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1) Little women
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For generations, children around the world have come of age with Louisa May Alcott's March girls: hardworking eldest sister Meg, headstrong, impulsive Jo, timid Beth, and precocious Amy. With their father away at war, and their loving mother Marmee working to support the family, the four sisters have to rely on one another for support as they endure the hardships of wartime and poverty. We witness the sisters growing up and figuring out what role...
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Follow the adventures of the four endearing March sisters as they journey into young womanhood. There's Meg, at sixteen the oldest, who longs for a rich life full of beautiful things and free from materail want. Next comes Jo, the willful and headstrong tomboy, who plans to become a writer and who retires to the attic when "genius burns." Gentle, music-loving Beth, "the pet of the family," is delicate and sweet. And fashionable Amy, the youngest of...
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Despite her impoverished background, Rebecca is an imaginative and charming child, often composing little poems and songs to express her feelings or to amuse her younger brothers and sisters. Rebecca's joy for life inspires her aunts, but she faces many trials in her young life, gaining wisdom and understanding. -- back cover.
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Boxcar children volume 7
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The Boxcar Children are spending the summer in an enormous New England farmhouse and the old woodshed holds a surprising secret that dates from the Revolutionary War.
8) Little women
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[1994]
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Chronicles the joys and sorrows of the four March sisters as they grow into young ladies in nineteenth-century New England.
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[2009]
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In the early twentieth century, five sisters and their widowed mother, a famed spiritualist, travel from New York to London, and as the Titanic conveys them and their acquaintances--journalist W.T. Stead, scientist Nikola Tesla, and industrialist John Jacob Astor--home, Tesla's inventions will either doom or save them all.
11) Best friends
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Main Street (Ann M. Martin) volume 4
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c2008
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Flora is caught in the middle when her old best friend, Annika, comes to town and begins fighting with Olivia, and Flora tries to help them get along while they attend Camden Falls' 350th birthday celebration.
12) Good Wives
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[199-?]
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'Love is the only thing that we can carry with us when we go, and it makes the end so easy.'
In mid-nineteenth-century Massachusetts, Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy March continue to encounter both joys and sorrows along life's path, as they journey into womanhood both close to home and further away. The highs and lows of the four young women's lives are shared with...
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In a quaint New England town with a history of witches and pilgrims, misunderstood eleven-year-old Norman Babcock (who can see and talk to ghosts) must save his town from pilgrim zombies, take on an angry witch, an annoying sidekick, and his boy-crazy teenage sister, as well as dozens of moronic grown-ups who get in his way!
15) Little women
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1999.
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Chronicles the joys and sorrows of the four March sisters as they grow into young women in nineteenth-century New England. Illustrated notes throughout the text explain the historical background of the story.
17) Little women
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2011
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A simplified retelling of the adventures of the four March sisters living in New England during the time of the Civil War.
20) Born Wicked
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Cahill witch chronicles volume 1
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[2012]
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In an alternate New England of 1900, where the Brotherhood dominates and controls society, sixteen-year-old Cate Cahill has struggled since her mother's death to keep secret that she and her younger sisters are witches, but when a governess arrives from the Sisterhood, everything changes.