Bauer, Marion Dane

Simple text and illustrations describe how glaciers formed the Great Lakes and Niagara Falls.

In England with her mother for a year, dreamy Diana meets an eccentric old man and shares his frustrations and use of the royal family as a means of escape.

A young child ruminates on the favorite weather of ten different animals.

Purrloom Popcorn, an exotically beautiful cat with one blue eye and one gold eye, receives his first real love from a lonely girl and an array of ghost cats.

Leslie has trouble relating to her mother and turns instead to her new journalism advisor at school, until a moment of crisis puts a different perspective on things.

Jenna purchases an old doll dressed in red velvet at a neighbor's garage sale, thinking it will be the perfect birthday gift for her sister, but as soon as Jenna brings the doll home, strange things begin to happen and she wonders if the doll might be haunted.

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.

Simply describes how various baby animals come into the world and what happens when a human baby is born.

Fourteen-year-old Polly Rodgers keeps a diary of her 1873 journey from England to Minnesota as part of a colony of eighty people seeking religious freedom, and of their first year struggling to make a life there, led by her father, a Baptist minister.

Nine-year-old Sarah is excited about summer vacation, but she faces unexpected crises when her best friend Paige becomes old enough to join a local girls' clique, and when she makes choices which affect her relationship with an elderly blind neighbor.