Spuds
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| Author | Michael S. Bandy |
| ISBN | 0763636789 |
It's a scorching hot day, and going into town with Grandma is one of Michael's favorite things. When the bus pulls up, they climb in and pay their fare, get out, walk to the back door, and...
| Author | Nicola Davies |
| ISBN | 0763623113 |
Far, far out at sea lives one of the world's most mysterious creatures, the loggerhead turtle. For...
| Author | Heather Henson |
| ISBN | 1416908129 |
| Author | Karen Beaumont |
| ISBN | 0803732228 |
| Author | Henry Cole |
| ISBN | 0545399971 |
| Author | Sarah Stewart |
| ISBN | 0374325650 |
| Author | Margaree King Mitchell |
| ISBN | 0689819137 |
In the last line of Margaree King Mitchell’s text she writes: “He taught me to dream, too.” These few words summarize the story Mitchell has written that tells of the love and determination of one man, Jedediah Johnson. Told though the eyes of Sarah Jean, his...
| Author | Anika Aldamuy Denise |
| ISBN | 0399240365 |
| Author | Amy Hest |
| ISBN | 0810994836 |
Once there was a small dog with
crooked ears. He belonged to no one.
And once there was a wisp of a girl
named Lia. . . .
The dog who belonged to no one spent
his days quite alone. . . . He longed for a friend.
No...
| Author | Sara Pennypacker |
| ISBN | 1423111877 |
Ming-Li looked up and tried to imagine the sky silent, empty of birds. It was a terrible thought. Her country's leader had called sparrows the enemy of the farmers--they were eating too much grain, he said. He announced a great "Sparrow War" to banish them from China, but Ming-Li did not want to chase...
| Author | Kathryn Lasky |
From the time Charles Darwin was a boy, he was happiest when he was out alone collecting specimens (especially beetles). And despite his father's...
| Author | James Rumford |
| ISBN | 1596435429 |
For the answer, travel back to the fifteenth century—to a time when books were made by hand and a man named Johannes Gutenberg invented a way to print books with movable type.
Written as a series of riddles and illustrated...
| Author | Natalie Kinsey-Warnock |
| ISBN | 0140558543 |
Sarah is just three years old when she wanders off by herself and becomes lost in the woods. A rescue team was sent out to look for her to no avail. A man comes to town and...
| Author | Jen Wojtowicz |
| ISBN | 1841486868 |
| Author | Chris Raschka |
| ISBN | 0689856520 |
| Author | Holly Hobbie |
| ISBN | 0316365629 |
| Author | Bruce Coville |
| ISBN | 0803728689 |
| Author | Lisa Wheeler |
| ISBN | 0689876394 |
Unbeknownst to the castle's inhabitants, monsters of all ilks sneak in for their annual midnight dance party. The...
| Author | Eve Bunting |
| ISBN | 0152024077 |
When Zoe and her family arrive at their claim, nothing distinguishes it from the miles and miles of surrounding prairie. Even after they build their soddie, the home can't be seen from any distance. Zoe...
| Author | Deborah Hopkinson |
The year is 1816. Abe is only seven years old, and his pal, Austin, is ten. Abe and...
| Author | Ying Chang Compestine |
| ISBN | 0689829728 |
| Author | Jon Scieszka |
| ISBN | 1416941355 |
| Author | Phyllis Root |
| ISBN | 0763626007 |
When Big Momma makes the world, she doesn’t mess around. With a baby on her hip and laundry piling up, she demands light and dark, earth and sky, creepers and crawlers, and lots...
| Author | David Elliott |
| ISBN | 0763633224 |
From the bull to the barn cat to the wild bunny, the farmyard bustles with life. The rooster crows, the rams clash, the bees buzz, and over...
| Author | Jane Yolen |
| ISBN | 0399252924 |