Last Was Lloyd -- by Doris Smith (Author) (Book - Child)
"A friendless, overweight twelve-year-old with an overprotective mother begins to change the monotonous pattern of his life." From Card Catalog
All Ages
Age groups: School Age (6-12)
Alice's Adventure in Wonderland -- by Lewis Carroll (Author) (Book - Child)
"Alice's life changes the minute she follows the nattily attired white rabbit down his hole. Suddenly, she is lost in a world where illogic is logic and vice versa. Lewis Carroll's timeless satirical...
All Ages
Age groups: School Age (6-12)
Wingman -- by Daniel Pinkwater (Author) (Book - Child)
"To escape the problems of being poor and Chinese, Donald begins to cut school to climbe the George Washington Bridge where he meets Wingman, a sort of Chinese superman." From Card Catalog
All Ages
Age groups: School Age (6-12)
Ghosts I Have Been -- by Richard Peck (Author) (Book - Child)
"Blossom Culp is the outspoken outcast of Bluff City, always getting into trouble. No one wants to cross her, especially now that she's revealed that she can see the Unseen. Then Blossom herself is...
All Ages
Age groups: School Age (6-12)
A Day No Pigs Would Die -- by Robert Peck (Author) (Book - Child)
"With plenty of Yankee common sense and dry wit, and some pathos as the boy at 13 takes on the duties of a man. For boys of this age and for the young of any age." From Product Description
All Ages
Age groups: School Age (6-12)
A Spirit to Ride the Whirlwind -- by Athena Lord (Author) (Book - Child)
"Twelve-year-old Binnie, whose mother runsa company boarding house in Lowell, Massachusetts, begins working in a textile mill and is caught up in the 1836 strike of women workers." From Card Catalog
All Ages
Age groups: School Age (6-12)
Wild Animals, Gentle Women -- by Margery Facklam (Author) (Book - Child)
"Describes the experiences of eleven women who study animal behavior: Belle Benchley, Ruth Harkness, Jane Goodall, Kay McKeever, Hope Buyukmihci, Karen Pryor, Eugenie Clark, Dian Fossey, Birutae...
All Ages
Age groups: School Age (6-12)
Beat the Turtle Drum -- by Constance Greene (Author) (Book - Child)
"Greene brings her trademark blend quirky humor and acute perception to this bittersweet tale of two sisters' summer together." From Publishers Weekly
All Ages
Age groups: School Age (6-12)
The Incredible Journey -- by Sheila Burnford (Author) (Book - Child)
"Instinct told them that the way home lay to the west. And so the doughty young Labrador retriever, the roguish bull terrier and the indomitable Siamese set out through the Canadian wilderness....
All Ages
Age groups: School Age (6-12), Adolescence (13-21)
Chemically Active! Experiments You Can Do At Home -- by Vicki Cobb (Author) (Book - Child)
"Gives instructions for perfroming a variety of experiments, using easily available materials, that illustrate some basic principles of chemistry." From Card Catalog
All Ages
Age groups: School Age (6-12), Adolescence (13-21)
