Catherine Austen
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Canada
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All Good Children
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2011
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Walking Backward
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2009
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28 Tricks for a Fearless Grade 6
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2014
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My Cat Isis
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2011
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26 Tips for Surviving Grade 6
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2011
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The Complete Illustrated Encyclopedia of Horses and Ponies: Authoritative Reference Care and Id Manual
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2008
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Horse: Magnificent, Playful, Loyal
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When the Squirrels Stole My Sister
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Choosing & Looking After Your Horse
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Cheltenham
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2015
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A sweet, funny, well-written novel for smart, funny, and slightly naughty 8-12-year-olds. About kids who don't want to conform with their parents ambitions. This one had my 8-year-old son up long past lights-out time. From the lovely Kate Jaimet. Nom ...more | |
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Interesting to read so many different translations in one volume. I'd try to read the Divine Comedy several times in my life and never got far till I recently read Mendelbaum's version. I read this one immediately afterward and got a lot out of it. ( ...more | |
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I loved this book, and love this author. He's fantastic - creative and intelligent and funny and full of soul, and such a fine writer. (I liked this book much more than his Breaktime, which was well-written and intriguing but it just didn't grab me. ...more | |
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I love this author. I loved this book. I didn't like the end so much, but it didn't matter. It's all about the journey here, and this is one author I'd journey anywhere with. So funny, so smart, so likeable. He makes a sad world bearable. A brilliant ...more | |
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“Living with hope is like rubbing up against a cheese grater. It keeps taking slices off you until there's so little left you just crumble.”
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“...it saddens me that she has to grow up and make friends with humans. I hear the future coming for her. Stomp, stomp, stomp.”
― All Good Children
― All Good Children
“I can do it, Max. I still have my thoughts. I just can't say them out loud. I still have my friends. I just can't show them. I still have all the things that used to matter. They're inside of me. They can't take that away.”
― All Good Children
― All Good Children
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“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.”
― I Have a Dream: Writings and Speeches That Changed the World
― I Have a Dream: Writings and Speeches That Changed the World

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