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Farewell To Manzanar
Jeanne Wakatsuki was seven years old in 1942 when her family was uprooted from their home and sent to live at Manzanar internment camp--with 10,000 other Japanese Americans. Along with searchlight towers and armed guards, Manzanar ludicrously featured cheerleaders, Boy Scouts, sock hops, baton twirling lessons and a dance band called the Jive Bombers who would play any popular song except the n…
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- 9780553272581
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- 208p; bw; pbk
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- 920 HOU F
The Hunt for Dark Infinity
What if every choice you made created an alternate reality? In The Journal of Curious Letters, Atticus Higginbottom, a.k.a. Tick, is an average thirteen-year-old boy until the day he receives a strange letter informing him that dangerous— perhaps even deadly—events have been set in motion that could result in the destruction of reality itself. Tick will be sent twelve riddles that, when sol…
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- 9781416991533
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- 520p; bw; pbk
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- The 13th Reality
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- 823 DAS T
The Hound of The Baskervilles
Holmes and Watson are faced with their most terrifying case yet. The legend of the devil-beast that haunts the moors around the Baskerville families home warns the descendants of that ancient clan never to venture out in those dark hours when the power of evil is exalted. Now, the most recent Baskerville, Sir Charles, is dead and the footprints of a giant hound have been found near his body. Wi…
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- 9780141034324
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- 213p; bw; pbk
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- Sherlock Holmes
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- 823 DOY T
Go Tell It on The Mountain
" Mountain, " Baldwin said, " is the book I had to write if I was ever going to write anything else." Go Tell It On The Mountain, first published in 1953, is Baldwin's first major work, a novel that has established itself as an American classic. With lyrical precision, psychological directness, resonating symbolic power, and a rage that is at once unrelenting and compassionate, Baldwin chronicl…
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- 9780141185910
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- 256p; bw; pbk
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- 823 BAL G
Stories From England
Oxford Children's Myths and Legends bring you the greatest stories ever told, from around the world and long ago. Heroes and villains, witches and wizards, warriors and royalty - there's something here for everyone. Stories from England is a lively collection that brings to life the very best English traditional fairy-tales and stories. From Johnny Gloke the giant killer and the frog prince at…
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- 9780192728593
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- 194p; bw; hc
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- Oxford Children's Myths and Legends
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- 398.2 REE S
Crime Never Pays
from the back cover: Murder: the unlawful, intentional killing of a human being - a terrible crime. But murder stories are always fascinating. Who did it? And how? Or why? And was it murder, or just an unfortunate accident? Who will triumph, the murderer or the detective? This collection contains a wide range of murder stories, from the astute detection of the famous Sherlock Holmes, to the ch…
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- 9780194226936
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- 144p; ill; bw; pbk
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- Oxford Bookworms Collection
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- CHR
The Mystery of Manor Hall
from the back cover: The Oxford Bookworms Library offers high-quality storytelling and a great reading experience, with a world wide range of classic and modern fiction, non-fiction and plays. Bookworms include original and adapted texts in seven carefully graded language stages (Starter to Stage 6), which take learners from beginner to advanced level.
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- 9780194785990
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- 40p; ill; col; pbk
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- Oxford Bookworms Starter
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- CAM
The Unquiet Grave : Short Stories
from the back cover: If you find a locked room in a lonely inn, don't try to open it, even on a bright sunny day. If you find a strange whistle hidden among the stones of an old church, don't blow it. If a mysterious man gives you a piece of paper with strange writing on it, give it back to him at once. And if you call a dead man from his grave, don't expect to sleep peacefully ever again. …
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- 9780194791915
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- 88p; ill; bw; pbk
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- Oxford Bookworms 4
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- JAM
Washington Square
from the back cover: When a handsome young man begins to court Catherine Sloper, she feels she is very lucky. She is a quiet, gentle girl, but neither beautiful nor clever; no one had ever admired her before, or come to the front parlour of her home in Washington Square to whisper soft words of love to her. But in New York in the 1840s young ladies are not free to marry where they please. Cath…
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- 9780194791922
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- 88p; ill; bw; pbk
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- Oxford Bookworms 4
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- JAM
The Hound of Baskervilles
from the back cover: Dartmoor. A wild, wet place in the south-west of England. A place where it is easy to get lost, and to fall into the soft green earth which can pull the strongest man down to his death. A man is running for his life. Behind him comes an enormous dog - a dog from his worst dreams, a dog from hell. Between him and a terrible death stands only one person - the greatest det…
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- 9780194791748
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- 88p; ill; bw; pbk
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