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Irving, Washington

Summary: In the first of these two tales set in the Catskill Mountains, a man sleeps for twenty years and wakens to a much-changed world; in the second, a superstitious schoolmaster encounters a headless horseman.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1986

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MacGill-Callahan, Sheila.

Summary: A turtle carved in rock on a bluff over the Hudson River by Indians long ago watches with sadness the changes man brings over the years.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers 1991

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE MACG

Doyen, Denise.

Summary: A cautionary tale for mice written in nonsense verse.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2009

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Stacks, Call number: JE DOY

Maclean, Norman

Summary: From its first magnificent sentence, "In our family, there was no clear line between religion and fly fishing", to the last, "I am haunted by waters", A River Runs Through It is an American classic. Based on Norman Maclean's childhood experiences, A River Runs Through It has established itself as one of the most moving stories of our time; it captivates readers with vivid descriptions of life...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: University of Chicago Press 1989

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC MAC

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC MAC

Oates, Joyce Carol

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco Press 1996

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OAT

Palatini, Margie.

Summary: When Chucky Ducky feels the earth beneath him grumble and rumble, he runs to alert the other barnyard animals to the coming earthquake, but just as a wily weasel is about to take advantage of their fears, the true source is revealed.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2002

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC Palat

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE PAL

Kipling, Rudyard

Summary: A collection of the well-known stories, including "How the Whale Got his Throat," "The Elephant's Child," and "The Butterfly That Stamped." For more than 100 years, these brilliant, delightful tales by Nobel Prize winner Rudyard Kipling have entertained young and old alike. Full color.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow/Books of Wonder 1996

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Kumin, Maxine

Summary: Harry the Horse excels at calming skittish equines in Adams & Son's show-horse barn, but he faces a different challenge when mischievous six-year-old Algernon Adams the Third arrives.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2011

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: E KUM

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE KUM

Palatini, Margie.

Summary: Three billy goats, unable to cross a bridge because they cannot pay the toll, form a car pool with The Three Bears, Little Red Riding Hood, and Jack of beanstalk fame to get past the rude Troll.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2005

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC PAL

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE PAL

Johnston, Tony

Summary: A family, including a child who is dying, sews together a quilt of its memories and love.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt 2002

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Social Emo Johnston 2002

Poe, Edgar Allan

Summary: An illustrated collection of stories by the well-known horror author, including "The Gold Bug," "The Tell-tale Heart," "The Fall of the House of Usher," and "The Pit and the Pendulum."

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Books of Wonder 1991

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC POE

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Summary: Among the most fascinating chapters of film history is that of the so-called "race films" that flourished in the 1920s -'40s. Unlike the "black cast" films produced within the Hollywood studio system, these films not only starred African Americans but were funded, written, produced, edited, distributed, and often exhibited by people of color. Entrepreneurial filmmakers built an industry apart...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC PIO
1 available in Sight & Sound Print Material, Call number: SSC DVD DOC PIO

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