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Tex and Indi: A Cat Named Cow

Highlights for Children (author)

Publisher: Highlights ISBN: 9781684374373

Pet cats! Cow gets stuck in a small space, Tex and Indi have to find away to free him. The whole family plays animal charades. Tex, Indi, and Mom go to the store to buy cat food for Cow. Tex and Indi explain why they named their cat Cow. Tex and Indi play with their kitten. Stories by Lissa Rovetch.

Lulu's Adventures

Highlights for Children (author)

Publisher: Highlights ISBN: 9781684374366

Fun with Lulu! Lulu acts like different animals, rides an imaginary train, plays dress-up, and saves the day with her flashlight. Stories by Eileen Spinelli and Highlights for Children.

Tex and Indi: Cow the Cat Stories

Highlights for Children (author)

Publisher: Highlights ISBN: 9781684374380

Taking care of Cow! Tex and Indi take good care their pet cat. They give him a bath, take him to the veterinarian's office, and even write him a poem. Stories by Lissa Rovetch.

Bert, Beth, and Grandpa: Playtime!

Highlights for Children (author)

Publisher: Highlights ISBN: 9781684374342

Playtime! Grandpa gets creative to make Bert and Beth play together. Grandpa reads a bedtime story. Bert and Beth make bath time fun with their imaginations. Bert and Beth play basketball with their friends. Stories by Valeri Gorbachev.

Bert, Beth, and Grandpa: Family Outings

Highlights for Children (author)

Publisher: Highlights ISBN: 9781684374328

Fresh air adventures! Bert Beth and Grandpa explore the forest, walk around a lake, watch the stars, and play at the beach. Stories by Valeri Gorbachev.

Bert, Beth, and Grandpa: Fun and Games

Highlights for Children (author)

Publisher: Highlights ISBN: 9781684374335

Playing with Grandpa! Beth takes Bert and Grandfather on a plane ride right in their backyard. Bert and Beth get ready for Halloween with Grandpa. Bert and Beth remember a fun day with Grandpa. Bert and Beth seek help from Grandpa when there's no wind to fly their kite. Grandpa and Bert try to make Beth feel better when she is sick. Stories by Valeri Gorbachev.

Bert, Beth, and Grandpa: Winter Wonderland

Highlights for Children (author)

Publisher: Highlights ISBN: 9781684374311

Winter Wonderland! Bert and Beth and Grandpa go ice skating and sleigh riding. Grandpa teaches Bert and Beth a fun way to bring winter indoors. Bert, Beth, and Grandpa make snowmen together. Stories by Valeri Gorbachev.

Ask Arizona: Life at Home

Highlights for Children (author)

Publisher: Highlights ISBN: 9781684374182

Siblings, pets, and tv! Arizona figures out how to handle twin siblings. Arizona realizes that a lost pet should be returned to its family. Arizona learns to not revolve her life around watching television. Stories by Lissa Rovetch.

Little Bunny: Sleepy Stories

Highlights for Children (author)

Publisher: Highlights ISBN: 9781684374168

Bedtime! Little Bunny tries to be quiet as Baby Bunny naps. Baby Bunny prepares for a sleepover with Squirrel. Little Bunny tries to take a nap. Little Bunny tries to stay up late. Stories by Eileen Spinelli.

Ask Arizona: Life with Siblings

Highlights for Children (author)

Publisher: Highlights ISBN: 9781684374243

Playing with siblings! Gran teaches Arizona, Indi, and Tex how to play a rhyming word game to help them forget their fear during a scary thunderstorm. Arizona's little brother Tex gives her good advice about handling nightmares. Arizona, tired of doing the same old things with her little brother and sister, finds it's fun to play with them when they try new activities. Stories by Lissa Rovetch.

What's the Trick?

Caroline E. Walsh (author)

Publisher: Perfection Learning ISBN: 9781622990054

A chance friendship with an elderly ex-magician helps Jared come to terms with the tensions in his own family.

To Rainbow Valley

Irene Bennett Brown (author)

Publisher: Perfection Learning ISBN: 9781613849996

The Baldwin family decides that they could make a better life for themselves in Oregon. This is the story of their journey to Rainbow Valley. Thirteen-year-old Cotton becomes responsible for seeing his family safely across country to Oregon where they will join his father.

Rocky Mountain Summer

Linda Baxter (author)

Publisher: Perfection Learning ISBN: 9781613849835

Fern and Roy must leave their mother in Denver to spend the summer with their Gran and Paw in the Rocky Mountains.

T.J. Westin, Man of the House

Linda Sibley (author)

Publisher: Perfection Learning ISBN: 9781613849958

T.J. can't believe it when he wins a trip to New York to be a contestant on Whiz Kid. Will he make his family proud?

Tall Shadow: A Navajo Boy

Bonnie Highsmith Taylor (author)

Publisher: Perfection Learning ISBN: 9781613849965

Tall-Shadow, a young Navajo boy, faces adverse dangers when he confronts the Big Cat, a lion who is feared by the tribe. Tall Shadow also struggles with his desire to adopt the white man's ways and his father's wish to maintain their culture.

The Buffalo Robe

Linda Baxter (author)

Publisher: Perfection Learning ISBN: 9781613849255

As Three Willows spoke, she rose. She brought a bundle to the tiny fire. She untied the straps that held it. Then she unrolled the buffalo robe. It was large, soft and carefully tanned. Red Fox peered through the dim light of the tipi. He could see colorful drawings painted on the smooth side of the robe. Red Fox reached out to touch one scene. It was a man on horseback. He was racing across the prairie. Red Fox could almost feel the movement of the horse under the rider as they raced. That's your father, whispered Three Willows.

Nothing Is for Free

Margo Sorenson (author)

Publisher: Perfection Learning ISBN: 9781613849743

The Great Depression forces a brother and sister to live with their hated cousins on a farm in North Dakota when their father loses his job.

Linnie's Letters

Candri Hodges (author)

Publisher: Perfection Learning ISBN: 9781613849682

Eleven-year-old Elinore Frey and her older sister, Phoebe, share their experiences in letters as they both adjust to new lives in the West, Elinore in California, and Phoebe on the plains of the Nebraska Territory.

Recipe for a Rebel

Lori Pollard-Johnson (author)

Publisher: Perfection Learning ISBN: 9781613849798

After his dad leaves, Matt Delaney rebels and his erratic behavior lands him in the vice-principal's office. He is assigned a new class schedule which includes a cooking class. Matt is a rebel, not a joiner, and this could be a recipe for disaster.

Prairie Meeting

Linda Baxter (author)

Publisher: Perfection Learning ISBN: 9781613849774

Paul, a young immigrant, has traveled to the prairie to work for his uncle but instead finds a family with Fern and Roy.

Buffalo Home

Linda Baxter (author)

Publisher: Perfection Learning ISBN: 9781613849248

After the death of his mother, Miguel is sent to live with his Uncle Small Bear on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota.

A Trip Through Time

Cynthia Mercati (author)

Publisher: Perfection Learning ISBN: 9781622990016

Max is bored with his grandfather's tales of Norway's Resistance movement against the Nazis in World War II, until he travels back in time and finds himself participating in a raid to free captured Resistance fighters.

The Code of the Drum

L.L. Owens (author)

Publisher: Perfection Learning ISBN: 9781613847145

After his father dies in a Civil War battle, twelve-year-old Jacob runs away from home to join his father's old regiment as a drummer boy.

Square Against the World: The Story of a Sod House

Cynthia Mercati (author)

Publisher: Perfection Learning ISBN: 9781613848104

Rachel recounts how she and her family left Illinois to move to Nebraska, where they built and lived in a sod house on the prairie.

Terror in the City: The 1906 San Francisco Earthquake

Bonnie Highsmith Taylor (author)

Publisher: Perfection Learning ISBN: 9781613848111

Tells the story of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake as seen through the eyes of eleven-year-old Stuart as he helps his father on his milk delivery route.