You Can't Eat Peanuts in Church and Other Little-Known Laws -- by Barbara Seuling (Author) (Book - Child)
"A cartoon joke book presenting some unusual laws in effect at one time or another in the United States." From Card Catalog
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
All Ages
Age groups: School Age (6-12)
Arthur, for the Very First Time -- by Patricia MacLachlan (Author) (Book - Child)
"The Newbery Medal-winning author's first book tells of a boy's spending the summer away from home, and how he learns to look at the world in different ways." From Publishers Weekly
All Ages
Age groups: School Age (6-12)
It's Not the End of the World -- by Judy Blume (Author) (Book - Child)
"Karen couldn't tell Mrs. Singer why she had to have her Viking Diorama out of the sixth grade showcase. She felt like yelling To keep my parents from getting divorced. But she couldn't say it, and...
All Ages
Age groups: School Age (6-12)
Abel's Island -- by William Steig (Author) (Book - Child)
"One summer day, newlywed Abel and Amanda are out for a picnic in the woods when they are caught in a sudden storm. As they take refuge in a cave, a wind stoops up Amanda's scarf, and Abel foolishly...
All Ages
Age groups: School Age (6-12)
Wind in the Willows -- by Kenneth Grahame (Author) (Book - Child)
"Since its beginnings as a series of stories told to Kenneth Grahame's young son, The Wind in the Willows has gone on to become on of the best-loved children's books for all time. The timeless story...
All Ages
Age groups: School Age (6-12)
The Ghost of Thomas Kempe -- by Penelope Lively (Author) (Book - Child)
"The ghost of a seventeenth-century sorcerer emergies as a poltergeist and attempts to make young James his apprentice." From Card Catalog
All Ages
Age groups: School Age (6-12)
Commodore Perry in the Land of the Shogun -- by Rhoda Blumberg (Author) (Book - Child)
"First it is a well-written story of Matthew Perry's expedition to open Japan-American trade and whaling ports. The account is sensitive to the extreme cultural differences that both the Japanese and...
All Ages
Age groups: School Age (6-12)
Smith -- by Leon Garfield (Author) (Book - Child)
"This brilliant, picaresque novel follows the adventures of an illiterate young ragamuffin known onnly as Smith. Smith picks the pocket of a stranger, only to witness immediately the strangers murder....
All Ages
Age groups: School Age (6-12)
Three Who Dared -- by Tim Cohen (Author) (Book - Child)
"Describes the activities of three young men who risked their lives to participate in the Freedom Marches and Civil Rights Movement of the early 1960's." From Card Catalog
All Ages
Age groups: School Age (6-12)