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Author
Series
Moomin books volume 2
Publisher
E. Benn
Pub. Date
[1951]
Physical Desc
191 p. illus. 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Moomintroll encounters a mouth organist, a moth collector, and a lovely maiden, and discovers the danger of a threatening comet when he takes a journey to seek advice from the Professor.
Author
Series
Moomin books volume 6
Publisher
Square Fish
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
138 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Moomintroll wakes up in January, he finds that winter has changed all his favorite places in the Valley.
5) The runaways
Author
Publisher
Gecko Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
129 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Grandpa's in the hospital and hating it. He swears at the nurses and makes trouble for everyone. Dad finds it too stressful to visit, but Gottfried Junior visits Grandpa as often as he's allowed, and when he's not allowed, he goes anyway. Grandpa thinks only of the place he was happiest--the island where he lived with Grandma before she died. He wants to go back one last time, but they won't let him out of the hospital. Gottfried Junior and Grandpa...
Author
Series
Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Formats
Description
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.
Author
Publisher
Floris Books
Pub. Date
2011, ©2011
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 x 30 cm
Language
English
Description
Princess Sylvie and her father, the king, go for a walk in the woods one day. Who will they meet there? Then Sylvie's dog Oskar runs off after a long-eared hare, and Sylvie's adventure begins.
10) Ollie's ski trip
Author
Publisher
Floris
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First US edition
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
A humorous interactive story about a book that does not want to be read and will do just about anything it can to make you give up and put it down
12) The lily pond
Author
Series
Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Formats
Description
Having left Nazi-occupied Vienna a year ago, thirteen-year-old Jewish refugee Stephie Steiner adapts to life in the cultured Swedish city of Gothenburg, where she attends school, falls in love, and worries about her parents who were not allowed to emigrate.
Author
Series
Tomte (Ulf Stark) volume 1
Publisher
Floris Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
101 pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Grump the Yule Tomte lives all alone, which is exactly how he likes it! He's waiting for Christmas to arrive when all of a sudden a gust of wind steals his mittens from the washing line and his hat from his head. That's the last straw -- he won't be the Yule Tomte any more! Binny and Barty, the rabbit children, live with their family in the forest. They've never heard of Christmas, or the Yule Tomte, until the wind brings them some strange gifts...All...
Author
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Formats
Description
When her best friend, the sailor Henry Koskela, is falsely accused of murder, a gorilla named Sally Jones visits the run-down docks of Lisbon, embarks on a dizzying journey across the seven seas, and calls on the Maharaja of Bhapur's magnificent court--all in an attempt to clear Henry's name.
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