Carolrhoda on my own books

Describes the way in which the new year is celebrated throughout the world, often on days other than January 1.

During the New York blizzard of 1888 twelve-year-old Milton straps on pair of homemade snowshoes and delivers medicine and supplies to his neighbors.

Relates the real-life saga of Abbie Burgess, who single-handedly kept the lighthouse lamps lit during a four-week winter storm that lashed the coast of Maine in 1856.

Living on a farm in southwestern Minnesota in the 1870's, a brother and sister try to help their family cope with plagues of locusts.

Explains the origins of Valentine's Day and describes the traditions with which this special day is celebrated.

A clever giant saves the town of Barletta from an advancing army.

A white rhinoceros and his herd are shipped from Africa to a zoo in England, where the male becomes angry and withdrawn, suffering from the loss of his horn during capture.

Huge footprints in the snow cause Brimhall the bear to try to identify and trap the "monster.".