Books with author Patricia Lear

Mommy tells Alex he has to do his chore of hanging up his shirts. Alex tells Mommy he quit to avoid doing his chore. Mommy decides that is a good idea and quits too dropping her laundry basket on the floor. Alex thinks of all the things Mommy does and how he will miss those things. His cat Carrot who makes funny faces to show how he feels only cares about his food. Alex does anything he can think of to change her mind except to hang up his shirts but it doesn't work. As time goes on Carrot, who is worried about his food, gets more annoyed with Alex. Finally Alex hangs up his shirts and Mommy goes back to being Mommy again. This book is funny because of Carrot the cat who has adorable and hilarious ways of telling his feelings.

'In all my life, I had never seen anything as beautiful as this grey pony ... 'Gill Caridia and her family are on the move. Gill's father writes the sort of book that literary papers love, but which few people actually buy. And then he writes a detective story that sells so well he buys back the house in the countryside where he grew up. It means change for all the children, but for Gill it means the chance to find horses, and not just horses but to ride at Wembley. But Gill learns that no dream comes without cost. This passionate and vivid story, which takes Gill from the age of 11 to 13, looks at what it really means to own something.This is a reissue of Patricia Leitch's classic story, first printed in 1975.

When Josh is forced to visit his great-aunt’s historic inn in Dover, TN, he assumes it will be the worst vacation of his life. That is, until he meets a young boy on the property who looks eerily similar to a boy in one of the antiquated family photos that line the walls of the inn. As his friendship with the boy deepens, Josh suddenly finds himself thrust back to the year 1862 and into the heart of the Civil War. Trapped in the past, Josh has no choice but to become involved. Filled with intrigue, hope, despair and the everlasting bonds of love and friendship, The Drummer’s Call captures the bravery of a young boy as he fights to survive the Civil War and return to his family.