Speak Up: More Rhymes of the Never Was and Always Is -- by David McCord (Author) (Book)
"Fifty poems about long words, windshield wipers, jujubes, and other concerns of poems." From Card Catalog
All Ages
Age groups: School Age (6-12)
Words by Heart -- by Ouida Sebestyen (Author) (Book - Child)
"Lena can recite the Scriptures by heart. Hoping to make her adored Papa proud of her and to make her white classmates notice her 'Magic Mind,' not her black skin, Lena vows to win the Bible-quoting...
All Ages
Age groups: School Age (6-12)
Child of the Morning -- by Barbara Corcoran (Author) (Book - Child)
"Susan joins a summer theater group, but fears she will have one of her odd spells, a result of undiagnosed epilepsy, while on stage." From Card Catalog
All Ages
Age groups: School Age (6-12)
The Night Swimmers -- by Betsy Byars (Author) (Book - Child)
"Wither their mother dead and their father working nights, Retta tries to be mother to her younger brothers." From Card Catalog
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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...
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Age groups: School Age (6-12)
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)
Zlateh the Goat and Other Stories -- by Maurice Sendak, Isaac Singer (Authors) (Book - Child)
"Silly, outrageous, and sometimes poignant, the stories reflect the traditions, heroes and villains of middle European folklore. The devil makes an appearance more than once, as do the ever-so-foolish...
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Age groups: School Age (6-12)
Beyond the Divide -- by Kathryn Lasky (Author) (Book - Child)
"In this affecting pioneer tale by a Newbery Honor-winning author, an amish girl heads west with her father after he has been shunned by their community." From Publishers Weekly
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Age groups: School Age (6-12)
Little Women -- by Louisa Alcott (Author) (Book - Child)
"One of the most popular books ever written about childhood charmingly recounts the homelife of four sisters: literary-minded Jo March; Meg, the older sister who marries a young tutor, fashionable and...
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Age groups: School Age (6-12)
Frederick Douglass: Slave, Fighter, Freeman -- by Arna Bontemps (Author) (Book - Child)
"A biography of the runaway slave who devoted his life to the abolition of slavery and the fight for black rights." From Card Catalog
All Ages
Age groups: School Age (6-12)