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1) Heidi
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A Swiss orphan is heartbroken when she must leave her beloved grandfather and their happy home in the mountains to go to school and to care for an invalid girl in the city.
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4) Delirium
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Lena looks forward to receiving the government-mandated cure that prevents the delirium of love and leads to a safe, predictable, and happy life, until ninety-five days before her eighteenth birthday and her treatment, when she falls in love.
7) Ash
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In this variation on the Cinderella story, Ash grows up believing in the fairy realm that the king and his philosophers have sought to suppress, until one day she must choose between a handsome fairy cursed to love her and the king's huntress whom she loves.
11) The empty mirror
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Thirteen-year-old Nick, whose parents died in the 1918 flu epidemic, must find out why his mirror-image is causing mischief around their New England town and making sure Nick gets the blame.
13) Hounded
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Andy Carpenter gets a mysterious phone call from his friend, policeman Pete Stanton, asking him to drop everything and drive to an unfamiliar address with his girlfriend. Andy isn't expecting to show up at a crime scene where Pete has just discovered the body of ex-convict Danny Diza. Or that Pete wants Andy and Laurie to take care of Danny's now orphaned eight-year-old son and basset hound. Or that Pete will become a suspect in the murder.
15) Mike's mystery
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An adaptation of Gertrude Chandler Warner's story about the Alden children--Henry, Jesse, Violet, and Benny--who go on a summer trip to visit Aunt Jane and help their friend Mike find out who started the fire that burned down his house.
17) Anne of Avonlea
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At sixteen Anne is grown up. . . almost. Her gray eyes shine like evening stars, but her red hair is still as peppery as her temper. In the years since she arrived at Green Gables as a freckle-faced orphan, she has earned the love of the people of Avonlea and a reputation for getting into scrapes. But when Anne begins her job as the new schoolteacher, the real test of her character begins. Along with teaching the three Rs, she is learning how complicated...
19) The bean trees
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Young, bright Taylor Greer leaves her poverty-stricken life in Kentucky and heads west, picking up an abandoned Native American baby girl whom she names Turtle and finds a new home in Tucson with Mattie, an old woman who takes in Central American refugees.
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