Molly Beth Griffin
Author
Publisher
Charlesbridge
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
32 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 23 x 29 cm
Language
English
Description
Lily is moving into her grandmother's farm in Iowa, and she is sad about all the changes necessary in her life--but on the long drive her grandmother challenges her to find ten beautiful things that they can share together.
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
189 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
During the summer of 1926 in the lake resort town of Excelsior, Minnesota, sixteen-year-old Garnet, who dreams of indulging her passion for ornithology, is resigned to marrying a nice boy and settling into middle-class homemaking until she takes a liberating job in a hat shop and begins an intense, secret relationship with a daring and beautiful flapper.
3) Party time
Author
Publisher
Picture Window Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Lexile measure
510L
Physical Desc
26 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
The last week of school is party time for the students and teachers, but Stella the Mouse, Nico the Toad, Delilah the Spider, and Bo the Parakeet are a little concerned about what happens after the students leave for the summer--Bo will go home with his human, but the others are worried that they will be bored and hungry if the school shuts down.
4) A new year
Author
Publisher
Picture Window Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Lexile measure
490L
Physical Desc
26 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Stella the Mouse, Nico the Toad, Delilah the Spider, and Bo the Parakeet are all delighted that today is the first day of school, and the children will be back--but some of the children, the new ones, seem nervous and unhappy, so the four school friends set out to find some way to make those children feel welcome.
Author
Publisher
Picture Window Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Lexile measure
530L
Physical Desc
26 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Four animals friends, Stella the mouse, Nico the toad, Delilah the spider, and Bo the parakeet, live in a school and love to see the children every day, so they decide to do something nice for the kids to show their love--but the grownups do not appreciate their efforts, and quickly clean up what they see as a mess.
Author
Publisher
Minnesota Historical Society Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 volume : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
The girl wants a leaf pile to leap in. A big leaf pile, a huge leaf pile, an enormously enormous leaf pile! She rakes and rakes and rakes, but there are not enough leaves in her yard to make the leaf pile of her dreams. And she can't do it alone. She will need some help. And so it begins: one neighbor kid here, a couple of neighbor kids there, others from down the street. They all have leaves to contribute as they build a pile together in a nearby...
Author
Publisher
Minnesota Historical Society Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
On a backpacking trip with her aunt and uncle, a young girl collects rocks while hiking in the forest, by the river, and at the lake, but when her pack becomes too heavy too carry, she finds the perfect solution.
8) Loon baby
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
A baby loon, afraid that his mother will not return, sets out on his own to find his way across a stormy lake to their home in the great north woods.