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Book cover: Young Robin HoodYoung Robin Hood
by - H. Altemus co ,
Ever wonder how Robin Hood became Robin Hood? Read how a young boy was molded into the famous hero who 'robbed from the rich and gave to the poor'. This imaginative story gives zesty details into the development and growth of the famous Robin Hood.
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Book cover: Diamond DykeDiamond Dyke
by - W. & R. Chambers ,
A book about the difficulties a pair of young Britons faced when they went to South Africa, and set up an ostrich farm in the dry and largely empty veldt. They had a married couple of the locals to help them, and of these the man wasn't much use ...
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Book cover: The Young Castellan: A Tale of the English Civil WarThe Young Castellan: A Tale of the English Civil War
by - J. B. Lippincott ,
A Castellan is a person in charge of a castle, and that is what young Roy Royland has become, while his father is away defending his king. For the time is about 1640, and there is a move afoot in the country of England to do away with the monarchy...
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Book cover: The Peril FindersThe Peril Finders
by ,
This is a long and excellent book. It starts in California, where several settlers had been trying to gain a living as fruit-growers, but the various blights and insects were getting the upper hand, and failure was in the air all round ...
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Book cover: To The WestTo The West
by - ManyBooks ,
Mayne Gordon and Esau Dean, the heroes of the story, escape from a tyrannical master in the City, who thrashes them into a despairing rage and then prosecutes them for assault. After a good deal of trouble, they arrive safely in British Columbia.
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Book cover: Seven Frozen SailorsSeven Frozen Sailors
by - Project Gutenberg ,
I suddenly woke to the fact that in going close in to the visible part of the iceberg, we had sailed in over a part of it that was under water, and now the huge mass of ice having grown top-heavy, it was slowly rolling over...
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