The Snow Goose
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| Author | Mary Ann Hoberman |
| ISBN | 0140503943 |
In a rollicking rhyme, the author introduces us to all types of homes for both people and animals. The poem engages in flights of fancy - what about a husk being a house for an ear of corn, or a throat being a house for a hum? "And once you get started in thinking this way,/ It seems that whatever you see/ Is either...
Know What You Believe: Connecting Faith and Truth
| Author | Paul E. Little |
| ISBN | 0781439647 |
What does the Bible teach about God, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit?
What do angels, Satan, and demons have to do with reality?
What place should the Bible or a church have in my life?
Perhaps you think you know what others are telling you to believe, but deep down inside you wonder, "What is...
POOR LITTLE RICH BOY Winston Carmichael has it all: a big house, servants, vacations in Palm Beach and a fancy private school. But with over protective parents and a sense of responsibility for his younger sister, Heidi, Winston sometimes feels more as if he's living in a prison than a dream.
Then,...
| Author | Jean Fritz |
| ISBN | 0606168486 |
I checked this out from the library thinking it would be one of Jean Fritz's picture books such as Where Was Patrick Henry on the 29th of May?--which I love! It actually ended up being a 76 page biography (with a few illustrations) but was still wonderfully lively, sensitive and humorous--not to mention...
| Author | Rosemary Sutcliff |
| ISBN | 0374466165 |
Life is secure and peaceful for young Prosper, second son of Gerontius, until the day Prince Gorthyn arrives with his hunting party. Prosper's unusual daring in the hunt catches the prince's attention, and he promises to make Prosper his shield-bearer when he comes of age. Two years later, three hundred...
| Author | Mark Cocker |
| ISBN | 0224076019 |
One night Mark Cocker followed the roiling, deafening flock of rooks and jackdaws which regularly passed over his Norfolk home on their way to roost in the Yare valley. From the moment he watched the multitudes blossom as a mysterious dark flower above the night woods, these gloriously commonplace...
| Author | Robert Cwiklik |
| ISBN | 0812039211 |
I didn't care much for this biography of Albert Einstein. Oh, it presented the facts of his life well enough. It also did a good job of explaining Einstein's theories and showing why they were so revolutionary. What turned me off was Mr. Cwiklik's style of presenting Einstein's life. He didn't engage...
| Author | Clyde Robert Bulla |
| ISBN | 0590440551 |
I still remember when I picked this up as a beginning reader. It was the thrill of reading an "older kid's book about a real person" that made it exciting, and the more mature narrative flow that made me feel accomplished. Some books you don't forget.
I've recently read a few other titles by Clyde...
I found this a fascinating read. It was the perfect follow-up to the novel “Sandcastle Girls” by Bohjalian. I was lucky to be studying some of my shelves and rediscovered this gem at precisely the right moment! The author writes about his mother’s life in Turkey in the early 1900s and centers on...
| Author | Brinton Turkle |
| ISBN | 0140547452 |
By switching the roles of the bears and the people in Goldilocks, Turkle has created a more realistic tale. The bear can act like a bear instead of living like a human. And the family of three (including a young Goldilocks) finds someone has been making mischief in their little log cabin while they were...
Living on the Devil's Doorstep: International Adventures
| Author | Floyd McClung |
| ISBN | 0927545454 |
When thousands of young people checked out of Western society and sought enlightenment in the East, Floyd and Sally McClung set aside the comforts of American suburbia and answered God's call to reach out to them with the gospel. In Kabul, Afghanistan, a key stop on the hippy trail, and later in Amsterdam,...
| Author | Eleanor H. Ayer |
| ISBN | 0689832362 |
She was a young German Jew. He was an ardent member of the Hitler Youth. This is the story of their pareallel journey through World War II. Helen Waterford and Alfons Heck were born just a few miles from each other in the German Rhineland. But their lives took radically different courses: Helen's to the...
| Author | Jean Fritz |
| ISBN | 0399215123 |
I don't know whether I have a mild dislike or a raging hate for this book.
In general, I love Jean Fritz's work - how she makes her subjects come to life, how she embodies them in her writing. However, I've always had a slight trouble with them: they portray her subjects in an overwhelmingly favourable...
The Eye That Never Sleeps: How Detective Pinkerton Saved President Lincoln
| Author | Marissa Moss |
| ISBN | 1419730649 |
From award-winning author Marissa Moss comes the first children’s book about Allan Pinkerton, one of America’s greatest detectives. Everyone knows the story of Abraham Lincoln, but few know anything about the spy who saved him! Allan Pinkerton’s life changed when he helped the Chicago Police...
