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Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
201 p. : chiefly ill. (chiefly col.) ; 24 cm.
Description
In Kansas in the year 1937, eleven-year-old Jack Clark faces his share of ordinary challenges: local bullies, his father's failed expectations, a little sister with an eye for trouble. But he also has to deal with the effects of the Dust Bowl, including rising tensions in his small town and the spread of a shadowy illness. Certainly a case of "dust dementia" would explain who (or what) Jack has glimpsed in the Talbot's abandoned barn--a sinister figure...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
223 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm
Description
The year is 1908, and a troupe of vaudeville performers has arrived in sleepy Muskegon, Michigan to spend the summer. Young Henry Harrison is fascinated with the animals and performers, but mostly with a slapstick performer his own age named Buster Keaton, who is also a master prankster and loves to play baseball.
3) Snow White
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly illustrations (some color) ; 21 cm
Description
The scene: New York City. The dazzling lights cast shadows that grow ever darker as the glitzy prosperity of the Roaring Twenties screeches to a halt. Enter a cast of familiar characters: a young girl, Samantha White, returning after being sent away by her cruel stepmother, the Queen of the Follies, years earlier; her father, the King of Wall Street, who survives the stock market crash only to suffer a strange and sudden death; seven street urchins,...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
235 p. : chiefly col. ill., col. maps ; 21 cm.
Description
"As the nineteenth century wound down, a public inspired by the novel Around the World in Eighty Days clamored for intrepid adventure. The challenge of circumnavigating the globe as no one ever had before, a feat assuring fame if not fortune, attracted the fearless in droves. Three hardy spirits stayed the course: In 1884, former miner Thomas Stevens made the journey on a bicycle, the kind with a big front wheel. In 1889, pioneer reporter Nellie Bly...
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