When Kepi's father comes home after being maimed while working on the pharaoh's tomb, she wonders why the pharaoh hasn't done more for him. Her father plans to earn a new living baking special herb bread. Kepi's pet baboon, Babu, is stolen while she is searching for the herbs and Kepi follows the boy-thieves as they pole down the river to the next town. A friendly stranger who offers to help turns out to have designs of his own on Babu and Kepi finds herself kidnapped and on a boat traveling to Ineb Hedj, the largest city in Egypt and home of the pharaoh. Kepi decides to seek out the pharaoh and tell him of the injustice of ignoring his injured subjects. Along her way to Ineb Hedj, she finds new friends who join her on her quest, which will have an unexpected and magical end.

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Reviewed by: vfv

Date read: 2/16/2012

ISBN-13: 9780061667930

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Rachel loves her life at Tumanini in British East Africa where her father is a missionary doctor and her mother is a teacher. Unfortunately, influenza spreads across the globe in the early twentieth century, and her parents get sick and die. Instead of being sent to an English orphanage, Rachel's life takes a dramatic change when she is 'kidnapped' by Mr. and Mrs. Pritchard. They need her to pose as their own daughter Valerie, who fell to the same illness, and travel to England. Rachel's charade is aimed at ensuring that Grandfather Pritchard will not write the greedy Pritchard family out of his will. When Rachel and Grandfather find an unexpected companionship, Rachel faces a few dilemmas. Will she be able to reveal the truth and risk breaking Grandfather's heart? Will she escape being sent to an orphanage? Will she ever be able to return to her beloved Africa to rebuild her father's hospital?

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Reviewed by: sc

Date read: 4/28/2009

ISBN-10: 0060581743

ISBN-13: 9780060581749

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Laura Ingalls and her family are on the Kansas prairie in the 1800's. They meet their Indian neighbors, and face a fast rising creek and a even a prairie fire.

Reviewed by: St. Charles Reader

Date read: 10/23/2009

ISBN-10: 0060264454

ISBN-13: 9780060264451

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The four March sisters, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy live through many ups and downs during this story set in 1860's Massachusetts. Their father is away at the Civil War, but Marmee keeps everything afloat in the March household. Will Jo be able to tame her headstrong nature? Will Beth survive a critical illness? And how do each of the girls change as they reach adulthood? Read this classic book to find out.

Reviewed by: msp

Date read: 1/20/2011

ISBN-10: 0448060191

ISBN-13: 9780448060194

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The Vikings were excellent seafarers with strong, fast ships. When farmland became scarce in Scandinavia, they began exploring across the ocean. This graphic novel illustrates the story of their travels; first to England and Ireland, and then across the Atlantic Ocean. They found Iceland, Greenland, and were the first Europeans to land on North America.

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Reviewed by: donna

Date read: 11/16/2010

ISBN-10: 0736849742

ISBN-13: 9780736849746

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