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She was only two feet, eight inches tall, but her legend reaches out to us more than a century later. As a child, Mercy Lavinia "Vinnie" Bump was encouraged to live a life hidden away from the public. Instead, she reached out to the immortal impresario P.T. Barnum and married tiny superstar General Tom Thumb in the wedding of the century. A fictionalized account of the Gilded Age and a woman's public triumphs and personal tragedies, this is the...
4) Tom Thumb
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Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 5
Description
Shares the life of Charles Sherwood Stratton, describing his career, his travels around the world, his specially designed home, and his longtime friendship with the flamboyant P. T. Barnum.
6) Tom Thumb
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[1989]
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After many adventures, a tiny boy, no bigger than his father's thumb, earns a place as the smallest Knight of the Round Table.
8) Tom Thumb
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Pub. Date
c1984
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After misadventures in a bird's claws, a giant's hand, a fish's belly, and the king's soup, a tiny boy wins a small place for himself at the court of the great King Arthur.
9) Tom Thumb
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Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Presents a retelling in graphic format of the fairy tale about the adventures of a boy who is no taller than a thumb.
11) Tomas Pulgar
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1992
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After misadventures in a bird's claws, a giant's hand, a fish's belly, and the king's soup, a tiny boy wins a small place for himself at the court of the great King Arthur.
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With the words 'once upon a time', the Brothers Grimm transport readers to a timeless realm where witches, giants, princesses, kings, fairies, goblins and wizards fall in love, try to get rich, quarrel with their neighbours, have magical adventures of all kinds and in the process reveal essential truths about human nature.