewhat prickly single mother, the father she has never met, her flamboyant paternal grandmother, and the rest of her sometimes confusing life.
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Publisher
HarperCollins Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"In 1940 as war rages across Europe, ten-year-old Lindy, waves goodbye to England and makes the long journey to Saskatoon, Canada, along with her Mother and her cousin Cameron. They may be far from the war but they are also far from home and everyone they know and love. Life in Canada is very different but it is also full of exciting new adventures." --
16) One more river
Author
Publisher
Morrow Junior Books
Pub. Date
[1992]
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Lesley is upset when her parents abandon their comfortable life in Canada for a kibbutz in Israel prior to the 1967 war.
17) The magic hare
Author
Publisher
Morrow Junior Books
Pub. Date
1993.
Language
English
Description
A hare uses his magic to help a lot of people and animals.
Author
Publisher
Simon and Schuster
Pub. Date
[1970]
Language
English
Description
In "The L-Shaped Room," Jane is unmarried and pregnant when she is turned out by her father. She lights on a room at the top of a squalid house. She cares nothing for it, or her neighbours. But it is these neighbours that draw her back into life - Toby, a Jewish writer, John, a jazz player, and even her landlady. Now, in the sequel, when Dottie arrives in the village where Jane has finally settled down with her baby, the two of them come up with a...