Dixie and the Best Day Ever

Dixie and the Best Day Ever
Author: Grace Gilman
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 35
Release: 2014-10-07
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0062086626

Emma finds her inspiration with Dixie in this special wintertime adventure. When Emma is stumped by a school assignment—to write a poem about her “best day ever”—could a day of playing in the snow be exactly the thing Emma needs to help her write the perfect poem? With fun full-color illustrations on every page, Dixie’s eighth I Can Read captures all the excitement of that coveted childhood event—a snow day! Dixie and the Best Day Ever is a Level One I Can Read book, which means it’s perfect for children learning to sound out words and sentences.

Dixie Loves School Pet Day

Dixie Loves School Pet Day
Author: Grace Gilman
Publisher: HarperCollins
Total Pages: 34
Release: 2011-09-27
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0062104098

When Dixie gets to join Emma at school for Pet Day, she can hardly stop wagging her tail with excitement! Emma's classmates have all kinds of pets--hamsters, birds, goldfish--even lizards! Dixie tries her best to sit still, but with all the new friends to make, she may not be able to stay calm for long . . . Dixie's loveable antics will keep beginning readers laughing in this wonderful addition to the I Can Read library.

Because of Winn-Dixie

Because of Winn-Dixie
Author: Kate DiCamillo
Publisher: Candlewick Press
Total Pages: 191
Release: 2009-09-08
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0763649457

A classic tale by Newbery Medalist Kate DiCamillo, America's beloved storyteller. One summer’s day, ten-year-old India Opal Buloni goes down to the local supermarket for some groceries – and comes home with a dog. But Winn-Dixie is no ordinary dog. It’s because of Winn-Dixie that Opal begins to make friends. And it’s because of Winn-Dixie that she finally dares to ask her father about her mother, who left when Opal was three. In fact, as Opal admits, just about everything that happens that summer is because of Winn-Dixie. Featuring a new cover illustration by E. B. Lewis.

Dixie and the School Trip

Dixie and the School Trip
Author: Grace Gilman
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 35
Release: 2012-06-05
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0062086138

When Dixie sneaks her way onto the school bus with Emma,the two friends are in for a real trip! A class trip, in fact, to the dinosaur museum! Emma and her classmates learn all about how the dinosaurs lived from a real dinosaur expert. But when Dixie takes dinosaur bones like they're doggie treats, Emma steps in to save the museum. Can the pair dig their way out of their mess? Dixie and the School Trip is the fourth I Can Read story starring Dixie—a fantastic addition to any beginning reader's library.

The Education of Dixie Dupree

The Education of Dixie Dupree
Author: Donna Everhart
Publisher: Kensington Books
Total Pages: 321
Release: 2016-10-25
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1496705521

A remarkable debut from the author of The Saints of Swallow Hill, composed in a voice as sure and resonant as that of The Secret Life of Bees. This story about mothers and daughters, the guilt and pain that pass between generations, and the truths that are impossible to hide, especially from ourselves, will take readers on a heartfelt and heartbreaking journey. "Young Dixie Dupree is an indomitable spirit in this coming-of-age novel that is a heartbreaking and honest witness to the resilience of human nature and the fighting spirit and courage residing in all of us." —The Huffington Post, Kim Michele Richardson, author of The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek "An important novel, beautifully written, this is a story to cherish." —Susan Wiggs, # 1 New York Times bestselling author IndieNext Pick In 1969, Dixie Dupree is eleven years old and already an expert liar. Sometimes the lies are for her mama, Evie’s sake—to explain away a bruise brought on by her quick-as-lightning temper. And sometimes the lies are to spite Evie, who longs to leave her unhappy marriage in Perry County, Alabama, and return to her beloved New Hampshire. But for Dixie and her brother, Alabama is home, a place of pine-scented breezes and hot, languid afternoons. Though Dixie is learning that the family she once believed was happy has deep fractures, even her vivid imagination couldn’t concoct the events about to unfold. Dixie records everything in her diary—her parents’ fights, her father’s drinking and his unexplained departure, and the arrival of Uncle Ray. Only when Dixie desperately needs help and is met with disbelief does she realize how much damage her past lies have done. But she has courage and a spirit that may yet prevail, forcing secrets into the open and allowing her to forgive and become whole again.

Three Times Lucky

Three Times Lucky
Author: Sheila Turnage
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 297
Release: 2012-05-10
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 110157559X

Newbery honor winner, New York Times bestseller, Edgar Award Finalist, and E.B. White Read-Aloud Honor book. A hilarious Southern debut with the kind of characters you meet once in a lifetime Rising sixth grader Miss Moses LoBeau lives in the small town of Tupelo Landing, NC, where everyone's business is fair game and no secret is sacred. She washed ashore in a hurricane eleven years ago, and she's been making waves ever since. Although Mo hopes someday to find her "upstream mother," she's found a home with the Colonel--a café owner with a forgotten past of his own--and Miss Lana, the fabulous café hostess. She will protect those she loves with every bit of her strong will and tough attitude. So when a lawman comes to town asking about a murder, Mo and her best friend, Dale Earnhardt Johnson III, set out to uncover the truth in hopes of saving the only family Mo has ever known. Full of wisdom, humor, and grit, this timeless yarn will melt the heart of even the sternest Yankee.

Dixie and the Good Deeds

Dixie and the Good Deeds
Author: Grace Gilman
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 35
Release: 2013-06-04
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 006208660X

Beginning readers devoted to such characters as Henry and Mudge, Clifford, and Marley will adore this Dixie adventure, Dixie and the Good Deeds. Dixie the puppy faces many of the problems elementary school kids do. She wants to be good, but she makes mistakes. She worries about whether she’ll be able to make new friends. She doesn’t understand why bullies can’t just be nice. She wishes she could spend all her time with her BFF, Emma, and feels left out when she can’t. In Dixie and the Good Deeds, Emma takes on more volunteering projects in her community than she can handle. It’s up to Dixie to come to the rescue. Full-color illustrations by Sarah McConnell add to the humor in this story by Grace Gilman.

Dixie and the Class Treat

Dixie and the Class Treat
Author: Grace Gilman
Publisher:
Total Pages: 32
Release: 2012
Genre: Cookies
ISBN: 9780545697026

When Emma accidentally makes bad cookies for class, it is up her to her dog Dixie to keep them from being eaten.

Waking Up in Dixie

Waking Up in Dixie
Author: Haywood Smith
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
Total Pages: 385
Release: 2010-09-14
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1429941936

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Red Hat Club comes a hilarious story of marriage and love and second chances When Elizabeth Mooney escaped the shame of her "white trash" family to marry the crown prince of her small town, Howell Whittington, she never dreamed that thirty years later, she'd end up trapped in a loveless marriage to the cruel banker who's foreclosing on all her friends. Then Howe has a stroke sitting up in church, and when he wakes up, he's at the mercy of all his appetites and emotions. Transformed, Howe wants to be a real husband, which scares proper, repressed Elizabeth to death, and setting out to right past wrongs, he blackmails the town's baddies into doing the right thing by threatening to foreclose on their mortgages. The ensuing hilarious rollercoaster ride wakes up not only Elizabeth and their marriage, but the whole town and its hidebound institutions.

Becoming Kate

Becoming Kate
Author: Dixie Owens
Publisher: Cedar Fort
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2010
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781599554020

Liz had no idea that today would be the last day of her life. It felt like any other Saturday. She wore the same jeans she wore every weekend, wore the same color lipstick, and sat in the same Honda she'd been driving for six years.At twenty-nine, Liz Lindsay is in her prime, juggling her duties as a wife and a mother to two lively children. But when her car is struck head-on by a semi, her family has every right to believe Liz is gone forever. What they don't know is that only a few miles away, Liz has just woken up in the body of an eleven-year-old girl, Kate - the survivor of the world's first-ever brain transplant. Horrified by the reality of her new life, Liz struggles with the secret of her memories and her enduring love for the family she left behind.This stunning debut novel from Dixie Wilks-Owens is filled with equal parts heartache and hope; tragedy and redemption. Guaranteed to keep you engrossed and guessing until the very last page, Becoming Kate is an enthralling exploration of identity, family, and what it really means to be alive.