Oxford University Press, December 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. Thousands of years ago, when monsters roamed the earth and magic ruled the world, the Greeks set sail among the islands of the Aegean Sea in search of incredible riches and fantastic adventures...adventures that would become legendary! Pale yellow boards with a...... More
Vintage Books USA, August 1993. Trade Paperback. Lively, poignant, and utterly winning, The Diary of Latoya Hunter is a timely portrait of adolescence--about the universal challenges of youth and about the ways it is shaped by the inner city. It is also a lively introduction to a delightful girl whose..... More
University of Nebraska Press, March 1994. Hardcover. More
Farrar Straus & Giroux, October 1976. First Edition. Cloth. Octavo. In DJ with severely sun-bleached spine and mildly worn at corners and edges. Grey cloth covered boards with silver lettering upon spine and small floral decoration centered front panel. Mild dust staining to textblock edges. 30 pages. More
THOMAS Y CROWELL COMPANY, January 1952. Cloth. In chipped, torn dust jacket. More
Kokila, July 2020. Hardcover. A #1 New York Times Bestseller! From the National Book Award-winning author of Stamped from the Beginning and How to Be an Antiracist comes a new full-sized picture book that empowers parents and children to uproot racism in our society and in ourselves, now with added..... More
Atheneum Books for Young Readers, November 1970. Hardcover. Claudia knew that she could never pull off the old-fashioned kind of running away...so she decided not to run FROM somewhere, but TO somewhere. And so, after some careful planning, she and her younger brother, Jamie, escaped -- right into a mystery..... More
Harry N. Abrams, November 2003. Reprint. Cloth. Maurice Sendak ranks as one of the best known and loved children's book artists in the USA, and has been awarded both the Hans Christian Andersen Medal and the Caldecott Medal. This volume picks up where Selma Lanes' monograph of his work The..... More
Square Fish, May 2007. Trade Paperback. The second book in Madeleine L'Engle's A Wrinkle in Time Quintet. When Charles Wallace falls ill, Meg, Calvin, and their teacher, Mr. Jenkins, must travel inside C.W. to make him well, and save the universe from the evil Echthros. "This is breathtaking entertainment." --School..... More
Pied Piper Books, 1946. Hardcover. Quarto; {7 & 1/4' x 10'}; Heavily worn illustrated full color pape coveed boards with considerable wear, flaking and scuff marks. Dark stains and soiling, especially visible back cover. In blue crayon in a child's hand, 'Allen' is lettering verso of front cover board. Interior..... More
Square Fish, May 2007. Trade Paperback. A flash of lightning, quivering ground, and, instead of her grandparents' farm, Polly sees mist and jagged mountains -- and coming toward her, a group of young men carrying spears. Why has a time gate opened and dropped Polly into a world that existed..... More
Square Fish, May 2007. Trade Paperback. The third book in Madeleine L'Engle's spellbinding A Wrinkle in Time Quintet. "Another provocative spellbinding tale." --Philadelphia Inquirer Some things have to be believed to be seen. Sandy and Dennys have always been the normal, run-of-the-mill ones in the extraodinary Murry family. They garden..... More
Square Fish, May 2007. Trade Paperback. In this companion volume to "A Wrinkle In Time" (Newbery Award winner) and "A Wind In The Door" fifteen-year-old Charles Wallace and the unicorn Gaudior undertake a perilous journey through time in a desperate attempt to stop the destruction of the world by the..... More
Square Fish, May 2007. Trade Paperback. In this companion volume to "A Wrinkle In Time" (Newbery Award winner) and "A Wind In The Door" fifteen-year-old Charles Wallace and the unicorn Gaudior undertake a perilous journey through time in a desperate attempt to stop the destruction of the world by the..... More
R. Worthington, January 1884. Hardcover. Pictorial paper covered boards. Considerable wear throughout especially at margins; Spine is discolored/faded. 8 chromolithographs. Heavy foxing. Gutter is split at title page. Non-authorial inscrition front free end page. Previous owner has filled in the most of the day of week pages with family names..... More
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich Publishers/Gulliver Books, September 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. Renowned author James A. Michener brings the dramatic questions of Rodgers and Hammerstein's beloved musical South Pacific to a new generation in this gloriously illustrated book. "If your library needs a retelling of South Pacific, illustrated with glowing, verdant art..... More
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich Publishers/Gulliver Books, September 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. Renowned author James A. Michener brings the dramatic questions of Rodgers and Hammerstein's beloved musical South Pacific to a new generation in this gloriously illustrated book. "If your library needs a retelling of South Pacific, illustrated with glowing, verdant art..... More
E.P. Dutton, 1968. Reprint. Hardcover. Four tiny hardcovers in dustjackets. 32mo. In illustrated paper covered stiff cardstock slipcase. Very good plus overall. Same mild scuffs to bottom cornersof slipcase from normal shelfwear. 10 printings of 1968 edition all. More
Universe Publishing(NY), August 1998. Oversized Hardcover. "She'll have to go back." Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert had decided to adopt an orphan. They wanted a nice sturdy boy to help Matthew with the farm chores. The orphanage sent a girl instead - a mischievous, talkative redhead who the Cuthberts thought would..... More
978-0-9600707-0-1, April 2019. Paper Back. Growing up on a farm in Ghana, West Africa has its ups and downs....especially when the farm grows beans that will become yummy chocolate. But one scary night 9-year old Sunya Yendi has to face her worst fears: thunder and lightning; and not only that..... More
Aladdin Paperbacks, September 2001. Trade Paperback. An American classic--and Pulitzer Prize-winning story--that shows the ultimate bond between child and pet. No novel better epitomizes the love between a child and a pet than The Yearling. Young Jody adopts an orphaned fawn he calls Flag and makes it a part of..... More
Charles Scribner's Sons, October 1985. Hardcover. In this classic story of the Baxter family of inland Florida and their wild, hard, satisfying life, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings has written one of the great novels of our times. A rich and varied story - tender in its understanding of boyhood, crowded with..... More
Charles Scribner's Sons, June 1959. Reprint. Cloth. Octavo well worn. Pictorial cover. No jacket. Foxing/darkening at edges. [400 pp.]. More
Scholastic Inc., November 2020. First Edition. Hardcover. From J.K. Rowling, a warm, fast-paced, funny fairy tale of a fearsome monster, thrilling adventure, and hope against all odds. Once upon a time there was a tiny kingdom called Cornucopia, as rich in happiness as it was in gold, and famous for..... More
Scholastic Paperbacks, August 2000. Trade Paperback. The Dursleys were so mean and hideous that summer that all Harry Potter wanted was to get back to the Hogwarts School for Witchcraft and Wizardry. But just as he's packing his bags, Harry receives a warning from a strange, impish creature named Dobby..... More
