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School and Library:
9780807518748 | Albert Whitman & Co, January 1, 1982, cover price $8.95 | About this edition: In learning the significance of the Easter egg, young readers follow the adventures of Mike and Susan and their plans to protect Mrs.
Hardcover:
9780525451068 | Dutton Childrens Books, March 1, 1983, cover price $8.95 | About this edition: After being robbed at gunpoint, Eddie Compo must come to terms with his fear of his assailant, a local hoodlum who has been terrorizing the neighborhood
School and Library:
9780399209567 | Putnam Pub Group, June 1, 1983, cover price $8.95 | About this edition: After Magnolia Possum makes Bernard Beaver disappear using a spell from her grandmother's old magic book, Magnolia discovers that the spell to bring him back is missing
Paperback:
9780590424172, titled "The Adventures of the Red Tape Gang" | Scholastic Paperbacks, August 1, 1989, cover price $2.75 | About this edition: A young girl tries to be accepted by a boy's club and a group of friends attempt to rid their community of a problem in this story of intrigue
9780590317610 | Reprint edition (Scholastic Paperbacks, June 1, 1983), cover price $1.95 | About this edition: A young girl tries to be accepted by a boy's club and a group of friends attempt to rid their community of a problem in this story of intrigue
Hardcover:
9780152503505 | Harcourt Childrens Books, April 1, 1985, cover price $11.95 | About this edition: A defensive twelve-year-old comes to understand her father, a busy Hollywood director planning to remarry, after she is exiled for the summer to the everyday life of her grandmother's house in Houston.
Paperback:
9780440452881, titled "Maggie Too" | Reprint edition (Dell Pub Co, August 1, 1987), cover price $2.50 | About this edition: A defensive twelve-year-old comes to understand her father, a busy Hollywood director planning to remarry, after she is exiled for the summer to the everyday life of her grandmother's house in Houston.
Library:
9780396085829 | Putnam Pub Group, July 1, 1985, cover price $8.95 | About this edition: Describes the exploration of the land beneath the sea and what it has revealed about the topography of this vast hidden area and discusses how these discoveries help us better understand the earth upon which we live
Hardcover:
9780152503550 | Harcourt Childrens Books, April 1, 1986, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Twelve-year-old Maggie, living with her grandmother in Houston, joins the drama club at school, wins a part in a play, begins to make friends, and learns to deal with feelings of loneliness, selfishness, being in love, and having an unusual family life and background.
Paperback:
9780440401278 | Reissue edition (Yearling Books, September 1, 1987), cover price $2.50 | About this edition: Twelve-year-old Maggie, living with her grandmother in Houston, joins the drama club at school, wins a part in a play, begins to make friends, and learns to deal with feelings of loneliness, selfishness, being in love, and having an unusual family life and background.
When Shirley attempts to make apple pie for Claude, she winds up capturing bank robbers and escaped criminals who follow the scent to her door
Hardcover:
9780670807819 | Viking Pr, October 1, 1986, cover price $11.95 | About this edition: Exciting escapades follow Shirley's attempts to make an apple pie for Claude until one day an orphan boy makes a pie that wins him Claude's favor.
Paperback:
9780140508475 | Viking Childrens Books, September 1, 1988, cover price $4.99 | About this edition: Exciting escapades follow Shirley's attempts to make an apple pie for Claude until one day an orphan boy makes a pie that wins him CLaude's favor.
Hardcover:
9780152503451 | Harcourt Childrens Books, March 1, 1987, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: Happy living with her Texas grandmother and looking forward to celebrating a family Christmas, thirteen-year-old Maggie is devastated when she is summoned by her movie-director father to spend Christmas with him and her very young stepmother in California
Paperback:
9780440402114 | Reprint edition (Yearling Books, August 1, 1989), cover price $2.75 | About this edition: Happy living with her Texas grandmother and looking forward to celebrating a family Christmas, thirteen-year-old Maggie is devastated when she is summoned by her movie-director father to spend Christmas with him and her very young stepmother in California.
Paperback:
9780689712173 | Reprint edition (Aladdin Paperbacks, April 1, 1988), cover price $3.95 | About this edition: A young boy visiting his Irish relatives is beguiled by his grandfather's tales of Irish folklore and determines to catch a leprechaun
Hardcover:
9780027682106 | Aladdin Paperbacks, November 1, 1988, cover price $17.99 | About this edition: In an introduction to the craft of creative writing, Mother helps Melia search for ideas, discover descriptive vocabulary, and develop characters and plots in order for Melia to express herself through her stories
Paperback:
9780689719004 | Reprint edition (Aladdin Paperbacks, March 1, 1995), cover price $7.99 | About this edition: In an introduction to the craft of creative writing, Mother helps Melia search for ideas, discover descriptive vocabulary, and develop characters and plots in order for Melia to express herself through her stories
A zany Texas couple, Shirley and Claude, grow up and meet out in the gold mining hills of Colorado.
Paperback:
9780140506792 | Viking Childrens Books, June 1, 1989, cover price $4.99 | also contains Submarines | About this edition: A zany Texas couple, Shirley and Claude, grow up and meet out in the gold mining hills of Colorado.
Paperback:
9780140509007 | Puffin, April 1, 1991, cover price $3.95 | About this edition: Shirley and Claude's peaceful home threatens to erupt when Shirley goes to town to retrieve Bessie, the sister of their adopted son Tom, and she spots a crook
School and Library:
9780670823109 | Kestrel Pr, July 1, 1989, cover price $11.95 | About this edition: Shirley and Claude lead a settled life with their adopted son, Tom, until Shirley goes to town to retrieve Tom's sister, Bessie, and the two run into more than their share of trouble with criminals.
Hardcover:
9780553058383 | Bantam Dell Pub Group, October 1, 1989, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: A child star in the 1930s, seventeen-year-old Abby 'Cookie' Baynes, dreams of making a comeback as a mature actress but finds she lacks the glamour and glitz to please the studio executives
Paperback:
9780553289572 | Reprint edition (Bantam Books, May 1, 1991), cover price $3.50 | About this edition: A child star in the 1930s, seventeen-year-old Abby 'Cookie' Baynes, dreams of making a comeback as a mature actress, but finds she lacks the glamour and glitz to please the studio executives
Hardcover:
9780553058659 | Bantam Dell Pub Group, April 1, 1990, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Seeking to carve her own identity out of her Hollywood lifestyle, the daughter of star comedienne Abby Grant becomes involved with a radical film student
Paperback:
9780553290196 | Reprint edition (Bantam Books, July 1, 1991), cover price $3.50 | About this edition: Drawn to the honesty and idealism of Marc Jenkins, an aspiring young filmmaker, Cassie Martin--the daughter of a famous comedienne--is determined to get her famous mother to finance his first film
Distraught over the canceling of the long-running sitcom in which she starred, Erin Jenkins, who feels closer to her show biz family than to her own, seeks advice from her grandmother, screen legend Abby Grant. Reprint. SLJ. AB.
Hardcover:
9780553070248 | Bantam Dell Pub Group, September 1, 1990, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Cassie's daughter Erin, who identifies closely with her grandmother Abby, wants to be an actress more than anything in the world, but is disappointed that her parents do not approve of her working in the television medium.
Paperback:
9780553292879 | Reprint edition (Starrhill Pr, February 1, 1992), cover price $3.50 | About this edition: Cassie's daughter Erin, who identifies closely with her grandmother Abby, wants to be an actress more than anything in the world, but is disappointed that her parents do not approve of her working in the television medium.
Paperback:
9780440404590 | Yearling Books, April 1, 1991, cover price $2.99 | About this edition: The Nic-Nac kids--Niki, Amy, Carlos, and Slap--investigate such neighborhood mysteries as the disappearance of items from the community swimming pool, then write about their exploits in their own newspaper
In 1856, having traveled with his young sister from New York to a foster home on a farm in Missouri, ten-year-old Danny plots to get his foster father to send for and marry his mother.
Paperback:
9780553284850 | Bantam Books, March 1, 1996, cover price $4.50 | also contains Final Crisis | About this edition: In 1856, having traveled with his young sister from New York to a foster home on a farm in Missouri, ten-year-old Danny plots to get his foster father to send for and marry his mother.
9780440226963 | Laurel Leaf, March 1, 1996, cover price $5.50 | About this edition: In 1856, having traveled with his young sister from New York to a foster home on a farm in Missouri, ten-year-old Danny plots to get his foster father to send for and marry his mother.
9789995565411 | Reissue edition (Bantam Books, April 1, 1991), cover price $3.99 | About this edition: In 1856, having traveled with his young sister from New York to a foster home on a farm in Missouri, ten-year-old Danny plots to get his foster father to send for and marry his mother.
Library:
9780836826418 | Gareth Stevens Pub, January 1, 2000, cover price $23.93 | About this edition: In 1860, having traveled with his young sister from New York to a foster home on a farm in Missouri, ten-year-old Danny plots to get his foster father to send for and marry his mother
Reinforced:
9780606045162 | Demco Media, April 1, 1991, cover price $13.41 | About this edition: In 1856, having traveled with his young sister from New York to a foster home on a farm in Missouri, ten-year-old Danny plots to get his foster father to send for and marry his mother.
Prebinding:
9781439521014 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, August 11, 2008), cover price $14.50
9780833543806 | Turtleback Books, October 1, 1999, cover price $15.40 | About this edition: In 1856, having traveled with his young sister from New York to a foster home on a farm in Missouri, ten-year-old Danny plots to get his foster father to send for and marry his mother.
Paperback:
9780440404583 | Yearling Books, April 1, 1991, cover price $2.99 | About this edition: The Nic-Nac kids, who solve neighborhood mysteries together and write their own newspaper, the Nic-Nac News, investigate the case of The Great Giovanni, a mysterious man on their block
Paperback:
9780440404644 | Dell Pub Co, May 1, 1991, cover price $2.99 | About this edition: Eager to win the radio contest they have entered, the grand prize of which is a meeting with Luke Kane, the famous TV and recording star, the Nic-Nacs go celebrity-crazy
Hardcover:
9780553073140 | Reissue edition (Bantam Dell Pub Group, June 1, 1991), cover price $16.00 | About this edition: In 1879 seventeen-year-old Sarah travels from Chicago to the violent town of Leadtown, Colorado, to locate her missing father, but she finds that the mention of his name brings her strange looks and an attempt on her life
Paperback:
9780553296020 | Reprint edition (Skylark, October 1, 1992), cover price $3.50 | About this edition: In 1879 seventeen-year-old Sarah travels from Chicago to the violent town of Leadtown, Colorado, to locate her missing father, but she finds that the mention of his name brings her strange looks and an attempt on her life
Paperback:
9780440404729 | Yearling Books, July 1, 1991, cover price $2.99 | About this edition: While preparing for a fund-raising circus, the Nic-Nacs investigate strange goings-on at the Blairs' empty house, where they suspect a ghost is hiding
Hardcover:
9780440080633 | Delacorte Pr, June 1, 1982, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: A seventeen-year-old orphan with Hodgkin's disease becomes very involved with her new hospital roommate, a nine-year-old girl who insists that the man who killed her father is trying to kill her.
Paperback:
9780440977407 | Laurel Leaf, February 1, 1993, cover price $5.50 | About this edition: Seventeen-year-old Dina becomes involved in a mystery and may have made herself the target of a dangerous killer by befriending nine-year-old Julie
Reinforced:
9780606029025 | Demco Media, February 1, 1993, cover price $13.45 | About this edition: Seventeen-year-old Dina becomes involved in a mystery and may have made herself the target of a dangerous killer by befriending nine-year-old Julie
Prebinding:
9780613142670 | Turtleback Books, October 1, 2001, cover price $14.10 | About this edition: Seventeen-year-old Dina becomes involved in a mystery and may have made herself the target of a dangerous killer by befriending nine-year-old Julie
Hardcover:
9780553080544 | Bantam Dell Pub Group, February 1, 1992, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: Sarah risks her life to clear her murdered father's name and expose big time criminal activity in the lawless mining town of Leadville
Paperback:
9780553561777 | Reprint edition (Starfire, May 1, 1993), cover price $3.50 | About this edition: Sarah risks her life to clear her murdered father's name and expose big time criminal activity in the lawless mining town of Leadville
Reinforced:
9780606052290 | Demco Media, May 1, 1993, cover price $9.50 | About this edition: Sarah risks her life to clear her murdered father's name and expose big time criminal activity in the lawless mining town of Leadville
Hardcover:
9780553081114 | Bantam Dell Pub Group, May 1, 1993, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: In 1902 fifteen-year-old Rose travels from Ireland to join family members in Chicago, where she must use all her resources to deal with her father's drinking and her brothers' dangerous involvement in politics.
Paperback:
9780440219040 | Reprint edition (Laurel Leaf, June 1, 1994), cover price $3.99 | About this edition: In 1902 fifteen-year-old Rose travels from Ireland to join family members in Chicago, where she must use all her resources to deal with her father's drinking and her brothers' dangerous involvement in politics.
Library:
9780836828122 | Gareth Stevens Pub Learning library, January 1, 2001, cover price $24.00 | About this edition: In 1902 fifteen-year-old Rose travels from Ireland to join family members in Chicago, where she must use all her resources to deal with her father's drinking and her brothers' dangerous involvement in politics.
Reinforced:
9780606063593 | Demco Media, December 1, 1993, cover price $10.00 | About this edition: In 1902 fifteen-year-old Rose travels from Ireland to join family members in Chicago, where she must use all her resources to deal with her father's drinking and her brothers' dangerous involvement in politics.
Prebinding:
9780785730354 | Turtleback Books, October 1, 1999, cover price $11.10 | About this edition: Rose Carney, a young girl from Ireland, befriends Rebecca, from Russia, and Kristen, from Sweden, during the long journey to America.
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