Patricia Polacco
21) Clara and Davie
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Depicts the life of a young Clara Barton, the founder of the American Red Cross.
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Describes how a teacher named Miss Chew encouraged individuality, and accepted learning differences, and helped a young student with academic difficulties get extra time to take tests and permission to be in advanced art classes. Inspired by the author's memories of her art teacher.
27) Welcome Comfort
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Welcome Comfort, a lonely foster child, is assured by his friend the school custodian that there is a Santa Claus, but he does not discover the truth until one wondrous and surprising Christmas Eve.
32) Bun Bun Button
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Paige Darling loves the stuffed rabbit her grandmother has made for her, but when she ties a helium-filled balloon to Bun Bun Button the toy gets loose and goes floating away, and it may take some Darling luck to bring her home.
34) Meteor!
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A quiet rural community is dramatically changed when a meteor crashes down in the front yard of the Gaw family.
35) Some birthday!
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On her birthday Dad takes a young girl and her brother to see the Monster at Clay Pit Bottom.
36) Mrs. Mack
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The author remembers the summer when she was ten years old and staying with her father in Michigan where she took riding lessons and became best friends with a perfect horse.
38) Oh, look!
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Three goats visit a fair but run home after they seem to encounter a troll.
40) Just plain fancy
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Naomi, an Amish girl whose elders have impressed upon her the importance of adhering to the simple ways of her people, is horrified when one of her hen eggs hatches into an extremely fancy bird.