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One morning, an old woman brings the little Toymaker a candy tin she played with as a girl. The little Toymaker takes the tin and TA-DA! comes back with a sparkling new toy for the old lady. But it seems that what she truly wants was lost a long time ago. And it will take all the Toymaker’s skill, magic, and empathy to bring it back for her.
Author
Series
Those darn squirrels volume 1
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
32 p. : col. ill. ; 27 cm.
Description
When grumpy Old Man Fookwire builds feeders to try to keep birds--the only creatures he likes--from leaving for the winter, he finds himself in a battle with clever, crafty squirrels who want a share of the abundant food.
7) Lockdown
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen/Amistad
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
247 p. ; 19 cm.
Description
Teenage Reese, serving time at a juvenile detention facility, gets a lesson in making it through hard times from an unlikely friend with a harrowing past.
11) Hippomobile!
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
227 pages ; 22 cm
Description
Ten-year-old twins Jimmy and Stella start a campaign to save their dying small town (population 49) by restoring the amazing hippomobile, an old-fashioned vehicle made out of a horse wagon.
12) Seven fathers
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 27 cm.
Description
A lone traveler, tired, hungry, and cold, finds a house and asks for a room for the night, but the old man to whom he speaks refers him to his father, and that man to his father, until he is finally rewarded for his efforts by the eldest. A retelling of a Norwegian folktale.
13) Hanukkah bear
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On the first night of Hanukkah, Old Bear wanders into Bubba Brayna's house and receives a delicious helping of potato latkes when she mistakes him for the rabbi. Includes a recipe for latkes.
15) Fishbone's song
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"Deep in the woods, in a rustic cabin, lives an old man and the boy he's raised as his own. This sage old man has taught the boy the power of nature and how to live in it, and more importantly, to respect it. In Fishbone's Song, this boy reminisces about the magic of the man who raised him and the tales that he used to tell--all true, but different each time."--
16) Holding on
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 32 cm
Description
A young girl spends song-filled summers with her music-loving grandmother in the Philippines, but when her beloved Lola starts slipping into silence and stillness, the girl helps her grandmother hold on with music and the joyful memories the songs bring.
Author
Series
Norvelt books volume 2
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
278 pages ; 22 cm
Description
After an explosion, a new crime by an old murderer, and the sad passing of the founder of Norvelt, Pennsylvania, twelve-year-old Jack accompanies his slightly mental elderly mentor, Miss Volker, on a cross-country run as she pursues the oddest of outlaws.
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Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
233 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
Eleven-year-old Charlotte is not a dog person but does not like that the rest of her family neglects their Saint Bernard puppy, and so with a lot of determination and a little sneakiness, she works on finding a good home for the gentle giant.
20) Hour of the bees
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Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
360 pages ; 22 cm
Description
At first, twelve-year-old Carol is not happy to be spending the summer helping her parents move her grandfather to an assisted living home, but as the summer wears on, she finds herself drawn to him, fascinated by his amazing stories.
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