Karen Hesse
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April Showers and May Flowers
Fun Summer Titles
Lorraine: The Girl Who Sang the Storm Away 2024
RtR Books to Beat the Heat
Fun Summer Titles
Lorraine: The Girl Who Sang the Storm Away 2024
RtR Books to Beat the Heat
Description
A young girl eagerly awaits a coming rainstorm to bring relief from the oppressive summer heat.
4) Stowaway
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Description
A fictionalized journal relates the experiences of a young stowaway from 1768 to 1771 aboard the Endeavor which sailed around the world under Captain James Cook.
5) Witness
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A series of poems expresses the views of various people in a small Vermont town, including a young black girl and a young Jewish girl, during the early 1920s when the Ku Klux Klan is trying to infiltrate the town.