When their wishes fail, three children learn that they must deserve by effort what they had wanted to get too easily.
Juvenile fiction
- Author:Singer, Isaac BashevisSummary:
- Author:Best, LauraSummary:
Witches are hated in Württemberg, Germany, in the eighteenth century. It’s not so long since they were burned, and any woman who knows too much, who’s too clever or quick or skilled at healing, is suspect. Young Lilli knows this, and...
- Author:Condon, BillSummary:
- Author:Uhlberg, MyronSummary:
When flood waters submerge their New Orleans neighborhood in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, a young cornet player and his parents evacuate their home and struggle to survive and stay together.
- Author:Smith, MavisSummary:
After Farmer Henry uses light bulbs as fake eggs to fool his hens into laying more eggs, Jake the Snake makes a big mistake. Includes related activities involving amazing facts about snakes and other animals.
- Author:McClintock, NorahSummary:
"In the midst of the Irish famine, Johanna flees one disaster - only to land in another. After a massive potato famine strikes Ireland, thirteen-year-old Johanna Leary flees to Canada with her family. But typhus and other illnesses...
- Author:Seidler, TorrSummary:
- Author:Munsch, Robert N., Michael KusugakSummary:
When Allashua disobeys her parents and goes fishing on the sea ice, she has to use her wits to escape and to further trick the Qallupilluit when she promises to bring her brothers and sisters back to them.
- Author:Reynolds, MarilynnSummary:
Frank likes everyone in the Grant Street rooming house where he lives with his mother, but old Mrs. Kazinski up in the attic is his special friend. She will be eighty years old on Sunday. Frank needs to find her the best birthday...
- Author:Clements, AndrewSummary:
A young girl overcomes her shyness and reads a poem to an audience.
- Author:Balducci, RitaSummary:
Piglet is disappointed in himself because he is so small until his friends point out all the beautiful things in the world that are small, too. UEB Braille Grade 2 8 Braille pages .dxb and .brf files for each volume.
- Author:Ziefert, HarrietSummary:
Even though there is no money, Anna's mother finds a way to make Anna a badly needed winter coat. UEB Braille Grade 2 8 Braille .dxb and .brf files Simbraille PDF file.
- Author:Depaola, TomieSummary:
The Barkers are going to adopt a child, and twins Morgie and Moffie couldn't be more excited. They can't wait to tell him all about dinosaurs, teach him to play baseball and show him how to have tea parties. But their new brother,...
- Author:Mass, WendySummary:
Eighth-grader Mia has been keeping a secret---even from her best friend, Jenna--ever since third grade, when she realized that not everyone sees a color for each name, number, and sound. Problems at school and her cat's death lead...
- Author:Karine PerronSummary:
Après une année scolaire cauchemardesque, Florence reçoit de la vie une deuxième chance : elle peut recommencer du début, comme par magie. Dans la suite palpitante de ses aventures souvent surnaturelles, la jeune adolescente découvrira...
- Author:Budd, Robert, Vickers, Roy HenrySummary:
With crisp, luminous illustrations by celebrated Indigenous artist Roy Henry Vickers, and a simple rythmic text, this sturdy board book introduces the alphabet using iconic imagery of the West Coast, creating a book that will be...
- Author:Luenn, NancySummary:
Each story reflects the impact of historical events on the day-to-day lives of children. Stories are linked by the travels of a wooden toy horse who is passed from child to child. Grades 3-6.
- Author:Crew, LindaSummary:
Both young adults and adults will find appeal in this Oregon Trail novel. Lovisa and the rest of the extended King family join a wagon train in 1845. There's plenty of hardship and even death, but the family still has time to...
- Author:Lord, CynthiaSummary:
Set during a harvesting season among the blueberry barrens of coastal Maine, a small-town veteran, Lily, and Salma, a Hispanic migrant worker forge an unexpected friendship which leaves them both forever changed.
- Author:Patricia Reilly GiffSummary:
Rosie plans to surprise her grandfather on his birthday by getting her dance class to perform "Cinderella," his favorite ballet. UEB Braille Grade 2 56 Braille pages .dxb and .brf files for each volume.