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1) The dam
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Studio, an imprint of Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
''This is a true story. It was told to me by Mike and Kathryn Tickell. Kielder Water is the largest artificial lake in the UK. It is in North Northumberland, a wild an beautiful place, rich in folk music, story and legend. It was created in the late 70s and early 80s. A great dam was constructed across the Kielder Valley, a place of farms, a school, several homesteads and a stretch of the Border Counties Railway. The valley took two years to fill...
Author
Series
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
When a boy being chased through present-day London seeks refuge in the National Gallery, a dog escapes from the painting of one Dutch master and together they leap into the painting of another, where their adventures in seventeenth-century Delft are a prelude to returning to London and continuing the chase.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
When Ace and John find a lion cub for sale at Harrods department store, they buy him, name him Christian, and the three live happily for a year in a London apartment, but eventually Christian grows too big and they must let him go to live the life of a wild cat.
5) Paddington
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Adopting for their own the lost bear they find in Paddington Station, the Browns have some exciting first moments with him.
6) Ox-cart man
Author
Publisher
Viking Press
Pub. Date
1979.
Language
English
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Description
Describes the day-to-day life throughout the changing seasons of an early 19th-century New England family.
Author
Series
Madeline (Ludwig Bemelmans) volume 4
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
1989.
Language
English
Description
When the Ambassador moves to London, the twelve little girls go to visit his son, Madeline has an adventure on a horse, and the horse returns to Paris with the girls.
11) Jemmy Button
Author
Publisher
Templar Pub
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
A fictionalized account of Jemmy Button, a native boy from Tierra del Fuego who was brought to London to be educated and then returned home to his island.
12) So much
Author
Series
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Language
English
Description
Relatives arriving in succession give in to their desire to squeeze and kiss and play with the baby.
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
After losing his job, Joe's father has no choice but to sell Joe's beloved collie, Lassie, to a wealthy duke, but when the duke takes her to the far north of Scotland, Lassie undertakes a 1000-mile journey to be reunited with her boy.
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