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This enchanting Newbery
award winning tale tells the story of Ella, a spirited young girl who
was given an unusual and disastrous gift by a fairy as a baby. When she
wouldn’t stop crying, the fairy, Lucinda, bestows on Ella the gift of
obedience which meant she had to obey any direct command. "If you
commanded me to cut off my own head, I'd have to do it."
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godmothers as she takes
matters into her own hands and sets out to win her freedom and her
prince with intelligence, ambition and courage.
Read by Eden Riegel, who gives this
inventive retelling of the Cinderella story a youthful and saucy charm
as the fairytale weaves in and out and finally twists away from the
original tale.
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Herod Sayle has something to hide. A MI6 operative died trying to find
out what it was. Now the fate of Britain lies in the hands of an untried
14 year old boy.
Alex has had his world turn upside-down. His only relative, Ian Rider
has been killed in a car accident coming home from
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fishy about the
police report and Alex decides to
investigate. Little does he know that his investigation will draw him
into his late Uncle’s undercover world, for Ian Rider was a spy for the
British government. Blackmailed into taking over his uncle’s assignment
and given only two weeks of training, Alex is sent to Port Tallon to
discover what Herod Sayle is hiding behind his generous donation of
supercomputers, know as the Stormbreaker, to every school in the
country.
Join Alex in this fast-paced
adventure packed with high-speed bike chases, a Portuguese man-of-war,
evil villains and of course, creative gadgets. Brave, resourceful, funny
and knowing karate (which is always a bonus!), Alex Rider is a teenage
James Bond that adults will love too.
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Sallie March, 11 year old
spunky, tomboy and her older ladylike sister Maude live with Aunt Ruthie
until their Aunt has the misfortune to be accidentally shot dead by the
notorious Joe Harden.
The two girls are taken in
by Reverend Peasley and his wife, who immediately put the girls to work
running the household while they take it easy. Maude, on whom falls the
brunt of the work and being courted by an elderly gentleman, decides it
is time to take her’s and Sallie’s fortune into their own hands and . |
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brave the wilds of the
frontier in search of their last living relative, Uncle Arlen
But Maude and Sally soon
find that losing their Aunt Ruthie is only the beginning of their
problems as they ride out of Cedar Rapids and into the kind of trouble
Sallie has only read about in her beloved dime novels.
Told by Sallie as she
tries to set the record straight and punctuated by the erroneous
newspaper reports of "Mad Maude and her gang", this rollicking Wild West
adventure story will leave you begging for more.
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In this first book in the Chronicles of Prydain we meet Taran, a boy who
yearns to be a great hero and battle evil, not an assistant pig keeper in
the hamlet of Caer Dallben. But when Hen Wen, the
oracular, pig escapes his charge Taran sets out to find her and soon runs
into danger for he is not the only one looking for the pig - the evil Horned
King is after her as well.
Accompanied by Prince Gwydion, Princess Eilonwy, Gurgi,
the bard Fflewddur Fflam and many others, Taran’s quest leads him, not only
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dungeons, a secret underground village, but also from an
unformed boy to a determined and courageous young man. He
begins to see his home, himself and his future in a new way.
Filled with light hearted humor this first book has
everything need to make this book a classic: adventure, danger, heroism,
persistence and courage.
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