Author: Allan Drummond
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0735845123
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 30
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Allan Drummond's classic tale unlocks the intriguing story that hides deep within one of the most distinctive and iconic china patterns ever created: the willow pattern.
Author: Doris Gates
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0140309241
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 178
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To Janey Larkin, the blue willow plate was the most beautiful thing in her life, a symbol of the home she could only dimly remember. Now that her father was an itinerant worker, Janey didn't have a home she could call her own or any real friends, as her family had to keep moving, following the crops from farm to farm. Someday, Janey promised the willow plate, with its picture of a real house, her family would once again be able to set down roots in a community. Blue Willow is an important fictional account of the Dust Bowl and the Great Depression, and has been called The Grapes of Wrath for children. It won a Newbery Honor and many other awards.
Author: Pam Conrad
Publisher: Philomel
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40
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On the banks of the Wen River, the legend of the Blue Willow is brought radiantly to life as two lovers face the storms that besiege them. Brilliant color illustrations highlight this warm story about undying love.
Author: George Meredith
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Publishers
Languages : en
Pages : 354
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Author: Leslie Thomas
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Folklore
Languages : en
Pages : 47
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A retelling of the legend, on which the willow plate design is based, about a poor young poet who rescues the girl he loves from a marriage forced upon her by her father.
Author: Morris Ardoin
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 1496827759
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 281
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In the summers of the early 1970s, Morris Ardoin and his siblings helped run their family's roadside motel in a hot, buggy, bayou town in Cajun Louisiana. The stifling, sticky heat inspired them to find creative ways to stay cool and out of trouble. When they were not doing their chores—handling a colorful cast of customers, scrubbing motel-room toilets, plucking chicken bones and used condoms from under the beds—they played canasta, an old ladies’ game that provided them with a refuge from the sun and helped them avoid their violent, troubled father. Morris was successful at occupying his time with his siblings and the children of families staying in the motel’s kitchenette apartments but was not so successful at keeping clear of his father, a man unable to shake the horrors he had experienced as a child and, later, as a soldier. The preteen would learn as he matured that his father had reserved his most ferocious attacks for him because of an inability to accept a gay or, to his mind, broken, son. It became his dad’s mission to “fix” his son, and Morris’s mission to resist—and survive intact. He was aided in his struggle immeasurably by the love and encouragement of a selfless and generous grandmother, who provides his story with much of its warmth, wisdom, and humor. There’s also suspense, awkward romance, naughty French lessons, and an insider’s take on a truly remarkable, not-yet-homogenized pocket of American culture.
Author: Lois Lowry
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 0545265568
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 226
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After being orphaned during the influenza epidemic of 1918, eleven-year-old Lydia Pierce and her fourteen-year-old brother are taken by their grieving uncle to be raised in the Shaker community at Sabbathday Lake. Includes author's note about the Shakers.
Author: V.C. Andrews
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0743421698
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 466
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High society was too much for her. One of the most popular storytellers of all time, V.C. Andrews (Flowers in the Attic, My Sweet Audrina) layers psychological suspense with seductive glamour in this provocative first book of the classic De Beers Family series. All that glitters isn’t gold... Wealth. Extravagant parties. Celebrity status. These are the things Willow knew only in her wildest dreams—until now. After discovering deep family secrets in her adoptive father’s journal, she leaves behind her North Carolina college town and sets out in search of her birth family amid the high-class society of Southern Florida. Using an assumed name and pretending to conduct a study of one of the nation’s wealthiest communities, Willow takes the city by storm and quickly becomes entangled with Thatcher Eaton, a young lawyer who sweeps her off her feet. But as Willow spirals into a passionate love affair and becomes intoxicated with the lifestyle of the rich and famous, the dark truth about her birth family threatens her fancy new life, pushing her to the brink of insanity...
Author: Robert Copeland
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 204
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Author: M. A. Harman
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781574322408
Category : Willowware
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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With over 500 photos of Willow Ware items, this volume has information on everything from practical dishes to the rare and fine pieces in the line.
