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Pennyroyal Academy volume 1
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"A girl from the forest enlists at Pennyroyal Academy, where princesses and knights are trained to battle the two great menaces of the day: witches and dragons"--
2) Set me free
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Three years after being kidnapping from her home in Martha's Vineyard, fourteen-year-old Mary Lambert receives a letter from Nora O'Neal, a servant in the house where she was held, who tells her of an eight-year-old girl where she is now employed whom Nora believes to be a deaf-mute, but who is being treated as insane, and asks Mary to come and teach the nameless child; a little scared, but intrigued, and bored with domestic life, Mary agrees--only...
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Show me a sign volume 3
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English
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"As a young teacher on Martha's Vineyard, Mary Lambert feels restless and adrift. So when a league of missionaries invite her to travel abroad, she knows it's a once in a lifetime opportunity. Paris is home to a pioneering deaf school where she could meet its visionary instructors Jean Massieu and Laurent Clerc--and even bring back their methods to help advance formal deaf education in America! But the endeavor comes at a cost: The missionaries'...
4) One girl
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Inspired by the idea of empowering girls around the world to demand their right to education, one girl lights a small spark which catches fire, and eventually lights up the whole world.
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Breadwinner series volume 4
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The fourth book in the internationally bestselling series that includes The Breadwinner, Parvana's Journey and Mud City.
In this stunning sequel, Parvana, now fifteen, is found in a bombed-out school and held as a suspected terrorist by American troops in Afghanistan.
On a military base in Afghanistan, after the fall of the Taliban in 2001, American authorities have just imprisoned a teenaged girl found in a bombed-out
...10) Ruby's wish
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In China, at a time when few girls are taught to read or write, Ruby dreams of going to the university with her brothers and male cousins.
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Pennyroyal Academy volume 3
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At year's end, witches attack every coach trying to leave Pennyroyal Academy, and Evie must devise a plan to save the day before their supplies are depleted.
12) A northern light
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"Sixteen-year-old Mattie Gokey has a word for everything, and big dreams of being a writer but little hope of seeing them come true. With the fresh pain of her mother's death lingering over her and the only out from her impoverished life being marriage to the handsome but dull local rich boy, Maddie flees from her home. She takes a job at the Glenmore, where hotel guest Grace Brown entrusts her with the task of burning a secret bundle of letters....
13) Hundred percent
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Christine Gouda, called Tink, and her best friend Jackie are entering sixth grade, and suddenly everything seems awkward and just plain wrong--boys are behaving differently, clothes do not fit the way they should, long term friendships suddenly seem tenuous, and most of all she needs a new nickname because "Tink" just does not fit anymore.
14) Emergency!
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Rescue vehicles race to help during a variety of emergencies.
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Pennyroyal Academy volume 2
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English
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"Becoming famous as a result of her defeat of the witches, Princess Cadet Evie returns to Pennyroyal Academy where she is threatened by a secret society that is hatching an evil plan against the school that involves someone close to her. But things are not quite as they should be. On the road to her second year of training, Evie witnesses the attack of an innocent woman by a trio of princesses. Pennyroyal's Headmistress General doubts Evie's claim--princesses...
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Justin Case volume 3
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"It's the start of the school year, and nothing feels right to Justin. He didn't get the teacher he wanted, he's not in the same class as his best friend, and his little sister, Elizabeth, is starting kindergarten at his school. Elizabeth doesn't seem nervous at all. Justin is very nervous about third grade. And to top it off, he's lost his favorite stuffed animal, but he can't tell anyone, because technically he's too old to still have stuffed animals....
19) Betsy and Billy
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Betsy, Billy, and their friends enjoy and learn from the many activities in the second grade.
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Junie B. Jones series volume 19
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English
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When her father will not let her stay up late to do her homework, first grader Junie B. copies a classmate's paper.
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