George Ella Lyon
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Formats
Description
" Golden Kite Award winner, 1989 Booklist, Editor's Choice School Library Journal, Best Books of 1988 Publisher's Weekly, Best Books of 1988 Twelve-year-old Amanda Perritt is pitched head-first into adult responsibilities when she has to quit school to care for her newborn brother and invalid mother. She gets an excape, she thinks, when she's offered a trip to stay with her grandmother and her sophisticated Aunt Laura in Memphis. But during the
...2) Trucks roll!
Author
Pub. Date
[2007]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
32 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
Illustrations and simple, rhyming text reveal many different--and sometimes silly--items that trucks can haul.
3) Planes fly!
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
AD 440L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
Illustrations and easy-to-read rhyming text celebrate different kinds of planes, their instruments, what they carry, and what it is like to go for a flight.
4) Boats float!
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations, color ; 27 x 27 cm
Language
English
Description
In rhyming text the reader is introduced to all the different kinds of boats floating on rivers, lakes, oceans, and ponds.
5) Trains run!
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
Illustrations and simple, rhyming text reveal different kinds of trains, how they run, and the sounds they make.
Author
Pub. Date
2010.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
AD 500L
Physical Desc
40 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
Ginny's eyes play tricks on her, making her see everything double, but when she goes to vision screening at school and discovers that not everyone sees this way, she learns that her double vision can be cured.
12) Together
Author
Pub. Date
[1989]
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
31 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 25 x 26 cm
Language
English
Description
An illustrated poem about friendship and togetherness.
14) Mama is a miner
Author
Pub. Date
[1994]
Physical Desc
27 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 23 x 27 cm
Language
English
Description
A mother describes her job working as a miner.
16) The Outside Inn
Author
Pub. Date
[1991]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 x 26 cm
Language
English
Description
The rhyming verse presents all sorts of "appetizing" meals to be had outdoors, including "puddle ink to drink," "gravel crunch for lunch, and "worms and dirt for dessert."
17) Mother to tigers
Author
Pub. Date
[2003]
Lexile measure
AD 780L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 23 x 29 cm
Language
English
18) Come a tide
Author
Pub. Date
[1990]
Lexile measure
490L
Physical Desc
32 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm
Language
English
Description
A girl provides a lighthearted account of the spring floods at her rural home.
19) Sleepsong
Author
Pub. Date
2009.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
31 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
Parents tuck their child into bed as they talk about little animals that are also going to sleep in their nests, dens, and caves.
Author
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xiv, 114 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Six fictional characters, in cycles of linked poems, relate their memories of the historic day in 1963 when more than 250,000 people from across the United States joined together to march on Washington, D.C., calling for civil and economic rights for African Americans.
