I remember reading a book in the late 60s early 70s about a boy whose father had died trying to rescue someone. His mother had remarried and he did not like his stepfather. They went on an outfitting trip together, his stepdad got hurt and he ended up solving a murder mystery.
“Our Boys”: very old book I had as a child. I estimate it was between 1880 & 1930(sorry!). It was an anthology of children’s stories & included The Little Match Girl & Hansel & Gretel. Other than that, I remember it was blue or green binding, oversized & with b&w lithograph illustrations. Thanks!
I am looking for a book that was bought at a school book sale in Massachusetts in the mid 60’s by a ninth grader. It’s about a group of men on a desert island with poisonous spiders or crabs. One man has immunity to them and becomes the leader. A black man also develops immunity and splits loyalty in the group. At that point in the story the book was stolen from my friend and he hasn’t read another book since. Thank you for any help.
Looking for a book after which I was named.
Main character is an architect named Kimberly. He builds a bridge in Africa that no one else is able to do. Probably written in the 1950’s. My mother is 94 and can’t remember anything else.
Any help would be much appreciated.
A Children’s book bought in the early to mid 80’s, might be A Little Golden or Elf? These are the lines “Bossy eats grass and swishes her tail and gives us milk in a shiny pail. Skippy drives the cows and sheep and over the fence will lightly leap. Piggy Piggy eats all day he sleeps so much he will
A baby is stolen and raised by pirates when they lure a boat to wreak onto shore. Later, when the boy learns his past, he escapes with a horse bought with his family’s stolen money and a small dog that was with him as a baby.
Book was published in 1954 and is about a mouse with a name beginning with M who chooses to live at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts and meets all the other animals who pride themselves on being antiquities. They refer to the mouse, disdainfully, as “contemporary”
I read a book in the mid-1970’s about a large family. The babies all came from a plant in the backyard which grew pods. When a pod would get ripe, there would be a human baby inside. I cannot remember if there was a science fiction element or not. Does anyone remember this story?
This is a book my boyfriend read when he was a young child in the early 1980s, he thinks it might be as old as the 1960s though. It was a picture book and it must have been a pretty easy reader. The parts he remembers are that there was a little boy (possibly named Sam) who was taking a bath. The tub overfilled and flooded the whole house, and while it did he rode the tub on the water throughout multiple stories of the house. He thinks there also might have been a parade at the end. I’m trying to find it for him as a present, so any help would be great. Thanks!
. I read this memorable book in 1965 when I was ten years old. I was a 5th grader at P.S. 92 in Brooklyn, NY. The story was about the friendship which grew between two teenage boys-one white, one black; teammates on a baseball team in the South (Texas, perhaps?). The black teen lived with his widowed father in a small, meticulously maintained home. Initially, the white teen is wary of his teammate, his attitude shaped by the segregationist attitudes of that time; the novel very movingly describes how mutual mistrust evolves into a soild friendship. I’d be grateful for any help you could give in helping me find this wonderful little book…