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  • Lysbet and the Fire Kittens

    Marietta D. Moskin, Margot Tomes

    Hardcover (Putnam Pub Group, March 1, 1974)
    A young girl living in New Amsterdam learns about the pleasures and problems of responsibility while taking care of her parents' house and pregnant cat
    N
  • Those foolish Molboes

    Lillian Bason

    Hardcover (Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, March 15, 1977)
    Three folktales about the clever but foolish people of Mols.
  • Four-ring three

    Miriam Anne Bourne

    Hardcover (Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, Jan. 1, 1973)
    Martha's father hates the telephone and swears he will never have one of the new-fangled contraptions installed.
  • Mooch the Messy Meets Prudence the Neat

    Marjorie Weinman Sharmat, Ben Shecter

    Hardcover (Putnam Pub Group, Jan. 1, 1979)
    A very messy rat worries about his friendship with his extremely neat new neighbor.
    K
  • Weekly Reader Books presents Nate the Great and the fishy prize

    Marjorie Weinman Sharmat

    Unknown Binding (Coward-McCann, March 15, 1985)
    HARDCOVER
  • Lysbet and the fire kittens,

    Marietta D Moskin

    Paperback (Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, March 15, 1973)
    Left in charge of the house, nine-year-old Lysbet nearly burns it down when she leaves the fireplace unattended to participate in New Amsterdam's First Skating Day.
  • Commander Toad and the Big Black Hole

    Jane Yolen, Bruce Degen

    Library Binding (Perfection Learning, July 16, 1996)
    Young fans of Star Wars and silliness will toad-ally love Commander Toad! Commander Toad and his crew on the Star Warts come across a black hole while leapfrogging across the galaxy. Something long, pink, and sticky grabs their spaceship and it isn't space gum--it's the tongue of an E. T. T - an Extra Terrestrial Toad! When all else fails, Commander Toad has to resort to a secret weapon from his past to save the ship from toad-al destruction.
    K
  • Spider Jane on the Move

    Jane Yolen, Stefen Bernath

    Library Binding (Putnam Pub Group, March 1, 1980)
    The adventures of Spider Jane as she moves, has a web warming, entertains a visitor, and tries to find a web sitter while she goes on vacation.
    K
  • The Man Who Loved Animals

    Syd Hoff

    Library Binding (Putnam Pub Group, April 1, 1982)
    A biography of the founder of the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.
    F
  • Nate Great Snowy Tral

    Marjorie Weinman Sharmat

    Hardcover (Putnam Juvenile, Aug. 13, 1982)
    When Rosamond's birthday gift for Nate disappears from her sled, the boy detective decides to unravel the mystery.
    K
  • Winter Hut

    Cynthia Jameson

    Library Binding (Putnam Pub Group, April 1, 1973)
    Five animals enjoy summer in the forest after running away from the masters who planned to eat them, but only Bull thinks of the approaching winter.
    O
  • Sleeping Ugly

    Jane Yolen

    Paperback (Houghton Mifflin School, Aug. 16, 1995)
    FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. When beautiful Princess Miserella, Plain Jane, and a fairy fall under a sleeping spell, a prince undoes the spell in a surprising way.