Schmidt, Gary D

A critical study of the books of children's writer and illustrator Robert Lawson, analyzing his autobiographical works; historical fantasies; the "Rabbit Hill" volumes, which combined realism, fantasy, and autobiography; and his nonsense tales; and including biographical data.

Analysis of Paterson's novels and stories, accompanied by a biographical essay and chronology of her life.

During the 1967 school year, on Wednesday afternoons when all his classmates go to either Catechism or Hebrew school, seventh-grader Holling Hoodhood stays in Mrs. Baker's classroom where they read the plays of William Shakespeare and Holling learns much of value about the world he lives in.

While serving as a British Fencible to maintain the peace in eighteenth-century Ireland, Anson finds that his sympathy for a hedge master, a teacher devoted to teaching Irish children their forbidden language and culture, places him in conflict with the law of King George II.

A retelling of Nathaniel Hawthorne's story about a New Hampshire boy and a prophecy about the wise old face jutting out of a mountain overlooking his village.

Each evening, in one of the barracks of a Nazi death camp, a woman shares stories that push back the darkness, cold, and fear, bringing hope to the women and children who listen.

In 1911, Turner Buckminster hates his new home of Phippsburg, Maine, but things improve when he meets Lizzie Bright Griffin, a girl from a poor, nearby island community founded by former slaves that the town fathers--and Turner's--want to change into a tourist spot.

Pursued by greedy villains, two boys on a quest to save innocent lives meet the banished queen whose son was stolen by Rumpelstiltskin eleven years earlier, and she provides much more than the answer they seek.

A pilgrim Christian undertakes the dangerous journey to the Celestial City, experiencing physical and spiritual obstacles along the way.

Chronicles the life of Pilgrim leader William Bradford and discusses how he helped the Pilgrims survive their first winter in Plymouth Colony, what his religious motivations for coming to the new world were, how he improved relations between the Pilgrims and the Native Americans, and other related topics.