The Secret Soldier: The Story of Deborah Sampson

Author	Beverly Cleary
ISBN	0192750976

This is the second title in the hugely popular series about Ramona Quimby. Ramona doesn't think she's a pest - she knows that she isn't a pest on purpose. So how in the world does Ramona get in trouble? Why does Davy run away whenever Ramona comes near him? And how does she manage to disrupt the whole kindergarten...

Author	Farley Mowat
ISBN	0440413613

Farley Mowat's funniest book tells the adventures of Wol and Weeps, two owls from Saskatchewan who shape up a whole neighbourhood, turn a house topsy-turvy, and outsmart Mutt, the dog hero of The Dog Who Wouldn't Be. Wol brings dead skunks to the family dinner table and terrorizes the minister, the postman,...

Author	Beverly Cleary
ISBN	0688213855

In the first novel from Newbery Award-winning author Beverly Cleary, boys and girls alike will instantly be charmed by an average boy whose life is turned upside down when he meets a lovable puppy with a nose for mischief.

Just as Henry Huggins is complaining that nothing exciting ever happens,...

Author	Sylvia Cassedy
ISBN	0380698439

They were watching...and waiting

At twelve, Maggie had been thrown out of more boarding schools than she cared to remember. "Impossible to handle," they said -- nasty, mean, disobedient, rebellious, thieving -- anything they could say to explain why she must be removed from the school.

Maggie...

Author

Alice Hoffman

Oak Grove is a dry, dusty town haunted by the memories of a past flood. Everyone dreads water--everyone except two brothers, Trevor and Eli McGill. Nicknamed Trout and Eel for their darting quickness and the thin webbing between their fingers and toes, the boys dream of the farthest seas and of a mysterious...

Author	Glen Rounds
ISBN	0590323008

Having grown up on a Montana ranch, Glen Rounds had the insight to write about the cowboy lifestyle. He did so for more than sixty years, crafting original stories about life on the open range. A fair number of his novels feature Whitey, a young boy who shows all the signs of growing up to be a cowboy, and The...

Author	Margaret Davidson
ISBN	0590424017

What a delightful read, tinged with sadness and irony too.

My kids and I really like true stories. The fantastical that don't seem as if they could possibly be real; but, are. They pull at your heartstrings like nothing else can❤️

I'm not necessarily a dog lover. Having grown up...