Jane Yolen
Author
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
In the Everglades, what may look like a smooth, silent carpet of flowing grass is a world teeming with life. Amid tree islands and mangrove roots are animals on the prowl. A tuft-eared bobcat gives an eerie yoooooowl, a raccoon carefully washes his food, an osprey guts a fish, and an alligator waits with shroudlike eyes for a redbelly turtle to swim too close. From creatures that fly to those that crawl, here is the cycle of life in the Everglades,...
62) Rocking the tide
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
A guitar-playing fish and his friends in a band called the Fry are eager to perform in a school concert but they all have the jitters, afraid something will go wrong.
64) Dragon's heart
Author
Series
Pit dragon chronicles volume 4
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Having been presumed dead, Jakkin and Akki finally return to Austar IV with newfound skills, and the knowledge that what they have learned could either transform their planet or destroy it.
Author
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
The Honus Wagner baseball card is the most valuable baseball card of all time. But Wagner the man was born poor, bow-legged, and more suited to shoveling coal in his Pennsylvania mining town than becoming the greatest shortstop of all time. How could that happen? Full color.
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Inspired by Robert Louis Stevenson's letters and life, this book imagines the author as a child with dreams of becoming a writer. As he and his father visit one of the many lighthouses along the Scottish coast that were built by their family, young Louis begins composing a story in his head--one with storms, shipwrecks, and pirates--that will one day be published as Treasure Island."--
71) Arch of bone
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Josiah dreams of joining the crew of whaling ship, like his father and grandfather. A sailor brings news that his father has died, and that his crew was doomed by the mad Captain Ahab and the white whale, Moby Dick. Josiah and his loyal dog, Zeke, set sail to find out the truth of his father's death.
72) Stone angel
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
While trying to escape with her family from the Nazis, a young Jewish French girl feels protected by angels.
75) The Leather Apron Club: Benjamin Franklin, his son Billy, and America's first circulating library
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Billy Franklin discovers a love of learning and books through the Leather Apron Club library, run by his father, the famous Benjamin Franklin."--
77) On Bird Hill
Author
Series
On bird hill and beyond volume 1
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
From award-winning and NY Times bestselling children's author of more than 350 books, Jane Yolen, and award-winning illustrator, Bob Marstall, On Bird Hill is a wonderful new picture book created in collaboration with the esteemed Cornell Lab of Ornithology, the world authority on birds.
This charming book is loosely based on the old cumulative nursery rhyme/song "The Green Grass Grew All Around," a nursery rhyme first published as a