Liz Garton Scanlon
4) Lolo's light
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
"Once in your life, sometime after your first memory but before you can drive a car, something is going to happen to you that doesn't happen to anyone else you know. It might be something good. It might be something bad, or special, or funny, or shocking. For Millie, it's something really sad. Lolo, her neighbors' infant daughter, dies -- unexpectedly, suddenly, inexplicably -- on the night Millie babysits. There's nothing she could have done. There's...
Author
Series
Bibsy Cross volume 1
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2024]
Description
Precocious eight-year-old Bibsy navigates a relationship with a teacher who thinks she talks too much.
Author
Publisher
Beach Lane Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
"Can you imagine what it’s like to be a rock, a nest, a bird, or even a bubbling creek? A group of curious children is headed outside to find out… Would you come, too? Join in on an outdoor adventure to discover the magic and mystery of the living, breathing natural world all around us."--Amazon.com.
10) One dark bird
Author
Publisher
Beach Lane Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
A single starling is joined by hundreds more, and together they dance across the sky, finally settling into the trees.
12) Dear substitute
Author
Publisher
Disney-Hyperion
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
In a series of letters a student laments the absence of her teacher and daily routine, but she soon realizes there are benefits to mixing things up, and that perhaps having a substitue teacher is not so bad after all.
Author
Publisher
Schwartz & Wade Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
A young girl finds a way to tame the winds besieging an old man who lives on a hill above her village.
A wild wind blows on the tippy-top of a steep hill, turning everything upside down for the man who lives there. Luckily, Kate comes up with a plan to tame the wind. With an old wheelbarrow full of young trees, she journeys up the steep hill to add a little green to the man's life, and to protect the house from the howling wind.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
Spring rains change Water from a tumbling creek to a roaring river and bring Tree nutrients it needs to stretch toward the sky. As Sun's rays intensify, the sprouts and fruits and insects of the forest grow and bloom and develop, all working together in harmony. Even Fire, whose work causes Tree to ache from the inside, brings opportunity for the next generation of flora and fauna. Paired with the vivid, organic imagery of Dominique Ramsey, Liz Garton...
15) I want a boat!
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
A girl uses her imagination to turn an ordinary box into a sailboat.
Author
Series
Bibsy Cross volume 2
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2024]
Description
When precocious eight-year-old Bisby's library hosts a bike-a-thon to raise money to buy books, she is determined to win the fundraiser.
18) Noodle & Lou
Author
Publisher
Beach Lane Books
Pub. Date
c2011
Description
Noodle, a worm, is sad and feeling bad about himself, but his friend Lou, a bird, convinces him that he is likeable just as he is.