Laurie Friedman

Simon Lester Henry Strauss is not in the least afraid of any haunted house, but there is something else that terrifies him.

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Christine Turner, Children's Assistant from Atascocita

Roz Rosenbluth

When David invites popular kid Ruben Plotnick home, he worries how Ruben will react to his eccentric grandmother. A story of senility and overcoming school-age embarassment.

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Christine Turner, Children's Assistant from Atascocita

Dianna Hutts Aston

On her family's farm in the town of Star, eight-year-old Mae eagerly follows the progress of the 1969 Apollo 11 flight and moon landing and dreams that she might one day be an astronaut, too.

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Christine Turner, Children's Assistant from Atascocita

Maribeth Boelts

Jeremy, who longs to have the black high tops that everyone at school seems to have but his grandmother cannot afford, is excited when he sees them for sale in a thrift shop and decides to buy them even though they are the wrong size.

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Christine Turner, Children's Assistant from Atascocita

Jean Richards

Because of his curiosity about what the crocodile has for dinner, a little elephant and all elephants thereafter have long trunks.

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Christine Turner, Children's Assistant from Atascocita

Jane Clarke

Gilbert the shark and his playmate go to far and wander into the dangerous depths of the sea.

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Christine Turner, Children's Assistant from Atascocita

Roald Dahl

An illustrated collection of children's songs, fairy tales, and poems.

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Christine Turner, Children's Assistant from Atascocita

Russell Freedman

Photographs and text trace the life of the Civil War President.

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Christine Turner, Children's Assistant from Atascocita

Joe Fenton.

When Fred lays down his head, he imagines there's something monstrous under his bed.

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Christine Turner, Children's Assistant from Atascocita

Jackie French Koller

One hot summer day, four bored children start a watermelon seed-spitting battle that soon spreads throughout their town.

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Christine Turner, Children's Assistant from Atascocita