Júlia Sardà
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm
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English
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Once upon a time there were three sisters: Franca, Carmela, and Tomasina. This is their story of adventure and discovery. A tale of hidden mysteries and new wonders, of finding a strange world beyond home and unlocking the secrets inside themselves.
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English
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"This wacky true tale of American ingenuity all started when John "Minnie" Moore built a mine in Idaho and sold it to Englishman Henry Miller. Then Henry married a local lass named Annie and built her a mansion, hence the "Millers' Minnie Moore Mine Mansion." After Henry died and Annie was hoodwinked -- losing all but the mansion -- she and her son took to raising pigs in the yard, as some are wont to do. But the town wanted those pigs out. Who could...
3) Sweep
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
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English
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Edgar's bad mood begins as something small, but before long it grows, gathers strength, and sweeps through the entire town.
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233 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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English
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When twin sisters become separated after a big fight, their strong sense of attachment leads them to find one another again.
Twins Arabella and Henrietta are nearly identical yet have nothing in common. They're the best of friends... until one day they aren't. Plain and quiet Henrietta has a secret plan to settle the score, and she does something outrageous she can't take it back. Sent to live with her eccentric great-aunt Priscilla on Chillington...
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 30 cm
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English
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How does a story begin? Sometimes it begins with a dream, and a dreamer. Mary is one such dreamer, a little girl who learns to read by tracing the letters on the tombstone of her famous feminist mother, Mary Wollstonecraft, and whose only escape from her strict father and overbearing stepmother is through the stories she reads and imagines. Unhappy at home, she seeks independence, and at the age of sixteen runs away with poet Percy Bysshe Shelley,...
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
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English
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"Born at the stroke of midnight during a lightning storm, Nikola Tesla grew up to become one of the most important electrical inventors in the world. But before working with electricity, he was a child who loved playing with the animals on his family's farm in Serbia. An inventor since childhood, Tesla's patents encompassed everything from radar and remote-control technology to wireless communications. But his greatest invention was the AC induction...
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32 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
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English
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The wordsmith Lewis Carroll is famed for the freewheeling world of Wonderland in his beloved classics Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass. In this gloriously illustrated picture book, Carroll's childlike love of life is showcased alongside his brilliance at creating and adapting playful words and phrases.
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Problim children volume 2
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302 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
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English
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With their scheming neighbor Desdemona O'Pinion attempting to turn the Problim children against each other, the siblings come together to save the carnival and rescue their mother.
10) The Liszts
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40 unnumbered pages : colour illustrations ; 30 cm
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English
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"The Liszts make lists. They make lists most usual and lists most unusual. They make lists in winter, spring, summer, and fall. They make lists every day except Sundays, which are listless. Mama Liszt, Papa Liszt, Winifred, Edward, Frederick and Grandpa make lists all day long. So does their cat. Then one day a visitor arrives. He's not on anyone's list. Will the Liszts be able to make room on their lists for this new visitor? How will they handle...