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Forgotten Classics


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The Phantom Tollbooth
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The Phantom Tollbooth
by Norton Juster

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Illustrated in black-and-white. This ingenious fantasy centers around Milo, a bored ten-year-old who comes home to find a large toy tollbooth sitting in his room. Joining forces with a watchdog named Tock, Milo drives through the tollbooth's gates and...
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A Hole Is to Dig
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A Hole Is to Dig
by Ruth Krauss and Maurice Sendak

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< P> What is a hole?< BR> A hole is when you step in it< BR> you go down< /P> < P> A hole is< BR> for a mouse< BR> to live in.< /P> < P> And, of course, a hole is to dig.< /P> < P> This is...
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The Little House
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The Little House
by Virginia Lee Burton

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The little house first stood in the country, but gradually the city moved closer and closer....
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I Wish That I Had Duck Feet (I Can Read It All by Myself Beginner Books)
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I Wish That I Had Duck Feet (I Can Read It All by Myself Beginner Books)
by Theodore Lesieg and B. Tobey

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A young boy weighs the pros and cons of possessing various animal appendages — such as a duck's feet, a deer's antlers, a whale's spout, an elephant's trunk, and a long, long tail — only to decide that he's better off just being himself. A zany,...
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Nate the Great
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Nate the Great
by Marjorie Sharmat

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Shortly after a breakfast generously supplied with pancakes, Natethe Great got an urgent call from Annie. "I lost a picture," said Annie. "Can you help me find it?" "Of course," said Nate. "I have found lost balloons...
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Half Magic (Edward Eager's Tales of Magic)
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Half Magic (Edward Eager's Tales of Magic)
by Edward Eager

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The four children of Half Magic have been reading E. Nesbit's magical story The Enchanted Castle, when they find something magical of their own — at least, partly magical. The ensuing misadventures are highly entertaining. Half Magic was a childhood...
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Rabbit Hill (Puffin Newberry Library)
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Rabbit Hill (Puffin Newberry Library)
by Robert Lawson

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Written in 1944, this is one of the classics of children's literature. The animals of Rabbit Hill and the folks who live in the big house learn about coexisting, giving us all something to think about in terms of how we interact with the world around us....
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Mouse Soup (I Can Read Books)
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Mouse Soup (I Can Read Books)
by Arnold Lobel

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Garden State Children’ s Book Award (New Jersey)...
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The Book of Three: The Chronicles of Prydain, Book One (Chronicles of Prydain #01)
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The Book of Three: The Chronicles of Prydain, Book One (Chronicles of Prydain #01)
by Lloyd Alexander

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The Newbery-winning fantasy series now available in gorgeous new paperback editions! Since The Book of Three was first published in 1964, young readers have been enthralled by the adventures of Taran the Assistant Pig-Keeper and his quest to become a...
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The Great Brain (Great Brain #1)
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The Great Brain (Great Brain #1)
by John D. Fitzgerald and Mercer Mayer

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The best con man in the Midwest is only ten years old. Tom, a.k.a., the Great Brain, is a silver-tongued genius with a knack for turning a profit. When the Jenkins boys get lost in Skeleton Cave, the Great Brain saves the day. Whether it's saving the...
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My Father's Dragon
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My Father's Dragon
by Ruth Stiles Gannett and Ruth Chrisman Gannett

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When Elmer Elevator hears about the plight of an overworked and underappreciated baby flying dragon, he stows away on a ship and travels to Wild Island to rescue the dragon....
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Baseball in April and Other Stories
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Baseball in April and Other Stories
by Gary Soto

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In this unique collection of short stories, the small events of daily life reveal big themes — love and friendship, youth and growing up, success and failure. Calling on his own experiences of growing up in California's Central Valley, poet Gary...
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Chicken Soup with Rice: A Book of Months
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Chicken Soup with Rice: A Book of Months
by Maurice Sendak

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‘Each month is gay, each season nice, when eating chicken soup with rice.’...
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Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes (Puffin Modern Classics)
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Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes (Puffin Modern Classics)
by Eleanor Coerr and Ronald Himler

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Born in Hiroshima in 1943, Sadako was the star of her school's running team, until the dizzy spells started and she was forced to face the hardest race of her life — the race against time....
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Ralph S. Mouse (Avon Camelot Books)
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Ralph S. Mouse (Avon Camelot Books)
by Beverly Cleary and Paul O. Zelinsky

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In the final book of the Ralph trilogy, Ralph persuades his young pal Ryan to take him to school, evades an exterminator, and graduates from motorcycle to Laser XL7 sports car....
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Mary Poppins
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Mary Poppins
by P L Travers

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Life was never the same again for the Banks family after the astonishing Mary Poppins blew in with the east wind. This revised edition introduces some delightful new characters. “Delightful nonsense that defies an age boundary of appreciation...
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The Important Book
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The Important Book
by Margaret Wise Brown

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The important thing about The Important Book -- is that you let your child tell you what is important about the sun and the moon and the wind and the rain and a bug and a bee and a chair and a table and a pencil and a bear and a rainbow and a cat (if he...
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Homer Price (43 Edition)
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Homer Price (43 Edition)
by Robert Mccloskey

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Homer Price lives two miles out of Centerburg, where Route 56 meets 56A, but most of his friends and relatives live in town. They include Aunt Aggy and Uncle Ulysses, the Sheriff and the boys, Miss Terwilliger, Miss Naomi Enders, great-great-great...
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Sam and the Firefly (Beginner Books)
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Sam and the Firefly (Beginner Books)
by P. D. Eastman

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Illus. in color. The story of an incredible twosome that provides interest, suspense and word repetition. Illustrations excellent. Recommended.--(starred) School Library Journal....
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Leo the Late Bloomer
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Leo the Late Bloomer
by Robert Kraus

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Leo isn’ t reading, or writing, or drawing, or even speaking, and his father is concerned. But Leo’ s mother isn’ t. She knows her son will do all those things, and more, when he’ s ready. ‘ Reassuring for other late bloomers...
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