Twelve-year-old Maggie, pale and unwanted, is the unwilling ward of two eccentric great-aunts, who live in an old house filled with creepy noises. While trying to find the source of these disturbing sounds, Maggie discovers a secret room in the attic occupied by a family of dolls who become her "family."
Lucie Babbidge is an orphan living in a boarding school where she is an outcast, nicknamed Lucie-Goosey by her classmates. To escape from the verbal abuse of her peers, she creates her own world through an abandoned dollhouse and finally discovers her own inner strengths.
A collection of 26 poems about things that move. Presented in alphabetical order, this collection highlights such things as an ark, an ocean liner, a vacuum cleaner, and a zeppelin. B&w illustrations accompany the verses.
Stuck at his new home with a cold on Halloween, Matthew's misery deepens as each trick or treater rings the doorbell. But a very unusual Halloween visitor will make everything right again in Matthew's world. 32 full-color illustrations.
Lucie Babbidge is an orphan living in a boarding school where she is an outcast, nicknamed Lucie-Goosey by her classmates. To escape from the verbal abuse of her peers, she creates her own world through an abandoned dollhouse and finally discovers her own inner strengths.
Eleven-year-old Mary Ella, ashamed that her older brother Morton is a slow learner and longing for a friend of her own, is astonished when the flamboyant new girl on the block picks Morton for a friend.
A collection of haiku, a traditional seventeen-syllable form of Japanese verse. Includes original Japanese calligraphy, the transliterated versions, the English translations, and brush and line illustrations.
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