Rosie & Jim and the Drink of Milk


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Rosie and Jim are two puppet dolls who travel with John in his narrowboat, Ragdoll. When he's not looking they are up to mischief.




Something about the Author


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Provides biographical information on over 100 authors of books for young readers.




The Whole Story


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This work is the only comprehensive guide to sequels in English, with over 84,000 works by 12,500 authors in 17,000 sequences.







Whitaker's Books in Print


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Judy's Journey


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DIVDIVJudy lives in a tent with her family. Will they ever be able to afford a farm with a real house? /divDIVTen-year-old Judy and her family are migrants, moving from farm to farm with each new season. Starting in Alabama, they travel to Florida and up the East Coast all the way to New Jersey, always looking for steady work. Every time Judy feels as if they’re beginning to put down roots, they have to move on. It’s hard for her to catch up in school; it’s hard to make and keep friends. Judy likes the people she meets along the way, but she longs for a real home. Will her family ever have a farm of their own?/divDIV /divDIVJudy’s Journey is a realistic depiction of the life of migrant farm workers in the mid-1900s./divDIV /divDIVThis ebook features an illustrated biography of Lois Lenski including rare images and never-before-seen documents from the author’s estate./div/div




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Cumulative Book Index


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A world list of books in the English language.







The Long Walk


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What do you do when your mother falls ill and is sent to a rest home, and your father is away working on the Great Ocean Road? How do you survive when the only things you have are the clothes on your back and the promise you made to keep your family together? For Isa Wyatt, there's only one thing she can do. She gathers together her brothers and her sister, packs an old pram with their belongings, and sets off to find her father. It is a long walk, and the children have to face the dangers and hardships of a country suffering the Depression. But on their journey, Isa soon learns that most people will give everything they have to help a small, courageous family survive. And some will do anything to stop them.