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2007- Higher Power of Lucky by Susan Patron
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2006- Criss Cross by Lynne Rae Perkins
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2005- Kira-Kira by Cynthia Kadohata
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2004- The Tale of Desperaux by Katie DiCamillo
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2003- Crispin: The Cross of Lead by Avi
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2002- A Single Shard by Linda Sue Park
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2001- A Year Down Yonder by Richard Peck
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2000- Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis
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1999 - Louis Sachar, Holes
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1998 - Karen Hesse. Out of the Dust
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1997 - E.L. Konigsburg. The View From Saturday
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1996 - Karen Cushman. The Midwife's Apprentice
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1995 - Sharon Creech. Walk Two Moons
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1994 - Lois Lowry. The Giver
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1993 - Cynthia Rylant. Missing May
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1992 - Phyllis Reynolds Naylor. Shiloh
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1991 - Jerry Spinelli. Maniac Magee
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1990 - Lois Lowry. Number the Stars
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1989 - Paul Fleischman. Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices
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1988 - Russell Freedman. Lincoln: A Photobiography
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1987 - Sid Fleischman. The Whipping Boy
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1986 - Patricia MacLachlan. Sarah, Plain and Tall
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1985 - Robin McKinley. The Hero and the Crown
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1984 - Beverly Cleary. Dear Mr. Henshaw
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1983 - Cynthia Voigt. Dicey's Song
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1982 - Nancy Willard. A Visit to William Blake's Inn: Poems for Innocent and Experienced Travelers
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1981 - Katherine Paterson. Jacob Have I Loved
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1980 - Joan Blos. A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl's Journal, 1830-32
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1979 - Ellen Raskin. The Westing Game
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1978 - Katherine Paterson. Bridge to Terabithia
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1977 - Mildred D. Taylor. Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
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1976 - Susan Cooper. The Grey King
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1975 - Virginia Hamilton. M.C. Higgins, the Great
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1974 - Paula Fox. The Slave Dancer
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1973 - Jean Craighead George. Julie of the Wolves
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1972 - Robert C. O'Brien. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH
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1971 - Betsy Byars. The Summer of the Swans
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1970 - William H. Armstrong. Sounder
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1969 - Lloyd Alexander. The High King
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1968 - E.L. Konigsburg. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
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1967 - Irene Hunt. Up a Road Slowly
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1966 - Elizabeth Borton de Treviño. I, Juan de Pareja
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1965 - Maia Wojciechowska. Shadow of a Bull
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1964 - Emily C. Neville. It's Like This, Cat
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1963 - Madeleine L'Engle. A Wrinkle in Time
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1962 - Elizabeth George Speare. The Bronze Bow
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1961 - Scott O'Dell. Island of the Blue Dolphins
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1960 - John Krumgold. Onion John
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1959 - Elizabeth George Speare. The Witch of Blackbird Pond
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1958 - Harold V. Keith. Rifles for Watie
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1957 - Virginia Sorensen. Miracles on Maple Hill
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1956 - Jean Lee Latham. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch
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1955 - Meindert DeJong. The Wheel on the School
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1954 - John Krumgold. ... And Now Miguel
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1953 - Ann Nolan Clark. Secret of the Andes
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1952 - Eleanor Estes. Ginger Pye
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1951 - Elizabeth Yates. Amos Fortune, Free Man
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1950 - Marguerite de Angeli. The Door in the Wall
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1949 - Marguerite Henry. King of the Wind
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1948 - William Pène du Bois. The Twenty-One Balloons
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1947 - Carolyn S. Bailey. Miss Hickory
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1946 - Lois Lenski. Strawberry Girl
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1945 - Robert Lawson. Rabbit Hill
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1944 - Esther Forbes. Johnny Tremain
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1943 - Elizabeth Janet Gray. Adam of the Road
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1942 - Walter D. Edmonds. The Matchlock Gun
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1941 - Armstrong Sperry. Call It Courage
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1940 - James Daugherty. Daniel Boone
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1939 - Elizabeth Enright. Thimble Summer
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1938 - Kate Seredy. The White Stag
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1937 - Ruth Sawyer. Roller Skates
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1936 - Carol Ryrie Brink. Caddie Woodlawn
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1935 - Monica Shannon. Dobry
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1934 - Cornelia Meigs. Invincible Louisa: The Story of the Author of Little Women
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1933 - Elizabeth Lewis. Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze
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1932 - Laura Adams Armer. Waterless Mountain
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1931 - Elizabeth Coatsworth. The Cat Who Went to Heaven
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1930 - Rachel Field. Hitty, Her First Hundred Years
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1929 - Eric P Kelly. The Trumpeter of Krakow: A Tale of the Fifteenth Century
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1928 - Dhan Mukerji. Gay-Neck, the Story of a Pigeon
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1927 - Will James. Smoky, the Cow Horse
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1926 - Arthur Chrisman. Shen of the Sea
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1925 - Charles Finger. Tales from Silver Lands
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1924 - Charles Hawes. The Dark Frigate
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1923 - Hugh Lofting. The Voyages of Dr. Dolittle
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1922 - Hendrik Van Loon. The Story of Mankind
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2007- Flotsam by David Wiesner
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2006- The Hello, Goodbye Window by Norton Juster
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2005- Kitten's First Moon by Kevin Henkes
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2004- The Man Who Walked Between the Towers by Mordicai Gerstein
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2003- My Friend Rabbit by Eric Rohmann
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2002- The Three Pigs by David Wiesner
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2001- So you want to be President? by Judith St. George
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2000- Joseph had a little Overcoat by Simms Taback
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1999 - Mary Azarian, Snowflake Bentley (Text: Jacqueline Briggs Martin)
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1998 - Paul O. Zelinsky, Rapunzel
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1997 - David Wisniewski. Golem
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1996 - Peggy Rathmann. Officer Buckle and Gloria
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1995 - David Diaz. Smoky Night (Text: Eve Bunting)
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1994 - Allen Say. Grandfather's Journey
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1993 - Emily Arnold McCully. Mirette on the High Wire
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1992 - David Wiesner. Tuesday
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1991 - David Macaulay. Black and White
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1990 - Ed Young. Lon Po Po: A Red-Riding Hood Story from China
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1989 - Stephen Gammell. Song and Dance Man (Text: Karen Ackerman)
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1988 - John Schoenherr. Owl Moon (Text: Jane Yolen)
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1987 - Richard Egielski. Hey, Al (Text: Arthur Yorinks)
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1986 - Chris Van Allsburg. The Polar Express
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1985 - Trina Schart Hyman. Saint George and the Dragon (Text: Margaret Hodges)
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1984 - Alice and Martin Provensen. The Glorious Flight: Across the Channel with Louis Blériot
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1983 - Marcia Brown. Shadow (Text: Blaise Cendrars)
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1982 - Chris Van Allsburg. Jumanji
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1981 - Arnold Lobel. Fables
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1980 - Barbara Cooney. Ox-Cart Man (Text: Donald Hall)
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1979 - Paul Goble. The Girl Who Loved Wild Horses
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1978 - Peter Spier. Noah's Ark (Text: Jacob Revius)
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1977 - Leo and Diane Dillon. Ashanti to Zulu: African Traditions (Text: Margaret Musgrove)
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1976 - Leo and Diane Dillon. Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears: A West African Tale (Text: Verna Aardema)
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1975 - Gerald McDermott. Arrow to the Sun: A Pueblo Indian Tale
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1974 - Margot Zemach. Duffy and the Devil (Text: Harve Zemach)
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1973 - Blair Lent. The Funny Little Woman (Text: Arlene Mosel)
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1972 - Nonny Hogrogian. One Fine Day
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1971 - Gail E. Haley. A Story--A Story
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1970 - William Steig. Sylvester and the Magic Pebble
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1969 - Uri Shulevitz. The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship (Text: Arthur Ransome)
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1968 - Ed Emberley. Drummer Hoff (Text: Barbara Emberley)
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1967 - Evaline Ness. Sam, Bangs & Moonshine
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1966 - Nonny Hogrogian. Always Room for One More (Text: Sorche Nic Leodhas)
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1965 - Beni Montresor. May I Bring a Friend? (Text: Beatrice Schenk de Regniers)
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1964 - Maurice Sendak. Where the Wild Things Are
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1963 - Ezra Jack Keats. The Snowy Day
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1962 - Marcia Brown. Once a Mouse
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1961 - Nicolas Sidjakov. Baboushka and the Three Kings (Text: Ruth Robbins)
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1960 - Marie Hall Ets. Nine Days to Christmas (Text: Marie Hall Ets and Aurora Labastida)
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1959 - Barbara Cooney. Chanticleer and the Fox (Text: adapted from Geoffrey Chaucer)
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1958 - Robert McCloskey. Time of Wonder
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1957 - Marc Simont. A Tree is Nice (Text: Janice May Udry)
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1956 - Feodor Rojankovsky. Frog Went A-Courtin' (Text: John Langstaff)
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1955 - Marcia Brown. Cinderella, or, The Little Glass Slipper (Text: Charles Perrault)
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1954 - Ludwig Bemelmans. Madeline's Rescue
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1953 - Lynd K. Ward. The Biggest Bear
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1952 - Nicolas Mordvinoff. Finders Keepers (Text: William Lipkind)
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1951 - Katherine Milhous. The Egg Tree
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1950 - Leo Politi. Song of the Swallows
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1949 - Berta and Elmer Hader. The Big Snow
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1948 - Roger Duvoisin. White Snow, Bright Snow (Text: Alvin Tresselt)
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1947 - Leonard Weisgard. The Little Island (Text: Golden MacDonald [Margaret Wise Brown])
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1946 - Maud and Miska Petersham. The Rooster Crows
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1945 - Elizabeth Orton Jones. Prayer for a Child (Text: Rachel Field)
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1944 - Louis Slobodkin. Many Moons (Text: James Thurber)
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1943 - Virginia Lee Burton. The Little House
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1942 - Robert McClosky. Make Way for Ducklings
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1941 - Robert Lawson. They Were Strong and Good
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1940 - Ingri and Edgar Parin d'Aulaire. Abraham Lincoln
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1939 - Thomas Handforth. Mei Li
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1938 - Dorothy P. Lathrop. Animals of the Bible
