Judith Viorst
1) Just in case
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2006
Description
Charlie likes to be ready for anything, imagining that his house could be flooded or a mermaid might kidnap him, but he learns that it is sometimes good to be unprepared. Annotation. Charlie is a boy who is always ready for anything...just in case. What if it's raining very hard -- so hard that rain could come into the house and make the furniture float? Charlie has a plan to keep himself dry...just in case. What if his parents are going out and he...
Author
Series
Alexander (Judith Viorst) Book 2
Pub. Date
1978
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Description
Although Alexander and his money are quickly parted, he comes to realize all the things that can be done with a dollar.
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Series
Lulu (Judith Viorst) Book 1
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Description
New York Times best-selling author Judith Viorst is well-known for her popular children's book Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day. Here Viorst crafts a magnificent tale about a young girl determined to get her way. It's Lulu's birthday, and she wants a pet for a present. Not just any pet will do, though-Lulu MUST have a brontosaurus. But when her parents tell her that's impossible, Lulu makes her way through the forest to...
Author
Series
Lulu (Judith Viorst) Book 4
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
"Lulu is sent to Camp Sisterhood to learn how to be a big sister, but she makes it her mission to be the worst sister-in-training in camp history"--
Author
Series
Alexander (Judith Viorst) Book 3
Publisher
Aladdin Paperbacks
Pub. Date
1998
Description
Angry Alexander refuses to move away if it means having to leave his favorite friends and special places.
Series
Pub. Date
2015
Description
It follows the exploits of eleven-year-old Alexander as he experiences the most terrible and horrible day of his young life, a day that begins with gum stuck in his hair, followed by one calamity after another. But when Alexander tells his upbeat family about the misadventures of his disastrous day, he finds little sympathy and begins to wonder if bad things only happen to him.
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Publisher
Algonquin Books
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This one-of-a-kind collection reminds weary adults not to lose sight of the values and virtues they learned as kids. Here are over three hundred quotations from over two hundred well-loved children's books, such as Charlotte's Web, Peter Pan, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, Eloise, Sounder, Number the Stars, and Goodnight Moon, organized by topic, among them Acceptance, Goodness, Family Woes,
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