Patricia Polacco
2) Thunder cake
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English
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Grandma finds a way to dispel her grandchild's fear of thunderstorms.
3) Emma Kate
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English
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Emma Kate and her best friend, a toy elephant, share many activities, such as homework and soccer practice, and even have their tonsils out at the same time!
9) Mrs. Mack
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Pub. Date
1998.
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English
Description
The author remembers the summer when she was ten years old and staying with her father in Michigan where she took riding lessons and became best friends with a perfect horse.
12) Chicken Sunday
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English
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To thank Miss Eula for her wonderful Sunday chicken dinners, three children sell decorated eggs to buy her a beautiful Easter hat.
15) Just plain fancy
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English
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Naomi, an Amish girl whose elders have impressed upon her the importance of adhering to the simple ways of her people, is horrified when one of her hen eggs hatches into an extremely fancy bird.
16) Pink and Say
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English
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Say Curtis describes his meeting with Pinkus Aylee, a black soldier, during the Civil War, and their capture by Southern troops. Based on a true story about the author's great-great-grandfather.
18) Meteor!
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Pub. Date
[1987]
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English
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A quiet rural community is dramatically changed when a meteor crashes down in the front yard of the Gaw family.
19) Betty Doll
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English
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A look at the life and times of Mary Ellen Barber and her special doll by her daughter, Trisha.
20) Rechenka's eggs
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Series
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[1988]
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English
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An injured goose rescued by Babushka, having broken the painted eggs intended for the Easter Festival in Moscva, lays thirteen marvelously colored eggs to replace them, then leaves behind one final miracle in egg form before returning to her own kind.
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