juvenile fiction

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juvenile fiction

Fred stays with me!

2007
A child describes how she lives sometimes with her mother and sometimes with her father, but her dog is her constant companion.

Follow the line through the house

2007
Rhyming text invites the reader to search different rooms of a house to find hidden objects.

Rain player

1991
To bring rain to his thirsty village, Pik challenges the rain god to a game of pok-a-tok.

The stranger

1986
The enigmatic origins of the stranger Farmer Bailey hits with his truck and brings home to recuperate seem to have a mysterious relation to the changing season.

Moxy Maxwell does not love writing thank-you notes

2008
Ten-year-old Moxy Maxwell has promised to write twelve thank-you notes by the day after Christmas so that she and her twin brother Mark can go to Hollywood to visit their father, but all her brilliant ideas to help finish the task more efficiently end up creating chaos in the house.

My many colored days

1996
This rhyming story describes each day in terms of a particular color which in turn is associated with specific emotions.

Henry and Mudge in the green time

the third book of their adventures
1987
For Henry and his big dog Mudge, summer means going on a picnic in the park, taking a bath under the garden hose, and going to the top of the big green hill.

Lizard in the sun

1990
A child is transformed into an anole for a day and discovers what it is like to be a tiny lizard changing colors in a sunny, leafy world.

Aunt Harriet's Underground Railroad in the sky

1992
With Harriet Tubman as her guide, Cassie retraces the steps escaping slaves took on the Underground Railroad in order to reunite with her younger brother.

Jennifer and Josephine

1967
A cat and her home, an old car in a junkyard, suddenly find themselves on the road with a reckless, frenzied travelling salesman at the wheel.

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