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Mother-Daughter Book Club volume 1
Language
English
Description
When the mothers of four sixth-grade girls with very different personalities pressure them into forming a book club, they find, as they read and discuss "Little Women," that they have much more in common than they could have imagined.
Author
Series
Mother-Daughter Book Club volume 4
Language
English
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Description
Four girls, and their mothers, continue their mother-daughter book club via videoconference between Massachusetts and England, reading Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice," and try to put friendship before romance.
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Series
Mother-Daughter Book Club volume 2
Language
English
Description
Entering seventh grade at Walden Middle School, four girls continue their mother-daughter book club, reading Lucy Maud Montgomery's "Anne of Green Gables," while dealing with a mean, trouble-making classmate
Author
Series
Alvin Ho volume 3
Language
English
Description
When second-grader Alvin Ho is invited to a birthday party given by a girl, his fear of everything causes him to dread going.
Author
Series
Alvin Ho volume 1
Language
English
Description
A fearful second grader in Concord, Massachusetts, learns about death when his grandfather's best friend passes away and he offers to accompany his grandfather to the funeral.
Author
Series
Alvin Ho volume 1
Language
English
Description
When Alvin's father takes him camping to instill a love of nature, like that of their home-town hero Henry David Thoreau, Alvin makes a new friend and learns that he can be brave despite his fear of everything.
Author
Series
Mother-Daughter Book Club volume 6
Language
English
Description
As the Mother-Daughter Book Club reads Jane Eyre, the girls and some of their mothers are involved in some serious competitions, Becca finds romance when the Wyoming pen pals come for a visit, and a wedding brings the British Berkeley brothers and even Stinkerbelle to Concord.
9) Dear pen pal
Author
Series
Mother-Daughter Book Club volume 3
Language
English
Description
Four very different friends in Concord, Massachusetts, and their mothers continue their book club, reading Jean Webster's "Daddy Long-Legs," while getting to know their own pen pals from Wyoming.
Author
Series
Alvin Ho volume 1
Language
English
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Description
A young boy in Concord, Massachusetts, who loves superheroes and comes from a long line of brave Chinese farmer-warriors, wants to make friends, but first he must overcome his fear of everything.
Author
Series
Alvin Ho volume 1
Language
English
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Description
When fearful seven-year-old Alvin Ho learns that his mother is expecting a baby, he develops a sympathetic pregnancy--adding to his worry about the burglar who is targeting Concord, Massachusetts.
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
In nineteenth-century Concord, Massachusetts, seven-year-old Louisa May Alcott joins other local children on the varied excursions led by teacher and naturalist Henry David Thoreau, and is inspired to write her first poem.
Author
Series
Hall family chronicles volume 7
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
With the help of a mysterious stranger and the magical gift he brought them from India, the Halls foil a new enemy's plan to build a Henry Thoreau theme park across from their home.
17) Hide-out
Author
Publisher
Macmillan Co
Pub. Date
[1947]
Language
English
Description
Young stablehand Reuben Downs runs away to Concord after a fight with his father's jailer. There he befriends Henry Thoreau, meets Ralph Waldo Emerson and Nathaniel Hawthorne, and learns to accept the coming of the railroad.
Author
Pub. Date
1898
Language
English
Description
Holograph manuscript of two chapters (Chapter VI, The Crisis, and Chapter VII, "I Shall Go Over to the Side of the King," of Margaret Sidney's A Little Maid of Concord Town (published in Boston in 1898 by Lothrop Publishing Company). Manuscript includes author's additions, deletions, and emendations.
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