On a snowy Christmas eve in the late 1800s, Frances and her family wait and worry when beloved Uncle Ambrose, who has a crippled leg, does not come home as expected.
"Weller's poetic text, intensified by Blake's dramatic paintings, memorializes a beloved dog renowned along the Cape Cod shore".--Booklist, starred review. "The oil paintings are majestic in their sweeping, panoramic views of the ocean and beaches and countryside on Cape Cod. A riproaring good adventure story".--School Library Journal, starred ...
Farmer Matthew Wheelock clears his pasture for planting and uses the stones he digs up to build a wall around his property. Throughout the years the wall protects his farm and is home to such wild creatures as chipmunks and snakes. One hundred years later Matthew Wheelock's wall still stands--a monument to both his craftsmanship and a bygone era. ...
After the Coasties close the Madaket Station on Nantucket Island, Millie appoints herself warden, rescue squad, and sentry providing lifesaving services along the coast.
Ria hates New York. She misses her friends, and the warm Puerto Rican sun; most of all she misses the animals she left behind. Then, one day, Ria's neighbor Mrs. Blum takes her on a surprise trip: to a big cathedral-it's the festival of St. Francis Day, when everyone brings their pets to be blessed! At first, Ria is disappointed. She doesn't have ...
Troubled because he cannot communicate better with his father, eleven-year-old Jonno finds unexpected help from a colorful Scottish bagpiper he meets while visiting Cape Cod.
How do you become a legend on Nantucket? If you're Millie Jewett, you patrol beaches, battle a shark, lead evacuations, and pluck vacationers from the sea that wants to swallow them. "It's refreshing to find a true story of a woman with brawn as well as brains . . ."--"The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books." Full-color illustrations.
Ted Lewin interprets this first person narrative describing a sea journey during which the narrator hopes above everything else that she will see a whale. Despite many foggy morning trips she has yet to see a humpback whale. This morning, would she see one?
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