Barry Moser
Author
Language
English
Description
Brothers Barry and Tommy Moser were born of the same parents in Chattanooga, Tennessee, slept in the same bedroom, went to the same school, and were both poisoned by their family's deep racism and anti-Semitism. But as they grew older, their perspectives and their paths grew further and further apart. Barry left Chattanooga for New England and a life in the arts; Tommy stayed put and became a mortgage banker.
From attitudes about race to food, politics,...
Author
Language
English
Description
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author takes a classic fairy tale and turns it into a novel set along the eighteenth-century frontier of the Natchez Trace. In the clammy forests of Louisiana, somewhere between New Orleans and the muddy Mississippi River, the berry-stained bandit of the woods, Jamie Lockhart, saves the life of a gullible planter. In reward, Jamie is given shelter-only to kidnap the planter's lovely young daughter, Rosamund. It's an impulsive...
8) That summer
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
A family, including a child who is dying, sews together a quilt of its memories and love.
11) Sit, Truman
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Description
A busy day in the life of Truman the dog includes walks, play time, and a little dog named Oscar.
13) Cat talk
Author
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Description
A collection to show that cats have much to say.
14) When birds could talk & bats could sing: the adventures of Bruh Sparrow, Sis Wren, and their friends
Author
Publisher
Blue Sky Press
Pub. Date
1996
Language
English
Description
A collection of stories, featuring sparrows, jays, buzzards, and bats, based on those African American tales originally written down by Martha Young on her father's plantation in Alabama after the Civil War.
15) Whistling Dixie
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c1995
Language
English
Description
Dixie Lee brings home an alligator, a snake, and an owl as pets to protect her family from such spooky creatures as the churn-turners, the bogeyman, and the mist-sisters.
17) My dog Rosie
Author
Publisher
Blue Sky Press
Pub. Date
c1994
Language
English
Description
While her grandfather works in his studio, a young girl takes care of the family dog.
19) Earthquack!
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
When Chucky Ducky feels the earth beneath him grumble and rumble, he runs to alert the other barnyard animals to the coming earthquake, but just as a wily weasel is about to take advantage of their fears, the true source of the rumbling is revealed.