David Small
Author
Description
Leadership isnt about being perfect; its about getting things done. In The Wandering Leader, author David Small, an ice hockey coach who has traveled the world, presents his views about being a leader and a man by growing the most important part of your leadership personayourself. The Wandering Leader seeks to help you determine how to dream, give you a road map to accomplish your dreams, and supply the courage to keep taking steps forward once that...
Author
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
399 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Description
Thirteen-year-old Russell Pruitt, abandoned by his mother, follows his father to dilapidated 1950s Marshfield, California where he is forced to fend for himself against a ring of malicious bullies.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Description
Imogene wakes up to find she has a new curious feature every day, from elephant ears to butterfly wings, and while they upset her no-nonsense mother, she tries to make the most of her usual daily surprises.
9) The library
Author
Formats
Description
Elizabeth Brown loves to read more than anything else, but when her collection of books grows and grows, she must make a change in her life.
10) The underneath
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
313 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Description
An old hound that has been chained up at his hateful owner's run-down shack, and two kittens born underneath the house, endure separation, danger, and many other tribulations in their quest to be reunited and free.
12) The gardener
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
1997
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 28 cm.
Formats
Description
A series of letters relating what happens when, after her father loses his job, Lydia Grace goes to live with her Uncle Jim in the city but takes her love for gardening with her.
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) Inc
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 23 x 29 cm
Description
Marshall refuses to believe that gingerbread men can run, even after a series of clues leads his class on a riddle-filled gingerbread cookie hunt.
14) Bloom
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Description
When the glass kingdom begins cracking, the king and queen fail in their quest to get help from the fairy Bloom, who can work great magic but was banished because of her muddy boots and messiness, so they send Genevieve, an ordinary girl who will do whatit takes to save the day.
15) Elsie's bird
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 23 x 29 cm.
Description
Young Elsie must find a way to adapt to her new home on the Nebraska prairie after she and her father leave their comfortable city life in Boston.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
246 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Description
Twelve-year-old Suzy Bowles dreams of life outside the small town of Burr Oak Michigan, but when she stumbles on the opportunity to learn ostrich-riding with the infamous Madame Marantette her obligations to her family on the farm threaten to derail her dreams of a bigger life. Includes photographs and information on Madame Marantette.
19) The friend
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
Description
With Mom too busy and Dad away much of the time, Belle finds companionship with a household employee who after each day's work takes Belle "hand in hand" to the beach.