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Eight Cousins (1875) is a novel by American author, feminist, and abolitionist Louisa May Alcott. Based on her experience of being raised by a father dedicated to education reform, and grounded in her radical beliefs on the role of women in society, Eight Cousins is a masterpiece of children's literature that explores themes of family, death, and perseverance.
Rose Campbell is a young girl when her parents pass away. Orphaned, she is taken to the...
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"Harvey Cheyne, the pampered fifteen-year-old son of an American millionaire, is sailing to Europe when he falls overboard. Saved from drowning by a New England fishing schooner, he finds his rough new companions unimpressed by his wealth and shocked by his ignorance. He will have to prove his worth in the only way the captain and crew will accept: through the slow and arduous mastery of skills upon which their common survival depends."--Back cover....
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Mary Lennox is a prickly and unloved ten-year-old girl, born in India to wealthy British parents. When they suddenly die, she is sent back to England to live with her uncle. There, she begins to uncover many family secrets, particularly after meeting her sickly cousin Colin, who has been shut away in a wing of the house. Together, these two damaged, slightly misfit children heal each other through their discovery of a wondrous secret garden.
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"Set in the magical Wessex landscape so familiar from Thomas Hardy's early work, Tess of the D'Urbervilles is unique among his great novels for the intense feeling that he lavished upon his heroine, Tess, a pure woman betrayed by love. Hardy poured all of his profound empathy for both humanity and the rhythms of natural life into this story of her beauty, goodness, and tragic fate. In so doing, he created a character who, like Emma Bovary and Anna...
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At the age of ten, Fanny Price leaves the poverty of her Portsmouth home to be brought up among the family of her wealthy uncle, Sir Thomas Bertram, in the chilly grandeur of Mansfield Park. She gradually falls in love with her cousin Edmund, but when the dazzling and sophisticated Crawfords arrive, and amateur theatricals unleash rivalry and sexual jealousy, Fanny has to fight to retain her independence. This new edition places Mansfield Park in...
7) Sport
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Harriet the spy volume 3
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When his grandfather dies, eleven-year-old Sport worries that he will be forced to live with his wealthy and greedy mother rather than remain with his kind father and new stepmother.
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Mary Lennox is a prickly and unloved ten-year-old girl, born in India to wealthy British parents. When they suddenly die, she is sent back to England to live with her uncle. There, she begins to uncover many family secrets, particularly after meeting her sickly cousin Colin, who has been shut away in a wing of the house. Together, these two damaged, slightly misfit children heal each other through their discovery of a wondrous secret garden.
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Daughters (Joanna Philbin) volume 2
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When New York City fourteen-year-old Corina impulsively reveals incriminating information about her multi-billionaire father, he replaces her unlimited funds with an antiquated cell phone, a Metrocard, and a twenty-dollar weekly allowance.
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Privilege novels volume 3
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Make new friends and kill the old....Ariana Osgood has everything she's ever wanted. A place at elite Atherton-Pryce boarding school. Fabulous friends. A new crush. And most importantly, a new identity. Now that she's officially become Briana Leigh Covington, Ariana's troubled past is dead and buried.Or is it? When the one person who knows her secret arrives on campus, Ariana decides it's time to say good-bye to her ex-best friend -- forever.
12) Blank check
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A kid receives a blank check from a mobster who accidentally hits him with his car, and is surprised when he actually cashes it for a million dollars.
13) Ri¢hie Ri¢h
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A likable but isolated kid has everything money can buy except friends--until he hits it off big with a group of sandlot kids.
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While on a trip to Hollywood to help a celebrity starlet's depressed Chihuahua, Maya Dolittle gets caught up in the Hollywood glitz. Dropping her dreams of becoming a vet, Maya lands a job hosting an animal talk show with famous heiress Tiffany Monaco. Lucky starts falling in love with a pedigreed pooch and Maya falls out of love with the ideas about how to help animals. Just when Maya thinks she'll be trapped forever in Tinseltown, Lucky, his new...
15) Kids vs monsters
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The six richest people in the world each have one thing still dragging them down, their intolerable kids. Luckily, there is a mysterious entity known as The Boss who with his assistant Heinrich is happy to help. He has some monsters of his own, and they are just dying to test out their skills. The parents arrange to drop their six troublesome kids, at one big creepy house attended to by The Butler.
16) Billionaire boy
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A rich boy named Joe has absolutely everything he could possibly want. But there's just one thing he really needs: a friend.
17) Santa & me
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When a mall Santa tells Rubie, a grade school bully from a wealthy family, that she doesn't know the spirit of Christmas, Rubie accuses him of not being the real Santa. On Christmas Eve, she hears a noise in the house, and discovers Santa coming down the chimney. It's not storybook Santa, but the same Santa from the mall. He gives Rubie a holiday assignment. If she doesn't complete the task, he'll make her as ugly on the outside as she is on the inside....
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"Joe Spud es el niño de doce años más rico del mundo. Hijo del inventor del papel sanitario Pompisfresh, tiene tanto dinero que ha comprado todo lo que se puede desear: un coche de Fórmula Uno, quinientos pares de tenis (sin exagerar), un perro robot importado de Japón, un acuario con dos cocodrilos y un tiburón, además de un parque de diversiones privado para su jardín. Pero lo que de verdad necesita no puede comprarse con dinero. ¿Sabes...
19) Mansfield Park
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Fanny's arrival at her wealthy relatives' estate creates a conflict of class and virtue.
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Nuobodžiaujantis ir vienišas milijonieriaus sūnus keliauja vandenynu. Pasipūtėliškai gyręsis kitiems keleiviams jis staiga bangos nusviedžiamas už borto. Jį išgelbsti nedidelis žvejų laivelis. Jis susipažįsta su gyvenimo būdu, kur ne viską galima nupirkti už pinigus, ir kur žmogaus vertė matuojama ne...
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