Book about Glen Canyon before/just as it was flooded by a dam. There were two boys, teen/preteen, Anasazi ruins, mystery involving murder/looting of ruins/ecologists (?). Pre-1975 publication date, I seem to remember a green hard cover w/ gold or white print.
A mid 20th century chapter book, I think. A girl discovers a red eft (juvenile newt) in the woods and houses it in a jar, which she fixes up with twigs and moss. She brings the eft to school. The eft may be named Reddy.
It is a picture book with words. A family fixes up little sailboat, there is a rainstorm, and they have a picnic. It is probably about 20 pages long, kindergarten to 2nd grade book probably, late 50’s early 60’s (pre-67 I’m pretty sure).
In my school library, early 1960’s 2nd grade, it was about a poor family of four who bought a run down house and fixed it up, added a pond, and either the stars fell from the night sky into the pond, or they were reflected there. I think the cover was blue.
I read this book when I was in high school(1964-1967). It was about a boy who worked at a boat moorage/marina on Lake Okeechobee. I don’t recall it being a very thick book. I’m pretty sure it was a fiction book. I can’t seem to find it. Thanks
This book (which seemed old when my grandmother read it to me in the 1960’s) was about a little boy who had a bag of cookies that he gave away one-by-one on his walk home leaving one for himself when he arrived home. I’m confident the postman got one.
A 1960’s-early 70’s color (I think) children’s picture book about a girl who is forced to share her bedroom with a sibling. She copes by drawing a line down the middle of the room to stake out her territory.
I’m looking for a book I started to read in the late 70’s about a girl (maybe called Margaret) and an older boy. He writes her a letter saying that he cares for her, but will wait until she grows up. She may be in high school and he’s in college?
It was a young person’s book which I read when I was 10 or 12 years old in Canada. It would have been in the late 1960’s or early 1970’s when I found it in our school library. It was set in the Southern USA and I think that the period was shortly after WWII. The book was the story of a boy that was staying with a family in a big old rural home. There was something about hunting raccoons at night with dogs. I think there was actually quite a bit about the dogs and something sad happened to one of them. There was something about hearing trains running in the distance at night. There was something sad associated with this (maybe to do with the dogs?). The family had a black (I think) cook with whom the boy spent considerable time. She was rather nurturing. And a WWII vet who was rather troubled would come to the back/kitchen door and she would give him food. I think that the boy was afraid of him. My recollection is that it was a rather haunting, sentimental, sad and yet hopeful story. I think that the boy was trying to determine how he fit into the world.
From the early 1960’s, a young boy invents various devices in his home to solve mysteries. He can’t wake up, so he invents an alarm clock with string attached to his toe – alarm goes off, string winds up and tugs his toe. Does he invent a periscope to spy on a suspicious neighbor?
Name might have been Henry (perhaps with alliterative last name). Several books were published with his adventures, thin young (young?) adult fiction.