Pam Conrad
10) This mess
Author
Publisher
Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
While Daddy makes spaghetti sauce in the kitchen, Elizabeth, Sophia, and Salvatore clean up the mess in the living room and give it a fantastic appearance.
11) Staying nine
Author
Publisher
Harper & Row
Pub. Date
[1988]
Language
English
Description
Nine-year-old Heather doesn't want to turn ten until wacky RosaRita shows her that growing up isn't so bad.
13) Animal lingo
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[1995]
Language
English
Description
Provides the words different languages use for a variety of animal sounds.
15) My Daniel
Author
Publisher
Harper & Row
Pub. Date
1989.
Language
English
Description
Ellie and Stevie learn about a family legacy when their grandmother tells them stories of her brother's historical quest for dinosaur bones on their Nebraska farm.
16) Prairie songs
Author
Publisher
Harper & Row
Pub. Date
[1985]
Language
English
Description
Louisa's life in a loving pioneer family on the Nebraska prairie is altered by the arrival of a new doctor and his beautiful, tragically frail wife.
17) Blue willow
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
Kung Shi Fair's wealthy father gives her everything she asks of him; but when she requests permission to marry, he learns too late the value of listening.
18) Our house
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Six stories, one from each decade from the 1940s to the 1990s, about children growing up in Levittown, New York.
19) Zoe rising
Author
Publisher
Laura Geringer Book
Pub. Date
[1996]
Language
English
Description
Zoe, traveling back to the time when her mother was a child, intervenes in the past in order to save the future.