Wanda's Roses

Wanda's Roses
Author: Pat Brisson
Publisher: Astra Publishing House
Total Pages: 34
Release: 2020-09-08
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1635924391

This book about a child's simple faith is one that children will long remember--and adults will love to share. When Wanda discovers a thornbush growing in the empty lot at the corner of Fillmore and Hudson, she's quite sure it's a rosebush all ready to bloom. So she clears away the trash, checks on it every day, and brings water from the butcher shop across the street. But no roses appear. Wanda's neighbors and friends are all doubtful, but when she invites them to a tea party in her "rose garden" one day in June, they're in for a big surprise.

Jamaica Louise James

Jamaica Louise James
Author: Amy Hest
Publisher: Candlewick Press
Total Pages: 36
Release: 1997-09
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9780763602840

On her eighth birthday Jamaica receives paints which she uses to surprise her grandmother and to brighten the subway station where Grammy works.

Tap-dance Fever

Tap-dance Fever
Author: Pat Brisson
Publisher: Boyds Mills Press
Total Pages: 40
Release: 2005
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9781590782903

Annabelle Applegate will not stop tap-dancing no matter what the frustrated citizens of Fiddlers Creek do to make her quit.

Our Shadow Garden

Our Shadow Garden
Author: Cherie Foster Colburn
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2010
Genre: Children's art
ISBN: 9781933979694

A grandchild surprises a beloved grandmother with a night-blooming garden where she can work while she is ill. Includes facts and resources related to gardening.

Rose's Story

Rose's Story
Author: Wanda Bibb
Publisher: Waveland Press
Total Pages: 107
Release: 2010-01-26
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1478608021

Over the years, thousands of readers have immersed themselves in the world of Rose, an abandoned and abused child who stubbornly and defiantly became a caring and loving mother. In her honest and straightforward style, and in appreciation of those who have taken such an interest in her life, Rose continues her original storyrevealing events from the next two decades. Along with the discovery of some of the missing pieces of her childhood, Rose describes the frustration, hard work, and unexpected benefits found among the challenges of the social welfare system. This unique individual has made many of her readers reconsider their views of those in need, especially those we may consider undeserving of our help. In doing so, Roses Story proves to be a case that redefines what it means to help someone.

Bus Route to Boston

Bus Route to Boston
Author: Maryann Cocca-Leffler
Publisher: Astra Publishing House
Total Pages: 34
Release: 2009-08-01
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1590787471

The everyday sights, sounds and smells of a colorful and bustling city come alive in this book - a child's view of Boston. Maryann Cocca-Leffler remembers frequent bus trips she took into the city as a girl with her mother and little sister. Together they shopped for delicious treats in the Italian North End - warm pizza and creamy cannoli - or stopped for ice cream sundaes at Bailey's after a day of bargain hunting at Filene's Basement. One of the best things about the trips was the bus driver, Bill. He started his route each day in their neighborhood and knew all the kids on the street. In this engaging Parents' Choice Award book, the author-artist conveys all the warmth and simple pleasure of childhood memories and the people and places that made them so special.

Wind Flyers

Wind Flyers
Author: Angela Johnson
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 36
Release: 2013-10-29
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1481409883

Three-time Coretta Scott King Award–winning author Angela Johnson and New York Times bestselling illustrator Loren Long introduce readers to a band of under-celebrated World War II heroes—the Tuskegee Airmen. All he ever wanted to do was fly. With fleeting prose and transcendent imagery, this book reveals how a boy’s love of flight takes him on a journey from the dusty dirt roads of Alabama to the war-torn skies of Europe and into the hearts of those who are only now beginning to understand the part these brave souls played in the history of America.

Carl the Complainer

Carl the Complainer
Author: Michelle Knudsen
Publisher: Astra Publishing House
Total Pages: 36
Release: 2021-07-13
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1635926327

The popular Social Studies Connects series links history, geography, civics and economics to kids’ daily lives. Featuring stories with diverse characters who face situations young readers can relate to, these books support reading and social studies skills including researching, inferring, comparing, and communication. An activity to stimulate curiosity about the world is included in each book! Carl complains about everything -- until he discovers how to turn complaints into action! (Social Studies Topic: Civics/Petitions)

The Well of Loneliness

The Well of Loneliness
Author: Radclyffe Hall
Publisher: Read Books Ltd
Total Pages: 464
Release: 2015-04-24
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1473374081

This early work by Radclyffe Hall was originally published in 1928 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'The Well of Loneliness' is a novel that follows an upper-class Englishwoman who falls in love with another woman while serving as an ambulance driver in World War I. Marguerite Radclyffe Hall was born on 12th August 1880, in Bournemouth, England. Hall's first novel The Unlit Lamp (1924) was a lengthy and grim tale that proved hard to sell. It was only published following the success of the much lighter social comedy The Forge (1924), which made the best-seller list of John O'London's Weekly. Hall is a key figure in lesbian literature for her novel The Well of Loneliness (1928). This is her only work with overt lesbian themes and tells the story of the life of a masculine lesbian named Stephen Gordon.