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Based on Albert Payson Terhune's popular stories from the 1920s, this is the tale of Lad, a purebred collie whose bravery saves the life of a little girl.

Relates the adventures of Ben Brown, his performing poodle Sancho, and the two young girls who feed and care for them after the boy and dog run away from the circus.

"In a barren land, teenage Lucy is taken away from the community she has grown up in and searches the vast countryside for a new home"-- In a barren land, teenaged Lucy is taken away from the community she has grown up in and searches the vast countryside for a new home. The plot contains profanity and graphic violence.

Emeline's quiet village has three important rules: Don't look at the shadows. Don't cross the river. And don't enter the forest. An illustrated fantasy filled with beauty and power, Between the Water and the Woods sweeps you into a world where forests are hungry; knights fight with whips; the king is dying; and a peasant girl's magic will decide the future of the realm . . . When Emeline's little brother breaks all three of their village's rules, she is forced to use her family's forbidde...

Anne, an eleven-year-old orphan, is sent by mistake to live with a lonely, middle-aged brother and sister on a Prince Edward Island farm and proceeds to make an indelible impression on everyone around her.

It's 1914 and the world is on the brink of war. But at almost fifteen, Anne and Gilbert's youngest daughter, Rilla, dreams only of her first dance and getting her first kiss from the dashing Kenneth Ford. Soon, however, even far-off Ingleside is engulfed by Europe's raging conflict, as Rilla's brothers Jem and Walter both enlist, and Rilla finds herself caring for an orphaned newborn.    As the conflict spreads, the Blythes wait anxiously for word of their absent sons, and a bad omen leads them...

The grown-up Anne of Green Gables, her husband, and their six children live in a special hideaway known as Rainbow Valley.

To get away from her pregnant stepmother in New York City, fifteen-year-old Daisy goes to England to stay with her aunt and cousins, with whom she instantly bonds, but soon war breaks out and rips apart the family while devastating the land.

When Jake Limberleg brings his traveling medicine show to a small Missouri town in 1913, thirteen-year-old Natalie senses that something is wrong and, after investigating, learns that her love of automata and other machines make her the only one who can set things right.

Twelve-year-old Toswiah finds her life changed when her family enters the witness protection program.