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Lunchtime Rules
Vicki Steggall - 2007
Friendship fumble! Ant (short for Samantha) loves playing sporty games with her friends at lunchtime. But when one of the boys decides she’s too slow to play, Ant feels completely left out. Can she come up with a plan to turn things around? Or is Ant doomed to spend a lifetime of lunchtimes alone on the playground?
Over 600,000 GO GIRL! copies in print in Australia!
Tales of the Catwings
Ursula K. Le Guin
This collection contains three stories about the "Catwings", continuing their adventures of their eventual return home to find their owner has disappeared.
The Secret of Terror Castle
Robert Arthur - 1964
But when the boys arrive for an overnight visit at Terror Castle -- home of a deceased horror-movie actor -- they soon find out how the place got its name!
I Hate to Wait
Sigal Adler - 2018
Young Harry Monster has waited all year And now Halloween is almost here He knows just what he wants to be A pirate – the terror of the high sea!
Folk Tales Every Child Should Know
Hamilton Wright Mabie - 2007
American culture is indebted to him for helping to spread, by his lectures as well as his writings, a love of good reading in the United States.Contains the following stories:Hans in Luck (German)Why the Sea is Salt (Norse)The Lad Who Went to the North Wind (Norse)The Lad and the Diel (Norse)Ananzi and the Lion (Norse)The Grateful Foxes (Japanese)The Badger's Money (Japanese)Why Brother Bear Has no Tail (Uncle Remus)The Origin of Rubies (Bengal)Long, Broad and Sharpsight (Bohemian)Intelligence and Luck (Bohemian)George with the Goat (Bohemian)The Wonderful Hair (Serbian)The Dragon and the Prince (Serbian)The Good Children (Russian)The Dun Horse (Pawnee)The Greedy Youngster (Norwegian)Hans, Who Made the Princess Laugh (Norwegian)The Story of Tom Tit Tot (Suffolk)The Peasant Story of Napoleon (French)
The Secret Horse
Marion Holland - 1959
They hatch up a daring plan to steal a neglected and abandoned horse from the local pound and keep it in secret.
Christmas Spurs
Bill Wallace - 1990
And I'm scared. My little brother, Jimmy, is sick. All I want for Christmas is for him to get well. Santa seems to be listening when we get Buck, the best horse ever! I get spurs, and Jimmy gets a new cowboy hat, a real Stetson. He's so happy it almost makes us forget... until Jimmy's in the hospital again. I try to act big and strong. But I feel angry and sad, until the miracle happens... on an unforgettable Christmas day.
The Witch of Blackbird Pond and Related Readings
Elizabeth George Speare
The Witch of Blackbird Pond with related readings.
Dr. Seuss's Beginner Book Classics/Dr. Seuess's Abc/Green Eggs and Ham/Cat in the Hat/One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish/Fox in Socks (I Can Read It)
Dr. Seuss - 1991
Seuss's ABC, Fox in Sox, Green Eggs and Ham, and One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish.
The Little Broomstick
Mary Stewart - 1971
When she discovers a little broomstick shortly afterwards, she is astonished to feel it jump in to action. Before she can gather her wits, it is whisking her over the treetops, above the clouds, and in to the grounds of Endor College, where: 'All Examinations Coached for by A Competent Staff of Fully-Qualified Witches.' Here she discovers evidence of a terrible experiment in transformation - deformed and mutant animals imprisoned in cages. In the moment after her broomstick takes off, she realises that Tib has been captured. Returning to the College the following day, she manages to free the animals, but not before the Head of the college, Miss Mumblechook, and her colleague, Doctor Dee, have seen her. Mary manages to flee... but the evil pair are in hot pursuit!
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At the Back of the North Wind
George MacDonald - 1871
His life is transformed by a brief glimpse of the beautiful country -- at the back of the north wind. This Victorian fairy tale has enchanted readers for more than a hundred years, and combines a Dickensian regard for the working class of mid-19th-century England with the invention of an ethereal landscape.