Books with author MARY FRANCIS SHURA.

Family ties and conflicts are explored in the story of a girl who comes to see a seemingly odd gift, and her own troubled family, in a new light

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Shy, twelve-year-old, chess-loving Greg is apprehensive about spending six months with his grandmother in Pineville, Illinois; but his relationship with the outgoing Nolan family involves him in some real-life chess moves with a troubled girl, that open him up to loyalty and friendship with people who really count.

Devastated when her best and only friend Natalie moves away, solitary Jane, a plain and painfully shy girl, finds a friend in a four-legged creature. Reprint.

Eleven-year-old Peter feels uncomfortable at home and school after his family moves to Brooklyn, until his search for his sister's missing cat opens up a new life for him.

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A biography of Anna Blair Etheridge, a nurse during the Civil War, from childhood through her four years of service with the Army of the Potomac

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Vintage paperback ficition

When disastrous things happen as Polly enters sixth grade, she finds that in dealing with untrustworthy friends, bullies, and family problems, she has overcome her natural fearfulness

A career biography of a celebrity scientist who has brought astronomy to books, magazines, and television, as well as to his Cornell University classroom.