Lyon, George Ella

The author simply describes how she considered various careers as she grew and how she combined them all into her work as a writer.

Through ghostly visitation and a diary that seems mysteriously to write itself with twelve-year-old Abby's hands, a Civil War nurse asks for help with medical supplies across an abyss of 133 years.

One friend helps another through the pitfalls and pratfalls of a day at summer camp.

A daughter describes her mother's job working as a miner.

Over the years, Grandma's basket becomes embedded in many family legends.

This poem compares a book to a house, a treasure chest, a farm, and a tree full of leaves.

A girl provides a lighthearted account of the spring floods at her rural home.

A child relates some of the wondrous tales told by an old man who once found a falling star and stood at the end of a rainbow.

An alphabet book introducing the leaves from a variety of trees.

Tells the story of Helen Martini, the woman who became the first woman zookeeper at the Bronx Zoo after her experiences caring for animal cubs brought home by her husband gave her the idea to start an animal nursery at the zoo in 1944.