Literary Adventures and Themes

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A girl grows up in Vietnam having adventures with six older brothers.

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Any Small Goodness

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Three siblings in the English countryside become friends with a barge captain who treats them harshly at first.

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The Railway Children

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A shy girl from the United States goes to a boarding school in Switzerland and learns about relating to people from other cultures.

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Bloomability

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With the help of a king’s daughter, a brave young man defeats a monster on the island of Crete.

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The Minotaur

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A young boy living in a Los Angeles barrio learns about true character when a stranger rescues his cat.

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Any Small Goodness

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A boy growing up on the Canadian prairies enjoys watching the relationship between his old dog and his pet owl.

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Owls in the Family

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Narcissus suffers for his cruelty to Echo and other women in "Echo and Narcissus" by ...

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falling in love with his own reflection, then withering away and dying.

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"Winning Mount Olympus" describes the Greek gods and goddesses as beings who ...

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fight, lie, yell, weep, and need food and drink.

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King Aegeus and his kingdom face the problem of ...

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sending several young people to Crete to be devoured by the Minotaur every year.

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The theme of both "A Pack of Brothers" and "I Ask My Mother to Sing" is ...

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the importance of treasuring family memories