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Molly and her brother have been taught that new arrivals to their island produce dire consequences, but they come upon a sailboat whose two young passengers, nearly dead, are in desperate need of help
Hardcover:
9780397319404 | Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, September 1, 1981, cover price $11.95 | About this edition: Molly and her brother have been taught that new arrivals to their island produce dire consequences, but they come upon a sailboat whose two young passengers, nearly dead, are in desperate need of help
Paperback:
9781849413510 | Gardners Books, January 27, 2011, cover price $14.25
9781932425697 | Reprint edition (Front Street Inc, October 1, 2006), cover price $9.95 | About this edition: The isolated residents of Halcyon Island, resistant of all newcomers, have always governed by the Teaching in the Book which has been orally passed down for generations, but one day they find out, from one who reads, the real and astonishing story in thebook.
9780099413172 | New edition (Gardners Books, June 7, 2001), cover price $12.85 | About this edition: The inhabitants of Halcyon island follow the customs that have prevailed for years.
Miscellaneous:
9781608980512 | Namelos Llc, September 9, 2009, cover price $7.95
Prebinding:
9781417777914, titled "Islanders" | Reprint edition (Turtleback Books, October 1, 2006), cover price $20.80 | About this edition: The isolated residents of Halcyon Island, resistant of all newcomers, have always governed by the Teaching in the Book which has been orally passed down for generations, but one day they find out, from one who reads, the real and astonishing story in thebook.
Hardcover:
9780397316540 | Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, March 1, 1976, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: A family struggles to survive in a desperate time when the framework of life as they know it is rapidly being destroyed.
Paperback:
9780440964452 | Dell Pub Co, January 1, 1978, cover price $1.75
Hardcover:
9781844435913 | Gardners Books, September 30, 2004, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Each title in this series looks at a particular type of crime and focuses on a famous criminal case.
Hardcover:
9781844435890 | Gardners Books, September 30, 2004, cover price $22.30 | About this edition: Each title in this series looks at a particular type of crime and focuses on a famous criminal case.
Hardcover:
9780192713049 | Reissue edition (Oxford Univ Pr, June 25, 1987), cover price $13.95 | About this edition: The life of a sixteen-year-old English boy begins to change when a stranger claiming to be a relative appears in the village.
Paperback:
9780192750563 | New edition (Oxford Univ Pr, January 4, 2001), cover price $8.80 | About this edition: There was something weird about the stranger, something that Arnold didn't like.
9780440940777, titled "Intruder" | Dell Pub Co, February 1, 1977, cover price $1.50
Paperback:
9780521649025 | Ppk edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, November 19, 1998), cover price $75.32
Hardcover:
9780745105918, titled "Tom Tiddler's Ground" | Large print edition (G K Hall & Co, October 1, 1987), cover price $12.95
9780397321902, titled "Tom Tiddler's Ground" | Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, October 1, 1986, cover price $11.95 | About this edition: Amid the backwater canals of an English industrial town, five children unravel a fifty-year-old mystery about a half-sunken canalboat and its hidden treasure.
Paperback:
9780521468893, titled "Tom Tiddler's Ground" | Cambridge Univ Pr, October 1, 1998, cover price $12.50
Library:
9780397321919, titled "Tom Tiddler's Ground" | Harpercollins, October 1, 1986, cover price $11.89 | About this edition: Amid the backwater canals of an English industrial town, five children unravel a fifty-year-old mystery about a half-sunken canalboat and its hidden treasure.
Hardcover:
9780810831179 | 6 sub edition (Scarecrow Pr, July 1, 1996), cover price $66.00 | About this edition: A critical survey of the best and most representative English-language children's literature and picture-books of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
9780397322985 | 3 rev sub edition (Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, June 1, 1988), cover price $18.95
Hardcover:
9780810829503 | Scarecrow Pr, October 1, 1994, cover price $55.00
Paperback:
9780064461252 | 4 revised edition (Harpercollins Childrens Books, June 1, 1992), cover price $12.95 | About this edition: A critical survey of the best and most representative English-language children's literature and picture-books of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
Hardcover:
9780397323654 | Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, October 1, 1989, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: Eleni leaves her home, travels to a distant royal city, and serves the Living God as a messenger in order to save her people
Paperback:
9780590418409 | Reprint edition (Scholastic Paperbacks, July 1, 1988), cover price $2.50 | About this edition: Amid the backwater canals of an English industrial town, five children unravel a fifty-year-old mystery about a half-sunken canalboat and its hidden treasure.
Library:
9780688072582 | William Morrow & Co, April 1, 1988, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Troubled by problems at home and disappointment with his life, family, and friends, Rob finds escape in a fantasy world, a tropical South Sea island, until his personal fantasy paradise develops problems of its own
9780688072599 | Lothrop Lee & Shepard, January 1, 1988, cover price $42.01 | About this edition: Troubled by problems at home and disappointment with his life, family, and friends, Rob finds escape in a fantasy world, a tropical South Sea island, until his personal fantasy paradise develops problems of its own
Hardcover:
9780688072605 | Lothrop Lee & Shepard, October 1, 1987, cover price $11.95 | About this edition: A quiet English girl becomes more assertive with the help of a magic stick
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9780397321889 | Harpercollins Childrens Books, August 1, 1987, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: A series of events--his family's move to riverside King's Eaton, his father's impulsive purchase of a downstream boathouse, and the arrival of his beautiful German tutor, Vivien--spells awakening passion, anger, and betrayal for seventeen-year-old Alan
Library:
9780397321896 | Harpercollins Childrens Books, August 1, 1987, cover price $12.89 | About this edition: A series of events--his family's move to riverside King's Eaton, his father's impulsive purchase of a downstream boathouse, and the arrival of his beautiful German tutor, Vivien--spells awakening passion, anger, and betrayal for seventeen-year-old Alan
Paperback:
9780451138170 | Reprint edition (New Amer Library, September 1, 1985), cover price $2.50 | About this edition: Jenny becomes interested in Sam, despite the fact that he only seems interested in borrowing her father's Hasselblad in order to enter the school's photography contest
Hardcover:
9780397320899 | Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, September 1, 1984, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: The romance between photography buff Sam and Jenny, a dreamy, talented London teenager who hopes to learn about photography, unfolds through the ideas and perceptions of both halves of the couple
Library:
9780397320547 | Harpercollins, June 1, 1983, cover price $11.89 | About this edition: In the spring of 1922, eleven-year-old Dan Abbot finds a true friend, a new back-alley career with a merry band of criminals, and a family he was always certain awaited him
Hardcover:
9780397320158 | Harpercollins Childrens Books, June 1, 1982, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Kate Milbank accepts an invitation from Rudi, Crown Prince of Essenheim, to visit his country, only to discover that there is a plot to overthrow Rudi's uncle
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9780397318827 | Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, November 1, 1979, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Biographical information, bibliographies, and critical examinations are presented for fourteen American, British, and Australian writers including Nina Bawden, Peter Dickinson, Penelope Lively, and Bill Cleaver
Hardcover:
9780397317523 | Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, September 1, 1977, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Sixteen-year-old John is baffled by the inexplicable arrival and unconventional behavior of three visitors from the future
Hardcover:
9780397317288 | Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, March 1, 1977, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: A little boy's escapades on top of a high office building nearly end in disaster.
Hardcover:
9780397314775 | Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, October 1, 1974, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Arranges more than one hundred thirty-five poems by twentieth-century British and American poets, from Auden and Betjeman to Brock and Morgan, in the order in which they were written
Hardcover:
9780397314218 | Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, September 1, 1972, cover price $12.27 | About this edition: A teen-age boy and girl whose parents hope they will someday marry seek romance elsewhere during their summer vacation at an English resort in 1939
Hardcover:
9780397311088 | Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, June 1, 1969, cover price $11.40 | About this edition: Four English children, abandoned by the couple they lived with, set up their own home in a deserted warehouse where they find themselves watching the work of an organized criminal gang.
9780397311088 | Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, June 1, 1969, cover price $11.40 | About this edition: Four English children, abandoned by the couple they lived with, set up their own home in a deserted warehouse where they find themselves watching the work of an organized criminal gang.
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