Jane Kurtz
1) Lanie
Author
Series
Publisher
American Girl
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
"Ten-year-old Lanie loves science and nature, but she has a problem: she's an "outside" girl with an "inside" family. She longs get out and go camping, but they all want to stay home. ... But when her favorite aunt comes to stay, Lanie discovers that the wonders of nature are everywhere-even in her own backyard."--Publisher.
Author
Series
Publisher
American Girl
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
"Lanie is having a busy summer. The backyard wildflower garden she planted with her aunt is starting to bloom with all the flowers that butterflies like best. Lanie is delighted, but her next-door neighbor objects-she says that Lanie is growing an ugly "weed garden" and she threatens to interfere. ... Can Lanie find a way to get along with her neighbor-and find a creative solution to their garden problem?"--Publisher.
Author
Publisher
Beach Lane Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Discover the true story of the race between two paleontologists to find dinosaur fossils in this nonfiction picture book. O. C. Marsh and Edward Cope met in 1863 and bonded over their shared love of fossils, becoming the best of friends. Until one day Marsh discovered an error in Cope's work, and the 'Bone Wars' began! Marsh and Cope raced each other around the world, excavating fossils and trying to find the most important never-before-seen discoveries"--...
Author
Language
English
Description
"In 1963 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. gave a speech that proclaimed that it was time - long overdue - for all men to be treated as equals. Today his beliefs are more important than ever, and author Jane Kurtz explains Dr. King's words in language even the youngest reader can understand"--Page 4 of cover.
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Jupiter and her family are buskers--folk singers and musicians, moving on when the tourists do--but her life is turned upside down when her newly adopted cousin Edom comes to live with them for the summer"--
Author
Publisher
Harcourt Brace
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
During the political strife and famine of the 1980's, two Ethiopian girls, one Christian and the other Jewish and blind, struggle to overcome many difficulties, including their prejudices about each other, as they make the dangerous journey out of Ethiopia.
12) Johnny Appleseed
Author
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
Who's that walking along the Ohio? It's Johnny Appleseed! He walks across the land, planting trees wherever he goes. So, everyone, clap your hands for Johnny Appleseed!
15) Trouble
Author
Publisher
Harcourt Brace
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
English
Description
A retelling of a traditional Eritrean tale in which a young goatherd disobeys his father by inadvertently trading away the board game that was supposed to keep him out of trouble.
16) Faraway home
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
Desta's father, who needs to return briefly to his Ethiopian homeland, describes what it was like for him to grow up there.
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Kofi can't sleep in his new home in the United States, so his older sister Abena soothes his fears about life in a different country by telling him two folktales from their native Ghana about the nature of wisdom and perseverance.
18) Only a pigeon
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
English
Description
Ondu-ahlem carefully trains his pigeons and prepares them for the day when he and other Ethiopian boys test the homing instinct and loyalty of their precious birds.