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3) Old Yeller
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Travis and his dog 'Old Yeller' live through a hard summer while his father drives the herd from Texas to the Kansas market.
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David Copperfield is the novel Dickens regarded as his 'favourite child' and is considered his most autobiographical. As David recounts his experience from childhood to the discovery of his vocation as a successful novelist, Dickens draws openly and revealingly on his own life. Among the gloriously vivid cast of characters are David's tyrannical stepfather, Mr Murdstone; his brilliant, but ultimately unworthy, school-friend Steerforth; his formidable...
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"The classic boyhood adventure tale, updated with a new introduction by noted Mark Twain scholar R. Kent Rasmussen In recent years, neither the persistent effort to "clean up" the racial epithets in Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn nor its consistent use in the classroom have diminished, highlighting the novel's wide-ranging influence and its continued importance in American society. An incomparable adventure story, it is a vignette of...
9) Half a king
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Heir to the throne Yarvi, prompted by the murder of his father, embarks on a kingdom-transforming journey to regain the throne, even though having only one good hand means he cannot wield a weapon.
11) Stuck
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[2011]
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When Floyd's kite gets stuck in a tree, he tries to knock it down with increasingly larger and more outrageous things.
13) Farewell summer
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[2006]
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Thirteen-year-old Douglas Spaulding, his younger brother and their friends declare war on the elderly men of Green Town, IL, in an effort to stop the clock on top of the courthouse building, believing that in doing so, they could hold onto their youth and the last days of summer. Doug and his friends find themselves equally matched by town elder and school board member, Mr. Calvin C. Quartermain, and his elderly cohorts.
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[2009]
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Suzanne is sick of hearning Becky brag about her pony, but she agrees to go with Katie in their class to watch Becky ride at a horse show. During the competition, Ketie gets switcherooed into Brownie. Ketie has to concentrate if she wants to help Becky win a ribbon, but there's one very big problem: She can't stop horsing around!
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