Alison Hart
1) Bell's Star
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Horse diaries volume 2
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English
Description
In the Vermont spring of 1853, Bell's Star, a Morgan horse, and his owner Katie rescue a runaway slave and try to outwit the slave catchers in order to help her to freedom.
2) Shadow horse
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English
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Thirteen-year-old Jas tries to prove that the owner of the farm where she works has killed her favorite horse, Whirlwind.
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English
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It's the first day of school and I've already got three problems:
1) Mrs. Leeman is my classroom teacher. She's so ancient she taught my dad.
2) I might have accidentally been voted school captain. I had an unusually popular day when the class voted last year.
3) Somehow I've lost my Grade Six jumper between receiving it and Mrs. Leeman's lecture about being responsible.
That's a lot to go wrong in half an hour. On top of that, it's a million...
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English
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It's my first day back at school after the holidays and I've already got three burning questions:
1) When is my family's disgusting diet going to end?
2) How will I finish my group project on time?
3) Why is my best friend Alex suddenly not talking to me?
If that's not bad enough, the classroom is overrun with lizards. At least things can't get worse, right?
Praise for School Rules Are Optional: 'A rollicking ride!' (Nat Amoore), 'A full-on...
6) temp words
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English
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All we have is the moment the rest is fiction. Impermanence saves me, betrays me, the constant flux of life. Sometimes I celebrate it, other times grief sets in like an immovable mountain.
These poems are journeys through states: grief, outrage, identity, temptation, and lastly transcendence.
7) Making Hats
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English
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Hats finish an outfit; they make a statement, provide panache and lift your spirits. This book explains how to make your own hats, using traditional construction methods with both specialist millinery foundation materials and a range of fabrics and trimmings. It showcases twenty-six hats and headpieces, each with step-by-step photographs and instructions, some using ready-made elements, others that are made from scratch. Celebrating the versatility...
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English
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""A page-turner, an eye-opener, a heartbreaker, a delight, The Work Wife is that rare book that illuminates a world we never knew existed while also making us feel so much less alone in everyday life." --Julia Phillips, author of National Book Award finalist Disappearing Earth "The Work Wife is a bold and wholly satisfying novel about power, ambition, and the price women must often pay for their dreams. I gobbled it up." --Emma Straub, New York Times...
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April, May, June, and July Barber don't have much in common anymore. An upcoming family wedding will place the four siblings in the same room for the first time in years. But shortly before, when April spots their father, who went missing while serving overseas a decade ago, their reunion becomes entirely more complicated. While the siblings' search for the truth about their father forces them back into each other's lives, it also intensifies their...
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American Girl
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
During a visit to her grandparents' Illinois farm in 1944, ten-year-old Molly tries to prove the innocence of a German-American neighbor whom the FBI suspects of smuggling anti-American propaganda. Includes historical notes about life on the home front in World War II.
11) Dive right in
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Series
Publisher
American Girl
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
The reader makes a series of choices that determine how the story's main character will deal with her jealousy when her good friend, a gymnast, joins Innerstar University's diving team and immediately excels.
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Dog chronicles volume 2
Publisher
Peachtree Publishers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"In 1900, a dog named Murphy wants to help Sally and Mama build a new life in Nome, but life in the mining town is not easy. Can the three of them find a home--and maybe a fortune?"--
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American Girl
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Scooter, Maryellen's pudgy pet dachshund, may be lazy, but he's one of the family, and Maryellen loves him dearly. And he never misses a meal! So when Scooter doesn't show up at dinnertime, she's worried. Maryellen launches a search and discovers some strange goings-on in her neighborhood. With the help of her friends and family, the search for Scooter takes Maryellen from the streets of Daytona Beach to the rocket launchpad at Cape Canaveral!"--Publisher....
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Series
Dog chronicles volume 4
Publisher
Peachtree Publishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Leo is a hardened old sea dog who knows not to trust anyone but himself after four ocean voyages. But when he sets sail with Magellan on a journey to find a westward route to the Spice Islands, he develops new friendships as they experience hunger and thirst, storms and doldrums, and mutinies and hostile, violent encounters. Will they ever find safe passage?"--
15) Risky Chance
Author
Series
Horse diaries volume 7
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
In the mid- to late-1930s, Risky Chance grows from a spirited colt to a winning racehorse, but an injury and the Great Depression bring hardship that only a special little girl can help him overcome.
16) Taking the reins
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American Girl
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
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The reader makes a series of choices that determine how the story's main character will deal with being asked to ride the spirited Silver Sky in a horse show after being thrown in her previous competition.
17) Bound for snow
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American Girl
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
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The reader's decisions determine the main character's success in learning to snowboard and train a young dog to pull a dogsled.
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Series
Dog chronicles volume 3
Publisher
Peachtree Publishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
In 1909, a nine-month-old puppy, trained unsuccessfully to be a hunting dog, finds a way to earn his keep when disaster strikes in the coal mine where his boy works.
Author
Series
Dog chronicles volume 1
Publisher
Peachtree
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
In Cosham, England, in 1917, Darling, a mischievous collie, must leave the children who love her when she is chosen for training as a mercy dog, seeking out injured soldiers on the battlefield and leading medics to them.
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American Girl history mysteries volume 19
Publisher
American Girl
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Rose sets out to prove her brother's innocence when he is accused of shooting a politician during a Wild West show performance in Louisville, Kentucky, in 1886.