Polacco – Thank you, Mr. Falker

CELC

JEFIC P

Polacco

Personal Author:

Polacco, Patricia.

Title:

Thank you, Mr. Falker / Patricia Polacco.

Publication info:

New York : Philomel Books, c1998.

Physical description:

1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 29 cm.

Summary:

When Trisha starts school, she can’t wait to learn how to read, but the letters just get jumbled up. She hates being different, and begins to believe her classmates when they call her a dummy. Then, in fifth grade, Mr. Falker changes everything. He sees through her sadness to the gifted artist she really is. And when he discovers that she can’t read, he helps her prove to herself that she can – and will!

Subject term:

Reading–Juvenile fiction.

Subject term:

Teachers–Juvenile fiction.

Subject term:

Self-perception–Juvenile fiction.

ISBN:

(ISBN invalid)0399231668

Wilder – First four years

CELC

JFIC W

Wilder

Personal Author:

Wilder, Laura Ingalls, 1867-1957.

Title:

The first four years. / by Laura Ingalls Wilder.  Illustrated by Garth Williams.

Publication info:

New York, Harper & Row [1971]

Physical description:

135 p. : illus.

Summary:

During their first four years of marriage, Laura and Almanzo Wilder have a child and fight a losing battle in their attempts to succeed at farming on the South Dakota prairie.

Subject term:

Frontier and pioneer life–Juvenile fiction.

Geographic term:

South Dakota–Juvenile fiction.

Subject term:

Family life—Juvenile fiction.

ISBN:

006440031X

Tags:

19th century, autobiography, biography, children, children’s, children’s literature, historical, historical fiction, history,  memoir, pioneer,  young adult

Wilder – Little town on the prairie

CELC

JFICW

Wilder

Personal Author:

Wilder, Laura Ingalls, 1867-1957.

Title:

Little town on the prairie / by Laura Ingalls Wilder ; illustrated by Garth Williams.

Edition:

Full color ed.

Publication info:

New York : Harper Trophy,  c1941.

Physical description:

307 p. : col. ill. ; 20 cm.

Summary:

The little settlement that weathered the long, hard winter of 1880-81 is now a growing town. Laura is growing up, and she goes to her first evening social. Mary is at last able to go to a college for the blind. Best of all, Almanzo Wilder asks permission to walk home from church with Laura. And Laura, now fifteen years old, receives her certificate to teach school.

Personal subject:

Wilder, Laura Ingalls, 1867-1957–Juvenile fiction.

Subject term:

Frontier and pioneer life–South Dakota–Juvenile fiction.

Subject term:

Families–South Dakota–Juvenile fiction.

Geographic term:

South Dakota–Juvenile fiction.

Added author:

Williams, Garth.

ISBN:

0064400077

Wilder – Little house on the prairie

CELC

JFICW

Wilder

Personal Author:

Wilder, Laura Ingalls, 1867-1957.

Title:

Little house on the prairie / by Laura Ingalls Wilder ; illustrated by Garth Williams.

Edition:

1st Harper Festival ed.

Publication info:

New York : HarperFestival, 2003, c1963.

Physical description:

335 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.

Series:

(Little house)

Summary:

Frontier family travels to the prairie to build a home, meet Indians, and fight a prairie fire.

Personal subject:

Wilder, Laura Ingalls, 1867-1957–Fiction.

Subject term:

Frontier and pioneer life–Great Plains–Juvenile fiction.

Subject term:

Families–Great Plains–Juvenile fiction.

Geographic term:

Great Plains–Juvenile fiction.

Added author:

Williams, Garth.

ISBN:

0064400026

Keillor – Leaving Home

CELC

FIC K

Keillor

Personal Author:

Keillor, Garrison.

Title:

Leaving home / Garrison Keillor.

Publication info:

New York : Viking, 1987.

Physical description:

244 p. ; 24 cm.

Summary:

“Home,” in Keillor’s fictional world, is Lake Wobegon, which the radio humorist introduced in print in Lake Wobegon Days. This collection of stories set in Lake Wobegon is taken from monologues performed on A Prairie Home Companion, Keillor’s radio show; each one chronicles some kind of leave-taking or homecoming: trips to Minneapolis, high school graduations, attending the Minnesota State Fair, a waitress quitting her job at the Chatterbox Cafe, a boy joining the army, Father Emil retiring from Our Lady of Perpetual Responsibility, family members returning to Lake Wobegon for Christmas. In the last story, from Keillor’s final show, the storyteller bids farewell to his beloved hometown. Keillor has a rare gift for celebrating and finding humor in commonplace events, and his affection for his characters and for small-town life shines through. These short narratives survive the transition from performance to print beautifully; they are spare, artfully crafted vignettes that will move readers as well as entertain them. Some tales are wildly hilarious, others gently poignantbut all are simply wonderful.

Subject term:

Lake Wobegon (Minn. : Imaginary place)–Fiction.

Subject term:

City and town life–Fiction.

Subject term:

Humorous stories, American.

Geographic term:

Minnesota–Fiction.

Tags:

20th century, America,American, American literature, Americana, autobiography, comedy, essays, humor, Lake Wobegon, Minnesota, short stories, small town, stories, USA

Hess – God’s joy in my heart

CELC

BIO

HESS

Personal Author:

Hess, Karen Matison

Title:

God’s Joy in My Heart / Karen Matison Hess and Ruth Youngdahl Nelson

Publication info:

Minneapolis, MN:  Augsburg Publishing House, c1980

Physical description:

254 p.:  illus.; 24 cm.

Subject term:

Biography—Lutheran, Ruth Youngdahl Nelson

Subject term:

Nelson, Ruth Youngdahl—Biography

ISBN:

0806617896

autobiography, biographical, Christian living

Herriot – James Herriot’s Dog Stories

CELC

636.7 H

Herriot

Personal Author:

Herriot, James.

Uniform title:

[Dog stories]

Title:

James Herriot’s dog stories.

Publication info:

New York : St. Martin’s Griffin, 2006.

Physical description:

xi, 427 p. : ill.

Summary:

In this heartwarming collection of favorite stories about dogs great and small, James Herriot tells us about his own dogs and all the wonderful people and animals we have come to love so much. Fifty memorable tales move us to both laughter and tears, and Herriot’s personal introduction and notes make this tribute by a master storyteller to man’s best friend a book to read, reread, and be treasured for years to come.

Personal subject:

Herriot, James.

Subject term:

Dogs–England–Yorkshire–Anecdotes.

Subject term:

Dogs–England–Yorkshire–Biography.

Subject term:

Veterinarians–England–Yorkshire–Biography.

Subject term:

Human-animal relationships–England–Yorkshire.

ISBN:

0312439687

Tags:

animals, autobiography, biography, British, dogs, England, humor,  memoir, pets, short stories, stories, veterinarians, veterinary medicine, Yorkshire

Lewis – Grief observed

CELC

242.4 L

Lewis

Personal Author:

Lewis, C. S. (Clive Staples), 1898-1963.

Title:

A grief observed /C. S. Lewis.

Publication info:

New York: Bantam Books, c1961.

Physical description:

151 p.

Summary:

In April 1956, C.S. Lewis, a confirmed bachelor, married Joy Davidman, an American poet with two small children. After four brief, intensely happy years, Lewis found himself alone again, and inconsolable. To defend himself against the loss of belief in God, Lewis wrote this journal, an eloquent statement of rediscovered faith. In it he freely confesses his doubts, his rage, and his awareness of human frailty. In it he finds again the way back to life.

Subject term:

Grief – Christian aspects

Subject term:

Consolation—Christian Aspects

ISBN:

0553274864

Tags:

autobiography, bereavement, Christian, Christian Living, Christianity, death, grief, Inklings, memoir, philosophy, religion, spirituality, suffering, theology

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Kann – Casting with a fragile thread

CELC

J968.91 K

Kann

Personal Author:

Kann, Wendy.

Title:

Casting with a fragile thread : a story of sisters and Africa / Wendy Kann.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publication info:

New York : Henry Holt & Co., c2006.

Physical description:

284 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

Summary:

One Sunday morning in her suburban home in Connecticut, Wendy Kann received a phone call: her youngest sister, Lauren, had been killed on a lonely road in southern Africa. With that news, Kann is summoned back to the territory of her youth in what is now Zimbabwe. The girls’ privileged colonial childhood, a rural life of mansions and servants, is devastated by their father’s premature death, their mother’s insanity, and the onset of civil war. Kann soon leaves Africa, marries an American, and has finally settled into the dry sophistication of life in the States when her sister’s death calls her back.

With honesty and compassion, Kann pieces together her sister’s life, explores the heartbreak of loss and the struggle to belong, and finally discovers a new, more complicated meaning of home.

Personal subject:

Kann, Wendy.

Subject term:

Zimbabweans–Connecticut–Biography.

Subject term:

Sisters–Zimbabwe–Biography.

Subject term:

Whites–Zimbabwe–Biography.

Geographic term:

Zimbabwe–Biography.

Geographic term:

Connecticut–Biography.

ISBN:

0805079564

Lindbergh – Gift from the sea

CELC

170.202 L

Lindbergh

Personal Author:

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow, 1906-2001.

Title:

Gift from the sea / Anne Morrow Lindbergh.

Publication info:

New York: Random House, c1975.

Physical description:

140 p. : ill.

Summary:

Since it was first published in 1955, Gift from the Sea has enlightened and offered solace to readers on subjects from love and marriage to peace and contentment.  Gift from the Sea is like a shell itself in its small and perfect form . . . It tells of light and life and love and the security that lies at the heart.

Subject term:

Life

ISBN:

0394724550

Tags:

autobiography, biography, essays, inspiration, inspirational, life, memoir, nature, ocean, philosophy, poetry, reflection, self-help, spirituality, women