Barbara Brooks Wallace - Böcker

Shy eleven-year-old Dilys idolizes her friend, Victoria, but even she can no longer tolerate Victoria's unreasonable demands on their friendship.

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After a series of unhappy experiences in a new city, Andy, the intellectual misfit in an athletic family, is forced to really use his intelligence.

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Lizabeth risks her popularity with the other sixth graders by becoming friends with the class outcast.

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Relates the experiences of a young American girl growing up in Tientsin, China in the 1930's.

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This is a story about furkens, descendants of a branch of genus elf, who have lost their elfin powers of being able to vanish and now hide fearfully in human houses. They are sadly often mistaken for mice, although don't smell like mice. They smel...

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"Bad things always happen in threes!" If a very old person like Grandmama says it, is it not true? This is the very normal, understandable worry eight-year-old Julia has when she has knocked a burning hot iron into her little sister's ha...

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Orphan Taddy watches as Neezer and Lucky, two sinister thieves, steal his family's possessions, and then make him a virtual prisoner. Forced to work long hours, carrying heavy blocks of ice to Lucky's delivery truck, Taddy has almost given up when...

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In the same dramatic and exciting style of her other Victorian mysteries, Wallace tells the story of 11-year-old Jenny, who arrives from China at her grandfather's Graymark House. No one recognizes her, so, taking the job of a maid, Jenny must fig...

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"How," Amelia wonders, "could four short months have such a wonderful beginning and such a grim and terrible ending?" Why must she now find herself riding to the docks of London en route to a strange new life in America, seated...

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Colin Trevelyan, newly orphaned heir to his parents' fortune, is kidnapped in the night from his ancestral home and taken to the grim Broggin Home for Boys, where he is underfed, overworked, and destined for a short life in a deadly glass factory....

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Perfecta Jones is hemmed in by boring houses that to her are no more exciting than shoes boxes. She must obey ridiculous rules of the owner, Mr. Droopert P. Snoot, who has no use for children. On one magical night, Perfecta enters the house across...

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Emily Luccock thought the worst was behind her; she had survived the horrors of Sugar Hill Hall and been reunited with her beloved Aunt and Uncle Twice. Now she is devastated to be left at Mrs. Spilking's Select Academy while her aunt and unc...

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What is the secret? In a grim tenement district of New York City, before the turn of the century, young Robin decides to take his baby brother, Danny, and escape from his brutal stepfather. Surviving on the street is no easy feat, until he discove...

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Growing up in China! People often ask if I liked growing up in China. Did it feel different? Different from what? How could it feel different if the sights and sounds, and, yes, even the pungent smells had always been there in my life from the tim...

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If someone were to tell you they found a DRAGON in their family garage, you would think they were one of three things: 1) LOONY; or 2) LYING; or 3) VIVIDLY IMAGINATIVE. But Morris was NOT LOONY. He NEVER TOLD A LIE. And as for IMAGINATION, he had ...

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Maximilian Pettigrew Westmorington Bassford Thorndike Finstersill Smith the Fifth, otherwise known as Max, is an uber-rich, super-spoiled kid. His only friends are his dogs and one more-or-less (mostly less) friend, Percival. Suddenly and dramatic...

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We're in the dangerous streets of the New York tenements at the close of the 19th century, with two young boys who have escaped their vicious stepfather by faking their own drowning in the river. Matt and Mickey Deacon disguise themselves by chang...

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One flight up the narrow, steep stairs, Robin finds himself swallowed up by the darkness, terrified and hating the thought of the misery and fear his knock will bring to the wretched families who huddle behind every door in the building.Thus begin...

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If you think nothing much is going on when Rupert P. Brown III begins sixth grade at Pepperdine Elementary School, you'd be dead wrong. Consider the following: a new teacher with the unlikely name of Miss Blossom; a new principal who has all the g...

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Emily Luccock is looking forward to living at Sugar Hill Hall....She remembers her aunt and uncle's grand old mansion well, with its enormous, elegant parlor, marble fireplace, and white china cups filled with hot chocolate. But this time things a...

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