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81) My red balloon
Author
Pub. Date
2005.
Physical Desc
31 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm
Language
English
Description
A young boy waits with both excitement and apprehension for his father to disembark from the aircraft carrier returning to port after many months at sea.
83) December
Author
Pub. Date
[1997]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 28 cm
Language
English
Description
A homeless family's luck changes after they help an old woman who has even less than they do at Christmas.
Author
Pub. Date
1995.
Physical Desc
179 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
At Alveara boarding school in Belfast at the start of World War II, thirteen-year-old Jessie must deal with her suspicions about a teacher whose father was German and with her worries about her own father's drinking problem.
86) Reggie
Author
Pub. Date
2006.
Physical Desc
105 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Eight-year old Alex is determined to keep the toy mouse he finds tied to a balloon, even after posters appear asking for its return, but when his dog Patch disappears, Alex discovers what it is like to lose something you love more than anything.
87) Some frog!
Author
Pub. Date
[1998]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Billy is disappointed when his father doesn't show up to help him catch a frog for the frog-jumping competition at school, but the one he and his mother catch wins the championship and Billy begins to accept his father's absence.
89) My mom's wedding
Author
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
32 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
Seven-year-old Pinkie has mixed feelings about her divorced mother's wedding especially when she learns that her beloved father will be an attending guest.
90) Baby can
Author
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
32 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 23 x 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Every time his family gets excited over something Baby James can do, big brother Brendan demonstrates that he can do even better, from burping to rolling over to walking.
93) Blackwater
Author
Pub. Date
[2000]
Physical Desc
1 sound media player (3 hr.) : digital ; 3 3/8 x 2 1/8 in. + 1 set of earphones + 1 AAA battery.
Language
English
Description
When a boy and girl are drowned in the Blackwater River, thirteen-year-old Brodie must decide whether to confess that he may have caused the accident.
94) My robot
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2006.
Physical Desc
24 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Cecil the robot is good at playing tag, leading the school band, and performing tricks with the dog, but there is one important thing he does best of all.
95) Sharing Susan
Author
Pub. Date
1991.
Physical Desc
122 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Susan is shocked to find that she was switched with another baby in the hospital and that the parents who have raised her may have to give her up to her true biological parents.
96) Cheyenne again
Author
Pub. Date
[1995]
Physical Desc
32 pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
In the late 1880's, a Cheyenne boy named Young Bull is taken to a boarding school to learn the white man's ways.
Author
Pub. Date
2004.
Physical Desc
32 unnumbered pages : illustrations (some color) ; 21 x 26 cm
Language
English
Description
Annie Moore care for her two younger brothers on board the ship sailing from Ireland to America where she becomes the first immigrant processed through Ellis Island, January 1, 1892, her fifteenth birthday.
99) A day's work
Author
Pub. Date
[1994]
Physical Desc
32 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
When Francisco, a young Mexican American boy, tries to help his grandfather find work, he discovers that even though the old man cannot speak English, he has something even more valuable to teach Francisco.
100) SOS Titanic
Author
Pub. Date
1996.
Physical Desc
246 pages ; 18 cm
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Barry O'Neill, traveling from Ireland to America on the maiden voyage of the Titanic, finds his life endangered when the ship hits an iceberg and begins to sink.
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