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  • Book cover of The Jungle Book

    The Jungle Book is the story of Mowgli, a young boy raised by wolves: his escapades and adventures with his dear friends Bagheera the panther and Baloo the bear, his capture by the Monkey-People, his attempt at reintegration into human society, and his ultimate triumph over the lame tiger Shere Khan.

  • Book cover of The Summer I Turned Pretty
    Jenny Han

     · 2009

    Belly has an unforgettable summer in this stunning start to the Summer I Turned Pretty series from the New York Times bestselling author of To All the Boys I've Loved Before (soon to be a major motion picture ), Jenny Han. Belly's never been the kind of girl that things happen to. Year after year, she's spent her summers at the beach house with Conrad and Jeremiah. The boys never noticed Belly noticing them. And every summer she hoped it would be different. This time, it was. But the summer Belly turned pretty was the summer that changed everything. For better, and for worse.

  • Book cover of Seacrow Island

    Life in their rented summer cottage on Seacrow Island is sometimes happy, sometimes exciting, and sometimes tragic, but never uneventful for a Swedish author, his three sons, and nineteen-year-old daughter.

  • Book cover of Number the Stars
    Lowry Lois

     · 1992

    This Newbery Medal-winner tells the story of the efforts of a ten-year-old Danish girl and her family to safely smuggle Jews into Sweden during World War II. A School Library Journal Best Book of the Year.

  • Book cover of The Fir Tree

    A little fir tree realizes too late that it did not appreciate the grand moments of life, such as being a Christmas tree, while they were happening.

  • Book cover of Robinson Crusoe
    Daniel Defoe

     · 2001

    On a desolate tropical island, a shipwrecked British seaman tries to master his hostile environment and remain civilized.

  • Book cover of The Little Water Sprite

    One spring day, the little Water Sprite is born in a house of reeds at the bottom of a mill pond. Duckweed soup, pickled water fleas, and other dainties are served to celebrate. The little Water Sprite grows up quickly, and soon he is bored of gazing out the window at the newts and fish swimming by. There is a whole new world to see outside his living room, and the little Water Sprite is determined to explore it! In the pond he makes friends with Cyprian the carp and encounters the fearsome nine-eyed lamprey, but his most thrilling adventures await him on dry land.

  • Book cover of Moominpappa at Sea
    Tove Jansson

     · 2010

    Leave Moominvalley? Is it possible? Yes, even the Moomin family need a change of scenery sometimes, so they're off to live in a lighthouse on a tiny island. Here they find space to grow, and to do things they couldn't in their comfortable, cluttered valley home. As they discover their new home, the family also discover surprising, and wonderfully funny, new things about themselves.

  • Book cover of Number the Stars
    Lois Lowry

     · 1990

    In 1943, during the German occupation of Denmark, ten-year-old Annemarie learns how to be brave and courageous when she helps shelter her Jewish friend from the Nazis.

  • Book cover of Leaf Man
    Lois Ehlert

     · 2005

    A man made of leaves blows away, traveling wherever the wind may take him. On die-cut pages.