Essential Books For 9-10 Children

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The Complete Little House Nine-Book Set By: Laura Ingalls Wilder

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The set includes: Little House in the Big Woods, Little House on the Prairie, Farmer Boy, On the Banks of Plum Creek, By the Shores of Silver Lake, The Long Winter, Little Town on the Prairie, These Happy Golden Years, and The First Four Years. Little House in ...

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Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh (Aladdin Fantasy) By: Robert C. O'Brien

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There's something very strange about the rats living under the rosebush at the Fitzgibbon farm. But Mrs. Frisby, a widowed mouse with a sick child, is in dire straits and must turn to these exceptional creatures for assistance. Soon she finds herself flyin...

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Island of the Blue Dolphins By: Scott O'Dell

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Product Description The Newberry Medal-winning story of a 12-year old girl who lives alone on a Pacific island after she leaps from a rescue ship. Isolated on the island for eighteen years, Karana forages for food, builds weapons to fight predators, clothes herself in a cormorant feathered ...

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Bud, Not Buddy By: Christopher Paul Curtis

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"It's funny how ideas are, in a lot of ways they're just like seeds. Both of them start real, real small and then... woop, zoop, sloop... before you can say Jack Robinson, they've gone and grown a lot bigger than you ever thought they could." So figures sc...

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Harriet the Spy By: Louise Fitzhugh

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Ages 8-12. Thirty-two years before it was made into a movie, ...

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Maniac Magee By: Jerry Spinelli

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Maniac Magee is a folk story about a boy, a very excitable boy. One that can outrun dogs, hit a home run off the best pitcher in the neighborhood, tie a knot no one can undo. "Kid's gotta be a maniac," is what the folks in Two Mills say. It's also the stor...

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The Cricket in Times Square (Chester Cricket and His Friends) By: George Selden

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One night, the sounds of New York City--the rumbling of subway trains, thrumming of automobile tires, hooting of horns, howling of brakes, and the babbling of voices--is interrupted by a sound that even Tucker Mouse, a jaded inhabitant of Times Square, has...

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James and the Giant Peach By: Roald Dahl

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Roald Dahl's classic children's novel is now a motion picture from The Walt Disney Company, and this version of ...

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The Westing Game (Puffin Modern Classics) By: Ellen Raskin

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A supersharp mystery . . . Confoundingly clever, and very funny. -- ...

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The Thief Lord By: Oliver Latsch

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Imagine a Dickens story with a Venetian setting, and you'll have a good sense of Cornelia Funke's prizewinning novel ...

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Savvy By: Ingrid Law

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Product Description A vibrant new voice . . . a modern classic. For generations, the Beaumont family has harbored a magical secret. They each possess a "savvy" -a special supernatural power that strikes when they turn thirteen. Grandpa Bomba moves mountains, her older brothers create hurricanes ...

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The Great Fire By: Jim Murphy

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The Phantom Tollbooth By: Norton Juster

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"It seems to me that almost everything is a waste of time," Milo laments. "[T]here's nothing for me to do, nowhere I'd care to go, and hardly anything worth seeing." This bored, bored young protagonist who can't see the point to anything is knocked out of his glum humdrum ...