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22) Hi, Harry!
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A tortoise tries to find someone who will play with him at his own speed.
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"The foolish tortoise wants to move faster, so he decides to leave his heavy shell behind. But then he's too scared to walk anywhere! After some scary encounters, he retraces his steps, climbs back into his home, and bids the world a cheerful 'Good night'. Read along with the enclosed compact disc that contains a charming narration of this classic story!"--Page [4] of cover.
26) Turtle diary
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"Life in a city can be atomizing, isolating. And it certainly is for William G. and Neaera H., the strangers at the center of Russell Hoban's surprisingly heartwarming novel Turtle Diary. William, a clerk at a used-book store, lives in a rooming house after a divorce that has left him without home or family. Neaera is a successful writer of children's books, who, in her own estimation, "looks like the sort of spinster who doesn't keep cats and is...
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Includes three humorous stories in verse; Yertle the Turtle, the story about King Yertle who wanted to rule over all he could see; Gertrude McFuzz, the bird who wanted to grow a better tail; and The Big Brag, where a rabbit and bear compete over which of them could do things better.
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43 Old Cemetery Road volume 7
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Twelve-year-old Seymour Hope and his ghostly "mother" Olive go to Scotland to claim a castle inherited from Ignatius Grumply's punster uncle, Ian, but while they tend an aged tortoise and face an unscrupulous developer, Iggie deals with Ian's ghost and an inept insurance agent.
34) Esio Trot
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Shy Mr. Hoppy devises a plan to win the heart of his true love by teaching her a spell to make her tortoise grow bigger.
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Franklin is afraid of thunderstorms. When a storm approaches while he is playing at Fox's house, a flash of lightning sends Franklin into his shell. He refuses to come out -- even for snacks -- until his friends make him laugh with their tall tales about what causes storms. And when Beaver explains what really causes thunder and lightning, Franklin begins to feel much safer.
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In this graphic version of the classic fable there is a new contest at the spring festival--a robot battle--and Shelly the Tortoise is determined to build a robot that can defeat that perennial winner and all around jerk, Hunter the Hare--especially after he steals her prototype suit.
38) Mossy
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Mossy, a turtle with a garden growing on her shell, is taken from her home and new friend to become an exhibit in a museum, until the director's niece, Tory, notices how sad Mossy is and helps arrange for her to go home.
39) The birthday pet
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Danny can have a pet for his birthday and he knows exactly what he wants, but the other members of his family think differently.
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