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2) Heidi
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A Swiss orphan is heartbroken when she must leave her beloved grandfather and their happy home in the mountains to go to school and to care for an invalid girl in the city.
4) Peter Pan
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Peter Pan, the boy who ran away the day he was born and stubbornly refuses to grow up, meets the Darling children and leads them through merry adventures in Neverland.
6) Ballet shoes
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Relates the fortunes of three adopted sisters who take dancing and stage training, one to become an actress, the second a ballerina, and the third an aviatrix.
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When Father goes away with two strangers one evening, the lives of Roberta, Peter, and Phyllis are shattered. They and Mother have to move from their comfortable London home to go and live in a simple country cottage, where Mother writes books to make ends meet.
However, they soon come to love the railway that runs near their cottage, and they make a habit of waving every day to the Old Gentleman who rides on it. They befriends the porter, Perks,...
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AudioGO Ltd
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2006
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Mary Lennox is born in India. She is a sickly, sallow child, whose parents hide her away with her Ayah. After her parents die in a cholera outbreak she is sent to live in Yorkshire with her uncle. She is, once more, left mostly to herself. Her uncle still mourns his beautiful wife ten years after her death, and seeks to escape his grief by traveling. When a chambermaid tells Mary about her mistress's garden, which her master locked up on her death,
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BBC Audiobooks
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p2006
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Dorothy and her dog Toto, whisked by ]a cyclone from Kansas into the strange land of the Munchkins, set off on a magical journey. They befriend the Tinman, the Scarecrow and the Cowardly Lion who join her in her quest to find the wonderful Wizard of Oz.