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221) The great wheel
Author
Series
Publisher
Walker
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
Eighteen-year-old Conn leaves Ireland and sails to America, where he helps build the first Ferris wheel for the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893.
222) Kildee House
Author
Series
Publisher
Walker
Pub. Date
1993.
Language
English
Description
When Jerome Kildee, a solitary man, builds a home in a redwood forest in California, he takes in some skunks and raccoons, but as they begin to multiply, Kildee looks to two human neighbors for help.
223) After the rain
Author
Series
Publisher
W. Morrow
Pub. Date
1987.
Language
English
Description
After discovering her grandfather is dying, fifteen-year-old Rachel gets to know him better than ever before and finds the experience bittersweet.
224) Figgs & phantoms
Author
Series
Publisher
E.P. Dutton
Pub. Date
[1974]
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the adventures of the unusual Figg family after they left show business and settled in the town of Pineapple.
225) The corn grows ripe
Author
Series
Publisher
Viking Press
Pub. Date
1956.
Language
English
Description
Tigre, a twelve-year-old Mayan boy living in a modern-day village in Yucatán, must learn to be a man when his father is injured.
227) Bright Island
Author
Series
Publisher
Random House Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
When sixteen-year-old Thankful Curtis must leave Bright Island, Maine, for the first time in 1937, she has trouble adjusting to life on the mainland, new people, and "proper schooling," and yearns for her days of farming with her father and sailing.
228) Sobre patines
Author
Series
Publisher
Maeva Ediciones
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
Español
Description
"A graphic novel adventure about a girl who discovers roller derby right as she and her best friend are growing apart." --
229) The fearsome inn
Author
Series
Publisher
Charles Scribner's Sons
Pub. Date
[1967]
Language
English
Description
Two witches, who practice their evil trade on lost travelers, are banished through the wisdom of a student of the holy cabala, and the power of his magic chalk.
230) Honk, the moose
Author
Series
Publisher
Trellis Pub
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
When a moose wanders into the town of Birora, Minnesota, in the early 1930's, the police, Mayor, and city council try to help, but it is three young boys who come up with a solution. Based on a true story.
232) Black fox of Lorne
Author
Series
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[1956]
Language
English
Description
The story occurs in the tenth century, with two Viking twins shipwrecked on the Scottish coast. They seek to avenge the death of their father and encounter loyal clansmen at war, kindly shepherds, power-hungry lairds and staunch crofters.
238) Our Eddie
Author
Series
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[1969]
Language
English
Description
Two young people relate the difficulties a family suffers at the hands of an idealistic, religious, and loving father who cannot understand the needs of his family.
239) The noonday friends
Author
Series
Publisher
Harper & Row
Pub. Date
[1965]
Language
English
Description
When trouble strikes at home, Franny finds herself quarreling with her best friend, Simone.
Author
Series
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Garoux
Pub. Date
[1968]
Language
English
Description
Eight stories based on traditional Jewish themes from Eastern Europe include: Shrewd Todie & Lyzer the Miser; Tsirtsur & Peziza; Rabbi Leib & the Witch Cunegunde; The Elders of Chelm & Genendel's Key; Shlemiel, the Businessman; Utzel & His Daughter Poverty; Menaseh's Dream; When Shlemiel went to Warsaw.
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