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Purrfectly Purrfect

Life at the Acatemy

by Lauber, Patricia & Lewin, Betsy

Describes life at a school for cats, where the students learn to be "purrfect."

Cold Feet

by DeFelice, Cynthia C. & Parker, Robert Andrew

After stealing a dead man's boots, a poor wandering bagpiper uses them to play a trick on an unfriendly farmer but then finds the trick turned back on him.

Our Strange New Land

Elizabeth's Diary, Jamestown, Virginia, 1609

by Hermes, Patricia

Nine-year-old Elizabeth keeps a journal of her experiences in the New World as she encounters Indians, suffers hunger and the death of friends, and helps her f...

The Secret Journey

by Kehret, Peg

In 1834 when a storm at sea destroys the slave ship on which she is a stowaway, twelve-year-old Emma musters all her resourcefulness to survive in the African ...

Be Blest

A Celebration of Seasons

by Owens, Mary Frances

Presents prayers for each of the months of the year, including search-and-find paintings of plants, animals, and insects.

Sky Memories

by Brisson, Pat & Minor, Wendell

When ten-year-old Emily learns that her mother has cancer, the two of them begin a ritual that will help Emily remember her mother after she is dead.

Leaving Emma

by Brokaw, Nancy Steele

Fifth-grader Emma faces many unpleasant changes as her best friend prepares to move away, her father goes to Turkey for five months, and her mother starts coll...

Baby whale rescue

the true story of J. J

by Arnold, Caroline & Hewett, Richard

Describes how J.J., a baby gray whale born off the California coast and separated from her mother, waw rescued and returned to the open sea.

The Girls' Revenge

by Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds

As Christmas approaches, Caroline Malloy continues the feud between her sisters and the Hatford brothers by making Wally Hatford be her partner for a special p...

To the top of the world

adventures with Arctic wolves

by Brandenburg, Jim & Guernsey, JoAnn Bren

A wildlife photographer records in text and photographs two visits to Ellesmere Island, Northwest Territories, where he filmed a pack of Arctic wolves over sev...