Lois Lenski
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Ten-year-old Birdie Boyer can hardly wait to start picking strawberries. But her family has just moved to the Florida backwoods, and they haven't even begun their planting. Making the new farm prosper is not easy. There is the heat to suffer through, and droughts, and cold snaps. And, perhaps most worrisome of all for the Boyers, there are rowdy neighbors, jut itching to start a feud.
4) Cowboy Small
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Cowboy Small takes good care of his horse, rides the range, helps in the roundup, and rides a bucking bronco.
5) Betsy-Tacy
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Wherever Betsy was, there was Tacy. These two five-year-olds became inseparable friends from alonst the first day Tacy moved into the house across from Betsy's on Hill street, in presumably a southern Minnesota town.
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The Little Engine That Could is a classic tale of a little engine that, despite her size, triumphantly pulls a train full of wonderful things to the children waiting on the other side of a mountain. This anniversary edition features the original text, all-new reimagined artwork, and messages from Caldecott Medal-winner Dan Santat and Dolly Parton, award-winning singer-songwriter and founder of Dolly Parton's Imagination Library.
