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Carlotta's Kittens: And the Club of Mysteries
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor, Alan Daniel
Hardcover (Atheneum, Oct. 1, 2000)Each of the male cats--Elvis, Marco, Polo, and Texas Jake--are put in charge of one of Carlotta's kittens and must teach them how to do incredible feats to impress their beloved Carlotta. By the author of The Healing of Texas Jake.
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The Grand Escape
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor, Alan Daniel
Hardcover (Atheneum, April 30, 1993)Yearning to find one of the ranches he has heard so much about, Marco, one of Mr. and Mrs. Neal's house cats, sets out with Polo, who longs to find the mother cat he barely remembers, on an adventure.
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Assateague: Island of the Wild Ponies
Andrea Jauck, Larry Points
Library Binding (Atheneum, April 1, 1993)Describes the life and natural environment of the pony breed that lives on the long barrier island off the Maryland and Virginia coast
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Harry and Shellburt
Dorothy Van Woerkom, Erick Ingraham
Library Binding (Atheneum, July 1, 1977)Harry and Shellburt, two good friends, rerun the classic race between the tortoise and the hare.
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The Phantom of the Lunch Wagon
Daniel Manus Pinkwater
Library Binding (Atheneum, Sept. 1, 1992)Chris Kevin-Keith fixes up and reopens an abandoned lunch wagon, unaware that it originally closed because it was haunted by a scary phantom.
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EVEN IF I DID SOMETHING AWFUL
Barbara Shook Hazen
Hardcover (Atheneum, Sept. 1, 1981)A child's destruction of Mother's favorite vase leads to an imaginative dialogue of possible catastrophes and Mother's reactions and demonstrates a parent's unconditional, continuing love
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Runaway Marie Louise
Natalie Savage Carlson, Jose Aruego, Ariane Dewey
Library Binding (Atheneum, Aug. 1, 1977)After her mother spanks her for being naughty, the little brown mongoose named Marie Louise runs away to find a new mother
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Westering Man: The Life of Joseph Walker
Bil Gilbert
Hardcover (Atheneum, May 1, 1983)A look at the life of American frontiersman Joseph Walker discusses his career as sherriff of Independence, Missouri, leader of a wagon to California, and explorer who discovered Yosemite and surveyed the Sante Fe Trail
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Third Girl from the Left
Ann Turner
Hardcover (Atheneum, June 1, 1986)Itching to do something different, eighteen-year-old Sarah leaves Maine for the harsh Montana environment as a mail-order bride, and is soon left a widow with a 2000-acre ranch to run.
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The Giant Devil-Dingo
Dick Roughsey
Library Binding (Atheneum, Nov. 1, 1975)The butcher-bird brothers overcome the menace of old grasshopper woman and her giant devil-dingo in an ancient aboriginal legend of Australia
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Into the West: From Reconstruction to the Final Days of the American Frontier
James M. McPherson
Hardcover (Atheneum, Oct. 10, 2006)From Pulitzer Prize award-winning historian James M. McPherson comes a thrilling account of America's westward expansion. In this sweeping tale of one of the most exciting and colorful periods in our country's growth, Dr. McPherson interweaves the nation's attempts to bind its Civil War wounds through Reconstruction with the triumphant and tragic taming of the American frontier.Into the West contains personal narratives from settlers and soldiers as well as profiles and accounts of the actions of many historical luminaries involved in Reconstruction and the movement west, such as President Andrew Johnson, General George Armstrong Custer, Sitting Bull, General William Tecumseh Sherman, Geronimo, and Wild Bill Hickock. Dr. McPherson also explores the role of women and the development of the arts on the frontier, the role and legend of the cowboy, and the destruction of the Native American way of life in this thought-provoking companion to the bestselling Fields of Fury.Filled with maps, period photos, illustrations, and anecdotes, this vivid retelling of America's journey, Into the West, will fascinate readers, young and old.
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