Knock at a Star: A Child's Introduction to Poetry -- by J. Kennedy (Author) (Book - Child)
"With a greatly expanded collection of poems and new black-and-white pencil sketches, this revision will appeal to a whole new generation of readers. Its approach to the genre will show children that...
All Ages
Age groups: School Age (6-12)
Homecoming -- by Cynthia Voigt (Author) (Book - Child)
"Abandoned by their mother, four children begin a search for a home and an identity." From Card Catalog
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Age groups: School Age (6-12)
Ace Hits the Big Time -- by Barbara Murphy (Author) (Book - Child)
"Horace Hobart is the new kid on the block in New York City and he's scared. His sister warns that the scary Purple Falcon Gang is going to cream. He puts on his wild uncle's dragon jacket, covers a...
All Ages
Age groups: School Age (6-12)
The Hocus-Pocus Dilemma -- by Pat Kibbe (Author) (Book - Child)
"Convinced she has psychical powers, a ten-year-old girl makes predictions for the members of her large family which seem to come true." From Card Catalog
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Age groups: School Age (6-12)
Nobody's Baby Now -- by Carol Benjamin (Author) (Book - Child)
"Fifteen-year-old Olivia, unhappy because she is overweight and because she must care for her invalid grandmother after school every day, at first denies, then struggles to come to terms with both...
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Age groups: School Age (6-12)
Childhood Cognitive Development: The Essential Readings -- by Kang Lee (Author) (Book - Parent)
"Cognitive development research as a field of developmental science has existed for almost a century. During this time, particularly in the last 50 years, tremendous advances have been made in our...
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Age groups: Preschool/Kindergarten (3-5), School Age (6-12), Adolescence (13-21)
The Twenty-one Balloons -- by William du Bois (Author) (Book - Child)
"Professor William Waterman Sherman intends to fly across the Pacific Ocean. But through a twist of fate, he lands on Krakatoa, and discovers a world of unimaginable wealth, eccentric inhabitant and...
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Age groups: School Age (6-12)
The Dark Is Rising -- by Susan Cooper (Author) (Book - Child)
"With these mysterious words, Will Stanton discovers on his 11th birthday that he is no more boy. He is the Sign-Seeker, last of the immortal Old Ones, destined to battle the powers of evil that...
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Age groups: School Age (6-12)
A Boat to Nowhere -- by Maureen Wartski (Author) (Book - Child)
"Fleeing from agents of the new communist government in Vietnam, an old man and three children begin an endless and seemingly hopeless struggle for survival as boat people." From Card Catalog
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Age groups: School Age (6-12)
The Night Journey -- by Kathryn Lasky (Author) (Book - Child)
"Rachel has been warned by her parents not to discuss the past with her great-grandmother. But Nana Sashie ahs other plans. She begins telling Rachel about her family's flight from the pogroms and...
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Age groups: School Age (6-12)
