Books with author mary stolz

Suddenly, Franny and Simone, her best friend, aren't speaking anymore and Franny can't even remember why they quarreled in the first place. This on top of so many other worries and disappointments. Franny's father can't hold a job, her mother is busy helping to support the family, and Marshall, her younger brother, is too young to understand why everybody is sad. She didn't mind taking care of him but Simone was right. How can two people really be friends when they can only see each other at lunchtime and occasionally on weekends?

Brilliantly and sympathetically written, this is the sometimes happy, many times troubled story of Morgan Connor and something of the story of her gentle and kind but incapable father and of young Ned and Julie. It is the story of the transition from adolescence to adulthood, of the period in every life when the adult is being born in the child and a new voice affirms itself. Ready or Not.

Tom and Jack Rigby were as close as close could be. And Aaron, a slave boy at Rigby Plantation, was almost as close to the twins as they were to each other. Tom didn't dream that anything could ever come between them. He was wrong. On their ninth birthday, Tom and Jack learned that they would never see their friend Aaron again. Aaron was getting too uppity, said Father, so he had him sent away from the Big House to live down in the quarter. Eleven years later, it is Tom who is leaving the Big House. He is riding north to enlist in the Union army, leaving behind an unforgiving brother who will never understand why Tom will not - indeed cannot - defend their father's right to own people. Inspired by a nineteenth-century ballad that she learned as a child, Mary Stolz has created a moving and dramatic story about two boys growing up in an era that sadly ended in a "brothers' war."

"Once there was a house by the edge of a woods. The woods were deep and large and dark, filled with untrimmed plants and untamed animals, all moving freely. The house was snug and small and bright, with straight, square walls and hard, tight locks. Inside the house was a grandfather clock that called the tune , a grandfather who obeyed the clock, and a grandson named Will who obeyed his grandfather. There seemed to be as many rules in the house as the animals in the woods. And the firmest rule was: Don't go into the woods. The woods are strange, and people get lost in strange places. Then Tom Kitten came to live with them. Now a cat is a cat, and even in a house like Grandfather's it will find a chance to obey its own rules. Tom wanted to see the woods for himself and when the chance came, he taugh his friends a new way of looking at things. This lively and amusing tale will delight any child who loves a good story, and the imaginative pictures add a special charm of their own." This is taken from the dust jaket of this book.

At last, Mary Stoltz's 1962 Newbery Honor-winning book is back. And now, for the first time, the classic story is brought to life with colorful illustrations in a picture book format. Award-winning illustrator Pierre Pratt adds whimsical new art to this charming tale about two little mice assigned to a mission of putting a bell collar on the mean house cat. Following the successful trend in publishing classic stories in picture books with new illustrations, Belling the Tiger is an enchanting visual and literary adventure for readers aged 6 to 11.