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Hello, harvest moon

2003
Poetic prose describes a full autumn moon and the magical effect it has on the earth, plants, animals, and people around it.

One eye laughing, the other weeping

the diary of Julie Weiss
2000
During the Nazi persecution of the Jews in Austria, twelve-year-old Julie escapes to America to live with her relatives in New York City.

Time to fly

2002
Zoe, having accustomed herself to life with her veterinarian grandmother and the flock of wild parrots that live in the backyard, is confused about her feelings when her mother arrives to take her to a new home in Los Angeles.

The soldiers' night before Christmas

2006
A variation of the familiar Christmas poem in which Sergeant McClaus and an envoy of eight Humvees bring holiday gifts and cheer to soldiers stationed far from home.

The secret of Wildcat Swamp

1969
An archaeological expedition in the West turns into a desperate attempt to capture robbers and an escaped convict.

The legend of Sleepy Hollow

1987
A superstitious schoolmaster, in love with a wealthy farmer's daughter, has a terrifying encounter with a headless horseman.

Little women

2005
An adaptation for younger reader readers of the classic story of the March sisters.

Drums of war

2006
In 1861 Charley, a twelve-year-old drummer boy with the Army of the Potomac, is caught up in the excitement and horrors of the Civil War as he travels from Washington towards Antietam.

A gathering of days

a New England girl's journal, 1830-32 : a novel
1990
The journal of a fourteen-year-old girl, kept the last year she lived on the family farm, records daily events in her small New Hampshire town, her father's remarriage, and the death of her best friend.

Caddie Woodlawn

1990
The adventures of an eleven-year-old tomboy growing up on the Wisconsin frontier in the mid-nineteenth century.

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