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Pippi lives in a house with a horse, a monkey, money, and no grownups to tell her what to do. She and her friends Tommy and Annika have a new adventure everyday. Then Pippi's father suddenly appears and wants to take Pippi to sea. Pippi's happy but Tommy and Annika want to stop her from leaving.
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In 1939 Sweden, two Jewish sisters wait for their parents to flee the Nazis in Austria, but while eight-year-old Nellie settles in quickly, twelve-year-old Stephie feels stranded at the end of the world, with a foster mother who is as cold and unforgiving as the island on which they live.
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Pippi moves into in a house at the edge of a Swedish village with a horse, a monkey, a suitcase full of gold, and no grown-ups to tell her what to do. She has upside-down braids and is wild and funny and her crazy ideas have a way of making anything exciting! Naturally, the children next door, Tommy and Annika are curious about their new neighbor. The three children have the most rollicking adventures on their own, with horses and monkeys, the circus,...
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"Cosas extrañas suceden en Mariefred. El pueblo esconde una enigmática biblioteca que las fuerzas del bien y el mal se disputan. Durante mucho tiempo la tranquilidad ha reinado, hasta ahora... Todo indica que Viggo y Alrikson, dos hermanos que llegan de acogida a Mariefred, son los elegidos para proteger la biblioteca. Pero sus viejos guardianes no confían en que estén preparados para ser guerreros y los pondrán a prueba. La situación entraña...
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Pelle has a lamb whose coat grows longer and longer, while Pelle's suit grows shorter! Pelle shears his lamb but he doesn't know what to do next. Pelle offers to do chores and run errands for his family and neighbors in exchange for their help to card, spin, dye and weave the wool. When the fleece has finally been made a fine blue cloth, Pelle asks one last favor -- for the tailor to make it into a smart new suit. This is a delightful story from the...
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After a merciless winter, spring has sprung in 1880 Stockholm, and the city awaits the arrival of the SS Vega, the first ship to have sailed the Northeast Passage. Life is busy at the orphanage, but twelve-year-old Mika quickly notices that the older orphans are up to something--and it doesn't look good. When Constable Hoff approaches her with information about thefts around the city, Mika becomes even more concerned about what the other kids are...
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