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I Rode a Horse of Milk White Jade

Author : Diane Wilson

Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.

Page : 226 pages

File Size : 36,69 MB

Release : 2010-03-01

Category : Juvenile Fiction

ISBN : 1402269536

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A moving and heartfelt story about the lengths one would go to help their family When Oyuna was a baby, a horse accidentally crushed her foot, cursing her family with bad luck. Oyuna vows to restore good fortune to her family...but how? One fateful day, soldiers from the great Khan's army invade her village to steal horses and gather new soldiers. In hopes of bringing honor to her family, Oyuna courageously disguises herself as a boy and joins the soldiers on their quest. With only her horse and her cat to keep her company, Oyuna sets off on an amazing journey across deserts and mountains—a journey that will change her life forever. "No ordinary horse story...Horse lovers or not, readers will be riveted."—Publishers Weekly, Starred Review "Ambitious and fast-moving."—New York Times



Shadow Spinner

Author : Susan Fletcher

Publisher : Simon and Schuster

Page : 195 pages

File Size : 22,43 MB

Release : 2011-10-18

Category : Juvenile Fiction

ISBN : 1442446811

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Every night, Shahrazad begins a story. And every morning, the Sultan lets her live another day -- providing the story is interesting enough to capture his attention. After almost one thousand nights, Shahrazad is running out of tales. And that is how Marjan's story begins.... It falls to Marjan to help Shahrazad find new stories -- ones the Sultan has never heard before. To do that, the girl is forced to undertake a dangerous and forbidden mission: sneak from the harem and travel the city, pulling tales from strangers and bringing them back to Shahrazad. But as she searches the city, a wonderful thing happens. From a quiet spinner of tales, Marjan suddenly becomes the center of a more surprising story than she ever could have imagined.



Twice Upon a Marigold

Author : Jean Ferris

Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Page : 308 pages

File Size : 19,47 MB

Release : 2009-04-06

Category : Juvenile Fiction

ISBN : 9780152066925

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Full of zany humor, this sequel to "Once Upon a Marigold" continues the story of Christian and Marigold, who are living happily ever after now that Queen Olympia has gone--or has she?



Black Storm Comin'

Author : DIANE LEE WILSON

Publisher : Simon and Schuster

Page : 333 pages

File Size : 21,79 MB

Release : 2012-12-11

Category : Juvenile Fiction

ISBN : 1471103382

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WANTED: Young, skinny, wiry fellows not over eighteen. Must be expert riders. Willing to risk death daily. Orphans preferred. When Colton Wescott sees this sign for the Pony Express, he thinks he has the solution to his problems. He's stuck with his ma and two younger sisters on the wrong side of the Sierra Nevada Mountains, with no way to get across. They were on the wagon train heading to California when Pa accidentally shot Colton and then galloped away. Ma is sick, and Colton needs money to pay the doctor. He'd make good money as a Pony rider. he also needs to get to California to deliver freedom papers to Ma's sister, a runaway slave. The Pony Express could get him there too... Does Colton have what it takes to be a Pony Express rider? And if so, will traveling the dangerous route over the mountains bring him closer to family, freedom, and everything he holds dear?



Becoming Ben Franklin

Author : Russell Freedman

Publisher : Holiday House

Page : 99 pages

File Size : 31,5 MB

Release : 2021-08-17

Category : Juvenile Nonfiction

ISBN : 0823449459

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In 1723 Ben Franklin arrived in Philadelphia as a poor and friendless seventeen-year-old who had run away from his family and an apprenticeship in Boston. Sixty-two years later he stepped ashore in nearly the same spot but was greeted by cannons, bells, and a cheering crowd, now a distinguished statesman, renowned author, and world-famous scientist. Freedman's riveting story of how a rebellious apprentice became an American icon comes in an elegantly designed book filled with art and includes a timeline, source notes, bibliography, and index



Beat the Story-Drum, Pum-Pum

Author : Ashley Bryan

Publisher : Turtleback Books

Page : 0 pages

File Size : 22,92 MB

Release : 1987-05-31

Category : Folklore

ISBN : 9780808592242

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For use in schools and libraries only. Five traditional Nigerian tales include Hen And Frog, Why Bush Cow And Elephant Are Bad Friends, The Husband Who Counted The Spoonfuls, Why Frog And Snake Never Play Together, and How Animals Got Their Tails.



The Horse and His Boy

Author : C.S. Lewis

Publisher : Wyatt North Publishing, LLC

Page : 195 pages

File Size : 31,70 MB

Release : 2002

Category : Fiction

ISBN :

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C. S. Lewis was a British author, lay theologian, and contemporary of J.R.R. Tolkien. The Horse and His Boy is the fifth book in The Chronicles of Narnia series of seven books.



Firehorse

Author : Diane Lee Wilson

Publisher : Simon and Schuster

Page : 324 pages

File Size : 28,34 MB

Release : 2010-07-06

Category : Young Adult Fiction

ISBN : 1442403357

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Fifteen-year-old Rachel is furious and lonely when her father moves the family to Boston in 1872—especially since she had to sell her beloved horse. But in Boston she finds the Governor’s Girl, an injured firehorse, and begins caring for her and thinking about becoming a veterinarian. Then an outbreak of fires causes Rachel to question the ethics of her journalist father, and when the horses who pull the fire engines fall ill, the danger escalates. In a dramatic climax, the Great Boston Fire of 1872 is brought to life with cinematic vividness, and Rachel proves her grit and determination to make something of herself.





The Ghost of Fossil Glen

Author : Cynthia DeFelice

Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)

Page : 181 pages

File Size : 28,50 MB

Release : 2010-03-30

Category : Juvenile Fiction

ISBN : 1429930535

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From beloved author Cynthia DeFelice, The Ghost of Fossil Glen marks the first installment in this gripping middle grade series featuring sixth-grader and ghost magnet Allie Nichols, who solves mysteries with the help of her friend Dub. Allie Nichols knows she's being pursued by a ghost. But her friend Karen calls her a liar and doesn't want to hear "stuff like that." It is Allie's old pal Dub who listens eagerly as Allie tells him about a voice that guides her safely down a steep cliff side, the face in her mind's eye of a girl who begs "Help me," and a terrible nightmare in which that girl falls to her death. Who is the girl? Is she the ghost? And what does the ghost want from Allie? As Allie discovers that her role is to avenge a murder, she also learns something about friendship, false and true, in this chilling tale from bestselling author Cynthia DeFelice.