Elizabeth Winthrop
2) Shoes
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Formats
Description
A survey of the many kinds of shoes in the world concludes that the best of all are the perfect natural shoes that are your feet.
3) Dumpy La Rue
Author
Pub. Date
[2001]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Description
A rhyming story about a pig whose passion for dancing becomes contagious.
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Description
What do you when your world is turned upside down? If you're five young rats with music in your soul and dancing in your blood, you head for the Hollow, and the chance to dance at the Boom Boom Room. But not even wise old Uncle Switchtail can prepare Benny, Fletcher, Ella, Woody and Monk for the dangers they'll face on the way to their dream. The kids have talent, grit and determination. Will that be enough to survive unexpected treachery, and a trip...
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Description
On the eve of his execution, eighteen-year-old Willie Jones sits in his cell in New Iberia awaiting his end. Across the state, a truck driven by a convict and his keeper carries the executioner's chair closer. On a nearby highway, Willie's father Frank lugs a gravestone on the back of his fading, old mule. In his office the DA who prosecuted Willie reckons with his sentencing, while at their gas station at the crossroads outside of town, married couple...
Author
Description
A novel about a family fighting towards hope in the wake of a terrible tragedy.
Since the loss of her seventeen-year-old daughter less than a year ago, Joan Jacobs has struggled to keep her tight-knit family from coming apart. But Joan and Anders, her husband, are unable to snap back into the familiarity and warmth they so desperately need, both for themselves and for their surviving daughters, Eve and Eloise. The family flees to their summer home...
Author
Pub. Date
2018
Description
One of the finest writers of her generation (Brad Watson), and author of three previously acclaimed novels, Elizabeth H. Winthrop delivers a brave new book that will launch her distinguished career anew. An incisive, meticulously crafted portrait of race, racism, and injustice in the Jim Crow era South that is as intimate and tense as a stage drama, The Mercy SeatThe Mercy Seat is a brutally incisive and tender novel from one of our most acute literary...
10) Halloween Hats
Author
Pub. Date
[2002]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Description
A rhyming celebration of hats that help create costumes for the Halloween parade.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 8
Formats
Description
Twelve year-old Grace and her best friend, Arthur, must leave school to work as doffers in the mill. Grace meets Lewis Hine, a reformer with a camera, who finds his way into the mill so that he can take pictures of kids like Grace and Arthur next to the enormous spinning frames that beat out the rhythm of their twelve-hour days. Grace becomes his secret ally.
12) Dog show
Author
Pub. Date
[2004]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Description
When Harvey enters his dog, Fred, in the annual dog show Fred is none too pleased, but when the show is over, Fred does not want to leave.
Author
Pub. Date
2001.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 4
Description
Between 1933 and 1935, a young Italian American girl living in North Adams, Massachusetts, corresponds with President Franklin Roosevelt about the conditions in her town, Mr. Roosevelt's New Deal programs, and her own family's activities.
Author
Pub. Date
c1984
Description
While waiting out a fierce hurricane in her grandmother's house on Fox Island, Belinda has a chance to get to know her grandmother's reclusive neighbor Mr. Fletcher.
Card catalog description: While waiting out a fierce hurricane in her grandmother's house on Fox Island, Belinda has a chance to get to know her grandmother's reclusive neighbor Mr. Fletcher.
20) Sledding
Author
Pub. Date
1994, c1989
Description
Two young sledders bundle into their winter clothes and go down a snowy hill in a wild, whirling ride.