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Books with author Janet Shaw

  • Kirsten Learns a Lesson: A School Story

    Janet Shaw

    Unknown Binding (Pleasant Co Pubns, March 15, 1986)
    Kirsten has a hard time in her new American school because she doesn't speak English very well. Miss Winston, her new teacher, is strict and not very understanding. Things get worse when Miss Winston comes to live with the Larson family. Kirsten's only escape is playing with her secret friend Singing Bird, the Indian girl. When Singing Bird suggests running away forever, Kirsten must decide where she belongs. Kirsten does learn some important lessons in school, but she learns something even more important about herself.
  • CHANGES FOR KIRSTEN: A WINTER STORY

    JANET SHAW

    Paperback (Scholastic, July 6, 1992)
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  • Kirsten learns a lesson: A school story

    Janet Beeler Shaw

    Paperback (Scholastic, Aug. 16, 1991)
    Kirsten starts school in America, but she doesn't speak English very well. Miss Winston, her new teacher, is strict and not very understanding. Things get worse when Miss Winston comes to live with the Larson family. Kirsten's only escape is playing with her secret friend, Singing Bird. When Singing Bird suggests running away forever, Kirsten must decide where she belongs. Kirsten does learn some important lessons in school, but she learns something even more important about herself.
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  • Changes for Kaya: A Story of Courage

    Janet Beeler Shaw

    Paperback (American Girl Publishing Inc, March 3, 1739)
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  • Susan's Kind Heart

    Jane Shaw

    Hardcover (Collins, )
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  • Kirsten's surprise: A Christmas story

    Janet Beeler Shaw

    Hardcover (Pleasant Co, Jan. 1, 1986)
    Kirsten and her family celebrate their first Christmas in their new home on Uncle Olav's farm in mid-nineteenth-century Minnesota.
  • Meet Kaya: An American Girl

    Janet Beeler Shaw

    Library Binding (Demco Media, Dec. 1, 2002)
    In 1764, when Kaya and her family reunite with other Nez Percâe Indians to fish for the red salmon, she learns that bragging, even about her swift horse, can lead to trouble.
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  • Kirsten Learns a Lesson

    Janet Beeler Shaw

    Hardcover (Pleasant Company, Aug. 16, 1986)
    After immigrating from Sweden to join relatives in an American prairie community, Kirsten endures the ordeal of a strange school through a secret friendship with an Indian girl.
  • Happy birthday, Kirsten!: A springtime story

    Janet Beeler Shaw

    Hardcover (Pleasant Co, Aug. 16, 1987)
    On a Minnesota farm in the mid 1800's, the hard working members of the Larson family find time to celebrate Kirsten's tenth birthday.
  • Susan Rushes In: The Boys' & Girls' Library

    Jane Shaw

    Hardcover (The Children's Press, )
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  • Kirsten saves the day: A summer story

    Janet Beeler Shaw

    Hardcover (Pleasant Co, July 6, 1988)
    Ten-year-old Kirsten is proud and excited when she finds a bee tree full of honey, one of the natural treasures of her Minnesota frontier world, but she exposes herself to great danger by trying to harvest the honey by herself.
  • Meet Kaya: An American Girl

    Janet Beeler Shaw

    Turtleback (Demco Media, Aug. 16, 1787)
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