A Little Princess (Scholastic Classics)
 best seller book 2007: this book is beatiful and preatty. y watch the movie of this book and it was sad bot really good. Better than Sappy: A Little Princess follows the story of Sara Crewe, a young girl whose mother died when she was a baby and who has [... more]
$25.50
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My Father's Daughter
Great read: Picked this book up for my kids and I couldn't put it down. Facinating, funny, sad and a good mystery all at once. The writing is clever, the kid characters are well-established, though the adults are a bit fuzzy. Great for 11-12-year-olds [... more]
$5.99
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About the B'nai Bagels
One of my favorite books -- EVER: This is a touching and loving portrayal of a Jewish kid who has to put up with an over-achieving older brother, his best friend moving away, and -- horror of horrors -- his mother becoming his baseball team's manager. [... more]
$5.99
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The Mysterious Edge of the Heroic World
no better than average: Three stars for average. The story is slow and the characters are inconsistent, but the sections related to lost and stolen art by the Nazis were interesting to read. I enjoyed the fictionalized (of course) stories of the young [... more]
$16.99
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The Outcasts of 19 Schuyler Place
Amazon.com Review: Twelve year old Margaret Rose Kane is incorrigible. Not only does she refuse to bend to the will of her manipulative cabin mates at Camp Talequa, she stands up to and inadvertently insults the camp director and Queen-in-residence, Mrs. [... more]
$5.99
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The Secret Garden (Aladdin Classics)
Amazon.com Review: Mistress Mary is quite contrary until she helps her garden grow. Along the way, she manages to cure her sickly cousin Colin, who is every bit as imperious as she. These two are sullen little peas in a pod, closed up in a gloomy old [... more]
$5.99
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The Mysterious Edge of the Heroic World
no better than average: Three stars for average. The story is slow and the characters are inconsistent, but the sections related to lost and stolen art by the Nazis were interesting to read. I enjoyed the fictionalized (of course) stories of the young [... more]
$24.95
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From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
Amazon.com Review: After reading this book, I guarantee that you will never visit the Metropolitan Museum of Art (or any wonderful, old cavern of a museum) without sneaking into the bathrooms to look for Claudia and her brother Jamie. They're standing on [... more]
$2.99
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The Outcasts of 19 Schuyler Place
Amazon.com Review: Twelve year old Margaret Rose Kane is incorrigible. Not only does she refuse to bend to the will of her manipulative cabin mates at Camp Talequa, she stands up to and inadvertently insults the camp director and Queen-in-residence, Mrs. [... more]
$16.95
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The View from Saturday
Amazon.com Review: A powerhouse sixth-grade Academic Bowl team from Epiphany Middle School; the art of calligraphy; the retirees of Century Village, Florida; a genius dog named Ginger; and a holiday production of "Annie" all figure heavily in [... more]
$28.00
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The Second Mrs. Gioconda
The Second Mrs.Giaconda: The Second Mrs.Giaconda, by E. L. Konigsburg, is a book about a poor, dogged, perverse boy living in Italy who stumbles upon Leonardo da Vinci... which changes his life forever. E. L. Konigsburg tells why Leonardo da Vinci [... more]
$7.99
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From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
Amazon.com Review: After reading this book, I guarantee that you will never visit the Metropolitan Museum of Art (or any wonderful, old cavern of a museum) without sneaking into the bathrooms to look for Claudia and her brother Jamie. They're standing on [... more]
$9.99
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