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My Brother Louis Measures Worms: And Other Louis Stories
Barbara Robinson
Paperback (HarperCollins, April 12, 2005)How is it that Louis has been driving his mother's car around town if he's only eight years old? Where did the cat go to have her kittens? Who won the free wedding? Whether it's costume parades, mysterious paint allergies, or bicycle disasters, there's never a dull moment when the Lawson family is around!
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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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The Facts and Fictions of Minna Pratt
Patricia MacLachlan
Paperback (HarperCollins, Jan. 22, 2002)Minna wishes for many things. She wishes she understood the quote taped above her mother's typewriter:Fact and fiction are different truths. She wishes her mother would stop writing long enough to really listen to her. She wishes her house were peaceful and orderly like her friend Lucas's. Most of all, she wishes she could find a vibrato on her cello and play Mozart the way he deserves to be played.Minna soon discovers that some things can't be found-they just have to happen. And as she waits for her vibrato to happen, Minna begins to understand some facts and fictions about herself.
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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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Unclaimed Treasures
Patricia MacLachlan
Paperback (HarperCollins, Jan. 28, 1994)Willa does fall in love, but it isn't at all the way she dreamed it would be. And just what is extraordinary? Willa and twin brother Nicky's mother is going to have a baby-how ordinary. Their friend Horace's mother has left to"seek her fortune."That, Willa thinks, is extraordinary. Willa is on the verge of learning something important. And by the end of the long summer, Willa, Nicky, and Horace each do something extraordinary and unforgettable.
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The Last Slice of Rainbow and Other Stories
Joan Aiken, Alix Berenzy
Library Binding (HarperCollins, April 1, 1988)A collection of nine fairy tales including "The Queen with Screaming Hair," "The Spider in the Bath," and "Lost--One Pair of Legs."
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Hold on to Love
Mollie Hunter
Hardcover (Harpercollins, Feb. 1, 1984)Bridie, devastated by her father's death, meets a young man whom she grows to love in pre-World War II Edinburgh
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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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