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Books in A Clarion book series

  • City of the Golden House

    Madeleine A Polland

    Hardcover (Doubleday, Aug. 16, 1963)
    Wonderfully illustrated First Edition
  • The Valentine Bears

    Eve Bunting, Jan Brett

    Paperback (Clarion Books, Jan. 15, 1985)
    Mr. and Mrs. Bear have never celebrated St. Valentine's Day because they hibernate during the winter.
    K
  • St. Patrick's Day in the Morning

    Eve Bunting, Jan Brett

    Hardcover (Clarion Books, Feb. 22, 1980)
    Jamie seeks a way to prove that he is not too young to march in the big St. Patrick's Day parade.
    L
  • Cross Among the Tomahawks

    Milton Lomask, Albert Orbaan

    Hardcover (Doubleday & Company, Inc., Jan. 1, 1961)
    Tsiko and Satout's friendship with Father Jean de Brebeuf, their life at school, and the part they played in the fearful Iroquois massacre of 1646, in and exciting tale of frontier life and of the establishment of the first Jesuit missions in early Canada.
  • Patrick's Dinosaurs

    Carol Carrick, Donald Carrick

    Hardcover (Clarion Books, Sept. 19, 1983)
    One Saturday while visiting the zoo, Hank tells his brother Patrick all about dinosaurs, and Patrick scares himself by imagining what it would be like if the great creatures were alive today.
    K
  • Son of Charlemagne

    Barbara Willard

    Hardcover (Doubleday, Jan. 1, 1959)
    None
  • if all the swords in england

    barbara willard

    Hardcover (Doubleday, Aug. 16, 1961)
    "The taller lad will do very well, but I cannot offer the other a place." With these words from the royal steward, the Audmar twins were separated for the first time in their lives. Edmund, who had been selected as a personal page to King Henry II, joined the royal household, while Simon went to France to serve the King's most bitter rival, Thomas Becket, the exiled Archbishop of Canterbury.
  • Trouble for Lucy

    Carla Stevens, Ronald Himler, American Heritage Publishing Company

    Hardcover (Clarion Books, Sept. 24, 1979)
    As she and her family travel the Oregon Trail in 1843, Lucy's puppies persist in creating trouble.
    Q
  • The Two Trumpeters of Vienna

    Hertha Pauli, Emil Weiss

    Hardcover (Doubleday & Company, Inc, Aug. 16, 1961)
    A Hungarian revolt against Habsburg rule took place in 1678, A deadly plague spreading up the Danube hit the Austrian provinces in 1679, forcing the court to move to Prague. Vienna lost about a fifth of its population. That disaster alongside the diversion of war between France and the Holy Roman Empire led the Turkish vizier Kara Mustafa to undertake a massive onslaught against the west. In 1683, moving unexpectedly quickly, a Turkish army of nearly a hundred thousand surrounded Vienna on 16 July. Holy Roman Emperor Leopold I fled with his councils to Passau, where the government began organizing the city's relief.
  • fingal's quest

    madeline a. polland

    Hardcover (Doubleday, Aug. 16, 1961)
    None
  • Too Hot to Hoot: Funny Palindrome Riddles

    Marvin Terban

    Paperback (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, April 15, 1985)
    "Madam, I'm Adam." Can you read this sentence backward? If you can, then it's a palindrome -- and this book is filled with them!
    M
  • What's a Frank Frank? Tasty Homograph Riddles

    Giulio Maestro

    Paperback (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Oct. 1, 1984)
    A collection of original riddles making use of homographs, words that are spelled the same but have different meanings.
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