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Anni's Diary of France
• Anni Axworthy
• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
• MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)
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Taking the form of an illustrated diary, this book is a lively record of a family trip to France, featuring food, art and history. Written for young readers ages 8-10.
(FRN46, $6.95)
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Cathedral, The Story of its Construction
• David MacAulay
• ART & ARCHITECTURE
• MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)
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In this illuminating book for young readers, master draughtsman MacAulay presents text and innovative drawings that detail the planning and construction of a 13th-century Gothic cathedral. It's a masterpiece.
(EUR24, $18.00)
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The Family Under the Bridge
• Natalie Savage Carlson
• Garth Williams
• LITERATURE
• MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)
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This Newbery Medal winning book is a charming, wonderfully human story recounting the Parisian adventures of the hobo Armand and the three homeless children who make him shed his grumpy ways. Ages 9-12.
(FRN313, $5.99)
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The Yellow House, Vincent Van Gogh and Paul Gauguin Side by Side
• Susan Goldman Rubin
• Joseph A. Smith
• ART & ARCHITECTURE
• MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)
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An illustrated book depicting the two months Vincent Van Gogh and Paul Gauguin spent together in Provence. Intended for children, but appropriate for anyone with an interest in the painters and their friendship.
(FRN285, $18.95)
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A Proud Taste for Scarlet and Miniver
• E.L. Konigsburg
• LITERATURE
• YOUNG ADULTS
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A marvelous fictionalized portrait of Eleanor of Aquitaine, 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. For young adults.
(GBR245, $5.99)
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The Ramsay Scallop
• Frances Temple
• LITERATURE
• YOUNG ADULTS
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A young husband- and wife-to-be take a pilgrimage France and Spain in the year 1299. It's a sprawling young adult novel for those with a taste for historical fiction.
(FRN389, $7.99)
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The Red Keep: A Story of Burgundy in Year 1165
• Allen French
• Andew Wyeth
• LITERATURE
• YOUNG ADULTS
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A classic tale of knights and robbers in the French countryside for young adults, much enhanced by Andrew Wyeth's incomparable illustrations.
(FRN81, $15.95)
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The Scarlet Pimpernel
• Baroness Orczy
• LITERATURE
• YOUNG ADULTS
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Wildly popular since his debut in 1903, the man known as the Scarlet Pimpernel is a foppy English lord by day and a daring genius by night. Here's the rip-roaring classic, set during the French Revolution.
(FRN363, $9.95)
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The Three Musketeers
• Alexandre Dumas
• LITERATURE
• YOUNG ADULTS
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This French standard may be long -- and written almost 200 years ago -- but it 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)
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The Little Prince
• Antoine de Saint Exupery
• Richard Howard
• LITERATURE
• FAMILY
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Antoine de Saint-Exupery's modern fable, enshrined in the hearts of many. First published in 1943, it tells of a naif extraterrestrial who wanders from planet to planet, learning wisdom as he goes.
(FRN361, $10.00)
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