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21) The secret river
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Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 28 cm
Language
English
Description
Young Calpurnia takes her dog, Buggy-horse, and follows her nose to a secret river in a Florida forest, where she catches enough fresh fish to feed her hungry neighbors, even after giving some to the forest creatures she meets on the way home.
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Physical Desc
40 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 24 x 27 cm
Language
English
Description
"In a comic take on the house-that-Jack-built formula, a little boy floats down the river in his own boat--supervised from the shore--to study the creatures he finds. His efforts to net a fish are unsuccessful until an owl's loud hoot sets of a startled chain reaction amongst the creatures, ending in the fish flying right into Ben's bucket. The book concludes with eight information pages about ecology and the creatures of a northern river ecosystem."--...
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Physical Desc
302 pages : map ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Luc, a youth born with one ear and raised by a drunken father in fifteenth-century France, finds a better home with fisherman Pons, his sister Mattie, and their ward Beatrice, the daughter of a disgraced knight, and even after being kidnapped and sold into slavery in Africa, he remains remarkably fortunate.
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