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|  | Northanger Abbey by Claire Crogan, Claire Grogan, Claudia L. Johnson, Jane Austen, Margaret Drabble
NORTHANGER ABBEY is about a naive young woman whose head is full of the Gothic novels she consumes, and who begins to imagine that life may well be even stranger than fiction. Catherine Morland makes a touching, if somewhat charmingly brainless, heroine; Henry Tilney is a self-possessed and witty hero; and the plot device in which Catherine sees General Tilney as a black-hearted villain out of a Gothic romance is ingenious and engrossing. In fact, this early work is full of sustained and sparkling inventiveness, and exhibits the sharp and accurate social observations of Austen's more mature fiction. AUTHOR: Claire Crogan, Claire Grogan, Claudia L. Johnson, Jane Austen, Margaret Drabble
PUBLISHER: Bantam Books
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: General 
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 | Fair Weather by Richard Peck
Accompanied by their grandfather, 13-year-old Rosie Beckett, her older sister Lottie, and her younger brother Buster, travel from their rural farm to visit their rich Aunt Euterpe in the big city of Chicago. While there, the family attends the 1893 World's Fair where they see such amazing things as a Ferris wheel and Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show. However, the country folk also manage to cause quite an uproar in the life of sophisticated Aunt Euterpe. Named one of the Best Children's Books 2001 by Publishers Weekly. AUTHOR: Richard Peck
PUBLISHER: Penguin Putnam Books for Young Readers
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: General
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 | In Beautiful Disguises by Rajeev Balasubramanyam
A young Indian woman who longs to become a movie star like Audrey Hepburn is the star of this comic novel set in a family full of eccentrics. IN BEAUTIFUL DISGUISES won the Betty Trask Prize in England in 1999. AUTHOR: Rajeev Balasubramanyam
PUBLISHER: Bloomsbury Publishing
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: General
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 | Prisoner's Base by Michael Prichard, Rex Stout
Description not available.Hours after Priscilla Eads pleads with him to take her case, Nero Wolfe is shocked to find out that she was murdered, and soon he is investigating her fortune-hunting husband and greedy business associates. Reissue. AUTHOR: Michael Prichard, Rex Stout
PUBLISHER: Bantam Books
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: General
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 | Halloween by David F. Marx
Description not available.Introduces young children to the festivities associated with Halloween, such as trick-or-treating, bobbing for apples, and dressing in costume. AUTHOR: David F. Marx
PUBLISHER: Scholastic Library Publishing
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: General
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 | The Great Pet Project
If I had my very own puppy, I'd be the happiest kid in the whole wide world! But Michelle's family thinks she's too young to take care of her own pet. Too young? She'll show them! Michelle brings the classroom mice home for the weekend. Once her family sees how well she can care for them, Michelle's sure to get a dog! After all, what could go wrong with a few little mice?
CATEGORY: General
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