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A Series Of Unfortunate Events #5: The Austere Academy
by Lemony Snicket
As their outrageous misfortune continues, the Baudelaire orphans are shipped off to a miserable boarding school, where they befriend the two Quagmire triplets and find that they have been followed by the dreaded Count Olaf.
As the three Baudelaire orphans warily approach their new home .... (Read more)
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A Series Of Unfortunate Events #6:The Ersatz Elevator
by Lemony Snicket
In their most daring misadventure, the Baudelaire orphans are adopted by very, very rich people, whose penthouse apartment is located mysteriously close to the place where all their misfortune began. Even though their new home in the city is fancy, and the children are clever and charming,.... (Read more)
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A Series Of Unfortunate Events #9: The Carnivorous Carnival
by Lemony Snicket
A carnival is a place for good family fun – as long as one has a family, that is. For the Baudelaire orphans, their time at the carnival turns out to be yet another episode in a now unbearable series of unfortunate events. In fact, in this appalling ninth installment in Lemony Snicket's.... (Read more)
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A Series of Unfortunate Events :The Bad Beginning
by Lemony Snicket
I’m sorry to say that the book you are holding in your hands is extremely unpleasant. It tells an unhappy tale about three very unlucky children. Even though they are charming and clever, the Baudelaire siblings lead lives filled with misery and woe. From the very first page of this book.... (Read more)
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A Series of Unfortunate Events :The Carnicorous Carnival
by Lemony Snicket
The word `carnivorous`, which appears in the title of this book, means `meat-eating`, and once you have read such a bloodthirsty word, there is no reason to read any further. This carnivorous volume contains such a distressing story that consuming any of its contents would be far more stom.... (Read more)
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A Series Of Unfortunate Events:The Austere Academy
by Lemony Snicket
If you are looking for a story about cheerful youngsters spending a jolly time at boarding school, look elsewhere. Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire are intelligent and resourceful children, and you might expect that they would do very well at school. Don’t. For the Baudelaires, school.... (Read more)
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A Song For Summer
by Eva Ibbotson
Ellen Carr is raised to be an intellectual – but what she really wants to do is cook beautiful food. So Ellen is thrilled to leave behind the grey drizzle of London and start her first job – as a housekeeper at the Hallendorf School of Music, Drama and Dance. Deep in the idyllic Austri.... (Read more)
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A Study In Scarlet
by Arthur Conan Doyle
A Study in Scarlet is the novel that introduced Arthur Conan Doyle's eccentric detective Sherlock Holmes, as well as his faithful associate, Dr. Watson, to the literary world..... (Read more)
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A Wonder Book For Girls And Boys
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Here are the stories of King Midas, Pandora, Medusa, Hercules, and the other inhabitants of Mount Olympus told by one of America's greatest authors. Written in 1851 as a money-maker for the struggling Nathaniel Hawthorne, A Wonder Book for Girls & Boys has become a favorite of generatio.... (Read more)
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A Wrinkle In Time
by Madeleine L’Engle
Father is missing! His top secret job as a physicist for the government has taken him away--but where?--and how? Meg and her younger brother, Charles Wallace, set out with their friend Calvin on an exciting adventure through time and space to search for him. With the help of the mysterious.... (Read more)
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