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"Corpus Bones! I utterly loathe my life."
Catherine feels trapped. Her father is determined to marry her off to
a rich man--any rich man, no matter how awful.
But by wit, trickery, and luck, Catherine manages to send several
would-be husbands packing. Then a shaggy-bearded suitor from the north
comes to call--by far the oldest, ugliest, most revolting suitor of them
all.
Unfortunately, he is also the richest.
Can a sharp-tongued, high-spirited, clever young maiden with a mind
of her own actually lose the battle against an ill-mannered, piglike
lord and an unimaginative, greedy toad of a father?
Deus! Not if Catherine has anything to say about it!
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The Beduin's Gazelle
Halima - A girl slim and strong as a date palm,
fleet-footed as a gazelle.
Atiyah - A boy of promise and hope, whose name
means Gift of God.
When she and he were only babies, they were pledged
in marriage. Now Atiyah has been sent away--a polotical pawn in a war
between the Beduin tribes in the year 1302. He vows to return to her as soon
as he can.
But while Atiyah is studying at the great university in Fez, Halima is
lost in a sandstorm. Rescued by an enemy tribe, she is told that she must
marry the powerful sheikh and live in his harem--never to see her people
again. Halima does what she can to resist, but she has no choice. In three
moons' time, she will become the youngest wife of the cruel and greedy
Raisulu--unless Atiyah can find her. But where in the vast sea of desert can
he begin his search for his beloved?
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The Kite Rider
Up and up the wind
drew him.
Haoyou looked about him and saw the
whole
world beneath him. And it was his.
The Great Miao, master of the Jade
Circus, offers Haoyou the amazing chance
to escape his family's poverty -- by
becoming a kite rider. Strapped onto a
beautiful scarlet-and-gold kite, Haoyou
is sent into the sky, earning money,
freedom, and unexpected fame. Miao even
plans for Haoyou to perform before
Kublai Khan himself.
From Carnegie Medalist Geraldine
McCaughrean comes a dazzling story of
adventure, betrayal, family, and
sacrifice set in the dramatic world of
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THE
SAMURAI'S
TALE
I shall begin my tale on that day when I
lost not only my father, but my mother and my two older brothers as
well...In the morning of that day my name had been Murakami; I was a bushi,
a knight's son whom every woman in the village would fondle and spoil.
before the sun set I had been given the name "Taro," a servant's name, and I
was of no importance than that name implied.
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A DANGEROUS
MYSTERY
AND A BOY
DETERMINED TO SOLVE IT...
After a sailing ship breaks up on the rocks off Washington's storm-tossed
Cape Flattery, Nathan McAllister, the fourteen-year-old son of the
lighthouse keeper, refuses to believe the authorities, who say there were no
survivors. Unexplained footprints on a desolate beach, a theft at the
trading post, and glimpses of a wild "hairy man" convince Nathan that
someone is hiding in the remote sea caves along the coast. With his new
friend, Lighthouse George, a fisherman from the famed Makah whaling tribe,
Nathan paddles the fierce waters of the Pacific--fishing, hunting seals,
searching for clues. Alone in the forest, Nathan discovers a ghostly canoe
and a skeleton that may unlock the mystery of ancient treasure, betrayal . .
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