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Book about smart girl whose mother drowned in the ocean
I have done some research on the information in the comment above and I have found the book that I was looking for! It is called Someday Angeline by Louis Sachar, although this is the cover I'm ...
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Seeking Title of WWII Movie Featuring a Resistance Group and a Unique Method to Expose an Informant
This sort of reminds me of the plot of Stalag 17 (1953) except that the protagonists are prisoners of war instead of resistance.
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Goosebumps book about 2 kids in a haunted school
I think you may be mixing up two Goosebumps books. Searching about a Goosebumps book about a haunted school will quickly bring up #59, The Haunted School, which involves a school with ghosts in it (...
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Legend about the Invention of Steel
It looks like the earliest reference to quenching a sword in a body is an 1894 Chicago Tribune article:
Then let the master workman, having cold-hammered the blade to a smooth and thin edge, thrust ...
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Book about some teenagers building a robot
The Inventors by Alexander Gordon Smith and Jamie Webb looks like a match: published 2007, 385 pages.
Description from amazon.co.uk:
'We're about to spend a year with Ebenezer Saint, in Saint ...
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Identifying a story described within an Agatha Christie book
Mark Twain. I cannot name the exact story, but Christie is definitely referring to a work by Mark Twain. This was a theme throughout his work, and there are several judges who are only able to carry ...
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In which C.S. Lewis essay or book chapter did he talk about the habit of using the word "we" when preaching?
Not sure about the preacher passage. But in his essay "Dangers of National Repentance" he writes something similar to what you describe. He writes:
The young man who is called upon to ...
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Looking for a children's book from the 1950s about an anthropomorphized animal who's abandoned by his family
Walter the Lazy Mouse by Marjorie Flack
Description from goodreads.com:
Walter is a lazy mouse. He is so lazy that he always misses school and
spends all his time in bed. He is so lazy that ...
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Weird kids' keyhole popup book?
The Snoops by Miriam Moss perhaps.
The back cover has a keyhole image:
From the Publishers Weekly review:
Readers get the scoop through the eyes of the Snoops, until the
binoculars are turned on the ...
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Identify short story about a despairing man who finds his lack of fear of death elates him in a rescue attempt on a snowy mountain
There's the C.E. Montague's short story "Action", which fits some of the details.
From Reconstructionary Tales blog post:
Christopher Bell, ‘reigning sovereign’ of a dynasty of Manchester
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