Kathleen V. Kudlinski
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA)
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"Examines what is known about weather--storms, predictions, climate, and other characteristics--and how different the facts are from what scientists, from ancient Sumerians to the recent past, believed to be true."--
Author
Publisher
Aladdin Paperbacks
Pub. Date
1997
Language
English
Description
A recent immigrant from Ireland to San Francisco in 1880, Shannon is ready to start school and is dismayed that her Chinese friend is forbidden by law to attend and that many of her classmates are prejudiced against the Irish as well.
Author
Series
Girlhood Journeys volume Marie, 1
Publisher
Aladdin Books
Pub. Date
c1996
Language
English
Description
Summary: Ten-year-old Marie dreams of becoming a ballerina, but without a wealthy sponsor, she faces a more mundane future dictated by her family's position in pre-Revolutionary Parisian society.
Author
Series
Girlhood journeys volume Shannon, 1
Publisher
Aladdin Paperbacks
Pub. Date
1996
Language
English
Description
Newly arrived in Victorian San Francisco from Ireland, Shannon plans the daring rescue of a young Chinese slave.
13) Venus flytraps
Author
Publisher
Lerner Publications Co
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English
Description
Describes the physical characteristics of these carnivorous plants, where they live, and how they trap and digest their insect prey.
Author
Publisher
Marshall Cavendish
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
Nuttagwon, daughter of a minor Pamunkey chief, is still a girl when Pocahontas's vision of peace between their people and the newly-arrived English colonists bonds the two in a lifelong friendship as they work together to make the vision a reality.
Series
Girlhood journeys volume Shannon, 2
Pub. Date
c1997
Language
English
Description
When Shannon and her friends conduct a book drive in their San Francisco neighborhood in 1880 to benefit the new library, they must solve a mystery fast.