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The fights between a mean, old cat and a lean, young cat always end in a draw and result in a waste of energy which proves the futility of war.

A frog, peacefully sitting in a meadow, is suddenly attacked by an umbrella-wielding mouse in a confrontation that quickly turns into full-scale war.

The vowels and the consonants fight each other until they realize that if they work together they can create marvelous poems, plays, and memoirs.

After watching an enemy for a very long time during an endless war, a soldier finally creeps out into the night to the other man's hole and is surprised by what he finds there.

On a mission to pay the ransom of a new ally, apprentice Will and the Rangers must first survive the dangerous effects of a desert wasteland.

Discusses war and its effect on the environment, highlighting natural resources, geography, animals, and humans as victims.

A boy thinks about the possible scenarios that exist for him at home if his father goes off to fight in the Civil War.

When four-year-old Janie's father goes off to war, the rest of the family moves to the grandparents' on the Chesapeake Bay, where Janie learns a secret of the world which helps her understand her father's long absence.

After a war destroys their Japanese village and kills their father, Taichi and Yumiko find hope by nursing a cherry tree through a harsh winter and seeing it blossom into new life.

The First Foundation on Terminus and the Second Foundation on Trantor suspect each other of manipulating the restoration of Galactic to its own advantage.

In Russia, Yuri Zhivago is a young doctor and poet trying to care for his wife and family when he meets Lara, the love of his life.

Details campaigns and battles and places them in the overall context of the five-year conflict, with a comparative table of battles.

Anne Shirley's daughter, Rilla, looks forward to her first dance and her first kiss.

Presents Charles Dickens's classic novel set in London and Paris during the French Revolution and includes explanatory notes, an author chronology, a historical time line, a theme and plot outline, contemporary and modern critical analyses, discussion questions, and a list of related books and films.

In a land that has been at war so long that no one remembers the reason for fighting, the shapeshifters who rule the two factions agree to marry in the hope of bringing peace, despite deep-seated fear and distrust of each other.