Roald Dahl
2) The BFG
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English
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Kidsnatched from her orphange by a BFG (Big Friendly Giant), who spends his life blowing happy dreams to children, Sophie concocts with him a plan to save the world from nine other man-gobbling cannybull giants.
Captured by a giant! The BFG is no ordinary bone-crunching giant. He is far too nice and jumbly. It's lucky for Sophie that he is. Had she been carried off in the middle of the night by the Bloodbottler, the Fleshlumpeater, the Bonecruncher,...
3) Matilda
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English
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Matilda applies her untapped mental powers to rid the school of the evil, child-hating headmistress, Miss Trunchbull, and restore her nice teacher, Miss Honey, to financial security.
5) The witches
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English
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A young boy is placed in the custody of his eccentric witch-expert grandmother before being transformed into a mouse by an evil coven that is plotting against local kids.
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202 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
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Español
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The BFG -- Big Friendly Giant -- kidnaps Sophie from her bed in the orphanage and takes her back to Giantland where she becomes involved in a scheme to end the loathsome activities of nine evil giants.
El BFG (Big Friendly Giant) - el gran gigante bonachón - saca a Sophie de su cama en el orfanato y la lleva a Giantland (el país de los gigantes), en donde se ve envuelta en una intriga para acabar con las detestables actividades de nueve malvados...
10) Going solo
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207 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm
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English
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Continues his memoir "Boy." Recounts his experiences as a young man working in Africa for Shell Oil through his time as a pilot with the RAF.
11) The magic finger
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62 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
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English
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Angered by a neighboring family's sport hunting, an eight-year-old girl turns her magic finger on them.
12) Vile verses
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191 : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 26 cm
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English
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An illustrated collection of children's songs, fairy tales, and poems.
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166 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
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English
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Taking up where Charlie and the Chocolate Factory leaves off, Charlie, his family, and Mr. Wonka find themselves launched into space in the great glass elevator. Mr. Willy Wonka might be a genius with chocolate, but Charlie and his family don't trust his flying skills one bit. And right now, he's at the helm of a giant glass elevator that's picking up speed and hurtling through space with Charlie and the entire Bucket family stuck inside! Roald Dahl's...
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78 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
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English
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A small boy with a desire to own a candy shop meets a window-washing team composed of a giraffe, a pelican, and a monkey and together they go to work for the wealthy Duke of Hampshire, who makes all their dreams come true.
While Billy and the Ladderless Window-Cleaning Company are cleaning the windows of the Duke of Hampshire's estate, they spot the Cobra, the most dangerous cat-burglar in the world, stealing the Duchess's diamonds.
16) The minpins
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47 pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm
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English
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Little Billy was tired of being good. He longed to explore the black secret wood - The Forest of Sin. So, despite warnings from his mother, he enters the forest. There, he encounters the Minpins, who live in terror of the most awesome creature invented: the Red-Hot-Smoke-Belching Gruncher. Little Billy with help from the Minpins devises a plan to defeat the monster and finds himself proclaimed a hero.
20) Esio Trot
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62 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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English
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Shy Mr. Hoppy devises a plan to win the heart of his true love by teaching her a spell to make her tortoise grow bigger.