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Adam of the Road
• Elizabeth Janet Gray
• Robert Lawson
• LITERATURE
• MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)
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An enduring classic about the adventures of a medieval English boy.
(GBR336, $7.99)
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Alice's Adventures In Wonderland
• Robert Sabuda
• LITERATURE
• FAMILY
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Working his own magic, paper-fold master Sabuda unfurls the classic tale in a series of six stunning double-page animated scenes. Each double-page spread, adapted from Tenniel's original illustrations, thrills with color, texture, and, most surprising of all, height.
(GBR426, $26.99)
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass
• Lewis Carroll
• Roger Lancelyn Green
• John Tenniel
• LITERATURE
• FAMILY
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The enduring children's classic.
(GBR449, $8.95)
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Bard of Avon
• Diane Stanley
• Peter Vennema
• HISTORY
• YOUNG READERS (Age 4-8)
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An illustrated account of William Shakespeare's life and 16th century England, written for readers ages 6 and older.
(GBR151, $7.99)
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Beware, Princess Elizabeth
• Carolyn Meyer
• LITERATURE
• YOUNG ADULTS
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A young-adult novel about proud, lonely, endangered Princess Elizabeth Tudor.
(GBR332, $6.95)
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The Big Six
• Arthur Ransome
• LITERATURE
• MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)
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This sweet novel follows the further adventures of the Coot Club in the Norfolk Broads.
(GBR485, $14.95)
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Boy, Tales of Childhood
• Roald Dahl
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
• YOUNG ADULTS
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With his usual gift for storytelling, Dahl recalls his youth, including misadventures in boarding school, working as a chocolate tester and summering in Wales. Great family reading.
(GBR183, $6.99)
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The Coot Club
• Arthur Ransome
• LITERATURE
• MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)
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It's summetime in the English countryside and our heroes band together to solve a mystery.
(GBR484, $14.95)
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Coram Boy
• Jamila Gavin
• LITERATURE
• YOUNG ADULTS
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This young adult novel offers a textured, nuanced, evocative story of the upper and lower classes in England in 1741, concentrating her focus on two 13-year-old boys and their intertwined ambitions.
(GBR339, $7.95)
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Crispin, The Cross of Lead
• Avi
• LITERATURE
• MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)
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A suspenseful, award-winning tale set in Medieval England.
(GBR528, $6.99)
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Elizabeth I, Red Rose of the House of Tudor
• Kathryn Lasky
• LITERATURE
• YOUNG ADULTS
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The fictitious diary of Elizabeth Tudor, written for young adults.
(GBR331, $10.95)
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England, A True Book
• Michael Burgan
• CULTURAL PORTRAIT
• YOUNG READERS (Age 4-8)
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An introduction to England and English history for readers 6 to 8.
(GBR338, $6.95)
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An Episode of Sparrows
• Rumer Godden
• LITERATURE
• MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)
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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)
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Hello Britain! Absolutely Everything You Need to Know to Enjoy Your Holiday in Britain
• Rebecca Welby
• EXPLORATION
• MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)
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(GBR669, $16.95)
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I Capture the Castle
• Dodie Smith
• LITERATURE
• YOUNG ADULTS
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A novel about a 17-year-old girl who spends six months in an English castle writing in a journal, until she has "captured" the castle with words.
(GBR497, $13.95)
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James Herriot's Treasury for Children
• James Herriot
• Peter Barrett
• Ruth Brown
• LITERATURE
• YOUNG READERS (Age 4-8)
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A collection of children's stories by the author of "All Creatures Great and Small."
(GBR390, $19.95)
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King of Shadows
• Susan Cooper
• LITERATURE
• MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)
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A novel of time-travel, Shakespeare -- and the plague -- for kids.
(GBR161, $5.99)
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Knight's Castle
• Edward Eager
• LITERATURE
• MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)
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A charming fantasy about four young Americans who are whisked back in time to Robin Hood's England.
(GBR340, $6.00)
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Lassie Come-Home
• Rosemary Wells
• Susan Jeffers
• Eric Knight
• LITERATURE
• YOUNG READERS (Age 4-8)
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An award-winning, illustrated retelling of the Eric Knight heart-warmer.
(GBR392, $8.95)
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Loving Will Shakespeare
• Carolyn Meyer
• LITERATURE
• YOUNG ADULTS
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Popular young adult author Carolyn Meyer fictionalizes the romance between Anne Hathaway and the young William Shakespeare in this novel for teens.
(GBR668, $17.00)
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Madeline in London
• Ludwig Bemelmans
• LITERATURE
• YOUNG READERS (Age 4-8)
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Miss Clavel, Madeline and her 11 classmates travel to London to cheer up their former neighbor, Pepito.
(GBR152, $17.99)
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Mary, Bloody Mary
• Carolyn Meyer
• LITERATURE
• YOUNG ADULTS
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A historical novel about Mary Tudor, the short-lived, embattled Catholic Tudor queen.
(GBR333, $6.95)
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The Midwife's Apprentice
• Karen Cushman
• LITERATURE
• MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)
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A Newberry Award-winning tale of an orphan and a midwife in Medieval England.
(GBR341, $5.99)
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Once Upon a Time in Great Britain, A Travel Guide to the Sights and Sounds of Your Favorite Children's Stories
• Melanie Wentz
• GUIDEBOOK
• FAMILY
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A treat for fans of British children's literature, this is a guide to places that inspired the classics.
(GBR379, $15.95)
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A Proud Taste for Scarlet and Miniver
• E.L. Konigsburg
• LITERATURE
• YOUNG ADULTS
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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)
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The Queen's Own Fool
• Robert J. Harris
• Jane Yolen
• LITERATURE
• YOUNG ADULTS
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A novel about the life of Mary Queen of Scots, told from her jester's point of view.
(SCT55, $7.99)
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Ring of Bright Water
• Gavin Maxwell
• NATURAL HISTORY
• YOUNG ADULTS
• OUT OF PRINT
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This magical book has been treasured by generations of children and their parents.
(SCT17, $13.00)
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Robin Hood, Read and Listen
• Neil Philip
• HISTORY
• MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)
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The tale of Robin Hood and his band of followers for grades 3-5, noteworthy for its visual approach and good historical background.
(GBR479, $9.99)
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The Secret Garden
• Frances Hodgson Burnett
• Tasha Tudor
• LITERATURE
• MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)
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The enduring children's classic about a magical garden hidden on a staid country estate.
(GBR391, $6.99)
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The Shakespeare Stealer
• Gary Blackwood
• LITERATURE
• MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)
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Will orphan Widge obey his employer and steal Shakespeare's latest play?
(GBR335, $6.99)
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The Snow Goose
• Paul Gallico
• LITERATURE
• MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)
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A handsome hardcover edition of Gallico's poignant tale of innocence and longing set in Word War II England.
(BRD20, $19.95)
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Stephen Biesty's Castles
• Stephen Biesty
• ART & ARCHITECTURE
• FAMILY
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This delightfully illustrated book by Stephen Biesty depicts 10 real castles, not just the architecture but also routines, inhabitants and life. Meredith Hooper provides the accompanying tale. Intended for middle schoolers, the whole family will appreciate the glimpse into daily life in the castle -- and the exquisitely detailed renderings.
(GBR486, $19.95)
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A Street Through Time
• Anne Millard
• Steve Noon
• HISTORY
• FAMILY
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This oversize book depicts the changes on an English riverbank from Stone age camp to modern city.
(GBR487, $17.99)
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The Tailor of Gloucester
• Beatrix Potter
• LITERATURE
• FAMILY
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Potter's delightful tale of a ailing English tailor and the mice that help him sew a waiscoat.
(GBR466, $6.99)
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This is London
• Miroslav Sasek
• CULTURAL PORTRAIT
• YOUNG READERS (Age 4-8)
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A facsimile editon of Sasek's wonderfully illustrated portrait of London for children ages 4-8. Originally published in 1958.
(GBR529, $17.95)
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The Tudor Women
• Carolyn Meyer
• LITERATURE
• YOUNG ADULTS
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A boxed set featuring four volumes in Meyer's popular young adult Royal Diaries series ("Mary, Bloody Mary," "Beware, Princess Elizabeth," "Doomed Queen Anne" and "Patience, Princess Catherine").
(GBR667, $23.85)
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We Didn't Meant to Go to Sea
• Arthur Ransome
• LITERATURE
• MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)
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In this seventh installment in the Swallows and Amazon series finds our heroes in a gale out on a small boat in the North Sea.
(GBR483, $14.95)
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Westminster Abby
• Micol Ostow
• LITERATURE
• YOUNG ADULTS
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16 year-old Abby is punished by being sent to study in London after her parents discover she lied to them about a boy. The first book in the SASS (Students Across the Seven Seas) series.
(GBR670, $6.99)
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The Wind in the Willows
• Kenneth Grahame
• Ernest H. Shepard
• LITERATURE
• FAMILY
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Grahame's beloved adventures set along a riverbank in the English countryside.
(GBR457, $5.99)
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The Wind in the Willows
• Kenneth Grahame
• Ernest H. Shepard
• LITERATURE
• MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)
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A 75th anniverrsary edition of Grahame's enduring tale of fun, friendship and adventure, starring Rat, Toad, Mole, and Badger.
(GBR481, $19.95)
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