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Author
Series
Mary Poppins series volume 6
Pub. Date
[2006], c1975
Language
English
Description
"Mary Poppins teachers her irrepressible young charges the basics of the kitchen"--Front jacket flap.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c1997
Language
English
Description
Meg and her friends are playing in the championship soccer match to see who will win the gold medal. However, by half-time, the medal had disappeared. See if you can solve the mystery before Meg, using clues found in the text and illustrations.
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
On a stormy night two hundred years ago, a young woman sat in a dark house and dreamed of her life as a writer. She longed to follow the path her own mother, Mary Wollstonecraft, had started down, but young Mary Shelley had yet to be inspired. As the night wore on, Mary grew more anxious. The next day was the deadline that her friend, the poet Lord Byron, had set for writing the best ghost story. After much talk of science and the secrets of life,...
Author
Series
Solve-it-yourself mystery volume 2
Pub. Date
c1987
Language
English
Description
On a whale watch, Meg tries to solve a puzzling case involving a stolen treasure map. The reader is asked to solve the mystery before Meg, using clues found in the text and illustrations.
11) Someone like me
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
In this semi-autobiographical picture book, author Patricia MacLachlan relates what it might take to grow up to become a writer.
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"A celebration of the extraordinary life of Ezra Jack Keats, creator of The Snowy Day. The story of The Snowy Day begins more than one hundred years ago, when Ezra Jack Keats was born in Brooklyn, N.Y. The family were struggling Polish immigrants, and despite Keats's obvious talent, his father worried that Ezra's dream of being an artist was an unrealistic one. But Ezra was determined. By high school he was winning prizes and scholarships. Later,...
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Before C.S. Lewis wrote The Chronicles of Narnia, he was a young boy named Jack who spent his days dreaming up stories of other worlds filled with knights, castles, and talking animals. His brother, Warnie, spent his days imagining worlds filled with trains, boats, and technology. One rainy day, they found a wardrobe in a little room next to the attic, and they wondered, What if the wardrobe had no end? Years later, Jack began to think about what...
Author
Pub. Date
1993, c1989
Language
English
Description
An elephant's eleventh birthday party is marked by eleven games preceding the banquet to be eaten at the eleventh hour; but when the time to eat arrives, the birthday feast has disappeared. The reader is invited to guess the thief. The solution is provided in a sealed end section.
17) Find Fergus
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Fergus the bear wants to play hide and seek with the reader, but will need help--and practice--to hide well.
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"A captivating picture book biography of a boy who imagined a world full of dragons and grew up to be beloved author J. R. R. Tolkien. John Ronald loved dragons. He liked to imagine dragons when he was alone, and with his friends, and especially when life got hard or sad. After his mother died and he had to live with a cold-hearted aunt, he looked for dragons. He searched for them at his boarding school. And when he fought in a Great War, he felt...
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