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Exploring Spring

A Season of Science Activities, Puzzles, and Games

by Markle, Sandra & Pillar, Arlene M.

A collection of springtime activities which include stories, observations of nature, handicraft, games, and puzzles.

The ringdoves

from the Fables of Bidpai

by Kamen, Gloria & Pillar, Arlene M.

In this Indian fable about loyalty and friendship, several animals band together to elude the hunter.

My father doesn't know about the woods and me

by Haseley, Dennis & Hays, Michael & Pillar, Arlene M.

As a child walks in the woods with his father, he seems to become other animals enjoying the freedom of nature.

No strings attached

by Holl, Kristi & McKeating, Eileen & Pillar, Arlene M.

June finds sharing a house with her mother and her foster grandfather requires a difficult adjustment to his forgetfulness and his crabby remarks to her junior...

Moon in the water

by Diggs, Lucy & Marchesi, Stephen & Pillar, Arlene M.

A teenaged boy in the mid 1950's enters his horse in jumping events at horse shows in central California and fights with his abusive father who wants him to he...

Beethoven's cat

by McHugh, Elisabet & Riggio, Anita & Pillar, Arlene M.

After a very self-important modern cat named Ludwig discovers from an old book that he strongly resembles Ludwig van Beethoven's cat, he begins to suspect that...

A small pleasure

by Kelly, Kathy & Pillar, Arlene M.

Wray Jean overloads on scholastic and extracurricular activities in order to find her identity and ease the pain of her father's death from cancer.

Changes in latitudes

by Hobbs, Will & Maggio, Viqui & Pillar, Arlene M.

A family trip to Mexico changes a cocky teenager's attitudes as he becomes exposed to his brother's consuming interest in saving endangered species, to his par...

Chester and Uncle Willoughby

by Edwards, Pat & Allison, Diane Worfolk & Pillar, Arlene M.

Four vignettes in which Chester and his Uncle Willoughby sit together on their front porch and exchange thoughts and stories.

Through tempest trails

by Fox, Denise P. & Brown, Judith M. & Pillar, Arlene M.

A lonely and bored raccoon finds his life changing drastically when he helps a fugitive mink and travels with him and several new friends they meet along the w...