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At the end of the nineteenth century, nine-year-old Almanzo lives with his family on a big farm in New York State where he raises his own two calves, helps cut ice and shear sheep, and longs for the day he can have his own colt.

Feeling neglected by her family, Thalia Brown finds someone else to help her get ready for the Art Fair.
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A fatherless family, happy in spite of its impoverished condition, is befriended by a very rich gentleman.

A little girl asks if she may return home to visit when she grows up and no longer spills powder in the bathroom or knocks over the plants.
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As a slag heap, the result of strip mining, creeps closer to his house in the Ohio hills, fifteen-year-old M. C. is torn between trying to get his family away and fighting for the home they love.

A boy's efforts to create an icon to please the family's new maid helps him to make new friends and discover an artistic talent.

Janey, the middle Moffat, has an imagination that leads her into many difficulties.

Fourteen-year-old Harry is more a pal than a son to his parents but his friendship with seventy-two-year-old Amelia fosters an honesty and directness that gives him the courage to be himself.
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A young girl with ambitions to be a writer observes the people around her.

During the weekend following a miserable birthday, things go from bad to worse for an eleven-year-old Negro girl living in Watts when she loses a valuable cat temporarily entrusted to her family's care.

Follow the adventures of four sisters, Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy, in this lively retelling of a much-loved classic tale. The sisters fall into one scrape after another, as tempers flare, illness strikes and their lives are filled with new experiences and loves.
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The adventures of Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy as they grew into young ladies in mid-nineteenth-century New England.

The struggle of three brothers to stay together after their parent's death and their quest for identity among the conflicting values of their adolescent society.

The relatives come to visit from Virginia and everyone has a wonderful time.

Troubled fourteen-year-old Gayle is sent down South to live with her uncle and aunt, where her life begins to change as she experiences the healing power of the family.

Sixteen-year-old Claudia and her mother relate in alternating chapters their viewpoint on Claudia's flight from home and suburbia to seek her own values.

Twelve-year-old Janie's family had reached the point where no one believed anything she said. But then godmother Tillie appeared at just the right time to save the summer--and Janie.

A little boy who loves books is desolate when the local library closes for reconstruction and he can find no quiet place at home to read.

A fourteen-year-old boy's adolescent problems are intensified by the secret surrounding his mother's continuous absence, especially when he cannot find anyone who will tell him the truth.