juvenile fiction

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juvenile fiction

Lunch money

2005
Twelve-year-old Greg, who has always been good at moneymaking projects, is surprised to find himself teaming up with his lifelong rival, Maura, to create a series of comic books to sell at school.

Frightful's mountain

1999
As she grows through the first years of her life in the Catskill Mountains of New York, a peregrine falcon called Frightful interacts with various humans, including the boy who raised her, a falconer who rescues her, and several unscrupulous poachers, as well as with many animals that are part of the area's ecological balance.

Whittington

2005
Whittington, a feline descendant of Dick Whittington's famous cat of English folklore, appears at a rundown barnyard plagued by rats and restores harmony while telling his ancestor's story.

The great graph contest

2005
Gonk and Beezy, two amphibian friends, hold a contest to see who can make better graphs.

Flush

2005
With their father jailed for sinking a river boat, Noah Underwood and his younger sister, Abbey, must gather evidence that the owner of this floating casino is emptying his bilge tanks into the protected waters around their Florida Keys home.

Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster boy

2004
In 1911, Turner Buckminster hates his new home of Phippsburg, Maine, but things improve when he meets Lizzie Bright Griffin, a girl from a poor, nearby island community founded by former slaves that the town fathers--and Turner's--want to change into a tourist spot.

The jolly postman, or, Other people's letters

1986
A postman delivers letters to several famous fairy-tale characters such as the Big Bad Wolf, Cinderella, and the Three Bears. Each letter may be removed from its envelope page and read separately.

Go to sleep, Groundhog

2004
When Groundhog is unable to sleep, he experiences autumn and winter holidays he never knew about, and then he finally falls asleep before Groundhog Day.

Tigress

2004
A mother tigress raises two cubs and teaches them all they need to know until they are ready to rely on themselves.

The best pet of all

2004
A young boy enlists the help of a dragon to persuade his mother to let him have a dog as a pet.

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