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Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones Elizabeth and Her German Garden by Elizabeth von Arnim The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier Anne of Avonlea by L.M. Montgomery The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway Salt by Mark Kurlansky The World of Winnie-the-Pooh by A.A. Milne Miss Nelson Is Missing! by Harry Allard Life Together by Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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“There were two classes of charitable people: one, the people who did a little and made a great deal of noise; the other, the people who did a great deal and made no noise at all.”
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Housekeeping by Marilynne RobinsonThink Again by Adam M. GrantThe Anthropocene Reviewed by John GreenThe World of Winnie-the-Pooh by A.A. MilneThe Girl with the Louding Voice by Abi Daré
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