Linda Bailey
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After his Great-Granddad dies, "terminally shy" Lewis Dearborn and his parents move into his dilapidated seaside mansion, where Lewis claims as his bedroom a cool tower overlooking the Atlantic. It isn't long before the ghosts of seven pirates, who had been living in that same room, make themselves known to Lewis. They want his help to retake their ancient ship, now restored in a museum. If he does, Lewis will get the room all to himself.
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Dotty and Other Dotty are a pair of matching mittens worn by a little girl, and in the girl's pocket lays Stripes, a mitten that has lost its partner. Dotty and Other Dotty exclude Stripes from their friendship, pointing out how it doesn't match. The tables are turned when Dotty loses its partner and Other Stripes shows up. Finally the little girl steps in and questions why they have to match. When the girl begins wearing mismatched mittens, the mittens...
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When Cinderella wishes for a fairy godmother, she’s not expecting one that barks! And this fairy dogmother has a different agenda. Yes, Cinderella will have a new dress, but made of a cozy dog blanket. Yes, they will go to the ball, but they will run there and chase squirrels along the way. There’s nothing like a canine companion to get a girl out of the house and her mind off her troubles! Yes, indeed, dogs do make everything better—and...
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"Santa's parents think their little one is absolutely wonderful, even though he has a booming voice instead of a baby's gurgle, loves to stand in front of the refrigerator, gives his birthday presents away, trains his hamsters to pull a matchbox sleigh ... and has an unusual interest in chimneys. The adorably funny portrait of an oddball kid who fulfills his destiny--and two very proud parents."-- From Amazon.com.
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How does a story begin? Sometimes it begins with a dream, and a dreamer. Mary is one such dreamer, a little girl who learns to read by tracing the letters on the tombstone of her famous feminist mother, Mary Wollstonecraft, and whose only escape from her strict father and overbearing stepmother is through the stories she reads and imagines. Unhappy at home, she seeks independence, and at the age of sixteen runs away with poet Percy Bysshe Shelley,...
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Twins Emma and Josh and their little sister Libby find themselves transported back in time after opening an old travel guide book they find in an odd travel agency. Stuck in ancient Egypt, the kids must learn all they can from the Guidebook in order to return to their home safely. Includes resources for further information.