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Four preteen outcasts, two of them handicapped, learn lessons in courage and perseverance when they join forces to build a boat.
Hardcover:
9780399237478 | Philomel Books, June 1, 2001, cover price $15.99 | About this edition: Four preteen outcasts, two of them handicapped, learn lessons in courage and perseverance when they join forces to build a boat.
Paperback:
9780698119109 | Reissue edition (Puffin, September 1, 2001), cover price $5.99 | About this edition: Four preteen outcasts, two of them handicapped, learn lessons in courage and perseverance when they join forces to build a boat.
9780590405706 | Reissue edition (Scholastic Paperbacks, September 1, 1982), cover price $2.50 | About this edition: Shy, awkward twelve-year-old Myron builds a getaway boat with the help of tough, independent Claire and two handicapped youths--Alfred, who is mildly retarded, and Lester, who is a victim of cerebral palsy
School and Library:
9780027829204 | Simon & Schuster, April 1, 1980, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Four preteen outcasts, two of them handicapped, learn lessons in courage and perseverance when they join forces to build a boat.
Reinforced:
9780606225076 | Demco Media, February 1, 2002, cover price $13.80 | About this edition: Four preteen outcasts, two of them handicapped, learn lessons in courage and perseverance when they join forces to build a boat.
Vintage - The Cat who Wore a Pot On Her Head
Paperback:
9780590437080 | Reissue edition (Scholastic Paperbacks, October 1, 1996), cover price $4.99 | About this edition: Vintage - The Cat who Wore a Pot On Her Head
Prebinding:
9780808596189 | Turtleback Books, October 1, 1999, cover price $13.00
School and Library:
9780399230431 | Philomel Books, April 1, 1998, cover price $15.99 | About this edition: As a small girl grows from 'not-being-able, to now-she-can,' she wonders if she will ever spend a whole night at her grandmother's house without being afraid
Hardcover:
9780399231506 | Philomel Books, October 1, 1997, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: In 1930, while their families are performing in a traveling vaudeville show in San Francisco, ten-year-old Annie helps her best friend Connie when he decides to run away rather than use his mindreading abilities any longer
Hardcover:
9780399228117 | Philomel Books, April 1, 1995, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Feeling humiliated after a family scandal, a ventriloquist on the vaudeville circuit turns inward, neglecting his ten-year-old daughter and lavishing attention on his puppet
School and Library:
9780399227493 | Philomel Books, March 1, 1995, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: A moose calf separated from his mother encounters a boy who follows him on a long walk through the woods, until they are both reclaimed by their respective mothers
Hardcover:
9780399220111 | Philomel Books, May 1, 1993, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Eleven-year-old cousins Linny and Hilary find themselves transported back to their old Brooklyn neighborhood to a time just before Linny's mother died and Hilary's father left home
Paperback:
9780590484596 | Reprint edition (Apple, August 1, 1994), cover price $3.25 | About this edition: Eleven-year-old cousins Linny and Hilary find themselves transported back to their old Brooklyn neighborhood to a time just before Linny's mother died and Hilary's father left home
Reinforced:
9780606062190 | Demco Media, August 1, 1994, cover price $10.36 | About this edition: Eleven-year-old cousins Linny and Hilary find themselves transported back to their old Brooklyn neighborhood to a time just before Linny's mother died and Hilary's father left home
Prebinding:
9780785736707 | Turtleback Books, October 1, 1999, cover price $11.15 | About this edition: Eleven-year-old cousins Linny and Hilary find themselves transported back to their old Brooklyn neighborhood to a time just before Linny's mother died and Hilary's father left home
Paperback:
9780590455251 | Scholastic, May 1, 1993, cover price $4.95 | About this edition: The Hungry Thing takes twins Buster and Sue to a restaurant, where the two children interpret the Hungry Thing's requests for 'bapple moose' and 'spoonadish' to the staff
Paperback:
9780590428910 | Reissue edition (Scholastic, February 1, 1993), cover price $3.95 | About this edition: Hungry Thing and his daughter visit a school and ask for flamburgers, bellyjeans, and blownuts to eat
School and Library:
9780590428903 | Scholastic, February 1, 1990, cover price $11.95 | About this edition: Hungry Thing and his daughter visit a school and ask for flamburgers, bellyjeans, and blownuts to eat
Skip longs to shed her responsibility for her mentally handicapped older sister and devote her attention to her new friendship with the daring girl who seems to run the neighborhood
Hardcover:
9780399222191 | Philomel Books, October 1, 1990, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: In 1948, newly-moved to the Bronx, eleven-year-old Skip longs to shed her responsibility for her mentally handicapped older sister and give her whole attention to her new friendship with the bold and daring girl who sems to run the neighborhood.
Paperback:
9780590453615 | Reprint edition (Apple, August 1, 1992), cover price $2.95 | About this edition: In 1948, newly moved to the Bronx, eleven-year-old Skip longs to shed her responsibility for her mentally handicapped older sister and give her whole attention to her new friendship with the bold and daring girl who seems to run the neighborhood.
Reinforced:
9780606019347 | Demco Media, August 1, 1992, cover price $8.90 | About this edition: In 1948, newly moved to the Bronx, eleven-year-old Skip longs to shed her responsibility for her mentally handicapped older sister and give her whole attention to her new friendship with the bold and daring girl who seems to run the neighborhood.
Hardcover:
9780399217128 | Philomel Books, April 1, 1989, cover price $17.99 | About this edition: During a stay of several months in Hawaii with her family, Sara reports her experiences by tape back to her sixthgrade class in Boston, detailing her 'adoption' of a wild cat, a friendship with a troubled Hawaiian boy, and the death of a beloved grandmother.
Paperback:
9780590434737 | Reissue edition (Scholastic Paperbacks, June 1, 1991), cover price $3.99 | About this edition: During a stay of several months in Hawaii with her family, Sara reports her experiences by tape back to her sixth grade class in Boston, detailing her 'adoption' of a wild cat, a friendship with a troubled Hawaiian boy, and the death of a beloved grandmot
Reinforced:
9780606031332 | Demco Media, June 1, 1991, cover price $10.00 | About this edition: During a stay of several months in Hawaii with her family, Sara reports her experiences by tape back to her sixth grade class in Boston, detailing her 'adoption' of a wild cat, a friendship with a troubled Hawaiian boy, and the death of a beloved grandmother.
Paperback:
9780439275989, titled "The Hungry Thing" | Scholastic, June 1, 2001, cover price $5.99 | About this edition: The Hungry Thing comes to town and askes for tickles and feetloaf and other interesting things to eat while the townspeople try to figure out what he means.
9780590422925 | Reissue edition (Scholastic, April 1, 1991), cover price $3.95 | About this edition: The Hungry Thing comes to town and askes for tickles and feetloaf and other interesting things to eat while the townspeople try to figure out what he means.
Reinforced:
9780606040075 | Demco Media, April 1, 1991, cover price $10.10 | About this edition: The Hungry Thing comes to town and askes for tickles and feetloaf and other interesting things to eat while the townspeople try to figure out what he means.
Prebinding:
9780613360678, titled "The Hungry Thing" | Turtleback Books, October 1, 2001, cover price $14.55 | About this edition: The Hungry Thing comes to town and askes for tickles and feetloaf and other interesting things to eat while the townspeople try to figure out what he means.
9780613014434 | Turtleback Books, October 1, 1999, cover price $11.05 | About this edition: What will the people do when a Hungry Thing comes to town?
Hardcover:
9780399214257 | Philomel Books, May 1, 1987, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: Reluctantly tied in Hawaii to an unhappy mother and a grandmother with a fading memory, Franny, age 17, longs for a dance career, and when her friend Akiko joins a group promising instant bliss, and she herself meets an actor from New York, the developing events, while frightening and dangerous, finally show her a way to fulfill her ambition.
Hardcover:
9780027829303 | Atheneum, November 1, 1985, cover price $11.95 | About this edition: A fourteen-year-old resents her exile to her grandmother's for the summer while her parents arrange their divorce, but her friendship with a neighbor and the secret they uncover help her come to terms with her changing life.
School and Library:
9780525440703 | Dutton Childrens Books, October 1, 1983, cover price $10.95 | About this edition: Thirteen-year-old George and his Uncle Hibbie were a team, a pair of loners separated from other people, but the arrival of an extraordinary carnival girl changes many things for both of them.
Product Description: The friendship began when Lester saved Alfred's life. Well, he didn't save Alfred's life, but for a 14-year-old boy with cerebral palsy, pointing to the danger and waving your arms is about as close as you get. And it doesn't matter to Lester that Alfred is mentally retarded...read more
Paperback:
9780590409834 | Scholastic Paperbacks, September 1, 1982, cover price $1.25 | About this edition: The friendship began when Lester saved Alfred's life.
Hardcover:
9780027829402 | Atheneum, April 1, 1981, cover price $8.95 | About this edition: Lester, a cerebral-palsy victim, sets out to rescue his retarded friend Alfred from an institution and is forced to acknowledge the ways he needs, uses, and loves others
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