Ernest V. Troost
24) Crow call
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Nine-year-old Liz accompanies the stranger who is her father, just returned from the war, when he goes hunting for crows in Pennsylvania farmland.
25) Shrinking Violet
Author
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
Violet, who is very shy and hates for anyone to look at her in school, finally comes out of her shell when she is cast as Lady Space in a play about the solar system and saves the production from disaster.
26) Extra yarn
Author
Series
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
With a supply of yarn that never runs out, Annabelle knits for everyone and everything in town until an evil archduke decides he wants the yarn for himself. Listen as you read along with this book and CD set.
31) Rikki-tikki-tavi
Author
Language
English
Description
A courageous mongoose thwarts the evil plans of Nag and Nagaina, two big black cobras who live in the garden.
Author
Series
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
It's the first day of school at Frederick Douglass Elementary and everyone's just a little bit nervous, especially the school itself. What will the children do once they come? Will they like the school? Will they be nice to him? The school has a rough start, but as the day goes on, he soon recovers when he sees that he's not the only one going through first-day jitters.
35) Chrysanthemum
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Chrysanthemum loves her name, until she starts going to school and the other children make fun of it.
36) The tiny seed
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
A simple description of a flowering plant's life cycle through the seasons.
37) Follow the river
Publisher
Platinum Disc
Pub. Date
c2005.
Language
English
Description
Mary Ingles is a Virginia homesteader whose family is suddenly attacked by a Shawnee war party. After Mary is taken captive, the leader of the war party is impressed by her courage and strength, and decides to make her his mate. Mary then makes the dangerous decision to escape the Shawnee village with another captive woman. Together they embark on a harrowing journey through the Virginia wilderness toward freedom and home.
38) Crisantemo
Author
Language
Español
Formats
Description
Chrysanthemum loves her name, until she starts going to school and the other children make fun of it.
Publisher
Vivendi
Pub. Date
c2011.
Language
English
Description
In this Oscar Wilde tale of mystery and adventure, the unsuspecting Otis family moves into the stately, rambling rooms of Canterville Hall where young Virginia meets up with the castle's resident specter: the 400-year old ghost of Sir Simon de Canterville.