Margot Tomes Books
The Shadowmaker
By Ron Hansen
A cunning little girl named Drizzle rescues her town from the bedlam created by the mysterious Shadowmaker, a wizard who makes new shadows for people.
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The Mysterious Girl in the Garden
By Judith St George, Margot Tomes
During daily visits to Kew Gardens a ten-year-old American girl finds herself transported back to Kew Palace in 1805 where she meets Princess Charlotte Augusta, future queen of England.
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Becky and the bear
A young girl in colonial Maine manages to catch a bear in an unusual way.
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Clever Gretchen and other forgotten folktales
By Alison Lurie
Folktales about heroines, "fair maidens [who] can fight and hunt as well as any man, defeat giants, answer riddles, outwit the Devil, and rescue friends and relatives from all sorts of dangers and...
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Wanda Gag's The sorcerer's apprentice
By Wanda Gag
A sorcerer's apprentice learns his master's spells on the sly and finds they come in handy when he is in danger.
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