Goodman, Joan E

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Paradise

2002
In 1542, eager to escape the French Huguenot household of her harsh father, sixteen-year-old Marguerite de la Rocque sails with her equally stern uncle, the Sieur de Roberval, to the New World, where she is left alone on an island with only her young Catholic lover and her chaperone to help her survive.

Songs from Home

1994
In Rome in 1969, after years of being adrift in Europe, eleven-year-old Anna and her father sing in the streets for money, while Anna dreams of having a normal home and family life.

Bernard wants a baby

2004
Bernard the young elephant hopes for a baby brother and gets more than he wished for.

Ballet bunnies

2008
A group of dancing bunnies attends a ballet class. Includes instructions on ballet positions and poses.

Despite all obstacles

La Salle and the conquest of the Mississippi
2001
A biography of the man who explored the St. Lawrence, Ohio, Illinois, and Mississippi rivers, and who claimed America's heartland for King Louis XIV and France.

Beyond the sea of ice

the voyages of Henry Hudson
1999
An account of Henry Hudson's four voyages in search of a passage to the Orient in the early seventeenth century and the discoveries made by him on the northeastern coast of America.

Bernard's nap

1999
A young elephant refuses to take his nap, despite the efforts of his parents and grandmother.

Bernard goes to school

2001
When a young elephant is apprehensive about his first day of school, his parents show him how much fun school can be.

Hope's crossing

1999
During the Revolutionary War, thirteen-year-old Hope, seized by the band of Tories who attack her Connecticut home, finds herself enslaved in a Tory household on Long Island and uses all her resources to escape from her captors and make her way home.

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