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Books published by publisher J. P. Tarcher Inc. / Houghton Mifflin Company

  • The Giant Jam Sandwich

    John Vernon Lord; John Vernon Lord [Illustrator]

    Hardcover (Houghton Mifflin Company, Jan. 1, 1972)
    Four million wasps invade Itching Down, so the villagers make a giant jam sandwich to trap them.
  • Across the Blue Pacific : A World War II Story

    Louise W. Borden, Robert Andrew Parker

    Library Binding (Houghton Mifflin Company, April 24, 2006)
    When the United States enters World War II, Molly is attending Beechwood Elementary. But her thoughts are with Ted Walker, her neighbor, who is serving aboard a cruiser in the South Atlantic.Three years later, the war is still going on and Molly is in the fourth grade. Ted is still at sea, as a naval officer of the USS Albacore, a submarine in the Pacific Ocean. Orchard Road feels like the safest place on earth, but somewhere on the other side of the world, Ted and his crew are carrying out dangerous missions. No one knows when they will come home, and young Molly must find a way to live with fear during wartime.
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  • Tell Me Grandma Tell Me, Grandpa

    Shirlee Newman

    Hardcover (Houghton Mifflin Company, March 15, 1979)
    Tell Me Grandma Tell Me, Grandpa
  • Tip

    Paul McKee

    Paperback (Houghton Mifflin Company, March 12, 1966)
    Tip [Jan 01, 1966] McKee, Paul …
  • Minn of the Mississippi

    Holling Clancy Holling

    Hardcover (Houghton Mifflin Company, Jan. 1, 1951)
    No Dust Jacket. Boards are edgeworn and stained. Corners bumped.
  • Curious George Goes Camping

    Margret Rey, H. A. Rey

    Hardcover (Houghton Mifflin Company, Oct. 25, 1999)
    When George and the man with the yellow hat go on a camping trip, George tries to be helpful but only makes a neighboring camper mad, and he is chased into the woods where he encounters an adorable forest creature who, through a series of hilarious escapades, helps George to find a way to be helpful.
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  • Deliverance

    James Dickey

    Hardcover (Houghton Mifflin Company, March 15, 1970)
    Light green cloth boards with green lettering. DJ is missing. Basis of the 1972 MOVIE of the same title.
  • Atalanta's Race

    Shirley Climo

    Paperback (Houghton Mifflin Company, Jan. 1, 1997)
    An ancient greek myth. It was told for many hundreds of years before the Roman poet Ovid recorded it in the first century. Atalanta may have been a real person, for this remarkable girl appears in other Greek legends as well. Early Olympic competitions had only one race, known as the stade.
  • Atalanta's Race

    Shirley Climo

    Paperback (Houghton Mifflin Company, Jan. 1, 1997)
    An ancient greek myth. It was told for many hundreds of years before the Roman poet Ovid recorded it in the first century. Atalanta may have been a real person, for this remarkable girl appears in other Greek legends as well. Early Olympic competitions had only one race, known as the stade.
  • Tree in the trail,

    Holling Clancy Holling

    Hardcover (Houghton Mifflin company, Aug. 16, 1942)
    First Edition(1942 only copyright with 3.00 DJ Flap Price)
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  • The Italian Twins

    Lucy Fitch Perkins

    Hardcover (Houghton Mifflin Company, July 6, 1920)
    The Italian Twins, by Lucy Fitch Perkins. 1920. Illustrated by the author.
  • A Boy of the Lost Crusade

    Agnes Danforth Hewes, Gustaf Tenggren

    Hardcover (Houghton Mifflin Company, March 15, 1923)
    A boys life during the times of the crusades.