Eliza Wheeler

During the Great Depression six-year-old Marvel, her seven siblings, and their mother find a tarpaper shack in the woods and, over the course of a year, turn it into a home. Based on the author's grandmother's childhood; includes historical notes.

Told in rhyming text, a gang of neighborhood children make a determined effort to seize some of the pomegranate fruits from the magnificent tree by the scary, run-down farmhouse--but the tree is guarded by a scary "witch", except on Halloween, when her "sister" welcomes trick-or-treaters.

"A baby elephant's birth is celebrated by its loving herd"--

Unhappy Penelope Lumley is trapped in unhappy Plinkst! Even the beets for which Plinkst is inexplicably famous fail to grow in this utterly miserable Russian village. Penelope anxiously counts the days and wonders how she will ever get back to England in time to save all the Ashtons--who, she now knows, include herself and the Incorrigible children, although their precise location on the family tree is still a mystery--from their accursèd fate. Her...

"A quest story to find the three pieces of a magical engine which can either win the War of 1812...or stop it altogether"--

"A captivating picture book biography of a boy who imagined a world full of dragons and grew up to be beloved author J. R. R. Tolkien. John Ronald loved dragons. He liked to imagine dragons when he was alone, and with his friends, and especially when life got hard or sad. After his mother died and he had to live with a cold-hearted aunt, he looked for dragons. He searched for them at his boarding school. And when he fought in a Great War, he felt...

"In Codys life, some people keep her on her toesjust like Mother Nature, who is warm one day and snowy the next. Or like Codys brother, Wyatt, who has started wearing collared shirts because his girlfriend likes them. Meanwhile, Pearl has begun playing soccer and its all she can talk about. Spencer is busy creating a mysterious museum underneath GGs house and he's never around to play. And Spencers mom doesnt look any different...Could she really...

Relates how to find your courage and use it when life seems frightening or you start something new.

"No one in the town of Bonnyripple ever kept a grudge, except old Cornelius, the Grudge Keeper. When Cornelius is nearly buried under all of the grudges, the townspeople must put their differences aside to save him"--

In this powerful and poignant story of family, immigration and identity - and a love that crosses oceans and lifespans - a young Jewish girl fleeing Nazi occupation with her parents wonders where they’ll go and what she’ll be able to bring with her.