Browse all books

Books published by publisher Peter Smith:

  • Season of Ponies

    Zilpha Keatley Snyder

    Hardcover (Peter Smith Pub Inc, June 1, 1964)
    Pamela, left to spend a boring summer with her two stern aunts, experiences a moment that will change the shape of her visit when she sees a boy emerging from the mist with a herd of beautiful ponies.
  • The Wonderful Flight to the Mushroom Planet

    Eleanor Cameron

    Hardcover (Peter Smith Pub Inc, June 1, 2001)
    A mystery man inspires two boys to build a space ship which takes them to the planet of Basidium to help the Mushroom people.
    T
  • Mara Daughter of the Nile

    Eloise Jarvis McGraw

    Hardcover (Peter Smith Pub Inc, Sept. 1, 1991)
    None
  • Constance: A Story of Early Plymouth

    Patricia Clapp

    Hardcover (Peter Smith Pub Inc, June 1, 1993)
    The journal of a young girl tells of her daily life, hardships, romances and marriage during the first years of the Pilgrim settlement at Plymouth.
  • All the Presidents' Trivia

    Peter Yorke Wrench

    (Peter Smith Pub Inc, Dec. 6, 2003)
    Answers to more than 4,000 trivia questions about all of America's presidents, from George Washington to G. W. Bush.
  • Bound for Glory

    Woody Guthrie

    Hardcover (Peter Smith Pub Inc, June 1, 1985)
    The late folksinger and composer provides a personal portrait of the first thirty years of his life, from his childhood in Oklahoma to the early years of World War II.
  • The Spider, the Cave and the Pottery Bowl

    Eleanor Lowenton Clymer, Ingrid Fetz

    Hardcover (Peter Smith Pub Inc, June 1, 1992)
    Book by Eleanor Lowenton Clymer
  • Discovery of the Tomb of Tutankhamen

    Howard Carter, A. C. Mace

    Hardcover (Peter Smith Pub Inc, June 1, 1977)
    This book captures the painstaking, step-by-step process of excavation, and the wonders of the treasure-filled inner chamber. More than 100 on-the-spot photographs depict the phases of the discovery and the scrupulous cataloging of the treasures. The opening chapters discuss the life of Tutankhamen and earlier archeological work in the Valley of the Kings.
  • Space Cat

    Ruthven Todd, Paul Galdone

    Hardcover (Peter Smith Pub Inc, Jan. 1, 1991)
    As a kitten, Flyball is adopted by a captain in the space program and has many adventures on the discovery trip to the moon
    L
  • Singularity

    William Sleator

    Hardcover (Peter Smith Pub Inc, July 1, 1997)
    Sixteen-year-old twins Harry and Barry stumble across a gateway to another universe, where a distortion in time and space causes a dramatic change in their competitive relationship
  • The House With a Clock in Its Walls

    John Bellairs

    Hardcover (Peter Smith Pub Inc, Dec. 1, 1973)
    Orphaned Lewis Barnavelt tries to help his uncle Jonathan and next-door neighbor turn back the hands of time and save the world from the disaster that will begin when the clock stops ticking within the walls of Jonathan's house. Reissue. NYT. PW.
    S
  • The Riddle of the Red Purse

    Patricia Reilly Giff

    Hardcover (Peter Smith Pub Inc, June 1, 1987)
    With three people claiming ownership and not many clues to go on, Dawn Bosco faces a tough mystery when she attempts to identify the rightful owner of the shiny red purse she finds in the schoolyard
    L