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[4] The book of three
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[5] Skellig
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[7] The true confessions of Charlotte Doyle
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[8] National Velvet
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[12] The Winter People
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[13] The secret garden
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[15] The lace dowry
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[17] Gregor the Overlander
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311 pages
[19] Getting Near to Baby
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211 pages
[21] Bud, Not Buddy
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256 pages
[23] Because of Winn-Dixie
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[24] The London Eye Mystery
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322 pages
[25] The City of Ember
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288 pages
[26] Incident at Hawk's Hill
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207 pages
[28] The Birchbark House
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256 pages
[29] The black stallion
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[30] The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm
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311 pages
[31] Spider Boy
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183 pages
[33] Joey Pigza loses control
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[34] My side of the mountain
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[35] Old Yeller
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[36] The Wind in the Willows
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[37] Among the Hidden
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[38] The House of Dies Drear
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256 pages
[39] King of the Wind
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[40] Scat
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[41] My Louisiana sky
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200 pages
[43] The circuit
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[45] A Tale of Time City
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336 pages
[46] The phantom tollbooth
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[50] Ella Enchanted
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240 pages
[51] The lion, the witch, and the wardrobe
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[52] The call of the wild
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[53] The giver
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179 pages
[55] Anne of Green Gables
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382 pages
[56] Island of the Blue Dolphins
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[57] The Island on Bird Street
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162 pages
[58] Jacob have I loved
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[59] Hatchet
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188 pages
[60] A long way from Chicago
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[62] The True Meaning of Smekday
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246 pages
[64] Missing May
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89 pages
[65] Goodbye, Billy Radish
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[66] There's a girl in my hammerlock
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[67] Roll of thunder, hear my cry
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375 pages
[70] Lad: A Dog
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[72] Dicey's song
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[73] Angel on the square
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