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- 00052233 abstract "Two good friends, Possum and Alien, spend time together celebrating their birthdays, discovering their uniqueness, and hanging out together in a tree.".
- 00052234 abstract "When his puppy Mudge gets dirty, Henry has some trouble giving him a bath.".
- 00052240 abstract "When Henry has a snack, his puppy Mudge wants one too.".
- 00052256 abstract "Four budding artists, a tap dancer, a poet, a singer, and an acrobat, who just happen to be pigs, live out their dreams and avoid becoming bacon.".
- 00052281 abstract "A retelling of the story of two sisters who do not obey their father and are carried off into the mountains by El Cucuy.".
- 00052287 abstract "A family of nice ghosts protects a British orphan from the diabolical plans of his evil guardians.".
- 00052327 abstract "Owls are supposed to be night birds, but young Plop is afraid of the dark, despite how much other people and animals tell him they enjoy it.".
- 00052366 abstract "A collection of eighty-three fairy tales and folk tales from Wales, including The Lady of the Lake, The Fairy Harp, Pennard Castle, and The Stray Cow.".
- 00052368 abstract "Presents a variety of animals and the places where they might sleep, from a bear snoozing in the arms of a tree to a boy in bed.".
- 00052386 abstract "Explores the world of the theropod group of dinosaurs, which includes Allosaurus, Ceratosaurus, Herrerasaurus, and T. rex.".
- 00052387 abstract "Explores the world of the sauropodomorph group of dinosaurs, which includes Plateosaurus, Apatosaurus, Diplodocus, and Brachiosaurus.".
- 00052389 abstract "Explores the world of the ornithopod and marginocephalian groups of dinosaurs, the latter of which includes ceratopsians and pachycephalosaurs.".
- 00052390 abstract "Anthony spends his birthday making a family tree which shows all the members of his extended family.".
- 00052391 abstract "Everyone in the family and all of their guests find ways of helping to get ready for a backyard barbecue.".
- 00052392 abstract "A father and son enjoy spending a day at the park with their dog, where they can run, play, and see many interesting sights.".
- 00052393 abstract "Thinking about his first day of school gives Alex butterflies, but his parents, teacher and friends all make it easier.".
- 00052411 abstract "A two-year-old penguin named Flop is sad when his five-year-old brother, Flip, would rather play with a friend his own age.".
- 00052537 abstract "Needing to earn money after his father's death during the influenza epidemic of 1918, thirteen-year-old Joshua works as a newspaper boy in Boston, one day finding himself in the vicinity of an explosion that sends tons of molasses coursing through the streets.".
- 00052572 abstract "Two sisters, ages eleven and thirteen, describe what it was like for them when their mother was diagnosed with breast cancer and underwent surgery and chemotherapy.".
- 00052600 abstract "Sixteen-year-old Jerry, leaving his rural home for the first time, goes to a Christian boarding school, where he makes friends with students from various parts of his country, Liberia.".
- 00052634 abstract "Sophie describes her relationships with a series of boys as she searches for Mr. Right.".
- 00052758 abstract "While attending a summer institute, fifteen-year-old Nic meets another girl named Battle, falls in love with her, and finds the relationship to be difficult and confusing.".
- 00052795 abstract "Destiny leads Rowan of Rin to make choices which could save a powerful crystal, thereby ensuring the safety of his people and his people's shore-dwelling allies.".
- 00052796 abstract "After a flying lizard carries off his little sister, Rowan of Rin and three companions are guided by a rhyming riddle on a journey to the land of their old enemy, the Zebak, in order to rescue her.".
- 00052797 abstract "A young boy and his grandmother share all sorts of adventures on her farm with her cat Boots and her cow Georgie Lee.".
- 00052827 abstract "Hindered by a fight with her friend Dub and a series of mysterious fires, eleven-year-old Allie investigates the fire seventeen years earlier which claimed the lives of the husband and infant son of a school cafeteria worker, as well as the handsome young man whose ghost asks Allie for help.".
- 00052875 abstract "During their family's vacation at the beach, Chris and his sister help solve a mystery involving an abandoned lighthouse, and learn the importance of trusting their parents.".
- 00052979 abstract "During a thunderstorm, the farm animals are frightened out of the barn by a monster, and only cow friends Minnie and Moo are brave enough to investigate.".
- 00052980 abstract "While looking for his lost lamb, an orphaned shepherd boy meets Mary, Joseph, and newborn baby Jesus in a manger.".
- 00053002 abstract "Peter disobeys his mother by going into Mr. McGregor's garden and almost gets caught.".
- 00053149 abstract "Fifteen-year-old Paul Shackleford experiences an eye-opening and transformative summer living and working on the central Virginia farm belonging to a distant relative, where everyone seems to be haunted by the death of a much-loved and admired farmhand the year before.".
- 00053330 abstract "A crack in the track brings Thomas the Tank Engine and the entire Island of Sodor Railway to a screeching halt in this rhyming adventure.".
- 00053331 abstract "After James tells a scary story, Thomas the tank engine imagines there is a horrible, engine-eating monster coming after him.".
- 00053360 abstract "A year after her mother's death in a fire, fifteen-year-old Wakara still struggles with grief, while she and her family, who claim some Yani Indian ancestry, try to continue with life at their remote mountain lodge in the Oregon wilderness.".
- 00053361 abstract "After the death of her mother, fifteen-year-old Wakara and her family, who claim some Yani Indian ancestry, continue life on their Oregon ranch and face serious challenges when a sudden blizzard hits.".
- 00053399 abstract "The author describes his boyhood summers spent at his grandmother's apartment in Spanish Harlem where she introduced him to the sounds and steps of the merengue and the conga and told him stories of Puerto Rico.".
- 00053474 abstract "Binky refuses to join his teammates in pre-game warm-ups, until he injures himself while running the bases in a game.".
- 00053494 abstract "As a father tells his daughter what a seed needs to flourish, he also explains the reasons he emigrated to a new homeland.".
- 00053510 abstract "In Scotland in 1791, eight-year-old Martha Morse, who would grow up to become the great-grandmother of author Laura Ingalls Wilder, meets her new governess and learns the difference between growing up a laird's daughter and a child of a cottager.".
- 00053514 abstract "When a principal loves his school so much that he wants the children to attend classes every day of the year, it is up to his students to show him free time is a good thing, too.".
- 00053548 abstract "Afraid to swim across the river because of the hippopotamus there, a turtle takes inspiration from other animals in trying other ways to get across. Features rebuses.".
- 00053600 abstract "McKinley, a malamute, is torn between the domestic world of his human family and the wild world of Lupin, a wolf that is trying to recruit dogs to replenish the dwindling wolf pack.".
- 00053605 abstract "Junior detective Rafi looks for clues when the Torah at his religious school disappears.".
- 00053622 abstract "Sam suspects the culprit who is gassing assembly line workers in the parachute factory lives in the hotel his family manages.".
- 00053723 abstract "A child chooses a puppy, finds out how to take care of her, and enjoys her company.".
- 00053737 abstract "Miranda finds it difficult to rehearse for the dance recital after she learns that her mother's poliomyelitis kept her from dancing when she was a child.".
- 00053739 abstract "When Tío Manuel brings home a very special piñata for Gabriel's birthday party, his sister Magda figures out an ingenious way to preserve it and still make the party guests happy.".
- 00053741 abstract "Four preteen outcasts, two of them handicapped, learn lessons in courage and perseverance when they join forces to build a boat.".
- 00053749 abstract "Traces the story of the MacIvey family of Florida from 1858 to 1968.".
- 00053854 abstract "Harry and his sister Emily are very much involved in the family's preparations for Halloween.".
- 00053855 abstract "After an archaeological dig at Glastonbury Tor in England uncovers the Holy Grail, Felicity and her mother, a professor of Arthurian literature, find that their destinies are linked across time with the Grail and the legendary King Arthur.".
- 00053924 abstract "Catty, a girl with the power to travel back in time, inherits a secret scroll that will help her defeat the evil Atrox.".
- 00053929 abstract "Winnie is worried when her best friends Zoe and Vanessa enroll her in ballet classes with them, since she would rather go to the library and read like they always do.".
- 00053963 abstract "Rabbits from one to ten get ready to help clean up.".
- 00053977 abstract "Tells how the infant Prince Hakon is rescued by men fiercely loyal to his dead father, who ski across the rugged mountains in blizzard conditions to save him from his enemies, the Baglers.".
- 00053999 abstract "When her father kills himself after losing his money in the stock market crash of 1929, twelve-year-old Frances, now a penniless orphan, decides to hop aboard a freight train and live the life of a hobo.".
- 00054000 abstract "Chronicles the sometimes funny, sometimes sad experiences of eight-year-old Anna with her friends and family during a year in Baltimore just before World War I.".
- 00054010 abstract "Her first week at a new school, shy, plain Delia befriends Amandine, not anticipating the dangerous turns their friendship would take.".
- 00054011 abstract "Penny Lee loves to watch television so much that she has no time for anything else, but one day when the television stops working, her dog Mr. Barkley shows her some of the other fun things they can do.".
- 00054032 abstract "A serious young shepherd finds that there is more than one way to keep a wolf from eating her sheep.".
- 00054033 abstract "At a family reunion, the cousins line up in order of their ages to get their pictures taken, introducing the concept of numerical order.".
- 00054035 abstract "When a young Caribbean boy does not listen to his grandmother, an evil spirit threatens to snatch him.".
- 00054037 abstract "Life in their Pennsylvania hometown changes for Jubal Shoemaker and his family when his older brother witnesses to his Quaker beliefs by becoming a conscientious objector during World War II.".
- 00054038 abstract "Seventeen-year-old football hero Austin, trying to understand the inexplicable depression that has drained his interest in life, thinks that he has found relief in a girl who seems very special.".
- 00054040 abstract "Noticing that a popular series of horror novels is having a bizarre effect on the behavior of its readers, Franny and Beamer set out to find the mysterious author.".
- 00054041 abstract "At a Christmas pageant, Henry the cat befriends Bonnie the lamb and helps her out of a potentially dangerous predicament.".
- 00054043 abstract "Elijah, a nine-year-old African American with unusual mental powers and a special ability to reach into the natural world, becomes a hostage of a terrorist militia group and finds himself in a world of violence.".
- 00054053 abstract "Three German teenagers who are members of the Mormon Church join forces to create a youth resistance movement during World War II, putting their lives at risk.".
- 00054061 abstract "A bunny family spends the day together.".
- 00054062 abstract "When the 21st Street Sluggers, a baseball team, have a car wash to raise money, they learn to keep careful track of their dollars and cents.".
- 00054064 abstract "A child who is laughed at because of her square head learns to see her own inner beauty as well as that of others.".
- 00054065 abstract "A child speculates about flying teddy bears, flowers that taste like candy, gold snowflakes, and more.".
- 00054067 abstract "Two muffin-loving polar bears make a yearly attempt to use stealth and subterfuge to get muffins at the Yellowtooth Blueberry Muffin Festival.".
- 00054111 abstract "After following her nine toys in a parade through the house, Hattie explains why each of them needs to sleep with her in her bed.".
- 00054112 abstract "Smuggled out of Nigeria after their mother's murder, Sade and her younger brother are abandoned in London when their uncle fails to meet them at the airport and they are fearful of their new surroundings and of what may have happened to their journalist father back in Nigeria.".
- 00054139 abstract "A series of poems express the views of various people in a small Vermont town, including a young black girl and a young Jewish girl, during the early 1920s when the Ku Klux Klan is trying to infiltrate the town.".
- 00054141 abstract "Mary Elizabeth relates how, when Clifford was just a puppy, they made gifts to give their mothers on Mother's Day.".
- 00054158 abstract "Although Tommy, a Japanese-American sixth-grader, has serious doubts when his mother starts organizing a rally to fight racism, once he and his friends find a cause of their own he gains more understanding of her motives.".
- 00054161 abstract "One by one all the other pumpkins are chosen to become jack-o-lanterns, but even though no one buys the Littlest Pumpkin, her Halloween dreams come true.".
- 00054171 abstract "When a gigantic wild ice cream cone runs off with the girlfriend of Captain Charles Handsome, the adventurer captures Cone Kong and takes him back to the Big City.".
- 00054201 abstract "Angry and humiliated when his sharecropper father is jailed for stealing food for his family, a young black boy grows in courage and understanding by learning to read and through his relationship with his devoted dog Sounder.".
- 00054229 abstract "A big city garbage truck makes its rounds, consuming everything from apple cores and banana peels to leftover ziti with zucchini.".
- 00054230 abstract "Sam and his brother Robert fear their new neighbor is a zombie and plans to bring their dead pet gerbil back to life.".
- 00054231 abstract "A song sparrow, a mole, a bear, and an owl must struggle through the cold, harsh months of winter.".
- 00054233 abstract "A young student, who comes to love poetry through a personal understanding of what different famous poems mean to him, surprises himself by writing his own inspired poem.".
- 00054234 abstract "Jealous of her perfect mother and ignored by her artist father, Echo seeks attention and healing from a variety of people living in beautiful Los Angeles.".
- 00054281 abstract "The experiences of people coming to the United States from many different lands are conveyed in the words of a contemporary young girl visiting Ellis Island and of a girl who immigrated in about 1910, as well as by quotes from early twentieth century immigrants and Ellis Island officials.".
- 00054298 abstract "After being mistreated by her stepfamily, a young girl receives help from her fairy godmother so that she can attend the palace ball.".
- 00054316 abstract "Sophie is sad when her cat dies, so she asks God for a Christmas miracle and has her prayer answered in a surprising way.".
- 00054344 abstract "Having settled on the Kansas frontier, young Bill Cody and his family try to make a home for themselves, coexist with their Kickapoo neighbors, and stand up as abolitionists in spite of their neighbors' pro-slavery beliefs.".
- 00054399 abstract "Fourteen-year-old Autumn slowly becomes aware of changes in the tenuous relationship between her father and mother that threaten her cherished life on a small island off the coast of Washington State.".
- 00054400 abstract "Alexander, in North Carolina while his father decides whether to remarry and move there, meets the ghost of a Confederate soldier and helps him look for his family.".
- 00054460 abstract "Despite his father's rules and his own fear of the water, fourteen-year-old Jamie joins his older cousin in taking the raft they made out onto the river, where a tragic accident leads Jamie to make the most difficult decision of his life.".
- 00054469 abstract "Sixteen-year-old Juli hopes her experience as a trial witness in a bank robbery case in Bellingham Bay, Washington, will give her material for writing mystery stories, until she and her church group friends receive death threats and warnings not to testify.".
- 00054470 abstract "Juli Scott, Shannon Riley, and their friends look forward to the new school year, especially when their youth group leader, Kareem Thompson, offers to take them all to Mount Rainier to enjoy the early snowfall.".
- 00054471 abstract "When Juli, her best friend Shannon, and their friends and families go on vacation to British Columbia, they begin to suspect they are being followed by the cult leaders who caused them trouble in the past.".
- 00054599 abstract "Thirteen-year-old Kelly, softball star, has to face new challenges in her life, including assignment to a different softball team and her mother's new boyfriend.".
- 00054605 abstract "Upon moving to Sentinel House, five-year-old Matty and fifteen-year-old Graham encounter ghosts from a nearby abandoned military compound, but real trouble begins when their father is arrested for posting information about a secret weapons system on the Internet.".
- 00054607 abstract "Having dropped a pass and made his football team miss having an undefeated season, thirteen-year-old Keith fears that he will continue to make bad mistakes and wonders if he should continue playing football.".
- 00054611 abstract "While his sisters babysit their rowdy young cousins, eleven-year-old Les joins his friends in the New Sugar Creek Gang as they try to discover what strange creature is tearing up their favorite park.".