The Seal Island Seven

Susan Bartlett, Susan Bartlett Weber. Viking Children's Books, $15.99 (70pp) ISBN 978-0-670-03533-5

With two new students in the one-room schoolhouse featured in Seal Island School, Pru and her pals start the year off with a bang in The Seal Island Seven by Susan Bartlett, illus. by Tricia Tusa. They discover that someone's been destroying fairy houses, and they band together to save an island tradition.

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