George Ella Lyon Books
Red rover, red rover
When Sumi's brother leaves for boarding school, her best friend moves away, her grandfather dies, and her mother withdraws into grief, Sumi finds herself facing the beginning of adolescence alone a...
Read MoreCome a tide
A girl provides a lighthearted account of the spring floods at her rural home.
Read MoreCecil's story
A boy thinks about the possible scenarios that exist for him at home if his father goes off to fight in the Civil War.
Read MoreThe Outside Inn
The rhyming verse presents all sorts of "appetizing" meals to be had outdoors, including "puddle ink to drink," "gravel crunch for lunch, and "worms and dirt for dessert."
Read MoreWho came down that road?
Mother and child ponder the past in discussing who might have traveled down an old, old road, looking backwards from pioneer settlers all the way to prehistoric animals.
Read MoreDreamplace
Present-day visitors describe what they see when they visit the pueblos where the Anasazi lived long ago.
Read MoreHere and then
Through ghostly visitation and a diary that seems mysteriously to write itself with twelve-year-old Abby's hands, a Civil War nurse asks for help with medical supplies across an abyss of 133 years.
Read MoreA day at damp camp
One friend helps another through the pitfalls and pratfalls of a day at summer camp.
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