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Picture Books (Ages 5 and Under)



Buckle Up,Teddy
Help Elmo teach his teddy monster car safety rules as they drive to Elmo's school for show and tell. You can even help Elmo dress his teddy.

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Elmo Minds the Farm
Join Elmo as he minds the farm while Farmer McDonald is away. Use your mouse and help Elmo choose which animals to visit!

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Goodnight Grover
It's night time and time for Grover to go to sleep. But something is in the corner keeping him awake - should he go see what it is or hide under his blanket? You decide!

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Girls Can Do Anything!
Zoe and Prairie Dawn can do whatever they want. Should they go to the zoo, the library or play at the park?

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Wolstencroft the Bear By Karen Lewis
A beautiful bear sits on a shelf in a drug store waiting for someone to buy him and give him a home? Will his wish come true?

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The Tale of Peter Rabbit By Beatrix Potter
Read the classic tale of Peter Rabbit, the naughty rabbit who gets into trouble wherever he goes. (This story comes with original illustrations from the book)

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Prince Apple Head Humpledink
It's way past Prince Apple Head Humpledink's bedtime but he is much too scared to go to bed. Whatever will he do?

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Early Readers (Ages 6-8)



The Dragons in Mom's Purse
By Dorothy Milford
Okay, so my mom's always been a little werid, but now she claims to have dragons in her purse. It can't be true, can it?

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The Frog Prince
The classic tale of the beautiful princess who makes a promise to a frog that she doesn't want to keep.

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The Tortoise and the Hare
A boastful hare challenges a meek tortoise to a race through the forest. Who will win the race?

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The Pied Piper of Hamelin By Robert Browning
Hamelin is overcome with rats. Will the strange man they call the Pied Piper be able to save the town or will he become more dangerous than the rats? And what is happening to all the children?

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Archibald J.X. McWondrous McReady
By Arnold Berlin

This 18-chapter story features a Princess to be rescued, a brave dog and parrot, mean clowns and robots, an evil Sorcerer and a metamorphizing frog that believes in things worthwhile.

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The Velveteen Rabbit By Margery Williams
A stuffed bunny comes to live with a young boy but longs to be real. When the young boy falls deathly ill, it looks as if all hope is lost...

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Middle School (Ages 9-12)


The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
By Mark Twain

Here is the story of Tom, Huck, Becky, and Aunt Polly; a tale of adventures, pranks, playing hookey, and summertime fun.

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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
By Lewis Carroll

Go on the many adventures of Alice in Wonderland. Meet lots of quirky characters, including the "very late" Rabbit, the Mad Hatter and the wicked Queen who loves to shout, "Off with their heads!"

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Anne of Green Gables By Lucy Maud Montgomery
As soon as Anne Shirley arrived at the snug, white farmhouse called Green Gables, she knew she wanted to stay forever...but would the Cuthberts send her back to the orphanage?

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Banph
Visit the future where insects rule the Earth and humans no longer exist. Many insect species have evolved and adopted human characteristics. Their current way of life parallels the Middle Ages.

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Bluebeard
A young woman marries a strange man and moves into his castle. She is forbidden from entering the little room at the end of the great ground floor corridor. What horrors wait for her behind the forbidden, locked door?

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A Christmas Carol By Charles Dickens
Read the classic Christmas tale that tells the story of Ebenezer Scrooge and his four ghostly visits on Christmas Eve

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Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Experience the dangerous adventures of Huckleberry Finn as he sails down the Mississippi River on a raft.

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The Jungle Book By Rudyard Kipling
Mowgli the Man-Cub is a little orphaned boy raised in the jungle by wolves...and always on the lookout for Shere Kahn, the fearsome and dreaded enemy tiger.

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Little Lord Fauntleroy
By Frances Hodgson Burnett

Read the tale of the American boy who goes to live with his grandfather in England and becomes heir to a title, estate, and fortune.

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A Little Princess By Francis Hodgson Burnett
The daughter of a wealthy gentleman, Sara Crewe is treated like a little princess...until she is left at Miss Minchin's boarding school in London while her father is in India.

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Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Read how Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy struggle to make their dreams come true as they come of age in New England during the Civil War.

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Peter Pan By James M. Barrie
Fly away with Peter Pan to the magical island of Neverland for adventures with mermaids, fairies, pirates and the infamous Captain Hook.

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Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
By Kate Douglas Wiggin

The classic story of ten-year-old Rebecca Randall who leaves Sunnybrook Farm to go and live with her aunts, Miranda and Jane, in Riverboro, Maine in the 19th century.

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The Secret Garden By Francis Hodgson Burnett
Read the story of Mary Lennox as she moves to a strange house in the country and finds many wonderful surprises in the estate's secret garden.

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Through the Looking Glass By Lewis Carroll
Read the continuing adventures of Alice in Wonderland and meet the Lion and the Unicorn, Humpty-Dumpty, the Garden of Live Flowers, and the evil Jabberwocky!

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Treasure Island By Robert Louis Stevenson
Travel the high seas and enjoy a swashbuckling tale about pirates, mutiny, Captain Silver and the search for a lost treasure.

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Wind in the Willows By Kenneth Grahame
Read the timeless tales of Toad, Rat, Mole, and Badger. Travel along the river bank, open road and the wild woods.

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The Wizard of Oz By L. Frank Baum
Join Dorothy and Toto as they travel to Oz with the likeable Tin Man, Cowardly Lion and the Scarecrow without a Heart.

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White Fang By Jack London
White Fang is the story of a vicious animal - part dog, part wolf - and the kind man who heals the wolf's emotional wounds with patience and affection.

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