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Author
Series
Pippi Longstocking volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
The further adventures of Pippi and her friends Tommy and Annika.
Author
Publisher
Front Street
Pub. Date
[2005]
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
301 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Young Anon, who marches to the beat of a different drummer in galoshes to protect himself from radiation, touches the lives of all around him, resulting in disillusionment, loss, love, and more than a few surprises.
Author
Publisher
New York Review of Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
245 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Life in their rented summer cottage on Seacrow Island is sometimes happy, sometimes exciting, and sometimes tragic, but never uneventful for a Swedish author, his three sons, and nineteen-year-old daughter.
Author
Series
Publisher
A. Whitman
Pub. Date
1994.
Physical Desc
28 unnumbered pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
When their aunt and uncle's cat disappears while they are supposed to be taking care of it, three young sisters frantically look for it and get quite a surprise.
14) The Night Raven
Author
Series
Publisher
Amazon Crossing Kids
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
181 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"It's 1880, and in the frigid city of Stockholm, death lurks around every corner. Twelve-year-old Mika knows that everyone in her orphanage will struggle to survive this winter. But at least the notorious serial killer the Night Raven is finally off the streets...or is he? Mika is shocked when a newborn baby is left at the orphanage in the middle of the night, by a boy with a cryptic message. Who is he? And who is this "Dark Angel" he speaks of? When...
Author
Publisher
Viking Press
Pub. Date
1984.
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
33 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
On a snowy day in a small Swedish village, mischievous Elizabeth gets into trouble when she hides on the back of a farmer's sleigh and is taken for a very long ride.
16) The lily pond
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Having left Nazi-occupied Vienna a year ago, thirteen-year-old Jewish refugee Stephie Steiner adapts to life in the cultured Swedish city of Gothenburg, where she attends school, falls in love, and worries about her parents who were not allowed to emigrate.
17) A faraway island
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
In 1939 Sweden, two Jewish sisters wait for their parents to flee the Nazis in Austria, but while eight-year-old Nellie settles in quickly, twelve-year-old Stephie feels stranded at the end of the world, with a foster mother who is as cold and unforgiving as the island on which they live.
18) Deep sea
Author
Series
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
228 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Nearly four years after leaving Vienna to escape the Nazis, Stephie Steiner, now sixteen, and her sister Nellie, eleven, are still living in Sweden, worrying about their parents and striving to succeed in school, and at odds with each other despite their mutual love.
Author
Series
Beartown volume 1
Language
English
Description
Everyone knows Beartown is a hockey town. And everyone in Beartown knows someone who is connected to hockey, from the lonely owner of the local bar to the former athlete now managing the supermarket. In a town dying from economic decay and isolated by the surrounding wilderness, Beartown needs its junior hockey team to bring home the championship and bring in tourism and sponsorship dollars to keep the town alive. The son of a wealthy businessman...
Author
Series
Pippi Longstocking volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
The adventures of the strongest girl in the world, who takes her two friends with her when she travels from Sweden to visit her father, king of an island in the South Seas.
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