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Books with author James Vance Marshall

  • Barflies: A Bartender's Memoir

    Carol James Marshall

    Hardcover (Priscilla Hopwood, July 1, 2019)
    Everything you are about to read is true;even when you think it isn't.The characters in this book aren't characters, but real people who did these crazy, weird, and wonderful things while I, the bartender, witnessed it all.If you are a bar patron who's always wondered what the bartender is thinking, here's your chance to look behind the curtain.If you loved Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain, you'll love Barflies. Get the bartender's side of the story.
  • My Friends the Frogs

    James Marshall

    Paperback (Houghton Mifflin College Div, Dec. 1, 1989)
    A collection of simple stories, a poem, a fairy tale, and easy-to-follow instructions for making a hat.
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  • The Cut-ups

    James Marshall

    Paperback (Puffin, Nov. 4, 1986)
    Practical jokers Spud and Joe get away with every trick in the book until the day they meet a little girl named Mary Frances Hooley.
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  • Merry Christmas, Space Case

    James Marshall

    Hardcover (Dial, Sept. 30, 1986)
    Buddy McGee eagerly awaits a promised Christmas visit from his friend, the thing from outer space.
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  • New Windmills: Walkabout

    James Vance Marshall

    Hardcover (Heinemann Educational Books - Secondary Division, June 20, 1977)
    One of a series of top-quality fiction for schools, this is the story an adolescent girl and her eight-year-old brother, sole survivors of an air crash in the Australian desert. They meet an Aborigine boy who cannot speak any English but shows them how to stay alive.
  • The Cut-ups Cut Loose

    James Marshall

    Hardcover (Viking Juvenile, Oct. 1, 1987)
    At the end of summer Spud and Joe eagerly return to school for more practical jokes, unaware that Principal Lamar J. Spurgle is out of retirement and awaiting them.
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  • The Three Little Pigs

    James Marshall

    School & Library Binding (Turtleback Books, Oct. 23, 2000)
    FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. The creator of the Caldecott Honor Book, Goldilocks and the Three Bears returns to give life to another classic fairytale, with his funny new dialogue and exuberant, cartoonlike illustrations.
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  • Walkabout

    James Vance Marshall

    Hardcover (Perfection Learning, Dec. 1, 1984)
    Mary and her young brother Peter are the only survivors of an aircrash in the middle of the Australian desert. Facing death from exhaustion and starvation, they meet an aboriginal boy who helps them to survive, and guides them along their long journey. But a terrible misunderstanding results in a tragedy that neither Mary nor Peter will ever forget...
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  • George and Martha One Fine Day

    James Marshall

    Hardcover (Houghton Mifflin, Sept. 27, 1978)
    Five new episodes in the friendship of two hippos: "The Tight Rope," "The Diary," "The Icky Story," "The Big Scare," "The Amusement Park."
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  • Yummers!

    James Marshall

    Paperback (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Jan. 1, 1986)
    Emily Pig accepts Eugene Turtle's advice to walk as a way of losing weight but runs into too many tempting edible diversions.
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  • George And Martha - The Complete Stories Of Two Best Friends

    James Marshall

    Hardcover (Houghton Mifflin Company, Aug. 16, 1997)
    This is a collection of the George and Martha stories, two good friends, who happen to be portly hippopatamuses. The stories include: George and Martha George and Martha Encore George and Martha Rise and Shine George and Martha One Fine Day George and Martha Tons of Fun George and Martha Back in Town and George and Martha Round and Round.
  • Hansel and Gretel

    James Marshall

    Library Binding (Paw Prints 2007-09-01, Sept. 1, 2007)
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