Jean Merrill

• 1964
• / General Fiction
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50th Anniversary Edition Do you know the history of the pushcart war? The REAL history? it’s a story of how regular people banded together and, armed with little more than their brains and good aim defeated a mighty foe. Not long ago the streets of...

• Jan-1970
• / General Fiction
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• Jan-1972
• / General Fiction
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Sixth-grader Rufus Mayflower doesn't set out to become a millionaire. He just wants to save on toothpaste. Betting he can make a gallon of his own for the same price as one tube from the store, Rufus develops a step-by-step production plan with he...

• Oct-1978
• / Traditional Regency
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MAKE-BELIEVE LOVE It wasn't very romantic, but then romance was the furthest thing from Belle Barclay's mind when she agreed to a make-believe love affair with the young Earl of Orsett. Her career in the theatre was crashing to a premature end, an...

• Dec-1980
• / Traditional Regency
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SERAPHINA'S LIFE WAS ORDERED AND TRANQUIL UNTIL .. . her niece, Georgiana, came to visit. First Miss Georgiana's canary flew over the gate and into the garden of Seraphina's long-lost fiance. Then Miss Seraphina Silk missed her weekly Ladies' Guil...

• Sep-1981
• / General Fiction
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• Oct-1992
• / General Fiction
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Living in twelfth-century Japan, Izumi, a young girl who is fascinated by small creatures, especially caterpillars, ignores the rigid conventions of Japanese court life and the wishes of her parents to pursue her own interests and choices....

• Mar-2015
• / General Fiction
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What is your favorite thing to do in the whole world? Whatever it is, odds are that you don’t like doing it as much as the elephant in this book enjoys smashing small cars. He’ll smash any small car that drives down his road. He smashes yellow ca...