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Stink Moody volume 2
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English
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Seven-year-old Stink Moody discovers that he can get free samples by writing letters to candy companies and plans a surprise for his best friend's birthday.
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Can I be your dog? volume 1
Publisher
Random House
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
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A dog looking for a home sends letters to prospective owners on Butternut Street, with surprising results.
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Little blue envelopes volume 1
Language
English
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When seventeen-year-old Ginny receives a packet of mysterious envelopes from her favorite aunt, she leaves New Jersey to criss-cross Europe on a sort of scavenger hunt that transforms her life.
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English
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Discover two extraordinary romantic stories about the power of a life-changing love letter.
Have you ever gotten a letter that changed your life completely? Sam's Letters to Jennifer is a novel about that kind of drama. In it, a woman is summoned back to the town where she grew up. And in the house where she spent her most magical years she finds a series of letters addressed to her. Each of those letters is a piece of a story...
Have you ever gotten a letter that changed your life completely? Sam's Letters to Jennifer is a novel about that kind of drama. In it, a woman is summoned back to the town where she grew up. And in the house where she spent her most magical years she finds a series of letters addressed to her. Each of those letters is a piece of a story...
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English
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Working as a public relations hotline consultant for a once-prestigious culinary magazine, Billie Breslin unexpectedly enters a world of New York restaurateurs and artisanal purveyors while reading World War II letters exchanged between a plucky 12-year-old and James Beard.
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Unusual chickens volume 1
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Language
English
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Through a series of letters, Sophie Brown, age twelve, tells of her family's move to her Great Uncle Jim's farm, where she begins taking care of some unusual chickens with help from neighbors and friends.
9) The gardner
Author
Publisher
Sunburst
Language
English
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A series of letters relating what happens when, after her father loses his job, Lydia Grace goes to live with her Uncle Jim in the city but takes her love of gardening with her.
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Series
Hidden Forest volume 2
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Language
English
Description
Presents the correspondence of Goldilocks, the three pigs, Baby Bear, Peter Rabbit, and Little Red Riding Hood as they plan to attend a housewarming party for the pigs and avoid the evil wolves in the forest.
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Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Language
English
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When Lily Michaels-Ryan ditches her ADHD meds and lands in detention with Abelard, who has Asperger's, she's intrigued--Abelard seems thirty seconds behind, while she feels thirty seconds ahead. It doesn't hurt that he's brilliant and beautiful. When Abelard posts a quote from The Letters of Abelard and Heloise online, their mutual affinity for ancient love letters connects them. The two fall for each other. Hard. But is it enough to bridge their...
Publisher
Createspace
Edition
First printing, 2017
Language
English
Description
THE LONELIEST LETTERS ON ALPHABET ROAD. FOUR LETTERS OF THE ENGLISH ALPHABET ARE THE LEAST USED IN THE LANGUAGE AND HAVE THE SMALLEST PAGES IN ANY DICTIONARY. In THE LONELIEST LETTERS IN ALPHABET ROAD find out which of the twenty six letters need the most help. Then, create new words with unique definitions for the loneliest letters, once and for all.
15) Dear Mothman
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Publisher
Amulet Books
Language
English
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After the death of his best friend and the only other trans boy at school, Noah starts writing letters expressing his feelings to the humanoid creature Mothman and risks everything when he treks into the woods to prove Mothman's existence.
16) Private games
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Series
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English
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"Private, the world's most renowned investigation firm, has been commissioned to provide security for the 2012 Olympic games in London. Its agents are the smartest, fastest, and most technologically advanced in the world, and 400 of them have been transferred to London to protect over 10,000 competitors who represent more than 200 countries. The opening ceremony is still hours away when Private investigator and single father of twins, Nigel Steele,...
17) Broken flowers
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
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A middle-aged bachelor embarks on a journey to visit various ex-lovers after he receives a mysterious letter in the mail informing him that he has a 19-year-old son.
18) Why we broke up
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Min Green writes a letter to Ed Slaterton in which she breaks up with him, documenting their relationship and how items in the accompanying box, from bottle caps to a cookbook, foretell the end.
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Series
43 Old Cemetery Road volume 1
Publisher
Harcourt
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
In this story told mostly through letters, children's book author, I.B. Grumply, gets more than he bargained for when he rents a quiet place to write for the summer.
20) Dear Mr. Henshaw
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English
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In his letters to his favorite author, ten-year-old Leigh reveals his problems in coping with his parents' divorce, being the new boy in school, and generally finding his own place in the world.
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