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But Not Billy
Charlotte Zolotow
Hardcover (Harpercollins Childrens Books, Sept. 1, 1983)An infant's mother gives him many loving nicknames until he surprises her by saying "Mama".
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Melusine: A Mystery
Lynne Reid Banks
Hardcover (HarperCollins Publishers, Sept. 1, 1989)None
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Peeling the Onion: An Anthology of Poems
Ruth Gordon
Hardcover (Harpercollins Childrens Books, July 1, 1993)An international anthology of poems about animals, seasons, games, and other topics, by such authors as Octavio Paz, Boris Pasternak, and Walt Whitman.
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The Borning Room
Paul Fleischman
Mass Market Paperback (HarperCollins, May 30, 1993)It's a place where life and love begin, and loss is borne.Mothers give birth in the borning room. The dying take their departure there.Ouside the Lott family's Ohio farmhouse, the Civil War rages, slavery falls, and the world marvels at the wonder of electricity. Inside, within the walls of the borning room, Georgina Lott will experience her life's greatest turnings. Across the years, she discovers womanhood and first love, experiences the mourning that comes with loss, and, as did her mother and grandmother, at last takes her place in the room as another precious life is about to begin.The borning room is a room that figures large in the life of an Ohio farm girl born in 1851. Through its doorway pass the members of a free thinking family, bearing news of the world beyond the window: talk of runaway slaves, the siege of Vicksburg, seances, chloroform, electricity. In this heartfelt and haunting work, an account of one life, one family, and one room widens into a panoramic view of the human seasons and the procession of generations. "From an innovative, highly talented novelist and poet . . . memorable characters and valuable glimpses of social history in a beautifully crafted novel. Deeply rewarding." —K. Notable Children's Books of 1992 (ALA)1992 Best Books for Young Adults (ALA)1992 Fanfare Honor List (The Horn Book)Best Books of 1991 (SLJ)1991 Books for Youth Editors' Choices (BL)1992 Teacher's Choices (IRA)Notable 1991 Children's Trade Books in Social Studies (NCSS/CBC)1991 Notable Trade Books in the Language Arts (NCTE)1991 Golden Kite Award Honor Book for Fiction (SCBW)1991 Choices: The Year's Best Books (Publishers Weekly)100 Books for Reading and Sharing 1991 (NY Public Library)Bulletin Blue Ribbon Books 1991 (C)Children's Books of 1991 (Library of Congress)1992 Books for the Teen Age (NY Public Library)
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Rainflowers
Ann Turner, Robert J. Blake
Hardcover (Harpercollins Childrens Books, Oct. 1, 1992)An autumn thunderstorm sweeps across a farm, sending animals scurrying.
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All Wet! All Wet!
James Skofield, Diane Stanley
Hardcover (Olympic Marketing Corp, March 1, 1984)A small boy carrying a big umbrella journeys across a meadow and into the woods and observes wildlife's and nature's responses to a rainy day
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Something Sleeping in the Hall: Poems
Karla Kuskin
Hardcover (HarperCollins Publishers, Oct. 15, 1985)Poems in humorous vein about animals, nature, friends, and experiences.
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Storm Book
Charlotte Zolotow
Hardcover (Harpercollins, June 1, 1952)Depicts a summer storm from the first clap of thunder to the final rainbow
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Say Goodnight, Gracie
Julie Reece Deaver
School & Library Binding (Turtleback Books, Jan. 27, 2009)FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. When a car accident kills her best friend Jimmy, with whom she has shared everything from childhood escapades to breaking into the professional theater scene in Chicago, 17-year-old Morgan must find her own way of coping with his death.
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Unclaimed Treasures
Patricia MacLachlan
Library Binding (HarperCollins, April 1, 1984)Willa wants to do something special and begins to think she is in love with the father of the ordinary boy next door
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The Magic Hat of Mortimer Wintergreen
Myron Levoy
Library Binding (HarperCollins, March 1, 1988)In 1893, thirteen-year-old Joshua and his eleven-year-old sister, Amy, travel from South Dakota to New York City with the help of the mysterious Mortimer Wintergreen and his unpredictable magic hat.
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The Quarreling Book
Charlotte Zolotow, Arnold Lobel
Hardcover (HarperCollins Publishers, Aug. 15, 1963)A rainy gray day effects the moods of everyone except the dog, who turns things around. A funny charming book.
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