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2) On my honor
Author
Language
English
Description
When his best friend drowns while they are both swimming in a treacherous river that they had promised never to go near, Joel is devastated and terrified at having to tell both sets of parents the terrible consequences of their disobedience.
5) Sunshine
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Language
English
Formats
Description
For most of Ben's life, he has been a kid without a mom. He has his dad, who knows Ben doesn't like oatmeal and always hugs Ben before bed. And he has Sunshine, his loyal little dog, who is never far from his side. But his mom, who left when he was young, has just been a story, faint in his memory. Now he's about to spend a whole week with her on her remote island in the middle of the northern Minnesota wilderness. Though he's nervous about bears...
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2003.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
221 pages : illustrations, map ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Polly Rodgers keeps a diary of her 1873 journey from England to Minnesota as part of a colony of eighty people seeking religious freedom, and of their first year struggling to make a life there, led by her father, a Baptist minister.
10) The red ghost
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
After Jenna gives her little sister an old doll dressed in red velvet as a birthday present, the occurrence of some very disturbing events make Jenna suspect the doll might be possessed.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 31 cm
Language
English
Description
Poetry combined with intricate cut-paper illustrations to celebrate an active, vital, changing, and growing universe. They also show how we humans--the curious ones, the storytellers--are active, vital, changing, and growing, too.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Rhythmic text enumerates what various body parts can do, including hands to clap and a body to twirl, then expresses thanks for each of those parts--and for the whole.
14) Little dog, lost
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2012]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
197 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
A boy, a dog, and an old man are lonely before the boy plans a rally, the dog looks for a boy, and all the townspeople run to the old man's aid when lightning strikes his home and something miraculous happens.
15) The green ghost
Author
Series
Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Language
English
Formats
Description
While Kaye and her parents are driving during a bad snowstorm to her grandmother's house on Christmas Eve, their car spins off the road and they take refuge in a house where Kaye meets a ghost in a green cloak.
16) Dinosaur thunder
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
Brannon is afraid of thunder until his older brother compares thunder to one of Brannon's favorite subjects--dinosaurs.
17) Turtle dreams
Author
Series
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
1997.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
48 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Turtle talks to different animals about the coming winter, trying to find a dream that will fit her and prepare her for the long cold season of darkness.
18) Bear's hiccups
Author
Series
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[1998]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
48 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
On a hot summer day, while Bear and Frog are arguing about who owns the cool, wet pond, Frog disappears and Bear develops a sudden case of hiccups.
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
Invites the reader to join a bear and other woodland animals on a cold, moonlit walk to investigate strange noises and observe the arrival of spring.
20) Winter dance
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
A fox wonders how he should prepare for the coming winter, but what other animals advise will not work for him until another fox comes to his aid.
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