Marion Dane Bauer
1) Rain
2) Wind
3) Clouds
4) Volcano!
5) Earthquake!
6) On my honor
11) The Grand Canyon
13) Niagara Falls
14) Snow
15) Flood!
17) Halloween Forest
If you take your trick-or-treat sack and venture into the dark woods on Halloween night, you'll find cat bones, rat bones, and bat bones—and all are looking at YOU! "Take care! Beware! Despair!" the bone creatures cry. "You can bet you've just met your worst nightmare!" What will you do? Cry? Sigh? NO! "Because you're too tough / to worry about stuff / like the rattle / and prattle / of bones!" Told in unmetered verse, this Halloween adventure
...Newbery Honor-winning author Marion Dane Bauer crafts an eerie story...
19) Sunshine
Set in the northern Minnesota wilderness, a timeless novel about a boy and his imaginary dog explores the legacy of guilt and blame—and what really constitutes a family.
Newbery Honoree Marion Dane Bauer evokes the "summer that changed everything" in the life of a boy growing up without a mother. Since as far back as Ben can remember, it's been him, his devoted dad, and Sunshine—Ben's little dog, who rarely leaves Ben's side.
Rose is a wild child. She doesn't care what her mother or teacher or schoolmates say—she does what she wants. When she finds a delicate china doll in the attic, she takes it. Then the doll comes to life in her hand. She's...