letters

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letters

Nice try, Tooth Fairy

2003
Hoping to get back her lost tooth, Emma writes a series of letters to the Tooth Fairy, but when the wrong teeth keep getting returned the mistakes create complications.

How the first letter was written

1987
When a cave man's spear breaks while fishing, his daughter composes the world's first letter and sends it home to her mother requesting the delivery of a new spear.

Cowboys on the Western Trail

the cattle drive adventures of Josh McNabb and Davy Bartlett
2004
Recounts events of an 1877 cattle drive from southern Texas to Ogallala, Nebraska, through the letters and journals of two boys and an older member of the crew.

Kate heads west

1990
In a series of letters to her relatives and friends, Kate describes her trip through Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona with her best friend, Lucy, and Lucy's parents.

Please write back!

2010
Alfie writes a letter to his grandmother and eagerly awaits her reply.

The perks of being a wallflower

2012
Charlie, a freshman in high school, explores the dilemmas of growing up through a collection of letters he sends to an unknown receiver.

The last little blue envelope

2012
Seventeen-year-old Ginny Blackstone precipitously travels from her home in New Jersey to London when she receives a message from an unknown man telling her he has the letters that were stolen just before she completed a series of mysterious tasks assigned by her now dead aunt, an artist.

Voss

how I come to America and am hero, mostly
2008
Voss sends letters home to his friend Meepo in which he writes of his adventures smuggling himself into America settling into a Slobovian section of town, getting a job, rescuing his father, and meeting the girl of his dreams.

The year of secret assignments*

2005
Three female students from Ashbury High write to three male students from rival Brookfield High as part of a pen pal program, leading to romance, humiliation, revenge plots, and war between the schools.

Undercover

2007
High school sophomore Elisa is used to observing and going unnoticed except when classmates ask her to write love notes for them, but a teacher's recognition of her talent, a "client's" desire for her friendship, a love of ice skating, and her parents' marital problems draw her out of herself.

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