Brian Floca
2) Locomotive
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Language
English
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Learn what it was like to travel on the transcontinental railroad in the 1860s.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Here is the story of the Apollo 11 mission to the Moon -- a story of leaving and returning during the summer of 1969, and a story of home, seen whole, from far away by steady astronauts in their great machines.
5) Lightship
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Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
Lightships once served where lighthouses could not be built. They helped to guide sailors safely through the fog.
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Publisher
Chronicle Books LLC
Language
English
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Description
Quick! If you don't move fast, you're going to miss him -- there he goes-- Randolph Caldecott, future famous illustrator. His sketchbook is full of hurly-burly; wild weather, frisky animals and people so sprightly they can barely hold on to the pages. But in the 1850s, there are no children's books like that. Not yet. Many are published, but their pictures look still, full of pretty poses and cluttered scenery. No one has imagined how much fun an...
7) Poppy
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English
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Poppy the deer mouse urges her family to move next to a field of corn big enough to feed them all forever, but Mr. Ocax, a terrifying owl, has other ideas.
10) Poppy and Ereth
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Series
Language
English
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After a long, hard winter in Dimwood forest, Poppy the deer mouse finds new adventure thrust upon her while rescuing Ereth the porcupine from the mud.
11) Poppy's return
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Series
Language
English
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Description
Poppy, accompanied by her troublesome son Junior, his skunk friend, and Uncle Ereth the porcupine, responds to a summons to return to her ancestral home, Gray House, to save the mice there from destruction by a bulldozer.
12) Hawk rising
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Early morning and a ruffle of feathers, a shadow gliding through the backyard. High above your house Father Hawk circles, sharp eyes searching for prey. Swoosh! He dives after chipmunks, crows, sparrows, squirrels. Screech! The sun hangs low in the sky as three hungry chicks wait. Will they eat today?
13) Ragweed
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Series
Publisher
HarperTrophy
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
Ragweed, a young country mouse, leaves his family and travels to the big city, where he finds excitement and danger and sees cats for the first time.
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Series
Marty McGuire volume 2
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
With help from her Grandma Barb, Marty builds a habitat for worms in her school cafeteria as part of the Save the Earth Project.
15) The Hinky Pink
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Summoned to the Great Castle of Firenze to create a special dress for Princess Isabella Caramella Gorgonzola, Anabel, a talented seamstress, is at first delighted but then increasingly despairing as time passes and her efforts are continually subverted by an unseen sprite.
16) Marty McGuire
Author
Series
Marty McGuire volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
When tomboy Marty is cast as the princess in the third-grade play, she learns about improvisation, which helps her become more adaptable.
17) Ereth's birthday
Author
Series
Tales of a Dimwood Forest volume 4
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Description
Feeling neglected on his birthday, Ereth, the cantankerous old porcupine, sets out looking for his favorite treat and instead finds himself acting as "mother" to three young fox kits.
18) Poppy and Rye
Author
Publisher
Avon Books
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English
Description
When their home next to a brook is destroyed by beavers, a large family of golden mice is aided by Poppy the deer mouse and her grumpy porcupine friend, who in the process forges a relationship with the son he had abandoned.
20) Locomotive
Publisher
Dreamscape Media, LLC
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
It is the summer of 1869, and trains, crews, and families are traveling together, riding America's brand new transcontinental railroad. The pages come alive with the details of the trip and the sounds, speed, and strength of the mighty locomotives; the work that keeps them moving; and the thrill of travel from plains to mountain to ocean. Come hear the hiss of the steam, feel the heat of the engine, watch the landscape race by. Come ride the rails,...