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The Sterkarm Handshake

by Susan Price

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The Secret Garden
by Frances Hodgson Burnett

The Wind in the Willows
by Kenneth Grahame

The Hobbit
by J R R Tolkien

Olivetti
by Allie Millington

Black Beauty
by Anna Sewell

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