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Jane Louise Curry
Full Series List in Order
Abaloc
1 - Beneath the Hill (1967)2 - Daybreakers (1970)
3 - Over the Sea's Edge (1971)
4 - The Watchers (1975)
5 - The Birdstones (1977)
6 - The Wolves of Aam (1981)
7 - Shadow Dancers (1983)
The Change Child (1969)
Elizabethan Theatre Time Travel
1 - The Black Canary (Apr-2005)2 - Poor Tom's Ghost (Mar-1977)
Magical Cupboard
1 - Parsley Sage, Rosemary, and Time (Feb-1975)2 - The Magical Cupboard (Jan-1976)
Robin Hood Tales
1 - Robin Hood and His Merry Men (Nov-1994)2 - Robin Hood in the Greenwood (Oct-1995)
Smith Family
1 - The Big Smith Snatch (Sep-1989)2 - The Great Smith House Hustle (May-1993)
Book List in Order: 34 titles
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Beneath the Hill
- 1967
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Reminiscent of the books of C.S. Lewispoetic, wise, and suspenseful. Chicago TribuneThis is the perfect fantasy about the past and the present, about good and evil. Horn BookThe illogical, irresistible sweeping of the reader into a state of being not...
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The Change Child
- 1969
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In this prequel to the other books in the series, Eilian faces the distrust of neighbors who fear she is a fairy child. Since no one understands or accepts her, including her own family, Eilian decides she might be happier if she could actually run a...
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The Housenapper // The Mysterious Shrinking House // Mindy's Mysterious Miniature
- Jan-1970
- / Fantasy
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Mindy found the miniature house hidden in the attic of the old barn. It was so perfect it looked like a real house -- that had somehow shrunk. But she never guessed its terrible secret -- or that she herself would be trapped inside! ...
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Daybreakers
- 1970
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When Callie and the other children stumble upon an ancient artifact, they find themselves facing a terrible danger from the long-ago past. Time overlaps in a mysterious way, while the children fight to help an ancient tribe in both the past and in th...
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Over the Sea's Edge
- 1971
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Dave finds a curious silver medallion in a cave by the Ohio River -- and then finds he has changed places with Dewi, a sixteenth-century boy in medieval Wales. When he travels across the sea with explorers searching for the legendary cities of the Ne...
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The Ice Ghosts Mystery
- 1972
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Perry, Mab, Oriole Bird and their mother fly to Austria in search of their father: Professor Bird has disappeared while investigating strange earth tremors. Villainous Dr. Pfnur is clearly up to no good, but surely he cant be making earthquakes! And ...
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The Watchers
- 1975
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At war with his stepmother, in trouble at school, and desperately unhappy, thirteen-year-old Ray finds himself shipped off to distant family in the high mountain hollows of Western Virginia. There Ray encounters a strange world of mystery, where noth...
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Parsley Sage, Rosemary, and Time
- Feb-1975
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Ten-year-old Rosemary thinks the word "Time" cut into a stone in her aunt's old herb garden should be spelled "Thyme" until she picks a sprig of the herb around it and discovers herself back in the eighteenth century....
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The Birdstones
- 1977
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The characters from The Daybreakers return for more time-travel adventures. An imaginary girl, invented by Callie and her friends as an elaborate hoax, takes on an unexpected reality that turns out to be at the heart of a magical mystery from the lon...
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Poor Tom's Ghost
- Mar-1977
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Poor Tom’s Ghost -- dramatic, wholly convincing, a fascinating intermingling of the centuries -- portrays a family whose uncertain bonds are tested and strengthened by a threat from the past.When the Nicholas family first sees the derelict old hous...
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Ghost Lane
- Feb-1979
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A series of mysterious burglaries takes place in Goslings House, an ancient manor rumored to be haunted, and eleven-year-old Richard Morgan decides to track down the criminals with the help of Francesca and her younger brother Nolly, a strange boy wh...
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The Wolves of Aam
- 1981
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Searching for his missing “dreamstone” and the answers to the mystery surrounding it, Runner ventures into the northern Icelands and the grim mountain fortress that lies there. In a night of terror and destruction beyond imagining, part of the dr...
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Shadow Dancers
- 1983
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As the adventures continue for the characters from The Wolves of Aam, they face more dangers in the jeweled caverns and darkness of the Shadowlands. The tale moves to a dramatic conclusion that unlocks the final mysteries of the magic stones. These b...
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Me, Myself and I
- Nov-1987
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A Sixteen-year-old Progidy uses his mentor's invention to go into the past to exorcise his unreturned love for a beautiful girl, and discovers a mystery involving another of the professor's inventions....
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The Big Smith Snatch
- Sep-1989
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When their pregnant mother gets sick on the eve of their move from California to Pennsylvania, the four younger Smith children find themselves in the custody of the city leaving their twelve-year-old sister Boo, with the help of eccentric old Auntie ...
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What the Dickens!
- Nov-1991
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In 1842, eleven-year-old twins, whose father runs a boat on the Juniata Canal in Pennsylvania, learn of a Harrisburg bookseller's plan to steal Charles Dickens's newly finished novel while Dickens himself is touring the U.S....
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The Christmas Knight
- Nov-1993
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While praying beneath a bare cherry tree, a branch covered with ripe, red cherries drops on the head of the impoverished Sir Cleges, setting off a chain of wonderful consequences in a Christmas story based on a fifteenth-century tale....
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Robin Hood and His Merry Men
- Nov-1994
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Follows the exploits of the legendary English outlaw as he builds a group of outlaws who prey on the rich to feed the poor and matches wits with the greedy sheriff of Nottingham and the scheming Prince John....
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Robin Hood in the Greenwood
- Oct-1995
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A series of Robin Hood adventures includes the tales of Friar Tuck's induction into the Merry Men, Lady Marian's escape from the Sheriff of Nottingham to the safety of Sherwood Forest, and Robin's competition in an archery match....
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Moon Window
- Oct-1996
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JoEllen resents having to stay with Granty in her home, Winterbloom, while her mother is on her honeymoon, but after the discovery of the magic round window, allowing her to travel back in time, she begins a grand adventure of her own. Jr Lib Guild....
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Turtle Island
- May-1999
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The author of
Back in the Beforetime: Tales of the California Indians provides a collection of stories that capture the triumphs of the heroes and the magic of the people of the Algonquian tribes.... -
A Stolen Life
- Oct-1999
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In the late 1700s, young Jamesina is suddenly forced into a life of hardship after she is kidnapped by "spiriters," taken away from her family in Scotland, sent across the seas and sold into slavery to Shaws Plantation in Virginia....
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The Egyptian Box
- Mar-2002
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Tee (short for Leticia) Woodie and her family have moved into a big, old house that is a part of her father's inheritance from Great-uncle Sebastian. While exploring the contents of Great-uncle's antiques-and-junk store, they find a parcel marked FOR...
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Hold Up the Sky
- Apr-2003
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Nearly all that remains of some Indian tribes of Texas and the Southern Plains are their stories. Here twenty-six tales are brought together from fourteen tribes and at least five different cultures. They are stories of humor, guidance, and adventure...
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The Black Canary
- Apr-2005
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Twelve-year-old biracial James has grown up in a musical family. Not only are both of his parents musicians, but his four grandparents are as well. Everyone assumes that James will pursue music, yet he would rather become a newspaper reporter...or an...