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The usually simple lives of an Amish community are complicated when a forgotten postcard unlocks a tangled maze of secrets.

2) Buster and the giant pumpkin

Author

Series

Publisher

Little, Brown

Pub. Date

c2005.

Language

English

Description

Buster sends postcards to his friends back home when he goes to Oregon and learns about pumpkins.

3) Buster catches a wave

Author

Series

Publisher

Little, Brown

Pub. Date

2005.

Language

English

Description

When his father takes him to visit Florida, Buster sends postcards to his friends back home telling them what he is learning about surfing.

4) Toot & Puddle

Author

Hobbie, Holly

Series

[Toot and Puddle]

Publisher

Little, Brown

Pub. Date

c1997.

Language

English

Description

Toot and Puddle are best friends with very different interests, so when Toot spends the year traveling around the world, Puddle enjoys receiving his postcards.

5) Buster's sugartime

Author

Series

Publisher

Little, Brown

Pub. Date

2006.

Language

English

Description

When his father takes him to visit Vermont, Buster sends postcards to his friends back home telling them what he is learning about maple syrup and the "mud season."

6) Buster and the great swamp

Author

Series

Publisher

Little, Brown

Pub. Date

2005.

Language

English

Description

When his father takes him to visit the Louisiana bayou, Buster sends postcards to his friends back home telling them about the Cajun language, learning to catch crabs, and keeping watch for a swamp monster.

7) Buster and the dance contest

Author

Series

Publisher

Little, Brown

Pub. Date

c2005.

Language

English

Description

Buster sends postcards to his friends back home when he and his father visit an international food festival in Wisconsin, where he meets six girls who will be performing a traditional Hmong dance.

8) Meerkat mail

Author

Gravett, Emily

Publisher

Simon & Schuster

Pub. Date

2007.

Language

English

Description

Through a series of flip-up postcards addressed to his family, Sunny Meerkat documents his travels as he searches for the perfect place for him to live.

9) Buster plays along

Author

Passport to reading. Level 3

Series

Publisher

Little, Brown

Pub. Date

c2005.

Language

English

Description

Buster sends postcards to his friends back home when he and his father go to San Antonio, Texas, for the International Accordion Festival.

10) Postcards from camp: a postal story

Author

Taback, Simms

Publisher

Nancy Paulsen Books

Pub. Date

c2011.

Language

English

Description

Follows Michael's summer at sleep-away camp through a series of postcards sent between him and his father.

11) Grandude's green submarine

Author

McCartney, Paul

Language

English

Formats

Book, eAudiobook

Description

"Celebrate the fun that grandparents and grandkids can get up to in this action-packed undersea adventure--a companion picture book to Paul McCartney's bestseller Hey Grandude"--

12) Look! look! look! at sculpture

Author

Wallace, Nancy Elizabeth

Publisher

Marshall Cavendish Children

Pub. Date

c2012.

Language

English

Description

Three mice "borrow" a postcard which is a reproduction of a sculpture, and from it they learn about color, pattern, line, and shape. Includes instructions for making and sending a postcard.

13) Love, Agnes: postcards from an octopus

Author

Latham, Irene

Publisher

Millbrook Press

Pub. Date

[2018]

Language

English

Description

In California, Agnes, a giant Pacific octopus, pens a series of postcards to strangers from both above and below the pier.

14) LaRue across America: postcards from the vacation

Author

Teague, Mark

Publisher

Blue Sky Press

Pub. Date

c2011.

Language

English

Description

Mrs. LaRue takes a cross-country drive with her hospitalized neighbor's cats and her own dog, Ike, who keeps the cats' owner informed of their misadventures through a series of postcards.

15) Arthur loses a friend

Author

Step into reading. Step 3 book

Series

Publisher

Random House

Pub. Date

c2006.

Language

English

Description

Buster goes away for a month, and Arthur becomes sad and confused when he does not receive even one postcard from him.

16) Buster on the town

Series

Publisher

Little, Brown

Pub. Date

c2005.

Language

English

Description

On his visit to Chicago, Buster makes a new friend and sends postcards back home.

17) Buster hunts for dinosaurs

Author

Series

Publisher

Little, Brown

Pub. Date

2006.

Language

English

Description

When his father takes him to visit a national park about dinosaurs, Buster sends postcards to his friends back home telling them what he is learning.

18) Buster on the farm

Author

Series

Publisher

Little, Brown

Pub. Date

c2005.

Language

English

Description

Buster sends postcards to his friends back home when he goes to visit a farm in Indiana.

19) The day the crayons came home

Author

Daywalt, Drew

Publisher

Philomel Books, An Imprint of Penguin Group (USA)

Pub. Date

[2015]

Language

English

Description

One day, Duncan is happily coloring with his crayons when a stack of postcards arrives in the mail from his former crayons, each of which has run away or been left behind, and all of which want to come home.

20) Lost and Found: Adèle & Simon in China

Author

McClintock, Barbara

Publisher

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Pub. Date

2016.

Language

English

Description