Lawlor, Laurie

Ernest, an unpopular third grader, has a difficult adjustment to make until he finds a friend and experiences his first real successes in life.

An illustrated collection of alphabetically arranged similes, with an author's note that discusses the origins of each expression.

A history of fashion in footwear through the ages.

Twelve-year-old Addie eagerly awaits her cousins' summer visit to her prairie home but, once they arrive, finds things much more complicated than she had ever imagined.

Two sisters united by hardship cross the Atlantic on the Titanic in order to start a new life with their father in Chicago.

Emmet, a fifteen-year-old orphan, learns hard lessons about survival when he sails from England in 1577 as a servant aboard the "Golden Hind"--the ship of his cousin, explorer and pirate Francis Drake--on its three-year circumnavigation of the world.

Retelling of the classic story of four sisters in nineteenth-century New England, based on the 1994 Columbia Pictures movie.

Lonely Bones, the Mudheads' dog, disguises himself as a second-grader and spends an adventurous day at school.

Fifteen-year-old John Griffith Allen finds himself struggling to survive the violence of the Civil War.

After falling in love, eighteen-year-old Will Shakespeare, a bored apprentice in his father's glove business and often in trouble for various misdeeds, vows to live an upstanding life and pursue his passion for writing.