Inside these pages you'll find thirty heartwarming, funny and dramatic stories about life in the Midwest, ranging from the days after the Depression to the more recent past. Stories such as "Cyrano the Pig" and "The Great Snowman War of 1952" will have you laughing out loud, while "Stars in the Window" will bring back memories of widespread patriotism and rationing during WWII.

Walking Beans Wasn't Something You Did With Your Dog: Stories Of Growing Up In And Around Small Towns In The Midwest

Humor & Entertainment

Tennant, Jean

Humor

Shapato Publishing

Beauly is a newborn Belted Galloway. She copies her mother, but she also likes to explore her new world and try new things. And she has her own ideas! Sometimes she gets into trouble. And just like cats and dogs, farm animals have their own unique personalities.

Beauly the Donkey-Mooing Beltie

C. R. Lindemer

Teen & Young Adult

Course materials for Writers' Seminar & Workshop as presented by Jean Tennant, schedule available at: www.Midwestwriter.com

Jean Tennant's Writers' Seminar & Workshop: Course Materials

Reference

Words, Language & Grammar

Course materials for Writing Your Life Story Seminar & Workshop as presented by Jean Tennant, schedule available at: www.Midwestwriter.com

Jean Tennant's Writing Your Life Story: Seminar & Workshop Course Materials

Thirty-three heartwarming, funny and dramatic stories about life in the Midwest. The authors' ages range from twleve to eight-seven, yet their words share a universal theme of nostalgia and a love of storytelling. "Outhouse Oscar" tells of a lighthearted prank, "The Zipper" recalls a time of budding romance at the county fair, and "A Harvest of Stones" is a haibun, a unique combination of narrative and haiku. Whatever your reading mood, there's a story here for you.

Knee High by the Fourth of July: More Stories of Growing Up in and Around Small Towns in the Midwest

History

Historical Study & Educational Resources

Betty Taylor has put together a memorable assortment of poems and essays, a look at the days of two-seaters and rubbering on party lines, with humor offsetting the more serious pieces. A retired schoolteacher, she writes of former students, and casts a ruthless light on her own struggles. Readers will applaud the talents of an author who skillfully articulates life's ups and downs, the pages herein offering a glimpse of writing so masterfully done that they need only to sit back and enjoy the ride.

The Earth Abides

Literature & Fiction

Taylor, Betty

Essays & Correspondence

Graham Hintle is a boy who will do anything to avoid conflict. Until, that is, he's sent to stay with his aunt for the summer while his parents sort out their impending divorce. Graham's aunt is the resident caretaker of a museum at the park in Rocky Cove, Massachusetts, a town that has lived under the shadow of a deadly creature called Ahuizotl. The safety of the town rests on the unlikely shoulders of Graham and his new friends, Max and Tim, boys his age, and Stick and Clarence, two older gentlemen with their own mysterious past dealings with Ahuizotl. Graham, Max, and Tim-The Crepuscular Crusaders-must band together on a dangerous mission to recover a magical lighthouse lens from the very place where Ahuizotl dwells.

The Crepuscular Crusaders

Cummer, Jacob

Ella knows that her pretty pink shoes are magic. Whenever she wears them something that's lost becomes magically found! Ella is so proud of her shoes she plans to show them off to her classmates at show-and-tell. But just days before her big reveal, the shoes go missing! Will she find them in time for their big debut? And will she ever get them back?

Ella B. Bella and the Magic Pink Shoes

Leslie Means

In 1972, Felix Garrido, the Guam-born father of Teresa and Peggy Garrido, extracts from three-year-old Teresa a promise to always take care of her little sister. Teresa vows that she will, and their father walks out of their lives. His last words to Teresa were that he would come back for them. He never does. Always with thoughts of her father in the back of her mind, with the hope that someday he would come back into their lives, Teresa begins to feel an emotional pull to the island of Guam. She hears the island calling to her. She needs to explore her heritage and to find their father - not only for herself, but for her little sister, Peggy. What Teresa finds instead is that their father is dead, and in a quest to clear his name, she discovers that he'd led a secret, dangerous life after leaving his family, a life that made it impossible for him to return to them.

The Island Calls: A True-Life Novel about a Chamorro Daughter Finding Her Way Back Home

Teresa Garrido Roberts

Roger Stoner's column, "Roger's Remarks," was published for fifteen and one-half years in the Peterson Patriot, a small-town newspaper. The column broached subjects ranging from serious editorials to humorous observations, the most popular of which were inspired by the ordinary, day-to-day experiences of life as a married man.        Life with My Wife: The Memoir of an Imperfect Man, is a selection of fifty columns from the 846 that were published between July 1, 1989 and December 31, 2004. They appear here as they were written, before being edited for publication in a family newspaper.

Life With My Wife: The Memoir of an Imperfect Man

Stoner, Roger

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