Pam Conrad
3) Blue willow
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
c1999
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.
8) Animal lingo
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c1995
Language
English
Description
Provides the words different languages use for a variety of animal sounds.
12) This mess
Author
Publisher
Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
c1998
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.
13) Prairie songs
Author
Publisher
Harper & Row
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.
14) Staying nine
Author
Publisher
Harper & Row
Pub. Date
c1988
Language
English
Description
Nine-year-old Heather doesn't want to turn ten until wacky Rosa Rita shows her that growing up isn't so bad.
16) Our house
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2005, c1995
Language
English
Description
Six stories, one from each decade from the 1940s to the 1990s, about children growing up in Levittown, New York.
17) My Daniel
Author
Publisher
Harper & Row
Pub. Date
c1989
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.