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The Twins at St Clare's

Enid Blyton · 171 pages

The twins Pat and Isabel O'Sullivan are dreading going to St. Clare's boarding school for girls. Determined not to enjoy themselves, they cause lots of trouble and many arguments. But they soon realise that this behaviour isn't helping them, and even find school to be good fun.

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The Third Form at St. Clare's

Pamela Cox · 152 pages

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The Lost Twin

Sophie Cleverly · 294 pages

When troublemaking Scarlet vanishes from Rookwood boarding school, Ivy, her quiet twin sister, is invited to "take her place." But when Ivy arrives, she discovers the school's true intention. She is not simply taking up Scarlet's enrollment. She must think like Scarlet, act like Scarlet, become Scarlet. What on earth happened to the real Scarlet, and why is the school trying to keep it a secret? T

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Jo's Boys

Louisa May Alcott · 288 pages

This sequel to Alcott's "Little Women" and "Little Men" chronicles the return of the classmates of Plumfield, Jo's school for boys. Readers reencounter Nat, the orphaned street musician, now a conservatory student; restless Dan, back from the gold mines of California; business-minded Tom; and other old friends.

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What Katy Did at School

Susan Coolidge · 188 pages

Katy and her sister Clover dread being sent away to boarding school, but discover that being away from home isn't so bad after all.

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By the Shores of Silver Lake

Laura Ingalls Wilder · 290 pages

The Ingalls family had fared badly in Plum Creek, Minnesota. They were in debt. Mary was blind now. So Pa went West to work at a railroad camp in Dakota Territory where he could make as much as fifty dollars a month! Then he sent for his wife and four children, and they became the first settlers in the new town of De Smet. But the railroad brought hordes of land-hungry people from the East. Had Pa

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Blue Bloods

Melissa de la Cruz · 319 pages

De la Cruz has revamped traditional vampire lore in this story featuring a group of attractive, privileged Manhattan teens who attend a prestigious private school. Schuyler Van Alen, 15, the last of the line in a distinguished family, is being raised by her distant and forbidding grandmother. Schuyler, her friend Oliver, and their new friend Dylan are treated like outsiders by the clique of popula

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The Magic Half

Annie Barrows · 211 pages

Miri is the only single child in the middle of a family with two sets of twins--older brothers and younger sisters. When the family moves to an old farmhouse Miri accidentally travels back in time to 1935 only to discover Molly, a girl in need of a real family to call her own. A very satisfying classic-in-the-making, with spine-tingling moments, this is a delightful family-friendly middle grade ti

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After Iris

Natasha Farrant · 320 pages

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The Bobbsey Twins of Lakeport

Laura Lee Hope · 178 pages

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Best Friends

Jamie Suzanne · 104 pages

The twins' close friendship is threatened when Jessica is admitted to an exclusive girls' club.

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Thirteenth Child

Patricia C. Wrede · 352 pages

Eff was born a thirteenth child. Her twin brother, Lan, is the seventh son of a seventh son. This means he's supposed to possess amazing talent -- and she's supposed to bring only bad things to her family and her town. Undeterred, her family moves to the frontier, where her father will be a professor of magic at a school perilously close to the magical divide that separates settlers from the beast

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Wildefire

Karsten Knight · 393 pages

After a killing for which she feels responsible, sixteen-year-old Ashline Wilde moves cross-country to a remote California boarding school, where she learns that she and others have special gifts that can help them save the world, but evil forces are at work to stop them.

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Harry Potter y la piedra filosofal / Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

J.K. Rowling

Harry Potter y la piedra filosofal es el primer volumen de la ya clásica serie de novelas fantásticas de la autora británica J.K. Rowling. «Con las manos temblorosas, Harry le dio la vuelta al sobre y vio un sello de lacre púrpura con un escudo de armas: un león, un águila, un tejón y una serpiente, que rodeaban una gran letra H.» Harry Potter nunca ha oído hablar de Hogwarts hasta que empiezan a

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The Mockingbirds

Daisy Whitney · 339 pages

When Alex, a junior at an elite preparatory school, realizes that she may have been the victim of date rape, she confides in her roommates and sister who convince her to seek help from a secret society, the Mockingbirds.

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Love Bites

Sienna Mercer

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Stormswept

Helen Dunmore · 299 pages

Atmospheric and beautifully written novel from the award-winning author of INGO. Morveren lives with her parents and twin sister Jenna on an island off the coast of Cornwall, circled by the sea except at low tide. Morveren lives with her twin sister Jenna on an island off the coast of Cornwall, circled by the sea except at low tide. One day, Morveren finds a beguiling teenage boy in the rock pool

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The Exiles at Home

Hilary McKay · 176 pages

The four Conroy sisters' efforts to raise money in order to sponsor a ten-year-old boy in Africa get them into one difficult situation after another.

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The Inventor's Secret

Chad Morris · 344 pages

When twins Abby and Derick start junior high at the prestigious academy their grandfather founded, Cragbridge Hall, they discover firsthand the dangers of time travel and must find a way to save their parents, who have been sent to the Titanic the night it sank.

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Night of the Living Dummy

R.L. Stine · 134 pages

Lindy finds a ventriloquist's dummy and has fun learning to make him move and talk. Kris is jealous, and decides to get a dummy of her own. Then nasty evil things begin to happen. No way can a dummy be causing all the trouble. Or is there?

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The Fixer

Jennifer Lynn Barnes · 372 pages

When her grandfather develops dementia, sixteen-year-old Tess, who has been keeping his Montana ranch going, is whisked away to Washington, D.C., by a sister she barely knows and thrown into a world of politics, power, wealth, love triangles, and family secrets.

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Dream a Little Dream

Kerstin Gier · 337 pages

Liv Silver, fifteen, has lived in six countries in eight years and she and her sister yearn for a real home and normalcy, but soon after moving in with her mother's boyfriend in London, Liv's dreams turn bizarre, filled with talking stone statues, mysterious corridors, and strange rituals conducted by four boys who happen to be her new classmates.

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