Books with title The Vanishing Sky

Laura's mysterious new neighbor seems to be her sworn enemy. Laura is convinced he takes spiders hostage. The failed friendship confirms Laura's ideas that she's good at nothing. Escaping the neighbor's tyranny, Laura and Daryen travel to a faraway planet. So far away it might not exist outside of their imaginations. Almost as soon as Daryen lands their spaceship they notice strange things. Vanishing things. In their quest for answers, they meet a whole town of silly Smidgins and the fire-breathing Dreadnought. Will they be in time to save the vanishing planet? Are they safe from the neighbor boy there?

A mysterious painting is uncoveredKate Harris has always spent the summer with her family on her grandparents’ farm. But this year she is going to be at the beach with the Langs, family friends Kate hasn’t seen since she was a baby. She is worried that she won’t get along with the Langs’ daughter, Alison. Yet she has never seen the ocean and there is something about it that intrigues her.Exploring the new town helps divert Kate’s attention from her homesickness, as do the drawing lessons she and Alison take at the Art Association. Then Kate and Alison go to an auction, and Kate impulsively bids on a soot-covered painting. Uncovering the artwork underneath and solving the mystery of its origins and prior ownership requires some determined detective work that takes Kate on an unexpected journey. In understated prose, Susan Bonners has crafted an insightfulstory about a first summer away from home and those first steps from childhood into young adulthood.

In undertaking these expeditions to the North American Indian, the sole desire has been to perpetuate the life story of the first Americans and to strengthen in their hearts the feeling of allegiance and friendship for their country. For this purpose two expeditions were sent forth to gather historic data and make picture records of their manners, customs, their sports and games, their warfare, religion, and the country in which they live. As a result, on Washington's Birthday, 1913, thirty-two Indian chiefs, representing eleven tribes, assembled with the President of the United States together with many eminent citizens and details from the Army and Navy to open ground for the Indian Memorial authorized by act of Congress to be erected in the harbour of New York.