villages

Lila, concerned about the effects of the unrelenting sun on her village, tries to coax some rain out of the sky by telling it sad stories.

In sixteenth-century England the village troublemaker sets neighbor against neighbor when Gammer Gurton loses her needle while stitching a rip in her servant's trousers.

In a tiny village in the Swiss Alps, an angel meets an American girl named Zola who has come with her father to open a school, and together Zola and the angel rescue a group of homeless orphans, who gradually change everything.

Provides information about the daily lives of people who lived in the 1400s, covering every level of society from royalty to peasants; discussing hairstyles and fashion, entertainment, battle techniques, the justice system, housing, marriage customs, and other topics.

The first installment of the French author's multivolume autobiographical novel, originally published in 1913, in which he recalls his childhood and first infatuation.

"Describes daily life in the countryside of England during the reign of Queen Victoria (1837-1901), from the poor, to the middle classes, to the upper classes"--Provided by publisher.

Thirteen-year-old Jason Taylor comes of age in 1982 in what is for him the sleepiest village in Worcestershire, experiencing first cigarettes, first kisses, and first deaths.

Presents a children's study of the cultural and social life of the early American colonists including their homes and towns, businesses and trades, arts and crafts, and their associations and treaties with the Native American tribes on whose lands they settled.