Richard Lauter
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Ten-year-old Mary comes to live in a lonely house on the Yorkshire moors and discovers an invalid cousin and the mysteries of a locked garden. What secrets lie behind the doors at Misselthwaite manor? Recently arrived at her uncle's estate, orphaned Mary Lennox is spoiled, sickly, and certain she won't enjoy living there. Then she discovers the arched doorway into an overgrown garden, shut up since the death of her aunt ten years earlier. Mary soon...
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Classics. Mark Twain's tale of a boy's picaresque journey down the Mississippi on a raft conveyed the voice and experience of the American frontier as no other work had done before. When Huck escapes from his drunken father and the 'sivilizing' Widow Douglas with the runaway slave Jim, he embarks on a series of adventures that draw him to feuding families and the trickery of the unscrupulous 'Duke' and 'Dauphin'. Beneath the exploits, however, are...
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Heather finds herself in grave danger when she travels to Spain in 1492 and encounters religious persecution. Now she has new respect for her Jewish ancestors and the meaning of Passover. But how will she escape? Can she stow away on one of Christopher Columbus's ships?
5) Jane Eyre
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A simplified, abridged version of Jane Eyre's experiences as a governess for the mysteriously remote Mr. Rochester in nineteenth-century England.
6) Little women
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Chronicles the joys and sorrows of the four March sisters as they grow into young ladies in the nineteenth-century, New England.