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Product Description: Girls' Series Fiction and American Popular Culture examines the ways in which young female heroines in American series fiction have undergone dramatic changes in the past 150 years, changes which have both reflected and modeled standards of behavior for America’s tweens and teen girls...read more
By Luella D'amico (editor)

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9781498517621 | Lexington Books, March 1, 2016, cover price $100.00 | About this edition: Girls' Series Fiction and American Popular Culture examines the ways in which young female heroines in American series fiction have undergone dramatic changes in the past 150 years, changes which have both reflected and modeled standards of behavior for America’s tweens and teen girls.

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Product Description: Outstanding Book of the Year Award, Children’s Literature AssociationOften called the Golden Age of Children’s Books, the years stretching from the Civil War to World War I were a remarkable epoch in juvenile literature, an era when the best authors on both sides of the Atlantic wrote some of their finest work primarily for children...read more

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9781421414577 | Revised edition (Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, September 15, 2014), cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Outstanding Book of the Year Award, Children’s Literature AssociationOften called the Golden Age of Children’s Books, the years stretching from the Civil War to World War I were a remarkable epoch in juvenile literature, an era when the best authors on both sides of the Atlantic wrote some of their finest work primarily for children.

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Product Description: A captivating biography of the eccentric author, filmmaker, and innovator, L. Frank BaumEnchanting generations of fans, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, first published in 1900, was written by a man whose life was nearly as adventurous as his heroine Dorothy’s legendary trip...read more

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9781609819729 | Unabridged edition (Oasis Audio, June 11, 2014), cover price $51.99 | About this edition: A captivating biography of the eccentric author, filmmaker, and innovator, L.

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Product Description: A captivating biography of the eccentric author, filmmaker, and innovator, L. Frank BaumEnchanting generations of fans, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, first published in 1900, was written by a man whose life was nearly as adventurous as his heroine Dorothy’s legendary trip...read more

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9781613756355 | Unabridged edition (Oasis Audio, June 3, 2014), cover price $29.99 | About this edition: A captivating biography of the eccentric author, filmmaker, and innovator, L.

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Product Description: David Rudd takes a lively and controversial look at the critical representation of the child in children's literature, arguing for a more open and eclectic approach: one that celebrates the diverse power, appeal and possibilities of children's literature...read more

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9781137322357 | Palgrave Macmillan, November 13, 2013, cover price $95.00 | About this edition: David Rudd takes a lively and controversial look at the critical representation of the child in children's literature, arguing for a more open and eclectic approach: one that celebrates the diverse power, appeal and possibilities of children's literature.

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9781137322340 | Palgrave Macmillan, November 13, 2013, cover price $34.00 | About this edition: David Rudd takes a lively and controversial look at the critical representation of the child in children's literature, arguing for a more open and eclectic approach: one that celebrates the diverse power, appeal and possibilities of children's literature.

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9781608933990 | Down East Books, June 16, 2014, cover price $30.00
9781608932573 | Down East Books, November 7, 2013, cover price $30.00

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By Rick Riordan (editor)

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9781937856366, titled "Demigods and Monsters: Your Favorite Authors on Rick Riordan's Percy Jackson and the Olympians Series" | Expanded edition (Benbella Books, July 2, 2013), cover price $12.95
9781933771830, titled "Demigods and Monsters: Your Favorite Authors on Rick Riordan's Percy Jackson and the Olympians Series" | Benbella Books, February 10, 2009, cover price $14.95
9780979233142, titled "Demigods and Monsters: Your Favorite Authors on Rick Riordan's Percy Jackson and the Olympians Series" | Benbella Books, April 30, 2008, cover price $14.99

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Product Description: In its 80+ years, the Hardy Boys series has sold more than 50 million books in 25 or more languages, and has inspired five television series and many stage plays, websites, comic books, graphic novels and computer games. The series has shaped the way millions of American children see themselves and society, and has shaped the perceptions of America held by young people around the world...read more

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9780786433865 | McFarland & Co Inc Pub, October 11, 2008, cover price $49.95

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9780786473045 | Reprint edition (McFarland & Co Inc Pub, August 30, 2012), cover price $25.00 | About this edition: In its 80+ years, the Hardy Boys series has sold more than 50 million books in 25 or more languages, and has inspired five television series and many stage plays, websites, comic books, graphic novels and computer games.

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Product Description: Since the publication of L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz in 1900, authors, filmmakers, and theatrical producers have been retelling and reinventing this uniquely American fairy tale. This volume examines six especially significant incarnations of the story: Baum's original novel, the MGM classic The Wizard of Oz (1939), Sidney Lumet's African American film musical The Wiz (1978), Gregory Maguire's novel Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West (1995), Stephen Schwartz and Winnie Holzman's Broadway hit Wicked: A New Musical (2003), and the SyFy Channel miniseries Tin Man (2007)...read more

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9780786466436 | McFarland & Co Inc Pub, March 13, 2012, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Since the publication of L.

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Product Description: At the heart of some of the most beloved children’s novels is a passionate discussion about discipline, love, and the changing role of girls in the twentieth century. Joe Sutliff Sanders traces this debate as it began in the sentimental tales of the mid-nineteenth century and continued in the classic orphan girl novels of Louisa May Alcott, Frances Hodgson Burnett, L...read more

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9781421403182 | Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, November 1, 2011, cover price $60.00 | About this edition: At the heart of some of the most beloved children’s novels is a passionate discussion about discipline, love, and the changing role of girls in the twentieth century.

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Product Description: Children’s literature has spent decades on the psychiatrist’s couch, submitting to psychoanalysis by scores of scholars and popular writers alike. Freud in Oz turns the tables, suggesting that psychoanalysts owe a significant and largely unacknowledged debt to books ostensibly written for children...read more

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9780816675821 | Univ of Minnesota Pr, November 22, 2011, cover price $75.00 | About this edition: Children’s literature has spent decades on the psychiatrist’s couch, submitting to psychoanalysis by scores of scholars and popular writers alike.

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9780816675838 | Univ of Minnesota Pr, November 22, 2011, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Children’s literature has spent decades on the psychiatrist’s couch, submitting to psychoanalysis by scores of scholars and popular writers alike.

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By Jacob M. Held (editor)

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9781442203112 | Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc, June 17, 2011, cover price $18.95

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AUTOMATICALLY PACKAGED WITH EVERY NEW COPY OF THE BOOK AND NOT AVAILABLE SEPARATELY.

Hardcover:

9781572336773 | 1 edition (Univ of Tennessee Pr, November 30, 2009), cover price $40.00

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9781572337879 | Reprint edition (Univ of Tennessee Pr, May 1, 2011), cover price $21.00
9780155005785, titled "Introduction to Political Science: Reason, Reflection, & Analysis" | Wadsworth Pub Co, November 1, 1996, cover price $233.95 | also contains Introduction to Political Science: Reason, Reflection, & Analysis | About this edition: AUTOMATICALLY PACKAGED WITH EVERY NEW COPY OF THE BOOK AND NOT AVAILABLE SEPARATELY.
9780201175585, titled "Electronics: A Systems Approach" | Addison-Wesley, May 1, 1992, cover price $35.95 | also contains Electronics: A Systems Approach

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Product Description: How is the life-altering event of migration narrated for children, especially if it was caused by Anti-Semitism and poverty? What of the country of origin is remembered and what is forgotten, and what of the target country when the migration is imagined there a century later? Looking Forward, Looking Back examines today’s representation of Jewish mass migration from Eastern Europe to America around the turn of the last century...read more

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9789042033726, titled "Looking Forward, Looking Back: Images of Eastern European Jewish Migration to America in Contemporary American Children’s Literature" | Rodopi Bv Editions, January 1, 2011, cover price $96.00 | About this edition: How is the life-altering event of migration narrated for children, especially if it was caused by Anti-Semitism and poverty?

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Product Description: From the creators of the bestselling books Dragonology, Egyptology, Piratelogy, and others, this is a never-before-seen glimpse into the world of Christopher Paolini’s Inheritance cycle. Alagaësia comes alive in a lush and detailed look at an unforgettable magical land...read more

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9780385617888 | Gardners Books, November 5, 2009, cover price $27.75 | About this edition: From the creators of the bestselling books Dragonology, Egyptology, Piratelogy, and others, this is a never-before-seen glimpse into the world of Christopher Paolini’s Inheritance cycle.
9780375858239 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, November 3, 2009, cover price $24.99 | About this edition: From the creators of the bestselling books Dragonology, Egyptology, Piratelogy, and others, this is a never-before-seen glimpse into the world of Christopher Paolini’s Inheritance cycle.

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Product Description: A lively study of the work of four major 19th century women writers of children's books: Juliana Ewing, Louisa Molesworth, Frances Hodgson Burnett and Edith Nesbit.

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9780746311578 | New edition (Northcote House Pub Ltd, November 15, 2007), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: A lively study of the work of four major 19th century women writers of children's books: Juliana Ewing, Louisa Molesworth, Frances Hodgson Burnett and Edith Nesbit.

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Presents fourteen essays on classic and contemporary children's literature, exploring the lives of notable authors and contending that the best writers for children hold on to some essence of childhood even as adults.

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9780613616072 | Turtleback Books, July 1, 2003, cover price $28.20 | About this edition: Presents fourteen essays on classic and contemporary children's literature, exploring the lives of notable authors and contending that the best writers for children hold on to some essence of childhood even as adults.

Why did the figure of "the girl" come to dominate the American imagination from the middle of the nineteenth century into the twentieth? Peter Stoneley looks at how women were fictionalized for the girl reader as ways of achieving a powerful social and cultural presence. Covering a wide range of works and writers, this book is of interest to cultural and literary scholars.

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9780521821872 | Cambridge Univ Pr, April 14, 2003, cover price $119.99 | About this edition: Why did the figure of "the girl" come to dominate the American imagination from the middle of the nineteenth century into the twentieth?

Paperback:

9780521035750 | 1 edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, April 30, 2007), cover price $49.99
9780070535947, titled "An American Iliad: The Story of the Civil War" | McGraw-Hill College, October 1, 1990, cover price $39.45 | also contains An American Iliad: The Story of the Civil War | About this edition: This concise but comprehensive history reflects a synthesis of the major writings on the war, as refined and focused through Professor Roland's own research and interpretation.

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Product Description: Issues of immigration remain fresh in the minds of many Americans whose lives are impacted in some form or other. Schooling is a public space where this impact is most often inevitable. Literature is one medium in which children are given a representational view of immigrants’ lived experiences...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780820444833, titled "Immigrants in Children's Literature" | Peter Lang Pub Inc, January 1, 2001, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Issues of immigration remain fresh in the minds of many Americans whose lives are impacted in some form or other.

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