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When the Wind Blows volume 2
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Six kids on the run must face a villain who threatens the future of human existence . . . but winning comes at a high price.
Six children have escaped horrifying government experiments, a childhood in captivity, and a frightening brush with death. Living out in the world for the first time, they yearn to be reunited with Kit and Frannie, the couple who saved their lives. And Max, the leader of the flock, is seized by an overpowering...
Six children have escaped horrifying government experiments, a childhood in captivity, and a frightening brush with death. Living out in the world for the first time, they yearn to be reunited with Kit and Frannie, the couple who saved their lives. And Max, the leader of the flock, is seized by an overpowering...
2) Code to zero
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48 hours that could change the world's political landscape... A man wakes up to find himself lying on the ground in a railway station, his mind stripped bare of all recollection. He has no idea how he got there. He does not even know his own name. Convinced he is a drunken down and out. it isn't until a newspaper report about a satellite launch catches his eye that he begins to suspect all is not what it seems... The year is 1958, and America is about...
6) Seeing stars
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Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c1996
Description
Junkyard animals Motley and Fuzzball build a junkbird and fly up to what they think are the stars.
7) Ducks fly
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Publisher
Dutton,col. ill. ;Dutton
Pub. Date
c1990
Description
While his brothers and sisters learn to fly, one little duck stays behind--but is finally surprised into trying his wings.
8) Wings
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Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2000
Description
Ikarus Jackson, the new boy in school, is outcast because he has wings. But his resilient spirit inspires one girl to speak up for him in this thought provoking story about celebrating individuality.
10) The fledgling
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Publisher
Harper & Row,ill. ; Harper & Row
Pub. Date
c1980
Description
Georgie's fondest hope, to be able to fly, is fleetingly fulfilled when she is befriended by a Canada goose.
12) Abuela
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Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
c1991
Description
While riding on a bus with her grandmother, a little girl imagines that they are carried up into the sky and fly over the sights of New York City.
13) Tar Beach
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Publisher
Crown Publishers
Pub. Date
c1991
Description
A young girl dreams of flying above her Harlem home, claiming all she sees for herself and her family. Based on the author's quilt painting of the same name.
15) Up and down
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Even though the penguin and the boy are close friends and do many things together, the penguin decides that he wants to fly and he wants to do it on his own.
16) Moon plane
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Henry Holt
Pub. Date
2006
Description
A young boy looks at a plane in the sky and imagines flying one all the way to the moon.
17) Somewhere else
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While other birds are seeing the world, George the duck is content to stay at home--or so it seems until he confesses the truth to Pascal, a visiting bear.
19) The long cosmos
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Long Earth volume Book 5
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The Next--the hyper-intelligent post-humans--realize that the missive they received from the center of the galaxy contains instructions for kick-starting the development of an immense artificial intelligence knows as The Machine. But to build this computer the size of an Earth continent, they must obtain help from the more populous and still industrious worlds of mankind.
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