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Product Description: When the emperor is imprisoned in a high tower, his smallest daughter, whom he has always ignored, uses her kite to save him.
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9780529002556 | Putnam Pub Group, June 1, 1968, cover price $6.99 | About this edition: When the emperor is imprisoned in a high tower, his smallest daughter, whom he has always ignored, uses her kite to save him.
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When the emperor is imprisoned in a high tower, his smallest daughter, whom he has always ignored, uses her kite to save him.
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9780399225123 | Reprint edition (Sandcastle, April 1, 1993), cover price $5.95 | About this edition: In ancient China, Djeow Seow, the Emperor's tiniest daughter, spends her time alone, flying her kite and feeling unneeded, but her courage and cleverness are called upon when her beloved father is taken prisoner
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A biography of the English pacifist who founded the Quaker movement in the seventeenth century.
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9780395289327 | Clarion Books, July 19, 1979, cover price $6.95
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9780816430185 | Houghton Mifflin, February 1, 1972, cover price $6.95 | About this edition: A biography of the English pacifist who founded the Quaker movement in the seventeenth century.
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9780671665401 | Simon & Schuster, March 1, 1972, cover price $9.95
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Stories about humans and animals living in the future focus on man's ignorance and greed
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9780816431038 | Seabury Pr, October 1, 1973, cover price $7.95 | About this edition: Stories about humans and animals living in the future focus on man's ignorance and greed
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Mystery and suspense are combined in this collection of tales and stories about islands
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9780690896718, titled "Wizard Islands" | Ty Crowell Co, January 1, 1974, cover price $8.95 | About this edition: Includes tales, true and legendary, of various new and ancient islands throughout the world.
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Five original stories with the flavor of classic folk literature focus on the themes of love, truth, fear, and kindness
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9780690002164 | Ty Crowell Co, March 1, 1974, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Five original stories with the flavor of classic folk literature focus on the themes of love, truth, fear, and kindness
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9780805206661 | Random House Childrens Books, April 1, 1981, cover price $8.95 | About this edition: Five original stories with the flavor of classic folk literature focus on the themes of love, truth, fear, and kindness
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9780690002171 | Harpercollins, March 1, 1974, cover price $12.89 | About this edition: Five original stories with the flavor of classic folk literature focus on the themes of love, truth, fear, and kindness
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Saddened to discover that sand, tumbleweed and cactus are not suitable friends, the Rainbow Rider flings his tears to the sky, and something special happens.
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9780690003116, titled "Rainbow Rider" | Harpercollins, August 1, 1974, cover price $12.89 | About this edition: Lonely and tired of being the only person in a newly-created world, Rainbow Rider tries to make friends with the desert sand, cactus, and tumbleweed
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9780020457305, titled "The Witch Who Wasn't" | Atheneum, October 1, 1974, cover price $1.25
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Presents the development and uses of bells and their effect on people's lives over the centuries through a combination of folk tales and facts.
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9780395288863 | Houghton Mifflin, November 1, 1974, cover price $6.95 | About this edition: Comments of the history and lore of bells and their role in poetry and song
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Two times the little spotted fish saves the fisherlad's life, but the third time the fish itself is in danger.
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9780395288351 | Houghton Mifflin, April 1, 1975, cover price $7.95 | About this edition: A tiny fish magically aids a young fisherman in times of trouble and one day needs the boy's help to escape from danger
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A selchie, a seal who has turned into a human boy, lives as the son of a childless Scottish couple for many years until, to save his 'father's' life, he returns to the sea.
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9780529005434 | Putnam Pub Group, June 1, 1975, cover price $7.99 | About this edition: A Scottish fisherfolk legend about a selchie named Greyling who is a man upon land and a seal in the sea
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A young boy uses a milkweed pod kept from the previous year to remind him of summer.
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9780690012507 | Ty Crowell Co, July 1, 1976, cover price $5.95 | About this edition: A young boy uses a milkweed pod kept from the previous year to remind him of summer.
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Traces the rise and decline of the Shakers who immigrated to the United States from England in 1774 and settled throughout New England.
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9780670645848 | Viking Pr, October 1, 1976, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: A sympathetic account of the Shakers, their beliefs, their standards of conduct, their way of life, their legacy, and their decline
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Five personable giants discover the pleasures of being part of a family when they decide to build a farm and live on it together
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9780395288344, titled "The Giants Farm" | Houghton Mifflin, September 1, 1977, cover price $6.95 | About this edition: A group of distinctly different giants have problems to solve when they decide to live together on a farm.
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9780531001257 | Franklin Watts, October 1, 1977, cover price $9.90 | About this edition: Music book.
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Relates how an old man teaches the emperor's blind daughter to see.
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9780690005967 | Harpercollins, October 1, 1977, cover price $14.89 | About this edition: Although all the doctors and magicians in China fail to cure the emperor's only daughter of her blindness, a poor old wood carver claims that he can teach the beautiful princess to see
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Exquisite charcoal drawings embellish seven short stories about love and separation, obedience and loyalty, and the nature of happiness
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9780690013665 | Ty Crowell Co, October 1, 1977, cover price $10.95 | About this edition: Exquisite charcoal drawings embellish seven short stories about love and separation, obedience and loyalty, and the nature of happiness
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Saki, Kafka, Russell Baker, and Richard Curtis are among the authors of twelve fantasy and science-fiction tales about humans who can change themselves into animals
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9780395289334 | Houghton Mifflin, April 1, 1978, cover price $8.95 | About this edition: Saki, Kafka, Russell Baker, and Richard Curtis are among the authors of twelve fantasy and science-fiction tales about humans who can change themselves into animals
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Because she carelessly lets herself be seen by a landperson, Melusina, a mermaid, is banished from her undersea home and becomes the friend of a twelve-year-old hearing-impaired girl
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9780529054203 | Putnam Pub Group, September 1, 1978, cover price $8.95 | About this edition: A mermaid who cannot speak is banished from her undersea home and sent to live on land as a human where she is found by a 12-year-old girl with a hearing impairment.
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Five giants share the fun and surprises of a camping trip to the mountains.
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9780395289556, titled "The Giants Go Camping" | Houghton Mifflin, April 1, 1979, cover price $6.95 | About this edition: Five brothers, all giants, have an enormous amount of fun when they embark on a camping trip in the mountains, where even giants can be surprised by what they encounter
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9780395289341 | Clarion Books, July 12, 1979, cover price $7.95
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With the help of Bluebottle Burt, Spider Jane is able to find both the best spot for her new web and someone to web-sit when she takes a vacation
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9780698307148 | Putnam Pub Group, March 1, 1980, cover price $6.99 | About this edition: The adventures of Spider Jane as she moves, has a web warming, entertains a visitor, and tries to find a web sitter while she goes on vacation.
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The famous inventor of an ice-making formula must rescue a skating star of the Mice Capades from Kidnappers.
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9780525348726 | Dutton Childrens Books, April 1, 1980, cover price $7.95 | About this edition: Determined to steal a priceless formula for making ice, a wicked underworld boss, Gomer the Rat King, plots to kidnap the beautiful star of the Mice on Ice show
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Rebecca uses the robot she recieves for her ninth birthday to solve a mystery in Bosyork, biggest metroplex of the East Coast of America in 2121.
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9780394844886 | Random House Inc, August 1, 1980, cover price $1.95 | About this edition: In 2121 Rebecca receives a robot detective named Watson II for her birthday and uses it to solve a mystery that has perplexed the apartment-city of Metroplex
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9780394944883 | Random House Childrens Books, June 1, 1980, cover price $4.99 | About this edition: In 2121 Rebecca receives a robot detective named Watson II for her birthday and uses it to solve a mystery that has perplexed the apartment-city of Metroplex
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