Story involved a sandman putting a group of bears to sleep, either for the night or for the winter. The sandman looked like a young boy. Beautifully illustrated, large-sized children’s book, possibly from the 1970s.
I’m looking for a series of books I loved. They were all biographies for
about a 4th/5th grade level. They all had a green cover. There varied in subject
from Helen Keller to Peter Stuyvesant.
A group of teenage outcasts believe they are being sent by their parents to an OutWard Bound type boarding school. They come to realize that their parents have decided they would rather have them dead and the “teachers” are out to get them. Coming together, they attempt to cope with this fact and escape their fate.
A boy builds an airplane from a vacuum cleaner and flies off to rescue his dad. I think it’s to get him home for Christmas. On the way back home they stop off to buy presents for each other, and they buy the boy’s mom some perfume from Paris.
Addition: It’s a picture book – a fairly short story on large, colourful pages. I read it in the 1970s and it seemed of its time. Borrowed from my (then) local library, in fact. Would it help to mention I’m in the UK?
This book was published in about 1973 and I think it came from Scholastic. It was called something like “The Power of Three” (there are a few books called that on Amazon, but it’s none of those). Three Welsh(?) teens discover that they are psychic, and worry that they have caused a plane crash.
A 70’s chapter book. Some children are staying in the Southwest US, or maybe California (I think) on a ranch (?) find an old diary/clue from a doomed explorer saying “gold in here”, meaning in a cave or underground cavern. Turns out be “cold” when the mystery is solved.
I don’t remember the title, but I think it may have been from Scholastic. I want to say in the 1980-1983 range.
I do remember the very first story was called “Hugh” and it was the classic hitchhiker story, and in this case Hugh the ghost saves the driver (if I’m not mistaken) from an accident.
Romance between a white woman and a Native American man. Set in New England. She was unhappy with her home life (being forced to marry some lout?), and ran away. It was winter; they fell in love and had a child. One section that I recall vividly – she was ill during pregnancy and having difficulty urinating (it was made more romantic than it sounds!) and he brewed herbs and cured her. The title was something like Eagle and Dove or Fox and Rose – one of those Blank and Blank titles. I read this book in the late 1970’s and it was new.
I read this book sometime between 6th and 8th grades, so between 1976 and 1979. It was not great literature but catered very much to pubescent and pre-pubescent girls. It was a mass-market paperback anthology of short stories, and I think they all dealt with romance and/or the characters’ first kisses. There might have been some that were just about the trials and tribulations of being that age, but if so, I don’t recall specifics. I do remember one of the stories mentioning chocolate pudding. In another -or maybe the same story- the protagonist went on her first date (possibly a school dance?), and when she and the boy walked home, he kissed her, and she said his lips tasted sweet like Coca-Cola.
A hardback children’s book, published in the 1970s, about weather forecasting. The cover is light purple and on the inside of front and back cover are weather symbols. It is for kids around age 9. It was in our school library when I was in 4th grade in 1977.