Joan W Blos

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1) A gathering of days: a New England girl's journal, 1830-32 : a novel

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Townsend: Children's Award Winning Books

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The journal of a fourteen-year-old girl, kept the last year she lived on the family farm, records daily events in her small New Hampshire town, her father's remarriage, and the death of her best friend.

2) Brooklyn Doesn't Rhyme

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Blos, Joan W

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Eleven-year-old Rosey Sachs is worried about her school writing assignment. How can she write anything interesting about her ordinary life in Brooklyn? "I was born in 1896 and my hair is brown," she writes. "As these two things are also true for just about everyone in the class, they are not very interesting." A poem might have made her neighborhood sound a little more exciting, but to Rosey's dismay, she quickly discovers that Brooklyn doesn't rhyme...

3) A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl's Journal, 1830-1832

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Blos, Joan W

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Thirteen-year-old Catherine Cabot Hall put ink to the first unblemished page of her diary on October 17, 1830, the day after her father returned from Boston with the diary tucked conspicuously under his arm. Catherine's mother had died of fever four years before, and now Catherine performs the duties of housewife and mother, living contentedly with her father and younger sister Matty on their New Hampshire farm. In spite of the daily hardships, Catherine...

4) Old Henry

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Blos, Joan W

Pub. Date

c1987

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Henry's neighbors are scandalized that he ignores them and lets his property get run down, until they drive him away and find themselves missing him.

5) The heroine of the Titanic: a tale both true and otherwise of the life of Molly Brown

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Blos, Joan W

Publisher

Morrow Junior Books

Pub. Date

1991

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An anecdotal account of some of the adventurous activities of Molly Brown, with an emphasis on her survival of the sinking of the Titanic.

6) The hungry little boy

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Blos, Joan W

Publisher

Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers

Pub. Date

1995

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A young boy enjoys the lunch that his grandmother has carefully prepared.

7) The days before now: an autobiographical note

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Blos, Joan W

Publisher

Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers

Pub. Date

c1994

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The celebrated children's book writer describes the scenes of her childhood, in New York City and on Long Island, and how she lived as an adult.

8) Bedtime!

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Blos, Joan W

Publisher

Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers

Pub. Date

1998

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After his grandmother has tucked his stuffed animals into bed one by one, a young boy is ready to go to sleep himself.

9) A gathering of days: a New England girl's journal, 1830-32 :a novel

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Blos, Joan W

Publisher

Atheneum

Pub. Date

1982, c1979

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The journal of a 14-year-old girl, kept the last year she lived on the family farm, records daily events in her small New Hampshire town, her father's remarriage, and the death of her best friend.

10) One very best Valentine's Day

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Blos, Joan W

Publisher

Aladdin Paperbacks

Pub. Date

1998, c1990

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Disappointed when her bracelet of little hearts breaks, Barbara proves both her ingenuity and her capacity for giving by turning this treasure into valentines for her whole family.

11) The grandpa days

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Blos, Joan W

Publisher

Simon & Schuster

Pub. Date

c1989

12) Brothers of the heart: a story of the old Northwest, 1837-1838

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Blos, Joan W

Publisher

Maxwell Macmillan International

Pub. Date

1993

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Fourteen-year-old Shem spends six months in the Michigan wilderness alone with a dying Indian woman, who helps him, not only to survive, but to mature to the point where he can return to his family and the difficulties of life as a cripple in a frontier village.

13) Letters from the corrugated castle: a novel of gold rush California, 1850-1852

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Blos, Joan W

Publisher

Atheneum Books for Young Readers

Pub. Date

2007

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A series of letters and newspaper articles reveals life in California in the 1850s, especially for thirteen-year-old Eldora, who was raised in Massachusetts as an orphan only to meet her influential mother in San Francisco, and Luke, who hopes to find a fortune in gold.