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Welease Woderwick
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An Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth - Mohandas K. Gandhi
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Cara
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Narrative of Sojourner Truth: a Northern Slave by Sojourner Truth
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Welease Woderwick
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Northern Lights - Philip Pullman
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Lyda*Rose
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Auroras: Fire in the Sky by Dan Bortolotti
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Welease Woderwick
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Fire from Heaven - Mary Renault
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Angel Fire. by Andrew Greeley.
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Blessed Gator, pray for us!
--"Oh bat bladders, do you have to bring common sense into this?" (Dragon, "Jane & the Dragon")
--"Oh, Peace Train, save this country!" (Yusuf/Cat Stevens, "Peace Train")
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Garasu
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No angel, by Helen Keeble. - Rafael Angelos thought being the only guy at an all-girls school would be a dream come true--but he didn't realize that developing angelic powers and battling demons would be part of the package.
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ArachnidinElmet
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Broken Angels by Richard Morgan
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Lyda*Rose
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If They Come in the Morning by Angela Davis
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Jane R
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Joy in the Morning by P G Wodehouse
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Garasu
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The grey mane of morning, by Joy Chant.
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Cara
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Aha, Garasu, two links at once--clever!
The Little Grey Men by B.B.
(B.B. was the pen name of Denys Watkins-Pitchford, if more linkage potential is needed...)
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Robert Armin
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Little Women by Louisa May Alcott.
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Garasu
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Little vampire women, Louisa May Alcott and [adapted by] Lynn Messina. - In this twist on Louisa May Alcott's classic tale that chronicles the joys and sorrows of the four March sisters as they grow into young women in mid-nineteenth-century New England, the girls are vampires and neighbor Laurie wants to join them.
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Boadicea Trott
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The Little Village School by Gervase Phinn
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Garasu
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The wheel on the school, Meindert De Jong. - Lina and the other children must overcome many obstacles to bring the storks back to their little Dutch village. But they don't give up, and soon they get the whole village working to make their dream come true.
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"The Wheel Spins" by Ethel White - the basis for Hitchcock's film "The Lady Vanishes".
(PS I loved "The Wheel on the School" - takes me back to my Puffin Books days. I also like "Flood Warning" by Paul Berna).
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Robert Armin
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The Sword in the Stone by TH White.
The early life of an orphan, Wart, who with the the help of his tutor, Merlin, grows up to become someone famous.
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Cara
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The Silver Sword by Ian Serraillier
(children's classic, about World War 2).
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Welease Woderwick
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The Silver Chair - C S Lewis
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Garasu
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Silver on the tree, by Susan Cooper. - In the Welsh hills Will Stanton, youngest of the immortal Old Ones, joins forces with Merriman, Bran, and the mortal Drew children in a quest through space and time against the powers of evil known as the Dark.
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Welease Woderwick
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Tree and Leaf - J R R Tolkien
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Lyda*Rose
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Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
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The death of grass, by John Christopher. - At first the virus wiping out grass and crops is of little concern to John Custance. It has decimated Asia, causing mass starvation and riots, but Europe is safe and a counter-virus is expected any day. Except, it turns out, the governments have been lying to their people.
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Welease Woderwick
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A Taste for Death - P D James or Peter O'Donnell
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Lyda*Rose
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Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
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Welease Woderwick
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Historia Regum Britanniae [A History of the Kings of Britain] - Geoffrey of Monmouth
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Lyda*Rose
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Anna and the King of Siam by Margaret Landon
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Cara
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Mister God, this is Anna by Sydney Hopkins
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Lyda*Rose
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The World According to Mister Rogers: Important Things to Remember by Fred Rogers
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The word for world is forest, Ursula K. Le Guin. - Colonists from Earth take over a planet that the locals call Athshe, and follow the 19th century model of colonization, which involves cutting down trees, planting farms, building mines, and enslaving indigenous peoples. The Athsheans eventually retaliate against their captors, abandoning their rules against violence and endangering the very foundations of their society.
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Ursula Dubosarsky's The Perplexing Pineapple: The Cryptic Casebook of Coco Carlomagno (and Alberta) Book 1
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Garasu
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Think I may have to admit defeat and ask for an explanation...?
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Originally posted by Boadicea Trott:
Ursula Dubosarsky's The Perplexing Pineapple: The Cryptic Casebook of Coco Carlomagno (and Alberta) Book 1
A bear called Paddington. Coco/Cocoa. Geddit.
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Originally posted by Garasu:
Think I may have to admit defeat and ask for an explanation...?
Ursulas.
And mine..
Like Water for Chocolate, Laura Esquivel
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“Therefore, let it be explained that nowhere are the proprieties quite so strictly enforced as in men’s colleges that invite young women guests, especially over-night visitors in the fraternity houses.” Emily Post, 1937.
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Welease Woderwick
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Chocolat - Joanne Harris
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Garasu
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Originally posted by Ariston:
Ursulas.
Doh!
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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
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George's Marvellous Medicine - Roald Dahl
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Garasu
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George saves the world by lunchtime, Jo Readman ; illustrated by Ley Honor Roberts. - George is determined to save the world by lunchtime. Grandpa suggests they start by recycling the yoghurt pot from his breakfast, putting his banana peel in the compost pile, and hanging the washing to dry in the sun. George gets to learn how recycling and re-using materials, and using less petrol can really help save the world.
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Dark Lord of Derkholm by Diana Wynne Jones
In which an ill-assorted group of adventurers Saves The World, by subverting every cliché of fantasy literature you can think of...
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Garasu
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Originally posted by Jane R:
Dark Lord of Derkholm by Diana Wynne Jones
In which an ill-assorted group of adventurers Saves The World, by subverting every cliché of fantasy literature you can think of...
Thank you for the opportunity:
Dark lord. 1. The teenage years, Jamie Thomson. - Thirteen-year-old schoolboy, Dirk Lloyd, has a dark secret - in fact he is a dark secret. Dirk - according to his own account - is the earthly incarnation of a Dark Lord, supreme ruler of the Darklands and leader of great armies of orcs and warriors, intent on destruction and bloody devastation.
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Lord Peter Views the Body by Dorothy L. Sayers
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Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel.
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Do not be daunted by the enormity of the world’s grief. Do justly, now. Love mercy, now. Walk humbly, now. You are not obligated to complete the work, but neither are you free to abandon it.
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Boadicea Trott
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quote:
Originally posted by jrw:
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Originally posted by Boadicea Trott:
Ursula Dubosarsky's The Perplexing Pineapple: The Cryptic Casebook of Coco Carlomagno (and Alberta) Book 1
A bear called Paddington. Coco/Cocoa. Geddit.
jrw, ![[Overused]](graemlins/notworthy.gif) at your brilliance in finding that excellent link between them, but I only thought of the prosaic explanation that they were both written by someone called Ursula
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Garasu
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Henry VIII : wolfman, A. E. Moorat. - Five hundred years ago Henry VIII had a fearsome temper and bloodthirsty reputation to match; more beast than human, some might say... Is it possible he was really a werewolf?!? Discover the man behind the myth-- and behind the fur-- in this inventive retelling of Henry's reign.
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Welease Woderwick
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White Fang - Jack London
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Boadicea Trott
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London Lore by Steve Roud
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Originally posted by Garasu:
George saves the world by lunchtime, Jo Readman ; illustrated by Ley Honor Roberts. - George is determined to save the world by lunchtime. Grandpa suggests they start by recycling the yoghurt pot from his breakfast, putting his banana peel in the compost pile, and hanging the washing to dry in the sun. George gets to learn how recycling and re-using materials, and using less petrol can really help save the world.
This is so stoneage! What the hell is wrong with electric clothes driers, garbage bins and 200-horsepower four-cylindre engines in a top of the range, US spec, Ford Focus like the 2013 one I drive?
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Writing is currently my hobby, not yet my profession.
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