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	Little History of the World  •  E. H. Gombrich HISTORY •  2008 •  PAPER  • 304 PAGES • MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12) Gombrich, the late author of the beloved Story of Art, wrote this world history for children in 1936 in Vienna. He began translating it into English shortly before his death in 2001. It's a wise book for kids, which has been brought up to speed with an epilogue covering the 20th century. He manages to relate, in 40 short chapters, the history of our species from the stone age to the atomic bomb. With the original woodcut illutsrations. (REF12, $12.95)
	The Story of Ferdinand  •  Munro Leaf  •  Robert Lawson LITERATURE •  1936 •  PAPER  • 72 PAGES • YOUNG READERS (Age 4-8) This classic story of a bull who loved to smell flowers (memorably opening with Once upon a Time in Spain) has lost none of its enchantment over the decades. The pen-and-ink drawings evoke with a few lines the pasture where Ferdinand lolled, the frightening men from the Madrid who came to take him away, and the landscapes and scenery of Spain. Originally published in 1936. (SPN212, $7.99)
	The Midnight Folk  •  John Masefield LITERATURE •  2008 •  HARD COVER  • 304 PAGES • MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12) Originally published in 1927, British Poet Laureate Masefield's engaging tale of pirates and treasure, witchcraft and adventure, beloved by children and adults, practically demands to be read aloud. Kay Harker, a mistreated orphan, is bored and alone save a few stuffed animals, until his great-grandfather appears from beyond the grave and sends him on an enchanted, dangerous mission. (GBR792, $16.95)
	A Zoo in My Luggage  •  Gerald Durrell BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR •  2005 •  PAPER  • 208 PAGES Durrell's delightful memoir of a six-month collecting trip to Britsh Cameroon for his new zoo, originally published in 1960. The mission gets funnier in England as Durrell and his wife struggle to find a permanent home for their exotic animals. By the author of Birds, Beasts & Relatives, and My Family and Other Animals. (WAF78, $14.00)
	Never Cry Wolf  •  Farley Mowat LITERATURE •  2001 •  PAPER  • 246 PAGES • FAVORITE A laugh-out-loud funny account of wolf research and government folly set on the barren lands of northern Manitoba. Mowat, a Canadian national treasure, based the book on his own experiences as a wildlife biologist. It's our favorite of his many books. (BST34, $12.99)

	Going Solo  •  Roald Dahl   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • YOUNG ADULTS  •  Both young and old will delight in Dahl's recollections of his adventures as a WWII-era Royal Air Force pilot in Tanzania and Greece. (EAF78, $6.99)
	Homesick, My Own Story  •  Jean Fritz   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)  •  Jean Fritz recounts her childhood in Hankow, China in the 1920s. It's a candid, wonderfully written account of this turbulent time, told from a little girl's perspective. (CHN141, $5.99)
	Tisha, The Story of a Young Teacher in the Alaska Wilderness  •  Robert Specht   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • YOUNG ADULTS  •  The story of Anne Hobbs, who went to Alaska to teach and became a crusader on behalf of Alaska's native peoples. (ALA133, $7.50)
	A Girl Named Disaster  •  Nancy Farmer   • LITERATURE • YOUNG ADULTS  •  An 11-year-old girl embarks on a year-long odyssey from Mozambique to Zimbabwe in gripping this introduction to Southern Africa, the Shona and their ideas about the spirit world for young adults by National Book Award winner and three-time Newbery Honor author. (ZIM09, $6.99)
	A Proud Taste for Scarlet and Miniver  •  E.L. Konigsburg   • LITERATURE • YOUNG ADULTS  •  A marvelous young adult novel of Eleanor of Aquitaine, who was queen of France and England successively, traveler to Constantinople, wife of a future saint, mother of Richard the Lionheart and for 15 years a prisoner of the English Crown. (GBR245, $5.99)
	A String in the Harp  •  Nancy Bond   • LITERATURE • YOUNG ADULTS  •  With the aid of a magic harp key, three American teens in Wales are transported to the 6th-century, where they encounter the great Welsh bard Taliesin and become absorbed in the world of Celtic mythology. Readers will be absorbed, too. (GBR592, $6.99)
	An Episode of Sparrows  •  Rumer Godden   • LITERATURE • MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)  •  A tender, emotionally attuned novel set among street children in postwar London by a favorite author. Godden (1907-1998) wrote 60 books for adults and young adults over a long career. (GBR688, $18.95)
	House of Sixty Fathers  •  Meindert De Jong  •  Maurice Sendak   • LITERATURE • MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)  •  This classic children's novel is set in China during the Japanese invasion as a young boy makes a journey to reunite with his family. A Newbery Honor Book, illustrated by Maurice Sendak and written for kids ages 9-12. (CHN119, $5.95)
	Mr. Popper's Penguins  •  Florence Atwater  •  Richard Atwater  •  Robert Lawson   • LITERATURE • MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)  •  The 1938 English classic of Antarctic-obsessed Mr. Popper and his houseful of penguins, still a favorite of both children and adults. (ANT134, $6.99)
	The Captive  •  Scott O'Dell   • LITERATURE • YOUNG ADULTS  •  A tough young-adult novel about the Spanish enslavement of the Maya, complicated and compelling. As Maya villages throughout Central America submit to Spanish might, a young Jesuit missionary struggles with his own ambition -- and with his growing suspicion that he, too, is a willing oppressor. (MYA27, $17.00)
	The Egypt Game  •  Zilpha Keatley Snyder   • LITERATURE • MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)  •  An excellent introduction to hieroglyphs, pharaohs, gods and goddesses. Strange things happen when two amateur Egyptologists (and reluctant middle-school students) transform an abandoned shed in Southern California into a simulacrum of Ancient Egypt. (EGY91, $6.50)
	The Land of Green Ginger  •  Noel Langley  •  Edward Ardizzone   • LITERATURE  •  One of the screen writers for The Wizard of Oz, Langley brings wit and a winning way with words to his beloved Arabian Nights fantasia. (ARB99, $10.95)
	The Land of the Silver Apples  •  Nancy Farmer   • LITERATURE • MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)  •  In this sequel to the Sea of Trolls, apprentice bard Jack plunges into a new series of adventures, traveling underground to Elfland and uncovering the truth about his little sister Lucy. Along the way, he encounters a cast of surprising characters, including saxons, northmen, picts, hobgoblins, elves and others from earthly Christian Europe. (GBR729, $18.99)
	The Three Musketeers  •  Alexandre Dumas   • LITERATURE • YOUNG ADULTS  •  This French standard is page-turning fare for young adults, who'll stay up 'til the wee hours to find out what became of D'Artagnan, Aramis, Athos, Porthos and the nefarious Lady DeWinter (FRN362, $12.95)
	Wilderness  •  Roddy Doyle   • LITERATURE • MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)  •  Mom goes missing in Lapland in this family tale for young adults by the Booker-prize Winning Roddy Doyle. He twines the tales of sullen Irish teenager Gráinne, who's long-missing mother suddenly re-appears in Dublin, with the story of her half-brothers and their mother Sandra on a dog-sledding vacation in Finland. (IRE218, $16.99)
	D'Aulaires' Book of Animals  •  Ingri D'Aulaire   • NATURAL HISTORY • YOUNG READERS (Age 4-8)  •  More than fifty animals from the polar regions to the tropics are beautifully lithographed in full color. (NAT116, $16.95)
	One Day in the Tropical Rain Forest  •  Jean Craighead George   • NATURAL HISTORY • YOUNG READERS (Age 4-8)  •  The Newbery Medal-winning author of "Julie of the Wolves" goes south for this brief and gripping nonfiction portrait of the Amazon. Geared for ages 8-10. (FST08, $4.99)

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