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A retelling of twenty-two legends about the creation of the world from a variety of California Indian tribes.

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9780606205603 | Demco Media, February 1, 2002, cover price $13.45 | About this edition: A retelling of twenty-two legends about the creation of the world from a variety of California Indian tribes.

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A collection of twenty-two folktales from the traditions of the Northern California Indians includes tales about the animals of Beforetime, such as the Weasel, Dog, Big Bear, and the trickster Coyote. Reprint. (view table of contents)

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9780689504105 | Margaret K McElderry, April 1, 1987, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: A retelling of twenty-two legends about the creation of the world from a variety of California Indian tribes.

Paperback:

9780689840487 | Aladdin Paperbacks, February 1, 2001, cover price $4.99 | About this edition: A retelling of twenty-two legends about the creation of the world from a variety of California Indian tribes.

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When he goes to live with his cousin at the family's ancestral home, a ten-year-old boy finds a secret room and clues that could help unravel the riddle of the family treasure.

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9780689501005 | Atheneum, March 1, 1978, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: Sent to England to live with his only remaining relative in Boxleton House, ten-year-old Tommy Bassumtyte learns of a secret room that may be connected with an old rhyme about a treasure

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Product Description: Reminiscent of the books of C.S. Lewispoetic, wise, and suspenseful. Chicago TribuneThis is the perfect fantasy about the past and the present, about good and evil. Horn BookThe illogical, irresistible sweeping of the reader into a state of being not his own, not of his time...read more

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9780595155224 | Backinprint.Com, February 1, 2001, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Reminiscent of the books of C.

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9780613991926 | Turtleback Books, December 1, 2000, cover price $26.95 | About this edition: Reminiscent of the books of C.

When their pregnant mother gets sick on the eve of their move from California to Pennsylvania, the four younger Smith children find themselves in the custody of the city leaving their twelve-year-old sister Boo, with the help of eccentric old Auntie Moss, to somehow trace their whereabouts and get the family back together again.The Smith children find themselves in the custody of the city leaving their twelve-year-old sister Boc, with the help of Auntie Moss, to somehow trace their whereabouts and get the family together again

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9780689504785 | Margaret K McElderry, September 1, 1989, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: When their pregnant mother gets sick on the eve of their move from California to Pennsylvania, the four younger Smith children find themselves in the custody of the city leaving their twelve-year-old sister Boo, with the help of eccentric old Auntie Moss, to somehow trace their whereabouts and get the family back together again.

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Puzzling burglaries and the appearance around town of odd-looking strangers follow upon Mike Pucci's discovery, on the Ohio River island near town, of a very old stone-carved bird

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9780689500893 | Macmillan Pub Co, November 1, 1985, cover price $1.98 | About this edition: A group of children in a crowded school invent a girl who does not exist and find their prank played back at them in a most unexpected way.

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As the child of two musicians, twelve-year-old James has no interest in music until he discovers a portal to seventeenth-century London in his uncle's basement, and finds himself in a situation where his beautiful voice and the fact that he is biracial might serve him well.

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9780689864780 | 1 edition (Margaret K McElderry, March 1, 2005), cover price $18.99 | About this edition: As the child of two musicians, twelve-year-old James has no interest in music until he discovers a portal to seventeenth-century London in his uncle's basement, and finds himself in a situation where his beautiful voice and the fact that he is biracial might serve him well.

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While praying beneath a bare cherry tree, a branch covered with ripe, red cherries drops on the head of the impoverished Sir Cleges, setting off a chain of wonderful consequences in a Christmas story based on a fifteenth-century tale.

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9780689505720 | Margaret K McElderry, October 1, 1993, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: An impoverished knight finds a miracle when his cherry tree blooms on Christmas Day, but greedy servants get in his way when he tries to take the fruit to the King

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Sixteen-year-old Maggie attempts to save recently orphaned Kip from permanently going back in time to 1758 as an adopted Lenape in the primeval forests of western Pennsylvania

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9780689818127 | Margaret K McElderry, April 1, 1998, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: Sixteen-year-old Maggie attempts to save recently orphaned Kip from permanently going back in time to 1758 as an adopted Lenape in the primeval forests of western Pennsylvania

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While exploring what they think is an underground passage, three children are transported back in time to an ancient Indian civilization.

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9780844664743 | Peter Smith Pub Inc, June 1, 1991, cover price $21.00 | About this edition: While exploring what they think is an underground passage, three children are transported back in time to an ancient Indian civilization.
9780152228538, titled "The Daybreakers" | Harcourt, June 1, 1970, cover price $5.95 | About this edition: Three youngsters fall back in time while exploring a cave near their home in West Virginia

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Product Description: Tee (short for Leticia) Woodie and her family have moved into a big, old house that is a part of her father's inheritance from Great-uncle Sebastian. While exploring the contents of Great-uncle's antiques-and-junk store, they find a parcel marked FOR DEAR LETICIA, MY SHABTI BOX...read more

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9780786248964 | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, December 1, 2002), cover price $21.95 | About this edition: Tee is happy to find that the ancient Egyptian box she inherits holds a spirit who will serve her, until she notices changes in her servant's appearance and behavior.

Paperback:

9781416971405 | Aladdin Paperbacks, January 28, 2008, cover price $10.95 | About this edition: Tee (short for Leticia) Woodie and her family have moved into a big, old house that is a part of her father's inheritance from Great-uncle Sebastian.

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9780689842733 | Margaret K McElderry, March 1, 2002, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Tee is happy to find that the ancient Egyptian box she inherits holds a spirit who will serve her, until she notices changes in her servant's appearance and behavior.

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Three children in an English village face danger as they try to track down the criminals responsible for burglaries in a strange old house.

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9780689501296 | Macmillan Pub Co, February 1, 1979, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: A series of mysterious burglaries takes place in Goslings House, an ancient manor rumored to be haunted, and eleven-year-old Richard Morgan decides to track down the criminals with the help of Francesca and her younger brother Nolly, a strange boy who cannot talk

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Gordy and his friends find secret rooms, mysterious burglaries, and a shadowy villain on the trail of a treasure supposedly lost in Johnstown's flood of 1889

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9780689503061 | Atheneum, September 1, 1985, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Gordy and his friends find secret rooms, mysterious burglaries, and a shadowy villain on the trail of a treasure supposedly lost in Johnstown's flood of 1889

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When a savings and loan threatens to repossess their grandmother's house, the five Smith children, with the help of some friendly neighbors, uncover a con artist's scam.

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9780689505805 | Margaret K McElderry, April 1, 1993, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Just after moving into their grandmother's house in Pittsburgh, the five Smith children must uncover a long-standing scam to steal the houses of old people before Grandma Smith loses her home.

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Filled with wit and wisdom, a collection of twenty-six tales, culled from fourteen different tribes of Texas and the Southern Plains, includes the Tejas story, in which the origins of the universe are revealed, and the Lipan-Apache tale, in which a tiny lizard outsmarts a hungry coyote.
By Jane Louise Curry and James Watts (illustrator)

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9780689852879 | Margaret K McElderry, April 1, 2003, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Retells twenty-six tales from Native Americans whose traditional lands were in Texas and the Southern Plains, and provides a brief introduction to the history of each tribe.

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Product Description: Perry, Mab, Oriole Bird and their mother fly to Austria in search of their father: Professor Bird has disappeared while investigating strange earth tremors. Villainous Dr. Pfnur is clearly up to no good, but surely he cant be making earthquakes! And surely the giant Ice Ghost Mab sees cant be realcan it? A thoroughly absorbing and original mystery story...read more

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9780595180004 | Iuniverse Inc, May 1, 2001, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Perry, Mab, Oriole Bird and their mother fly to Austria in search of their father: Professor Bird has disappeared while investigating strange earth tremors.

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9780689303029 | Atheneum, September 1, 1972, cover price $7.95 | About this edition: Disregarding a telegram stating that Professor Bird has been lost in an avalanche, Mrs.

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9780613987875, titled "Ice Ghosts Mystery" | Turtleback Books, May 1, 2001, cover price $28.15 | About this edition: Perry, Mab, Oriole Bird and their mother fly to Austria in search of their father: Professor Bird has disappeared while investigating strange earth tremors.

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Little Sister, a tiny girl who grows from an apple seed, helps her brother get home safely each time he strays on an errand in the wide world
By Erik Blegvad (illustrator) and Jane Louise Curry

School and Library:

9780689504594 | Margaret K McElderry, September 1, 1989, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Little Sister, a tiny girl who grows from an apple seed, helps her brother get home safely each time he strays on an errand in the wide world

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When their farm and everything on it is reduced to miniature by a mysterious machine, Pete and his grandmother do all they can to keep themselves and their farm from being lost forever.
By Jane Louise Curry and Charles Robinson (illustrator)

Hardcover:

9780689304279 | Atheneum, March 1, 1974, cover price $1.49 | About this edition: A young boy saves his grandmother's farm after it has been drastically reduced in size by Professor Lilliput's new invention

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Though two boys are paying attention to her, a seventeen-year-old in East Liverpool, Ohio, is painfully shy until she discovers in herself the eye, hand, and heart of a potter.

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9780689503849 | Atheneum, May 1, 1986, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: Her colorful and unusual clothes cloak Corry's painfully insecure personality, but her research into her family's pottery industry uncovers clues from the past that help her with the present

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Ten-year-old Felicity's existence in a dreadful eighteenth-century orphanage, owned and run for profit by Parson Grout, is changed forever when the parson steals a sturdy wooden cupboard believing it to be magical

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9780689500596 | Encore Editions, August 1, 1976, cover price $2.79 | About this edition: Ten-year-old Felicity's existence in a dreadful eighteenth-century orphanage, owned and run for profit by Parson Grout, is changed forever when the parson steals a sturdy wooden cupboard believing it to be magical

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Young genius J.J. Russell, research assistant to the eccentric Professor Poplov, discovers that his girlfriend has been two-timing him with his arch-rival and sets out to even the score with the help of Poplov's time-travel machine

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9780689504297 | Margaret K McElderry, October 1, 1987, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: A Sixteen-year-old Progidy uses his mentor's invention to go into the past to exorcise his unreturned love for a beautiful girl, and discovers a mystery involving another of the professor's inventions.

The unusual dollhouse Mindy purchases at an auction expands when Mrs. Bright touches it and Mindy and Mrs. Bright enter the world of minatures.

Hardcover:

9780844664330 | Peter Smith Pub Inc, November 1, 1990, cover price $20.25 | About this edition: The unusual dollhouse Mindy purchases at an auction expands when Mrs.
9780152542900 | Harcourt, June 1, 1970, cover price $5.95 | About this edition: A young girl and her neighbor become mysteriously trapped inside an elaborate dollhouse

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JoEllen resents having to stay with Granty in her home, Winterbloom, while her mother is on her honeymoon, but after the discovery of the magic round window, allowing her to travel back in time, she begins a grand adventure of her own. Jr Lib Guild.

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9780689809453 | Margaret K McElderry, October 1, 1996, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: While staying with her elderly relative at Winterbloom, Jo tries to solve the mysteries that haunt a strange old house situated in the midst of New Hampshire woods

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When he exchanges medallions with the boy who appears to be his double, Dave goes back 800 years in time to medieval Wales.
By Jane Louise Curry and Charles Robinson (illustrator)

Hardcover:

9780152590109 | Harcourt Childrens Books, June 1, 1971, cover price $5.25 | About this edition: After finding a medallion near the Ohio river, young Dave is transported to medieval Wales

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