Polacco, Patricia

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Thunder cake

Grandma finds a way to dispel her grandchild's fear of thunderstorms.
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Mrs. Mack

The author remembers the summer when she was ten years old and staying with her father in Michigan where she took riding lessons and became best friends with a perfect horse.
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Just plain fancy

Naomi, an Amish girl whose elders have impressed upon her the importance of adhering to the simple ways of her people, is horrified when one of her hen eggs hatches into an extremely fancy bird.
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Welcome Comfort

Welcome Comfort, a lonely foster child, is assured by his friend the school custodian that there is a Santa Claus, but he does not discover the truth until one wondrous and surprising Christmas Eve.
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Meteor!

A quiet rural community is dramatically changed when a meteor crashes down in the front yard of the Gaw family.
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The junkyard wonders

Inspired by a teacher who believes each of them is a genius, a class of special-needs students invents something that could convince the whole school they are justifiably proud to be "Junkyard Wonders.".
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John Philip Duck

During the Depression, a young Memphis boy trains his pet duck to do tricks in the fountain of a grand hotel and ends up becoming the Duck Master of the Peabody Hotel.

Babushka Baba Yaga

The villagers are afraid of her, so the legendary Baba Yaga disguises herself as an old woman in order to know the joys of being a grandmother.

Mrs. Katz and Tush

A long-lasting friendship develops between Larnel, a young African-American and Mrs. Katz, a lonely, Jewish, widow, when Larnel gives Mrs. Katz a scrawny kitten without a tail.

My Ol' man

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