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Product Description: I hate hate hated my friend. When I moved over in the school bus, she sat somewhere else. When her point broke in arithmetic and I passed her my pencil,she took Peter's instead."Ask her," my mother said."Ask your friend why." 

Prebinding:

9781442003675 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, April 9, 2009), cover price $15.99 | About this edition: I hate hate hated my friend.

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A young girl takes her great-uncle, who is afflicted with Alzheimer's disease, for a walk and gently and patiently answers all his seemingly absurd questions

Hardcover:

9780060262181 | Harpercollins Childrens Books, February 1, 1996, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: A young girl takes her great-uncle, who is afflicted with Alzheimer's disease, for a walk and gently and patiently answers all his seemingly absurd questions

Library:

9780060262198 | Harpercollins, February 1, 1996, cover price $14.89 | About this edition: A young girl takes her great-uncle, who is afflicted with Alzheimer's disease, for a walk and gently and patiently answers all his seemingly absurd questions

By celebrating all the changes that autumn brings to the land, a bear passes on his knowledge about the cycles of life to a young boy as they each prepare for their own separate winter

Hardcover:

9780060228972 | Harpercollins Childrens Books, October 1, 1993, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: A boy and his bear friend enjoy the pleasures of autumn as they prepare for winter.

Library:

9780060228989 | Harpercollins, October 1, 1993, cover price $14.89 | About this edition: A boy and his bear friend enjoy the pleasures of autumn as they prepare for winter.

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Poems deal with fall, Thanksgiving, pumpkins, harvests, turkey, and family gatherings
By Lee Bennett Hopkins and Ben Shecter (illustrator)

School and Library:

9781878093578 | Reprint edition (Boyds Mills Pr, September 1, 1993), cover price $9.95 | About this edition: Poems deal with fall, Thanksgiving, pumpkins, harvests, turkey, and family gatherings

Two people get carried away making stew and turn into witches.

Hardcover:

9780060256098 | Harpercollins Childrens Books, September 1, 1991, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Two people get carried away making stew and turn into witches.

Library:

9780060256104 | Harpercollins, September 1, 1991, cover price $14.89 | About this edition: Two people get carried away making stew and turn into witches.

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Having escaped from the Royal Botanic Gardens, the Giant Hogstalk sweeps through the English countryside creating havoc
By Felice Holman and Ben Shecter (illustrator)

Hardcover:

9780684131740, titled "The Escape of the Giant Hogstalk." | Encore Editions, April 1, 1974, cover price $1.49 | About this edition: Having escaped from the Royal Botanic Gardens, the Giant Hogstalk sweeps through the English countryside creating havoc.

Paperback:

9780689713972 | Aladdin Paperbacks, May 1, 1990, cover price $3.95 | About this edition: Having escaped from the Royal Botanic Gardens, the Giant Hogstalk sweeps through the English countryside creating havoc

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A boy and his grandmother take a final tour of the house she is leaving and relive memories of the wonderful times experienced there.

Hardcover:

9780060256173 | Harpercollins Childrens Books, September 1, 1989, cover price $13.95 | also contains McGuffey''s Eclectic Readers/Boxed | About this edition: A boy and his grandmother take a final tour of the house she is leaving and relive memories of the wonderful times experienced there.

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The Troll family lives in a cave under the Brooklyn Bridge until they are persuaded by their son to move up to the city, at which time they pack their belongings and move to an apartment on 12th Street

Library:

9780698307162 | Putnam Pub Group, January 1, 1980, cover price $6.99 | About this edition: After years of living in a cozy cave beneath the Brooklyn Bridge, the Troll family decides it is time to explore New York City.

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A young boy finds himself caught in a struggle between witches who use their powers for good and witches who use their powers for evil

Library:

9780060256081 | Harpercollins, September 1, 1979, cover price $7.89 | About this edition: A young boy becomes caught in the struggle between good witches and bad witches.

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Eleven short stories recount Dudley Pippin's discoveries and adventures during a summer holiday.

Hardcover:

9780060248871 | Harpercollins Childrens Books, May 1, 1979, cover price $7.25 | About this edition: Dudley Pippin, a lead character of 'Free to Be---You and Me,' is the central character of these eleven short stories

Library:

9780060248888 | Harpercollins, May 1, 1979, cover price $12.89 | About this edition: Dudley Pippin, a lead character of 'Free to Be---You and Me,' is the central character of these eleven short stories

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Mooch the Messy and Prudence the Neat, two rats living in neighboring holes, agree to exchange homes for a week at a time so Prudence can clean up after the incredibly sloppy Mooch

Library:

9780698307032 | Putnam Pub Group, January 1, 1979, cover price $6.99 | About this edition: A very messy rat worries about his friendship with his extremely neat new neighbor.

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The daughter of a jester wants to be someone of importance, someone like a jester, a knight, or a king

Hardcover:

9780060255992 | Harpercollins Childrens Books, September 1, 1977, cover price $11.95 | About this edition: A small girl wants to be something important, but can't decide whether to be a jester, a knight, or a king.

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When Pierre Rhinoceros and Henri Hippopotamus play hide-and-seek in the rain forest, Snake and Crocodile give the game a very unexpected turn

School and Library:

9780590077651 | Atheneum, February 1, 1977, cover price $7.95 | About this edition: Two friends decide that playing hide and seek isn't as much fun as doing things together.

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Only for love does a very messy young rat clean up his hole to make his father's visit happier.

Library:

9780060255329 | Harpercollins, November 1, 1976, cover price $13.89 | About this edition: Mooch, the messy rat, and his visiting father disagree about Mooch's untidy house and lackadaisical habits

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Thinking only of himself, Pig cannot find anything he wants to do by himself, until the robins make him aware of his surroundings

Library:

9780060228385 | Harpercollins, April 1, 1975, cover price $11.89 | About this edition: Pig discovers that sometimes it's nice to have friends around and sometimes it's nice to be alone.

Conrad defies gravity and public opinion when he builds a castle on air

Library:

9780060255732 | Harpercollins, June 1, 1967, cover price $13.89 | About this edition: A small boy builds his castle in the air despite the many distractions offered by his friends and momentary doubt which causes it to crumble.

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