The wonderful year
        
                    
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The wonderful year was a year of growing up for 12-year-old Ellen who did not think it would be a wonderful one at all when her family left their Kansas home for a fruit farming ranch in Colorado.
        
                            
        
        
                    
                    
        
            Big Tree
        
                    
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Because of his fear of the sea, a young Chinese boy is sent to a distant mountain where he proves his bravery.