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121) Elmer and the gift
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"Aunt Zelda knows she's supposed to give something to Elmer ... she just can't remember what it is!"--
123) Twenty-one elephants
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Eight-year-old Hannah, upon completion of the Brooklyn Bridge, enlists the help of P.T. Barnum and his twenty-one elephants to prove to her father and all of Brooklyn that the bridge is safe.
124) Orphan eleven
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In 1939, after cruel treatment at her orphanage renders her mute, Lucy runs away and joins the circus, working with the elephants and unaware that the orphanage matrons are hunting for her.
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"While Piggie is determined to fly, Elephant is skeptical. But when Piggie gets a little help from others, amazing things happen!"--Publisher's description.
Rosie est déterminée à voler. Mais Gérald l'éléphant sait très bien que c'est impossible. Rosie a beau essayer du mieux qu'elle peut, elle ne parvient qu'à sauter sur place! Et si quelqu'un pouvait l'aider... mais qui? Rosie sera-t-elle en mesure de prouver à son ami Gérald...
128) The shadow elephant
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A gloomy elephant that wants to be left alone in the shadows ignores other animals' efforts to cheer him, until a mouse asks to rest near him and shares her story of loss.
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Early in the twentieth century, a group of female factory workers in Newark, New Jersey, slowly died of radiation poisoning. Around the same time an Indian elephant was deliberately and publicly put to death by electricity in Coney Island. These are matters of historical fact. Now these two tragedies are intertwined in a dark alternate history of rage, radioactivity, and wrongs crying out to be righted. Brace yourself for a wrenching journey that...
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"Qui n'aime pas jouer à faire semblant? Apparemment, Gérald. Lorsque Rosie décide qu'elle n'est plus un cochon mais une grenouille, son ami est contrarié et frustré. Même si Rosie essaie de produire ses plus beaux coassements, Gérald n'arrive pas à accepter que son amie soit maintenant une grenouille. Rosie parviendra-t-elle à lui faire découvrir la magie de l'imagination?"--Amazon.com.
Piggie introduces his reluctant friend,...