juvenile fiction

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Bunny Lune

2007
Bunny Lune receives a letter from his friend telling him about the Japanese moon festival, now Bunny cannot stop dreaming about visiting the moon himself.

Attack of the Turtle

a novel
2007
During the Revolutionary War, fourteen-year-old Nathan joins forces with his older cousin, the inventor David Bushnell, to secretly build the first submarine used in naval warfare.

Keeping score

2008
During the 1950s, young Maggie struggles to will her beloved Brooklyn Dodgers to a victory in the World Series and wishes that her friend Jim, a soldier in Korea, would answer her letters.

All the lovely bad ones

a ghost story
2008
Travis and his sister Corey decide to boost business at their grandmother's Vermont inn by staging a few "hauntings" that soon draw tourists from across the country, but when their antics awaken a dark force, they must find a way to put to rest the ghosts they have disturbed.

Lewis & papa

adventure on the Santa Fe Trail
1998
While accompanying his father on the wagon train along the Santa Fe Trail, Lewis discovers what it is to be a man.

The secret of the painted house

2007
When her family moves from Chicago to the country, nine-year-old Emily is drawn to a mysterious playhouse she finds in the woods and soon meets its sad, lonely inhabitants.

PeeWee's tale

2000
When his owner's parents let him go in Central Park, a young guinea pig learns to survive in the natural world with the help of a "park-wise" squirrel while trying to find his way back home.

Wind-wild dog

2006
Ziva, a "wind-wild" young sled dog, decides whether to stay with the man who has trained her or to run free with the wolves and wind.

Crossing Bok Chitto

a Choctaw tale of friendship & freedom
2006
In the 1800s, a Choctaw girl becomes friends with a slave boy from a plantation across the great river, and when she learns that his family is in trouble, she helps them cross to freedom.

How the moon regained her shape

2006
Presents an illustrated story based upon Native American folktales that explains the phases of the moon.

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