A Book of Pigericks: Pig Limericks -- by Arnold Lobel (Author) (Book - Child)
"Thirty-eight original limericks about all manner of pigs." From Card Catalog
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Age groups: School Age (6-12)
Hazel Rye -- by Vera Cleaver, Bill Cleaver (Authors) (Book - Child)
"An eleven-year-old girl, with no appreciation for land and growing things, finds her values beginning to change when she agrees to let an impoverished family live in a small house she owns, in...
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Age groups: School Age (6-12)
A Year in the Life of Rosie Bernard -- by Barbara Brenner (Author) (Book - Child)
"During a year spent living with relatives after her mother's death, Rosie struggles with the painful experience of accepting her father's choice of a new wife." From Card Catalog
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Age groups: School Age (6-12)
Home Is Where Your Feet Are Standing -- by Patricia Windsor (Author) (Book - Child)
"Convinced that the mysterious and troublesome events in the family cottage are due to his 'poltergeist disease,' ten-year-old Colin decides to take matters into his own hands." From Card Catalog
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Age groups: School Age (6-12)
The Outsiders -- by S. Hinton (Author) (Book - Child)
"According to Ponyboy, there are two kinds of people in the world: greasers and socs. A soc (short for 'social') has money, can get away with just about anything, and has an attitude longer than a...
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Age groups: School Age (6-12)
Infant Development: The Essential Readings -- by Alan Slater, Darwin Muir (Authors) (Book - Parent)
"Discoveries by researchers into infant development are some of the most exciting and important to be found in the study of human development, and they have been the subject on intense speculation and...
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Age groups: Infancy (<1), Toddlerhood (1-3)
The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe -- by C.S. Lewis (Author) (Book - Child)
"Four English school children find their way through the back of a wardrobe into the magic land of Narnia and assist Aslan, the golden lion, to triumph over the White Witch, who has cursed the land...
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Age groups: School Age (6-12)
Legend Days -- by Jamake Highwater (Author) (Book - Child)
"Abandoned in the wilderness after smallpox devastates her tribe, eleven-year-old Amana acquires from Grandfather Fox a warrior's courage and a hunter's prowess, gifts that sustain her as she watches...
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Age groups: School Age (6-12)
Long After Midnight -- by Ray Bradbury (Author) (Book - Child)
"This fine collection of stories by a gifted science-fiction writer explores a variety of subjects. In one, two drifters in space search through the dead cities of Mars for a fabled Blue Bottle. In...
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Age groups: School Age (6-12)
The Endless Steppe -- by Esther Hautzig (Author) (Book - Child)
Ten-year-old Esther Rudomin movingly describes 'the end of my lovely world' when her family is arrested in 1941 and taken from their home and exiled to Siberia." From Publishers Weekly
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Age groups: School Age (6-12)