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Product Description: Desperately unhappy, Laura has resorted to secretly self-harming. But Laura is a Stravagante, somebody who can travel in time and space. When she finds her talisman, a small silver dagger, she stravagates with it to sixteenth-century Fortezza, a town similar to Lucca in Italy, where she meets her Stravagante, who is a swordsmith...read more
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9781599908427 | Bloomsbury USA, August 21, 2012, cover price $18.99 | About this edition: Desperately unhappy, Laura has resorted to secretly self-harming.
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The new installment in the critically acclaimed Stravaganza series transports readers to a world much like our own - but where magic and piracy come to life in the Italian town of Classe. The Stravagante is Isabel, a younger twin by a matter of minutes. Her talisman is a pouch of silver mosaic tiles and she stravagates to Classe, where she is met by Flavia, a successful female merchant who trades spices, silks, tapestries, and whose son is an outcast and a pirate. Isabel finds that Classe and Bellezza are under threat from attack by the fierce Gate people. What can she do to help save the city? This is a thrilling story packed with action, pirates and drama. Fans of fantasy and historical fiction alike who have flocked to the Stravaganza series will welcome this action-packed adventure, which can be read alone or as a companion to the previous novels.
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9781599904917 | Bloomsbury USA, June 22, 2010, cover price $17.99 | About this edition: The new installment in the critically acclaimed Stravaganza series transports readers to a world much like our own - but where magic and piracy come to life in the Italian town of Classe.
Paperback:
9781599908328 | Bloomsbury USA, July 3, 2012, cover price $9.99
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9780803735774 | Dial Books for Young Readers, October 13, 2011, cover price $17.99 | About this edition: Grace loves everything about Christmas, especially acting out all the parts in the Nativity.
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9781599907000 | 1 edition (Bloomsbury USA, October 11, 2011), cover price $17.99
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9781845070571 | Frances Lincoln Childrens Books, April 30, 2005, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Grace, while standing up to the school bully once and for all, practices for her role as Peter Pan in the new class play, asks Nana for advice about boys, and learns the most exciting news--she is going to have a sibling.
Paperback:
9780142418505 | Reprint edition (Puffin, September 15, 2011), cover price $5.99 | About this edition: There's no one quite like Grace!
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9780803729513 | Dial Books for Young Readers, December 1, 2003, cover price $14.99 | About this edition: Grace and her group of friends, the Famous Five, face a variety of changes, including a new girl in class, taking part in the Christmas play, losing a dear friend, and challenging the grown-ups in their lives.
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9780142418543, titled "Encore, Grace!" | Reprint edition (Puffin, September 15, 2011), cover price $5.99 | About this edition: To mark the 20th anniversary of the publication of Amazing Grace, the spirited little girl with a big imagination is coming back to Puffin in two fun chapter books!
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9788484526285 | Intermon Oxfam, September 1, 2010, cover price $26.99
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9781599904511, titled "City of Secrets: City of Secrets" | Reprint edition (Bloomsbury USA, March 2, 2010), cover price $8.99 | About this edition: The latest installment in the critically acclaimed Stravaganza series begins with Matt, the new Stravagante.
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A collection of simple retellings of stories from both the Old and New Testaments
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9780756658151 | Dk Pub, October 5, 2009, cover price $7.99
9780842336550 | Tyndale House Pub, June 1, 1999, cover price $12.99 | About this edition: A collection of simple retellings of stories from both the Old and New Testaments
9780789415554 | Dk Pub, September 1, 1998, cover price $12.99 | About this edition: A collection of simple retellings of stories from both the Old and New Testaments
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9780789454645 | Pap/cas edition (Dk Pub, June 1, 2000), cover price $9.99 | About this edition: A collection of simple retellings of stories from both the Old and New testaments.
9780789460981 | Pap/com edition (Dk Pub, June 1, 2000), cover price $9.99 | About this edition: A collection of simple retellings of stories from both the Old and New testaments.
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9781599903675 | Bloomsbury USA, August 19, 2009, cover price $16.99 | About this edition: A story of persecution and poetry, love and war set in 13th century Southern France.
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Product Description: 'City of Masks is a poignant, touching and exciting novel, difficult to put down. This is one of the best time-slip stories that I have read in recent years. Without doubt a masterwork of contemporary children's literature.' - Edgardo Zaghini, Children's Literature Officer, Booktrust...read more
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9781582347912 | Bloomsbury USA, September 1, 2002, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: While sick in bed with cancer, Lucien begins making journeys to a place in a parallel world that resembles Venice, Italy, and he becomes caught up in the political intrigues surrounding the Duchessa who rules the city.
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9781582349176 | Reprint edition (Bloomsbury USA, September 30, 2004), cover price $8.99 | About this edition: While sick in bed with cancer, Lucien begins making journeys to a place in a parallel world that resembles Venice, Italy, and he becomes caught up in the political intrigues surrounding the Duchessa who rules the city.
Cassette/Spoken Word:
9780807217023 | Abridged edition (Listening Library, February 1, 2003), cover price $36.00 | About this edition: 'City of Masks is a poignant, touching and exciting novel, difficult to put down.
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9781439569504 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, November 11, 2008), cover price $17.99 | About this edition: 'City of Masks is a poignant, touching and exciting novel, difficult to put down.
9781417624409 | Turtleback Books, October 1, 2004, cover price $28.10 | About this edition: While sick in bed with cancer, Lucien begins making journeys to a place in a parallel world that resembles Venice, Italy, and he becomes caught up in the political intrigues surrounding the Duchessa who rules the city.
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Product Description: School's out, and that means it's time for fun! Grace and her friends are always ready for a little adventure, and Grace's backyard is the perfect place to set up headquarters. Suddenly the lawn is transformed into the center ring of a big-top circus, then a hospital emergency room, and then a rocket launch pad...read more
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9780803725591 | Phyllis Fogelman Books, May 1, 2000, cover price $14.99 | About this edition: Grace and her friends have all sorts of adventures during their summer vacation--going to the circus, taking an imaginary safari, making friends with an elderly neighbor, pretending to be astronauts, and calling the paramedics when her grandmother has anaccident.
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9780142300220 | Reprint edition (Puffin, December 1, 2001), cover price $4.99 | About this edition: Grace and her friends have all sorts of adventures during their summer vacation--going to the circus, taking an imaginary safari, making friends with an elderly neighbor, pretending to be astronauts, and calling the paramedics when her grandmother has anaccident.
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9781439553183 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, September 18, 2008), cover price $13.99 | About this edition: School's out, and that means it's time for fun!
9780613444187 | Turtleback Books, December 1, 2003, cover price $14.75 | About this edition: Grace and her friends have all sorts of adventures during their summer vacation--going to the circus, taking an imaginary safari, making friends with an elderly neighbor, pretending to be astronauts, and calling the paramedics when her grandmother has anaccident.
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9781599902029 | Bloomsbury USA, June 24, 2008, cover price $17.99 | About this edition: Seventeen-year-old Matt, painfully dyslexic and insecure, discovers that he can travel between worlds after being transported to Talia, where he joins Luciano and other Stravaganti in trying to prevent the di Chimici family's breakthrough into our world.
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Accompanied by Nana, Grace travels to Africa to visit her father, who left home when she was little, and learns that love can be without bounds even in divided families
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9780803717152 | Dial Books for Young Readers, May 1, 1995, cover price $16.99 | About this edition: Accompanied by Nana, Grace travels to Africa to visit her father, who left home when she was little, and learns that love can be without bounds even in divided families
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9780140556674 | Puffin, December 1, 2000, cover price $7.99 | About this edition: Accompanied by Nana, Grace travels to Africa to visit her father, who left home when she was little, and learns that love can be without bounds even in divided families.
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9781435267800 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, May 9, 2008), cover price $15.99
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Product Description: Lucien is in bed seriously ill with cancer. So how can he simultaneously exist in full health in a strange city that looks oddly like Venice - and yet couldn't be more different? Lucien has arrived in Bellezza, ruled by the powerful Duchessa, but it is his method of travel that marks Lucien out...read more
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9780713686111 | Gardners Books, March 1, 2008, cover price $12.10 | About this edition: Lucien is in bed seriously ill with cancer.
Reinforced:
9780606328494 | Demco Media, December 8, 2004, cover price $16.71 | About this edition: While sick in bed with cancer, Lucien begins making journeys to a place in a parallel world that resembles Venice, Italy, and he becomes caught up in the political intrigues surrounding the Duchessa who rules the city.
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9780803732605 | Dial Books for Young Readers, January 10, 2008, cover price $16.99 | About this edition: Having been picked to be a princess in the town parade, Grace begins to consider her attire for the big event, but when she can't figure out the appropriate costume to wear and turns to her teacher and classmates for help, Grace learns a great deal about the diversity of princesses throughout time and the different roles they each played in their own cultures.
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9780803722651 | Dial Books for Young Readers, October 1, 1997, cover price $14.99 | About this edition: An African American child wonders why all Christmas tree angels look alike and sets out to find an angel that looks just like him
Paperback:
9781845077334 | Reprint edition (Frances Lincoln Childrens Books, September 28, 2007), cover price $7.95 | About this edition: An African American child wonders why all Christmas tree angels look alike and sets out to find an angel that looks just like him.
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9781845077860 | Frances Lincoln Childrens Books, September 28, 2007, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Retells eight parables told by Jesus and describes the stories of Jesus' miracles, including when he turned water into wine at a wedding and raised Lazarus from the dead.
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9781582348872 | Bloomsbury USA, May 13, 2005, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Seventeen-year-old Sky joins Georgia and the other Stravagante, 'who travel between worlds and do what is required,' when he leaves London for Giglia and becomes involved in ancient feuds and palace intrigue.
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9781582347493 | Reprint edition (Bloomsbury USA, October 3, 2006), cover price $8.99 | About this edition: Seventeen-year-old Sky joins Georgia and the other Stravagante, 'who travel between worlds and do what is required,' when he leaves London for Giglia and becomes involved in ancient feuds and palace intrigue.
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9780789479068 | Dk Pub, September 1, 2001, cover price $14.99 | About this edition: Offers a collection of classic fairy tales, such as 'Cinderella' and 'Jack and the Beanstalk' along with lesser known tales, including 'The Fisherman and his Wife.
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9780756621070 | Reprint edition (Dk Pub, July 17, 2006), cover price $9.99 | About this edition: Offers a collection of classic fairy tales, such as 'Cinderella' and 'Jack and the Beanstalk' along with lesser known tales, including 'The Fisherman and his Wife.
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9780812061352 | Barrons Juveniles, November 1, 1989, cover price $3.95 | About this edition: A family adopt the baby on their doorstep and enjoy bringing her up, though her teeth grow in sharp and pointed until Dracula comes to claim her for his own.
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9780778710004 | Crabtree Pub Co, April 30, 2006, cover price $4.95 | About this edition: A family adopt the baby on their doorstep and enjoy bringing her up, though her teeth grow in sharp and pointed until Dracula comes to claim her for his own.
9780778709916 | Crabtree Pub Co, September 1, 2003, cover price $4.95 | About this edition: A story to help children develop the confidence to read on their own.
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9780778709541 | Crabtree Pub Co, April 30, 2006, cover price $22.60 | About this edition: A family adopt the baby on their doorstep and enjoy bringing her up, though her teeth grow in sharp and pointed until Dracula comes to claim her for his own.
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9780756615079 | Dk Pub, November 20, 2005, cover price $12.99 | About this edition: A collection of simple retellings of stories from both the Old and New Testaments.
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9780803724662 | Dial Books for Young Readers, October 1, 1999, cover price $16.99 | About this edition: Three wise women follow a bright star to find a very special newborn baby in a stable, where each of them is able in her own way to give the child a gift
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9781845074470 | Reprint edition (Frances Lincoln Childrens Books, November 9, 2005), cover price $7.95 | About this edition: Three wise women follow a bright star to find a very special newborn baby in a stable, where each of them is able in her own way to give the child a gift.
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9781905236053 | Barefoot Books, October 5, 2005, cover price $6.99 | About this edition: With a Solomon-like wisdom far beyond her seven years, young Katya helps her father solve a riddle posed by the Tsar.
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9781901223644 | Barefoot Books, September 1, 1998, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: A retelling of the Russian folktale about a young girl whose cleverness saves her father from being beheaded, and wins them a baby foal
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Reinforced:
9780606337601 | Demco Media, April 16, 2005, cover price $16.71 | About this edition: The sequel to the international bestseller "City of Masks".
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