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9780689829321 | Margaret K McElderry, October 1, 1999, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: In 1758 in Scotland, teenaged Jamesina MacKenzie finds her courage and resolution severely tested when she is abducted by 'spiriters' and, after a harrowing voyage across the Atlantic, sold as a bond slave to a Virginia planter
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9780439409087, titled "Stolen Life" | Scholastic, January 1, 1948, cover price $4.50
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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
The unusual dollhouse Mindy purchases at an auction expands when Mrs. Bright touches it and Mindy and Mrs. Bright enter the world of minatures.
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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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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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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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9780689500190 | Atheneum, February 1, 1975, cover price $5.95 | About this edition: Ten-year-old Rosemary thinks the word 'Time' cut into a stone in her aunt's old herb garden should be spelled 'Thyme' until she picks a sprig of the herb around it and discovers herself back in the eighteenth century.
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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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9780689500725 | Atheneum, March 1, 1977, cover price $8.95 | About this edition: Thirteen-year-old Roger discovers that the derelict old house near London inherited by his family is haunted by ghosts, including the ghost of Tom Garland, a well-known actor of Shakespeare's day
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9780595150908 | Backinprint.Com, January 1, 2001, cover price $11.95 | About this edition: Absolutely enthrallingPublishers Weekly All ends well with perfect emotional logic; who cares about the other sort where deep in a fast-moving and absorbing story like this one?
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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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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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9780689501739 | Atheneum, March 1, 1981, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: Aided by the magical wolves of Aam, Runner penetrates the awesome mountain fortress of Gzel to retrieve his stolen dream stone, the fabled Mirelidar, from the evil Lord Naghar
Wrongfully accused of stealing a valuable moonstone, Lek the conjuror determines to enter the dread Shadowland where the sun never shines and search for the long-sought Opal Mountains where he might find another stone with equally potent powers.
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9780689502767 | Atheneum, September 1, 1983, cover price $10.95 | About this edition: When Lek is falsely accused of stealing a magical stone, he begins a dangerous journey to the Opal Mountain of Astarlind to find a replacement for the stone
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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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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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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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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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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.
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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
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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9780140362848 | Reprint edition (Puffin, May 1, 1993), cover price $3.99 | About this edition: In 1842, eleven-year old twins, whose father runs a boat on the Juniata Canal in Pennsylvania, learn of a Harrisburg bookseller's plan to steal Charles Dickens's newly finished novel while Dickens himself is touring the U.
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9780689505249 | Margaret K McElderry, October 1, 1991, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: In 1842, eleven-year-old twins, whose father runs a boat on the Juniata Canal in Pennsylvania, learn of a Harrisburg bookseller's plan to steal Charles Dickens's newly finished novel while Dickens himself is touring the U.
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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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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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9780689506093 | Margaret K McElderry, January 1, 1995, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: Recounts the life and adventures of Robin Hood, who, with his band of followers, lived in Sherwood Forest as an outlaw dedicated to fighting tyranny
A series of Robin Hood adventures includes the tales of Friar Tuck's induction into the Merry Men, Lady Marian's escape from the Sheriff of Nottingham to the safety of Sherwood Forest, and Robin's competition in an archery match.
School and Library:
9780689801471 | Margaret K McElderry, October 1, 1995, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Recounts further adventures of Robin Hood, the English hero who lived as an outlaw with his followers in Sherwood Forest and dedicated his life to fighting tyranny
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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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