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When Holland is arrested for the thirty-seventh time for stealing beautiful things, he must make a very difficult decision. A police officer says that he must either go to jail or become a soldier. He chooses to join the army and is sent south, where he finds himself surrounded by beautiful things: palm trees, parrots, flowers and big blue waves…and fish! Holland starts painting pictures of the fish, which he sells at the market on the weekend....
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Geronimo Stilton. Original series volume 59
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When his grandfather finds out he is bankrupt, Geronimo is sent off to Moldy Manor where his miserly Uncle Stingysnout teaches him to be better at saving.
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Silver Arrow volume 1
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2020.
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English
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Kate's humdrum life is transformed when her eccentric Uncle Herbert brings her a colossal locomotive train, the Silver Arrow, as her eleventh birthday gift, leading her and her younger brother on a mysterious quest.
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It's a whole new ride from master of horror and bestselling author R.L. Stine--with a story so fiendish that it can't be contained to just one book!
Abby and Peter are staying with Uncle Jonathan in an eerie old village. Their uncle knows a lot about Egypt, and his living room even looks like an ancient tomb. Do other secrets lurk inside the house? MUM's the word! Next, Abby and Peter will get all WRAPPED up in a terrifying mystery. Slappy the Dummy...
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Rose legacy volume 1
Pub. Date
2018.
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English
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Orphaned Anthea Cross hopes to finally find a home with her long-lost uncle, but she soon learns not only that he secretly breeds forbidden horses, but that she can communicate with them.
12) Corazonadas
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Planeta
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2016.
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Español
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"Encontré la caja por pura casualidad; era pequeña y estaba firmemente atada con un cordel azul. Con marcador negro, en la tapa, tenía impreso el nombre del propietario: Paco. Así, sin apellidos, sin ninguna advertencia de no tocar o frágil o material peligroso. Dentro podría haber cualquier cosa, desde mariposas disecadas, un huevo de dinosaurio, el mapa de una isla misteriosa o una pluma de pájaro dodo. Sin embargo, contenía cuadernos verdes...
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Samantha Spinner series volume 1
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Samantha's uncle mysteriously disappears, leaving behind extravagant gifts for her siblings and an old, rusty, red umbrella for Samantha that may contain clues to his whereabouts.
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A twelve-year-old boy describes a trip with his uncle taking piglets to market, awakening to a miraculous moonglow after spending the night in a manger, and experiencing a rainstorm that surrounds them but leaves them dry, after which he swears to himself that he will never die.
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"When Koo, a young panda, has a dream about saving the world, he worries that the job is too big for him to manage. But his Uncle Stillwater shows him that sometimes saving the world starts with doing little things, like being kind and considerate"--Provided by publisher.
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Geronimo Stilton. Original series volume 57
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"It's supposed to be a relaxing vacation, but instead Geronimo works his tail off fixing up an old castle. Worst. Vacation. Ever!" -- from publisher's web site.
20) The gardener
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Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
1997
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English
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A series of letters relating what happens when, after her father loses his job, Lydia Grace goes to live with her Uncle Jim in the city but takes her love for gardening with her.
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