Eliza Wheeler
Author
Publisher
Nancy Paulsen Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 x 27 cm
Description
During the Great Depression six-year-old Marvel, her seven siblings, and their mother find a tarpaper shack in the woods and, over the course of a year, turn it into a home. Based on the author's grandmother's childhood; includes historical notes.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Description
Saying goodbye to neighbors. Worrying about new friends. Passing through a big city. Seeing a dark road ahead. In these moments, a young girl feels small and quiet and alone. But when she breathes deeply and looks inside herself, a hidden spark of courage appears, one she can nurture and grow until she glows inside and out.
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Miss Penelope Lumley assuages the disappointments of her sixteenth birthday by accepting an invitation to speak at her former school, the Swanburne Academy for Poor Bright Females, which will be closed if she cannot prove the academic progress of her incorrigible charges.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Description
Illustrations and rhyming text follow a young rabbit as he leaves home on a journey, discovering the joys of different kinds of roads and what they may bring--including a way back home.
10) The unmapped sea
Author
Series
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
404 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Description
Determined to break the wolfish curse that is threatening her charges and their unborn baby sibling, Miss Penelope Lumley takes a seaside holiday in the hope of gaining answers from an aging mariner.
Author
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm
Description
Author Jacob Sager Weinstein and New York Times bestselling illustrator Eliza Wheeler deliver a stunning picture book about a young Jewish girl fleeing Nazi occupation with her parents. While her parents work at their store, she plays with her grandmother, reads her favorite books, and climbs trees. Drawing on the childhood experiences of the author's mother, this story of family, immigration, and identity shows the boundless power of love. Vienna,...
Author
Publisher
Little Pickle Press
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly color illustrations ; 23 x 27 cm.
Description
Teaches children about what it means to be present by discussing the important gift of appreciation, giving children and adults alike the opportunity to live more fully and richly.
Author
Series
Cody stories (Tricia Springstubb) volume 2
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
137 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Description
Cody anticipates her best friend Spencer's move to her street, and the two investigate the mystery of Mr. Meen, Grandma Grace's next-door neighbor.
Author
Series
Cody stories (Tricia Springstubb) volume 3
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
167 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Description
Baffled by her best friend's urging to swap favorite toys, Cody sadly gives away her Gremlin toy and finds herself struggling to trust when her older brother's beloved bicycle goes missing.
Author
Series
Cody stories (Tricia Springstubb) volume 1
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
151 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Description
For whimsical Cody, many things are beautiful, especially ants who say hello by rubbing feelers. But nothing is as beautiful as the first day of summer vacation, and Cody doesn't want to waste one minute of it. Meanwhile, teenage brother Wyatt is moping over a girl, Mom is stressed about her new job as Head of Shoes, Dad is off hauling chairs in his long-distance truck, and even camp has been closed for the summer. What to do? Just when all seems...
16) Doll bones
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Description
Zach, Alice, and Poppy, friends from a Pennsylvania middle school who have long enjoyed acting out imaginary adventures with dolls and action figures, embark on a real-life quest to Ohio to bury a doll made from the ashes of a dead girl.
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Unhappy Penelope Lumley is trapped in unhappy Plinkst! Even the beets for which Plinkst is inexplicably famous fail to grow in this utterly miserable Russian village. Penelope anxiously counts the days and wonders how she will ever get back to England in time to save all the Ashtons--who, she now knows, include herself and the Incorrigible children, although their precise location on the family tree is still a mystery--from their accursed fate. Her...