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Bess, the tiniest child in her class, chooses a big seed to plant in her garden, and as it sprouts into a flower, Bess learns that growing makes things the right size.
By Lillian Hoban (illustrator) and Ellen Howard

School and Library:

9780671739560 | Simon & Schuster, September 1, 1993, cover price $14.00 | About this edition: As her mystery seed develops throughout the summer, Bess discovers growing makes things just the right size

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Faith finally proves to her family that she is not the baby anymore when she volunteers to brave the cellar and retrieve the apples Father wants to use for a family treat.
By Ellen Howard, Patricia Mulvihill (illustrator) and Eve Oleksa (illustrator)

School and Library:

9780689317248 | Atheneum, May 1, 1992, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Even though her brothers tease her about not being big enough to do any of the important jobs on the farm, Faith proves that she is brave enough to go down into the dark cellar for apples

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When Alena and her family move onto new farmland out on the prairie, they must live at first in the chickenhouse because there is no time to build a house before winter; then with the warm weather comes the excitement of watching the big new house go up.
By Ellen Howard and Nancy Oleksa (illustrator)

School and Library:

9780689316951 | Atheneum, April 1, 1991, cover price $13.00 | About this edition: When Alena and her family move onto new farmland out on the prairie, they must live at first in the chickenhouse because there is no time to build a house before winter; then with the warm weather comes the excitement of watching the big new house go up.

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When twelve-year-old Marguerite moves to Los Angeles in the late 1920s, she suddenly becomes shy, withdrawn, and ill at ease with other children until a girl with cerebral palsy moves in across the street.

School and Library:

9780689310270 | Atheneum, April 1, 1984, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: Tells of the friendship between Marguerite and Francie, a severely handicapped new neighbor, in Los Angeles during the 1920s

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Hardcover:

9780823421527 | Holiday House, November 15, 2009, cover price $16.95

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While escaping the horrors of war-torn France, refugee children struggle to overcome the misconception that their parents are abandoning them

Paperback:

9781416967309 | Aladdin Paperbacks, October 16, 2007, cover price $10.95

School and Library:

9780689807749 | Atheneum, September 1, 1996, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: While escaping the horrors of war-torn France, refugee children struggle to overcome the misconception that their parents are abandoning them

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Edith, a young epileptic, must learn to cope with her illness while, at the same time, trying to come to terms with her loneliness, fear, and unhappiness

Paperback:

9781416964544 | Aladdin Paperbacks, October 3, 2007, cover price $10.95
9780689717956 | Reprint edition (Aladdin Paperbacks, April 1, 1994), cover price $3.95 | About this edition: Edith, a young epileptic, must learn to cope with her illness while, at the same time, trying to come to terms with her loneliness, fear, and unhappiness

School and Library:

9780689313141 | Atheneum, June 1, 1987, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Edith, a young epileptic, must learn to cope with her illness while, at the same time, trying to come to terms with her loneliness, fear, and unhappiness

Reinforced:

9780606063517 | Demco Media, April 1, 1994, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: Edith, a young epileptic, must learn to cope with her illness while, at the same time, trying to come to terms with her loneliness, fear, and unhappiness

Prebinding:

9780785736516 | Turtleback Books, October 1, 1999, cover price $11.80 | About this edition: Edith, a young epileptic, must learn to cope with her illness while, at the same time, trying to come to terms with her loneliness, fear, and unhappiness

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In nineteenth-century England, ten-year-old Emma, accustomed to long working hours at the silk mill and the poverty and hunger of her sister's house, finds her life completely changed when she inadvertently gets a job on a canal boat carrying cargoes between several northern towns.In nineteenth-century England, ten-year-old Emma, accustomed to long working hours at the silk mill, finds her life completely changed when she inadvertently gets a job on a canal boat carrying cargoes between several northern towns

Paperback:

9781416967965 | Aladdin Paperbacks, November 14, 2007, cover price $9.95

School and Library:

9780689822957 | Atheneum, March 1, 1999, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: In nineteenth-century England, ten-year-old Emma, accustomed to long working hours at the silk mill and the poverty and hunger of her sister's house, finds her life completely changed when she inadvertently gets a job on a canal boat carrying cargoes between several northern towns.

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Sexually abused by her father and fearing for the safety of her younger sister, Gilly seeks the courage to tell someone what is happening.

Hardcover:

9780689312748 | Atheneum, September 1, 1986, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: A new neighborhood friend, protective feelings toward her sister, and a desire to be free of guilt, shame, and fear aid Gillian Harper to find courage to free herself from her sexually abusive father

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Sexually abused by her father and fearing for the safety of her younger sister, Gilly seeks the courage to tell someone what is happening

Paperback:

9780689717468 | Reprint edition (Aladdin Paperbacks, October 1, 1993), cover price $3.95 | About this edition: Sexually abused by her father and fearing for the safety of her younger sister, Gilly seeks the courage to tell someone what is happening

When Mellie Langford's father has an accident, Geem-Wah, the Chinese laundry man who calls her Mei-Li, takes her into his Chinatown home, a place that stirs forgotten memories within her and where she learns the truth about her past

School and Library:

9780689314445 | Atheneum, November 1, 1988, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: When her adoptive father is hospitalized after an accident, Mellie is befriended by Geem-Wah, owner of a Chinese laundry, who holds the key to the events surrounding Mellie's birth eleven years ago.

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Overcoming the doubts of her father, grandmother, and siblings, Elvirey enlivens their home with pine, pie, and singing, proving that her mother, although gone, has left her most valuable gift: her spirit.
By Ronald Himler (illustrator) and Ellen Howard

School and Library:

9780823413812 | Holiday House, September 1, 2000, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Elviry decides that her family really needs to celebrate Christmas even though it will not be the same since her mother died.

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On the Michigan frontier, while the adults disagree over whether there are enough settlers yet to build a church, a young girl named Elviry tries to recall what church is all about.
By Ronald Himler (illustrator) and Ellen Howard

School and Library:

9780823417407 | Holiday House, September 1, 2002, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: On the Michigan frontier, while the adults disagree over whether there are enough settlers yet to build a church, a young girl tries to recall what church is all about.

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When Elvirey and her family move to a log cabin in the Michigan woods, something even more important than Granny's quilt pieces makes the new dwelling a home.
By Ronald Himler (illustrator) and Ellen Howard

Paperback:

9780823413362 | Reprint edition (Holiday House, September 1, 1997), cover price $6.95 | About this edition: Although Mam has passed on and has been buried in Carolina, her children do not want to forget her, and one winter night in their new cabin in Michigan, Granny's quilt pieces help to preserve their memory of her

School and Library:

9780823412471 | Holiday House, September 1, 1996, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Although Mam has passed on and has been buried in Carolina, her children do not want to forget her, and one winter night in their new cabin in Michigan, Granny's quilt pieces help to preserve their memory of her

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Although it was her idea to bring together her family and that of a neighboring widow woman to reap the harvest, Elvirey feels her heart 'squeeze tight' at the thought of the widow and her Pap getting married.
By Ronald Himler (illustrator) and Ellen Howard

Hardcover:

9780823419890 | Holiday House, October 23, 2006, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Although it was her idea to bring together her family and that of a neighboring widow woman to reap the harvest, Elvirey feels her heart 'squeeze tight' at the thought of the widow and her Pap getting married.

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Kate and her dog Murphy are best friends, and when Murphy dies Kate does not think she can ever be happy again
By Mark Graham (illustrator) and Ellen Howard

Paperback:

9781416961574 | Aladdin Paperbacks, August 27, 2007, cover price $13.99

School and Library:

9780671797751 | Simon & Schuster, March 1, 1995, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Kate and her dog Murphy are best friends, and when Murphy dies Kate does not think she can ever be happy again

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Alena, the eldest child of a large family, remains hopeful despite the hardships of growing up on a farm in the late 1800s.

School and Library:

9780689316531 | Atheneum, October 1, 1990, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: After the death of her seventh child, Alena's mother is too grief-stricken to take care of her family, so thirteen-year-old Alena must put aside her dream of becoming a teacher, quit school, and tend to the family

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The revelation of her late mother's faults drives Mary Brooke to hide in the tower room of her aunt's home, where she comes to realize her past is holding her back from the chance to succeed in a new place.

School and Library:

9780689318566 | Atheneum, September 1, 1993, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: When she goes to live with her aunt in a small Michigan town, Mary Brooke discovers a secret room that becomes her refuge as she tries to cope with all the changes in her life brought about by her mother's death

After a slave uprising on an eighteenth century settlement in the Virgin Islands, a white girl held prisoner by the rebels follows a slow passage to understanding of her captors.

School and Library:

9780689311338 | Atheneum, August 1, 1985, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: After a slave uprising on an eighteenth century settlement in the Virgin Islands, a white girl held prisoner by the rebels follows a slow passage to understanding of her captors.

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