Betsy Cromer Byars
5) Tornado
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Description
As they wait out a tornado in their storm cellar, a family listens to their farmhand tell stories about the dog that was blown into his life by another tornado when he was a boy.
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Series
Blossom family volume 4
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In the aftermath of a big flood in Alderson County, the Blossom family continues coping in their rare family style.
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Series
Blossom family volume 2
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Junior Blossom has set out to test his brand-new invention, a coyote trap. How on earth does he end up lost in a cave with Mad Mary, a.k.a. "the Vulture Lady" while his family attempts to find him in this suspenseful and sidesplitting Blossom Family sequel.
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Series
Blossom family volume 3
Description
Junior Blossom is inventing again, but this time no one cares enough to ask about the secret his "KEEP OUT" signs conceal. A remark of his mother's brings Junior's world crashing down, as she tells his sister Maggie how proud her father would have been of her. Junior's grief makes him the focus of everyone's concern, and getting his newest invention, a flying saucer, off the ground becomes a family project.
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Bingo Brown volume 3
Description
A sixth-grade boy deals with the prospect of a new baby brother and a long-distance love relationship.
14) The TV kid
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Pub. Date
c1976
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To escape failure, boredom, and loneliness, a young boy plunges with all his imagination into the world of television.
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Bingo Brown volume 1
Pub. Date
1990, c1988
Description
A boy is puzzled by the comic and confusing questions of youth and worried by disturbing insights into adult conflicts.
18) The Cybil war
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Simon learns some hard lessons about good and bad friendships when his good friend Tony's stories involve him in some very troublesome and complicated situations.
19) McMummy
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Description
Looking after an eccentric scientist's greenhouse doesn't seem any stranger than the other odd jobs taken by Mozie and his partner Battie--until Mozie discovers a large, mummy-shaped pod on one of the plants.
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Series
Bingo Brown volume 2
Description
As twelve-year-old Bingo Brown strives for the triumphs of today and steels himself against the tribulations of tomorrow, he discovers that he will have to undergo a few more trials and triumphs before growing up.