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In this picture book set in 1914, Charlotte May Pierfstorff wants to visit her grandmother, who lives 75 miles away. Charlotte May`s parents can`t afford a train ticket for her trip, but they come up with ingenious solution: they mail her. Readers accompany Charlotte May on her extraordinary journey across Idaho, via the mail car of the local railroad, right to her grandmother`s house. Based on an actual incident. Illustrated with watercolor paintings. AUTHOR: Michael O. Tunnell, Ted Rand
PUBLISHER: HarperCollins Children's Book Group
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: General 
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 | Notes from Underground & the Double by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Jessie Coulson
Notes From the Underground marks not only the frontier between 19th- and 20th-century literature but the divide between two centuries' notion of the self. This highly philosophical work was the beginning of Dostoyevsky's serious literary career. AUTHOR: Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Jessie Coulson
PUBLISHER: Viking Penguin
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: General
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 | Scholastic Encyclopedia of Women by Sheila Keenan
Description not available.Contains biographical sketches of more than 250 women who have helped shape American history from the 1500s to the present day, ranging from Abigail Adams to Christie Todd Whitman, in a completely revised and updated edition published to coincide with Women's History Month. Original. AUTHOR: Sheila Keenan
PUBLISHER: Scholastic, Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: General
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 | Think Again by Doug E. Fresh, Joseph Buckingham
Description not available.Two boys--one white and one African-American--dislike each other at first because of their differences, but eventually they realize just how much they have in common, in a story that explores the issues of racial tolerance, peer pressure, and self esteem. AUTHOR: Doug E. Fresh, Joseph Buckingham
PUBLISHER: Scholastic, Incorporated
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: General
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 | Grump by Janet S. Wong, John Wallace
In this story a mother is feeling grumpy and tired. When her baby makes a big mess involving applesauce and ketchup, the mother cleans up but afterwards decides that it's time for the baby's nap. However, the baby doesn't want to nap. Hoping to get the baby to nod off, the mother reads a few sleepy stories aloud--stories which put her, not the baby, to sleep. Watercolor illustrations accompany the text. AUTHOR: Janet S. Wong, John Wallace
PUBLISHER: McElderry, Margaret K. Books
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: General
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 | Harvey Green Is an Eating Machine by Gene Perret
Description not available.Harvey Green eats everything in sight from fish to meat to pies, including the dishes, until one day when he eats too much and something unexpected happens. AUTHOR: Gene Perret
PUBLISHER: Arizona Highways
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: General
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