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The Happy Prince

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The Little Prince & Letter to a Hostage

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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The Christmas Books

Charles Dickens · 237 pages

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The Little Match Girl

Hans Christian Andersen · 32 pages

Retelling Hans Christian Andersen's classic story of a poor young girl trying to sell matches on a bitterly cold winter night. As she lights her matches one by one for warmth, each small flame reveals comforting visions that momentarily lift her from the harshness of her world. Through these brief illuminations, the story contrasts the cruelty of her reality with the beauty of her hopes and dreams

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The Velveteen Rabbit

Margery Williams Bianco · 40 pages

In the nursery, only the toys that are old and wise truly understand what it means to be Real. The Velveteen Rabbit, a newcomer to the nursery, asks one of the most knowledgeable toys, the Skin Horse, what being real means.

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Charlotte's Web

E. B. White · 184 pages

Charlotte's Web is a book of children's literature by American author E. B. White and illustrated by Garth Williams; it was published on October 15, 1952, by Harper & Brothers. The novel tells the story of a livestock pig named Wilbur and his friendship with a barn spider named Charlotte. When Wilbur is in danger of being slaughtered by the farmer, Charlotte writes messages praising Wilbur (such a

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White Nights

Fyodor Dostoyevsky · 218 pages

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Lassie Come Home

Eric Knight · 239 pages

A collie named lassie has to be sold because her family are having bad times . Lassie escapes twice but when her new owner takes her to a place too far to run from will lassie be able to make the journey back to her home ? A collie undertakes a thousand-mile journey in order to once again meet her former master at the school gate. Lassie is Joe's prize collie and constant companion. But when Jo

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Bridge to Terabithia

Katherine Paterson · 144 pages

The life of a ten-year-old boy in rural Virginia expands when he becomes friends with a newcomer who subsequently meets an untimely death trying to reach their hideaway, Terabithia, during a storm.

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The Gift of the Magi

O. Henry · 37 pages

Wonderful Christmas story, you laugh and cry at the same time, tender, inspiring, and the best of it is, you know it's all a storm in a teacup. What they have is priceless.

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The Heart is a Lonely Hunter

Carson McCullers · 334 pages

Set in 1930s Georgia, the novel centers around a deaf and mute man, John Singer. Singer has been devastated by the loss of his dear friend, Antonapoulos, who was committed to an asylum for bad behavior

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Black Beauty

Anna Sewell · 226 pages

Black Beauty is the suspenseful and deeply moving account of a horse's experiences at the hands of many owners — some, sensitive riders who treated him gently; others, cruel drivers who thoughtlessly inflicted lasting damage. Written as the animal's autobiography, and as an appeal for the humane treatment of horses,

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Aesop's Fables

Aesop · 144 pages

Aesop fables are a collection of fables credited to Aesop, a slave and story-teller believed to have lived in ancient Greece between 620 and 560 BCE.

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Of Mice and Men

John Steinbeck · 118 pages

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The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane

Kate DiCamillo · 228 pages

Once, in a house on Egypt Street, there lived a china rabbit named Edward Tulane. The rabbit was very pleased with himself, and for good reason: he was owned by a girl named Abilene, who adored him completely. And then, one day, he was lost...Kate DiCamillo takes us on an extraordinary journey, from the depths of the ocean to the net of a fisherman, from the bedside of an ailing child to the bustl

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The House at Pooh Corner

A.A. Milne · 180 pages

Ten adventures of Pooh, Eeyore, Tigger, Piglet, Owl, and other friends of Christopher Robin. ---------- Contains: In Which [a House Is Built at Pooh Corner for Eeyore][1] In Which [Tigger Comes to the Forest and Has Breakfast][2] In Which [a Search Is Organdized, and Piglet Nearly Meets the Heffalump Again][3] In Which It Is Shown That [Tiggers Don't Climb Trees][4] In Which [Rabbit Has

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The Awakening

Kate Chopin · 190 pages

The Awakening is a novel by Kate Chopin, first published in 1899. Set in New Orleans and on the Louisiana Gulf coast at the end of the 19th century, the plot centers on Edna Pontellier and her struggle between her increasingly unorthodox views on femininity and motherhood with the prevailing social attitudes of the turn-of-the-century American South. It is one of the earliest American novels that

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The Remains of the Day

Kazuo Ishiguro · 245 pages

In the summer of 1956, Stevens, the ageing butler of Darlington Hall, embarks on a leisurely holiday that will take him deep into the countryside and into his past . . .A contemporary classic, The Remains of the Day is Kazuo Ishiguro's beautiful and haunting evocation of life between the wars in a Great English House, of lost causes and lost love.

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A Christmas Carol

Charles Dickens; illustrated by Trina Schart Hyman

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Old Yeller

Fred Gipson · 158 pages

At first, Travis couldn't stand the sight of Old Yeller. The stray dog was ugly, and a thieving rascal, too. But he sure was clever, and a smart dog could be a big help on the wild Texas frontier, especially with Papa away on a long cattle drive up to Abilene. Strong and courageous, Old Yeller proved that he could protect Travis's family from any sort of danger. But can Travis do the same for O

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The Snow Goose

Paul Gallico · 80 pages

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Sounder

William H. Armstrong · 116 pages

Angry and humiliated when his sharecropper father is jailed for stealing food for his family, a young black boy grows in courage and understanding by learning to read and through his relationship with his devoted dog Sounder.

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The Old Man and the Sea

Ernest Hemingway · 127 pages

Set in the Gulf Stream off the coast of Havana, Hemingway's magnificent fable is the tale of an old man, a young boy and a giant fish. This story of heroic endeavour won Hemingway the Nobel Prize for Literature. It stands as a unique and timeless vision of the beauty and grief of man's challenge to the elements.

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The Last Unicorn

Peter S. Beagle · 233 pages

*The unicorn lived in a lilac wood, and she lived all alone…* …so she ventured out from the safety of the enchanted forest on a quest for others of her kind. Joined along the way by the bumbling magician Schmendrick and the indomitable Molly Grue, the unicorn learns all about the joys and sorrows of life and love before meeting her destiny in the castle of a despondent monarch—and confronting

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Tales from Moominvalley

Tove Jansson · 176 pages

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