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"In this collection of twelve . . . stories, join Fancy Nancy as she puts on her own dog show, learns to ice skate, goes on a camping adventure, and more! With each story timed to be a five-minute read-aloud, this storybook makes anytime the .

An abridged version of Louisa May Alcott's classic novel of four sisters growing up in 1800s New England; and contains over 400 vocabulary words and definitions, synonyms and pronunciation for each word, and discussion questions.

A seven-year-old orphan goes to live with her aunt, where she learns new values as she grows to young womanhood.

Deza Malone, the smartest girl in her class in Gary, Indiana, accompanies her mother and older brother on a trip to find her father, an African American man who left to find work after the Great Depression hit.

In a California farming valley in 1913, a wild adolescent rebels against his stern father, believing that his father favors his twin brother, and discovers that his mother, whom he had thought dead, is alive.

High school teacher Tom Guthrie, abandoned by his wife and left to raise his two young sons alone, becomes involved in the lives of a pregnant, homeless teenager and two crusty, bachelor farmers.

In early nineteenth-century England, a spirited young woman copes with the courtship of a snobbish gentleman as well as the romantic entanglements of her four sisters; and includes a short essay comparing Austen's Elizabeth and Mr.

After meeting his mysterious aunt Pilate, whom his father warns is a bad influence, a young African-American man named Macon "Milkman" Dead III leaves his rich, cold home in 1950s Michigan in search of his roots.

The coming of summer to Appalachia's Zebulon Mountain brings a blossoming in nature as well as in the lives of reclusive wildlife biologist Deanna Wolfe, young hunter Eddie Bondo, transplanted city-girl Lusa Landowski, and a pair of elderly, feuding neighbors.

Thirteen-year-old Rob Peck is left to take charge of his mother, aunt, and few animals on a hardscrabble five-acre Vermont farm.

The house of the Seven gables . . . cursed for more than two hundred years .

A collection of interrelated stories charting the disintegration of a peaceful farming community in a lush California valley.

The death of Liam Hegarty, found drowned in the sea at Brighton, England, sparks a crisis in the life of his middle sister Veronica, who goes to retrieve the body and bring Liam home to Dublin where the Hegarty clan is gathering to mourn and remember.

Dawn is crushed by the disappearance of Michael Sutton and his betrayal of their love.

Six-year-old Austen Kittredge III leaves the home of his widowed father, in King County Vermont, to live with his grandparents on their farm, and comes of age in a rural town where fights at the one-room schoolhouse, family reunions, and adventures at the county fair shape him into a man.