Philip Ardagh's Unlikely Exploits chart the extraordinary changes in fortune of the downtrodden McNally family beginning with The Fall of Fergal. The setting is an unidentified country suffering from an unexpected breakout of large holes.
The McNally children find themselves in The Dell Hotel, the venue for the final of the Tap 'n' Type typing competition, surrounded by a strange assortment of characters ranging from TwinkleToes Tweedy, the house detective, to Mr. Peach, a ventriloquist with a very large moustache.
With young Fergal McNally falling to his death at the very beginning, the only way for the McNallys is up.
Through the alternating voices of 12yearold Morning Girl and her younger brother Star Boy, we step into the extraordinarily rich lives of an indigenous family on a Bahamian Island in 1492....
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Set in the Lake Superior region in the mid1800s, The Birchbark House is a vital novel providing fascinating details of a year in the life of young Omakayas, a girl of the Ojibwa....
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For years, 16yearold Hattie's been shuttled between relatives. Tired of being Hattie HereandThere, she courageously leaves Iowa to prove up on her late uncle's homestead claim....
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In this eagerly awaited sequel to A House Called Awful End, Eddie Dickens narrowly avoids being blown up, trampled by horses, hit by a hotair balloon, and arrested....
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Children will enjoy listening to early evidence of young Clara Barton's calling such as when Patch, her beloved dog, is injured, and Clara nurses him back to health....
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In this stunning sequel to The Golden Compass, the intrepid Lyra finds herself in a shimmering, haunted otherworld, Cittagazze, where souleating Specters stalk the streets...
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This powerful, quirky novel about two very complicated, damaged children has much to say about friendship, loss, and recovery....
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The year is 1904, and Russell is 15. Though he dreams of leaving smalltown Indiana to become part of a large farm crew in the Dakotas, he's forced to stay in school....
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When Brooke Shields welcomed her newborn daughter, Rowan Francis Henchy, into the world, something unexpected followed: a crippling depression....
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Now daily Bible time for children is even easier with this fully dramatized audio version of the NIrV Little Kids' Adventure Bible....
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