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Boxcar children volume 32
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When the Alden children accompany their grandfather to the Snow Haven Lodge, a series of odd occurrences threaten to disrupt the annual winter games.
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A childhood in a privileged household in 1950s Havana was joyous and cruel, like any other-but with certain differences. The neighbor's monkey was liable to escape and run across your roof. Surfing was conducted by driving cars across the breakwater. Lizards and firecrackers made frequent contact. Carlos Eire's childhood was a little different from most. His father was convinced he had been Louis XVI in a past life. At school, classmates with fathers...
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Growing up as a Michigan farm boy with a bone-deep loathing of farming, Ford intuitively saw the advantages of internal combustion. Resourceful and fearless, he built his first gasoline engine out of scavenged industrial scraps. It was the size of a sewing machine. From there, scene by scene, Richard Snow vividly shows Ford using his innate mechanical abilities, hard work, and radical imagination as he transformed American industry.
44) Snow
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How much do you know about snow? Take a fact-filled winter journey as you practice reading words with the long o sound spelled "ow." This book uses the Dyslexie font to make reading easier for people with dyslexia. Includes a support page of teaching tips for caregivers and teachers. Downloadable Teacher's Notes available.
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First published in 1920, "Raggedy Andy Stories" by Johnny Gruelle is the second book in the beloved and classic children's series starring Raggedy Ann, her brother Raggedy Andy, and their family and friends. Gruelle was an American artist, children's author, political cartoonist, and illustrator. He was inspired by his daughter Marcella and her fun playing with dolls to create his most famous character, Raggedy Ann. He combined the names from "The...
46) The Snow Queen
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The strength of a little girl's love enables her to overcome many obstacles and free a boy from the Snow Queen's spell.
47) The snow spider
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Gifts from Gwyn's grandmother on his ninth birthday open up a whole new world to him, as he discovers he has magical powers that help him heal the breach with his father that has existed ever since his sister's mysterious disappearance four years before.
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Safe and Sound has two purposes: to help people avoid getting lost in the woods in the first place and to enable those who are lost to emerge unscathed. The book tells what to take in a ready pack and why, how to read a map and compass, how hunters can separate yet keep in touch, and how not to be disabled by a change in the weather or a minor accident. It also tells how to remain safe and sound until help arrives.
49) Villette
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With neither friends nor family, Lucy Snowe sets sail from England to find employment in a girls' boarding school in the small town of Villette. There she struggles to retain her self-possession in the face of unruly pupils, an initially suspicious headmaster, and her own complex feelings, first for the school's English doctor and then for the dictatorial professor, Paul Emmanuel. Charlotte Brontë's last and most autobiographical novel is a powerfully...
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The evil queen asked the mirror on the wall who was the fairest of them all. And she expects it to say that she is . . . or else! So when the mirror replies Snow White is the fairest in all of the land, the evil queen is enraged! Find out what happens as this classic fairy tale comes to life with music and full-color illustrations. This hardcover book comes with CD and online music access.
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This beloved story of a pioneer girl and her family begins in 1871 in a log cabin on the edge of the Big Woods of Wisconsin. Laura lives in the little house with her pa, her ma, her sisters Mary and Carrie, and their dog, Jack. Pioneer life is sometimes hard for the family, but it is also exciting as they make their own homemade toys and treats, do the spring planting, bring in the harvest, and visit town. And every night Laura and her family are...
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Fueled by a passion for running dogs, Gary Paulsen entered the Iditarod-the eleven hundred and eighty mile sled-dog race through the Alaskan wilderness-in dangerous ignorance and with a fierce determination. For seventeen days, he and his team of dogs endured blinding wind, snowstorms, frostbite, dogfights, moose attacks, sleeplessness, hallucinations-and the relentless push to go on. Winterdance is the enthralling account of a "stunning wilderness...
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Kanopy Streaming
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2016.
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With Andy Warhol, Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns, Roy Lichtenstein and Michael Snow. With ferocious wit, Ms. Krasilovsky sends up New York's art scene in End of the Art World. In essence, Ms. Krasilovsky uses the sounds and images of the usual art documentary to create her own work of art. - Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times
55) Whiter than snow
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In a small mining town near Colorado's majestic Tenmile Range, as nine children walk home from school, a spring avalanche thunders down from Jubilee Mountain burying everything in its path. This novel of survival, redemption, and faith skillfully reveals the backstory of each family affected by this tragedy.
56) Snow for Water
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Network Ireland Television
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2021.
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During the infamous siege of Sarajevo in 1994, a father asks his two small children to fil the bath with snow to ensure they have a supply of water.
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"Edie Kiglatuk's discovery along Alaska's Iditarod trail leads to a massive, far-reaching conspiracy M. J. McGrath's debut novel, White Heat, earned both fans and favorable comparisons to bestselling Scandinavian thrillers such as Smilla's Sense of Snow and the Kurt Wallander series. In The Boy in the Snow, half-Inuit Edie Kiglatuk finds herself in Alaska with Sergeant Derek Palliser, helping her ex-husband Sammy in his bid to win the famous Iditarod...
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