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The Sterkarm Handshake

by Susan Price

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Olivetti
by Allie Millington

Finding Home: Amazing Places Animals Live
Mike Unwin, Jenni Desmond (illustrator)

Harry Potter: the Complete Series
by J.K. Rowling

The Secret Garden
by Frances Hodgson Burnett

The Wind in the Willows
by Kenneth Grahame

The Island at the End of Everything
by Kiran Millwood Hargrave