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Pippi moves into in a house at the edge of a Swedish village with a horse, a monkey, a suitcase full of gold, and no grown-ups to tell her what to do. She has upside-down braids and is wild and funny and her crazy ideas have a way of making anything exciting! Naturally, the children next door, Tommy and Annika are curious about their new neighbor. The three children have the most rollicking adventures on their own, with horses and monkeys, the circus,...
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Pippi Longstocking volume 2
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Pippi Longstocking has no parents around and no rules to follow. She's been treating her friends Tommy and Annika to wild adventures, too, like buying and eating seventy-two pounds of candy, or sailing off to an island in the middle of a lake to see what it's like to be shipwrecked. But then Pippi's long lost father returns, and she might have to leave Villa Villekulla.
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In 1939 Sweden, two Jewish sisters wait for their parents to join them in fleeing the Nazis in Austria, but while eight-year-old Nellie settles in quickly, twelve-year-old Stephie feels stranded at the end of the world, with a foster mother who is as cold and unforgiving as the island on which they live.
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Having left Nazi-occupied Vienna a year ago, thirteen-year-old Jewish refugee Stephie Steiner adapts to life in the cultured Swedish city of Gothenburg, where she attends school, falls in love, and worries about her parents who were not allowed to emigrate.
6) Deep sea
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Nearly four years after leaving Vienna to escape the Nazis, Stephie Steiner, now sixteen, and her sister Nellie, eleven, are still living in Sweden, worrying about their parents and striving to succeed in school, and at odds with each other despite their mutual love.
10) Seacrow Island
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Life in their rented summer cottage on Seacrow Island is sometimes happy, sometimes exciting, and sometimes tragic, but never uneventful for a Swedish author, his three sons, and nineteen-year-old daughter.
11) Frozen Peaches
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Great Peach experiment volume 3
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After ten-year-old Freddy Peach wins his family a trip to the Ice Hotel in Sweden, the family pack their bags to learn how to run a successful hotel and participate in the Ice Hotel's Frozen Olympics.
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Pippi Longstocking volume 3
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The adventures of the strongest girl in the world, who takes her two friends with her when she travels from Sweden to visit her father, king of an island in the South Seas.
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Polish
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"Wyjątkowe wydanie najpopularniejszej książki Astrid Lindgren z zachwycającymi kolorowymi ilustracjami Magdaleny Kozieł-Nowak, w dużym formacie - idealne na prezent! Lasse, Bosse, Lisa, Olle, Britta i Anna mieszkają w Bullerbyn. To maleńka wioska, ale wcale nie jest tam nudno. Każdy dzień, z pozoru zwyczajny, staje się świetną przygodą. Można łowić raki, spać w stogu siana, szukać skarbów, założyć spółdzielnię wiśniową...
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After a merciless winter, spring has sprung in 1880 Stockholm, and the city awaits the arrival of the SS Vega, the first ship to have sailed the Northeast Passage. Life is busy at the orphanage, but twelve-year-old Mika quickly notices that the older orphans are up to something--and it doesn't look good. When Constable Hoff approaches her with information about thefts around the city, Mika becomes even more concerned about what the other kids are...