Shirley Hughes
Author
Language
English
Description
Liverpool, 1940: Thirteen-year-old Joan's home is under constant threat from the Nazis' terrifying nightly air raids. Everyone is on edge, faced with strict food rationing, curfews, and blackouts. It's not an easy time to be a teenager. Joan's one solace is going to the movies with her best friend, the unflappable Doreen, but when the bombings intensify, even that becomes too dangerous. There's also the matter of a strange man who Joan sees lurking...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
"It starts out as a regular trip to the store with Mom, but then Lily does a dreadful thing: she flings her beloved stuffed toy, Bobbo, high in the air, only to have him land on top of a school bus just as it's pulling away! Lily is inconsolable. What if she never sees Bobbo again? Little does she know (though the reader can see) that Bobbo is having an exciting adventure at school--and will be well cared for until he finds his way back to Lily."--Publisher's...
Author
Series
Digby O'Day volume 2
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
When Digby O'Day and Percy vacation at a seaside resort, they get involved in a diamond heist and must track down the culprits in time to solve the mystery.
12) Out and about
Author
Series
Publisher
Lothrop Lee & Shepard Books
Pub. Date
1988
Language
English
Description
Rhyming text depicts the pleasures of the outdoors in all kinds of weather, through the four seasons.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Working in a big house owned by two refined ladies to support her mother and brothers, a young scullery maid in early-twentieth-century England borrows books and dreams of a better life before saving her employers from a kitchen fire.
17) Noisy
Author
Publisher
Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Books
Pub. Date
1985
Language
English
Description
A little girl describes the many noises that can be heard inside and outside her house.
Author
Series
Digby O'Day volume 3
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Digby O'Day and his best friend, Percy, are headed to the air show to see gliders, helicopters, and hot-air balloons. Ariel, the new pet parrot of insufferable neighbor Lou Ella, sneaks out to tag along. But when the friends get to the air show, they notice that Lou Ella has followed them. They hide, but unfortunately, they're crouched in the basket of a hot-air balloon, and one big gust of wind sets the balloon flying. Between Digby's fear of heights...
20) Bathwater's hot
Author
Publisher
Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Books
Pub. Date
1985
Language
English
Description
A little girl discovers that all things have an opposite.