Kathryn Lasky
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[1998]
Physical Desc
188 pages : illustrations, maps, music ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Zippy, a Jewish immigrant from Russia, keeps a diary account of the first eighteen months of her family's life on the Lower East Side of New York City in 1903-1904.
62) Lucille camps in
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2003]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
26 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
When Lucille is upset that she can not go camping with her father and older siblings, she and her mother decide to go camping inside the house.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2010.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
142 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Having been discovered, a family of poisonous but friendly brown recluse spiders must flee their cozy home in a symphony hall and go searching for a new place to live.
64) Hannah
Author
Series
Daughters of the sea volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2009.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
310 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1899, a fifteen-year-old orphan named Hannah obtains employment as a servant in the home of one of Boston's wealthiest families, where she meets a noted portrait painter who seems to know things about her that even she is not aware of, and when she accompanies the family to their summer home in Maine, she feels an undeniable pull to the sea.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2011.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
57 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 24 x 26 cm
Language
English
Description
Readers are invited to join a researcher on a passionate hunt for Loxosceles taino, a dangerous recluse spider, captured in the engaging prose and stunning photos of a masterful team.
66) Hope in my heart
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2003.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
106 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
After her family immigrates to America from Italy in 1903, ten-year-old Sofia is quarantined at the Ellis Island Immigration Station, where she makes a good friend but endures nightmarish conditions. Includes historical notes.
67) May
Author
Series
Daughters of the sea volume 2
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2011.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
328 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1899 on an island off the coast of Maine, fifteen-year-old May learns why she has always felt different from the other girls in her small town, but must keep hidden that she is a mermaid or risk attracting the attention of a dangerous hunter, and losing a boy for whom she cares.
Author
Publisher
Crown Publishers
Pub. Date
2000.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
26 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Lucille has so much trouble getting her snowsuit on that she is almost too tired to go outside and join her brother and sister playing in the snow.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Desc
202 pages : illustrations, map, geneological table ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Mary, the young Scottish queen, is sent a diary from her mother in which she records her experiences living at the court of France's King Henry II as she awaits her marriage to Henry's son, Francis.
71) Home at last
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2003]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
108 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1903, ten-year-old Sofia and her family begin their life in America in Boston, where her father works in a grocery, her mother sells pasta, and she goes to school while trying to stay in touch with her old friend Maureen. Includes historical notes.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2000.
Physical Desc
236 pages : illustrations, geneological table ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1769, thirteen-year-old Maria Antonia Josepha Johanna, daughter of Empress Maria Theresa, begins a journal chronicling her life at the Austrian court and her preparations for her future role as queen of France.
73) Lunch bunnies
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
[1996]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
29 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
Clyde, the rabbit, is ready to start school, but after talking with his brother, he is worried about what will happen at lunchtime.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Physical Desc
217 pages : illustrations, map ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
A diary account of thirteen-year-old Kathleen Bowen's life in Washington, D.C. in 1917, as she juggles concerns about the national battle for women's suffrage, the war in Europe, and her own school work and family. Includes a historical note.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2002.
Physical Desc
186 pages : illustrations, map ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Beginning in 1627, Princess Jahanara, first daughter of Shah Jahan of India's Mogul Dynasty, writes in her diary about political intrigues, weddings, battles, and other experiences of her life. Includes historical notes on Jahanara's later life and on the Mogul Empire.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
1999.
Physical Desc
237 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
In a series of diary entries, Princess Elizabeth, the eleven-year-old daughter of King Henry VIII, celebrates holidays and birthdays, relives her mother's execution, revels in her studies, and agonizes over her father's health.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2001.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
38 unnumbered pages : color illustrations, map ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
Describes efforts to protect sea turtles, particularly Kemp's ridley turtles, and help them reproduce and replenish their once-dwindling numbers.
79) Starring Lucille
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2001]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
25 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Lucille's brother and sister try to upstage her during her ballet performance on her fourth birthday, but they do not succeed.
80) Sugaring time
Author
Language
English
Description
Text and photographs show how a family taps the sap from maple trees and processes it into maple syrup.