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James Clavell - 1966

It is the early 19th century, when European traders and adventurers first began to penetrate the forbidding Chinese mainland.

And it is in this exciting time and exotic place that a giant of an Englishman, Dirk Straun, sets out to turn the desolate island of Hong Kong into an impregnable fortress of British power, and to make himself supreme ruler…Tai-Pan!

Key to the Treasure

Peggy Parish - 1966

Each summer Lisa, Bill, and Jed visit their grandparents, and they hear the story of the sketches hung above the mantel.

The sketches are clues to a hidden treasure, and no one has been able to figure them out for a century. There is a missing first clue, but when the children stumble upon the second clue, they're on their way. Could it be that on this visit they will solve the secret that has eluded so many for more than a hundred years?.

Professor Diggins' Dragons

Felice Holman - 1966

Professor Diggins is the kind of person everyone would want in their neighborhood -- polite, slightly eccentric, good with children, an odd storyteller, and an authority on marine biology.

He also believes in dragons. When it is proposed that he take a very long vacation (the University is thinking of getting rid of him due to his references to dragon hunting in the modern world), he is convinced, rather easily, to take five children along with him to help him in his collection of seaside specimens.

Up a Road Slowly

Irene Hunt - 1966

The Newbery Award-winning novel From the author of Across Five Aprils and No Promises in the Wind comes her most beloved story of a girl's coming of age.After her mother's death, Julie goes to live with Aunt Cordelia, a spinster schoolteacher, where she experiences many emotions and changes as she grows from seven to eighteen..

The Newbery Award-winning novel From the author of Across Five Aprils and No Promises in the Wind comes her most beloved story of a girl's coming of age.After her mother's death, Julie goes to live with Aunt Cordelia, a spinster schoolteacher, where she experiences many emotions and changes as she grows from seven to eighteen.

A Gift-Bear for the King

Carl Memling - 1966

It's the king's birthday, and an old man and woman send him a little bear cub..

It's the king's birthday, and an old man and woman send him a little bear cub.

Sarah and Simon and No Red Paint

Edward Ardizzone - 1966

Family bonds, and kindness from the community, make for a poignant story of two children, Sarah and Simon, and how they help in a time of need.

Their father is a talented painter, but unacknowledged, and so the family is poor, though very happy. When the story opens, the father is painting his masterpiece. Sarah and Simon are helpers and spend their time doing chores and visiting their favorite place in town: the old second-hand bookshop with its kind owner. Soon the masterpiece is almost finished, except for the bit of red paint needed to complete it, and even the dealer agrees to buy it if it were finished the next day. But there is no more red paint, and no more money left. So Sarah and Simon set out to help their father...

A New and Different Summer

Lenora Mattingly Weber - 1966

Katie Rose's good friend, Jeanie who is adopted, fears that an unpleasant newcomer in town is her biological mother.

Katie Rose takes the opportunity while her mother is away to run household in a "sophisticated" manner. Part of her motivation is in impressing a young restaurant management student named Perry McHarg. Will her use of more "refined foods" such as packaged cake mixes and frozen foods make the difference?

The High House

Honor Arundel - 1966

Used to the regularity of home life, orphaned Emma goes to live with a bohemian aunt in Edinburgh who keeps unusual hours, has strange friends, leaves the dishes, which helps Emma develop a sense of responsibility and maturity..

Used to the regularity of home life, orphaned Emma goes to live with a bohemian aunt in Edinburgh who keeps unusual hours, has strange friends, leaves the dishes, which helps Emma develop a sense of responsibility and maturity.