The Blossom spirit endures as the family confronts the frailty of human life in Newbery Award-winning author Betsy Byars's fourth Blossom Family book.  It's a time of ups and downs for the Blossoms. Maggie is thrilled to be the youngest member of the rodeo circuit...until she witnesses Mom kissing a handsome bull rider. Back at home, the family has weathered the worst flood in the state's history. Now Vern and his friend Michael can't wait to test their homemade raft down at Snake Creek, but they don't count on the creek's raging current. Hearing their screams, Pap lassos his old rodeo rope and runs to the rescue when suddenly a heart attack strikes. As Pap clings to life, the Blossoms must rely on the strength of their family and pull together as never before.

a blossom promise

Children's Books

BYARS, BETSY

Literature & Fiction

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the story of harriet tubman, conductor of the underground railroad

McMullan, Kate

The adventures and mishaps that befall Artie Granick, a 13-year-old Brooklyn boy, when he moves to Florida. As he seeks companionship and excitement in his new home town, he learns to value his own abilities and succeeds in finding true friendship.

Irving and Me

HOFF, SYD

Beverly Cleary has given books to each member of the Quimby household except Mrs. Quimby. Now she gets her turn at last in a story that hits the high and low points of a working mother's life as seen from Ramona's seven-and-a-half-year-old viewpoint. 
Inevitably domestic tensions, not without their amusing side, occasionally arise. Mr. and Mrs. Quimby sometimes forget who is to do what, as when the Crock-Pot is not plugged in and dinner remains uncooked. Beezus acquires a ludicrous teased hairdo at the student body shop while Ramona gets a becoming pixie haircut. Ramona, who feels unloved, takes to twitching her nose like a rabbit in a cozy picture book until her teacher becomes concerned that something is making her nervous. 
Yet Ramona is wrong. She is loved, and readers will rejoice with her when she discovers the wonderful truth. Few writers today are as skilled as Mrs. Cleary at showing families in the round, and here she is at the peak of her powers.

Ramona and Her Mother

Cleary; Beverly

the cookcamp

PAULSEN, Gary

For ages 9 to 12, RL 5.6 It is the spring of 1877 when fourteen-year-old Sound of Running Feet, daughter of Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce, sees white people panning gold in the little creek that feeds the Wallowa River, and brings word of them to her father. "They are the first, but more are on the way," he says. "We are few and they are many. They will devour us." It is Sound of Running Feet who narrates the story of her tribe's fate. Readers will be gripped as she shares with us her respect for her father, her love for handsome Swan Necklace, and her destiny.

Thunder Rolling in the Mountains

Scott O'Dell

Elizabeth Hall

the year of impossible goodbyes

Choi, Sook Nyui

dear mr. henshaw

In tribute to the brave veterans of the Korean War, to those who gave their lives in battle, and to all the unsung heroes and heroines who endured those sad and difficult years.

echoes of the white giraffe

Choi, Sook Nyul

Newberry Honor Book in children's literature.

The Headless Cupid

Snyder, Zilpha Keatley

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