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Charlotte lives with her family near the bustling city of Boston.
What an exciting time she has! There's Mama's garden to tend to,
Papa's blacksmith shop to visit, and lots of brothers and sisters
to play with. But best of all, Charlotte is a brand-new American
girl, born just one generation after the United States of America
was formed.
In this "delightful mash-up of Little House on the Prairie and The
Spiderwick Chronicles" ("SLJ"), experience life on the
prairie--with one fantastical twist
Louisa Brody's life on the Colorado prairie is not at all what she
expected. Her dear Pa, accused of thievery, is locked thirty miles
away in jail. She's living with the awful Smirches, her closest
neighbors and the very family that accused her Pa of the horrendous
crime. And now she's discovered one very cantankerous--and
magical--secret beneath the hazel grove. With her life flipped
upside-down, it's up to Louisa, her sassy friend Jessamine, and
that cranky secret to save Pa from a guilty verdict.
Ten bold illustrations from Erwin Madrid accompany seasoned
storyteller Melissa Wiley's vibrant and enchanting tale of life on
the prairie--with one magical twist." "
In Skull Cathedral, Melissa Wiley pulls stories from the vestigial
remnants of the creatures we were or could have become. The
appendix, pinky toes, tonsils, male nipples, wisdom teeth, and
coccyx are starting points through which Wiley explores exaltation,
eroticism, grief, and desire. Using the slow evolution and odd
disintegration of vestigial organs to enter the braided stories of
the lives we establish for ourselves, the people we grieve, and the
mysteries of youth, memory, and longing, Wiley's lens is deeply
feminist and compassionate. Turning to these mysterious anatomical
remnants, she finds insight into the lingering questions of loss
and the nagging sensations of being incomplete. For instance, in
considering the appendix, Wiley finds herself working through her
grief after the loss of her father, a sensation that again
resurfaces in the face of the moon as she looks to the sky. Testing
the boundaries of genre and fighting to expand the limits of
perception, the stylized essays of Skull Cathedral embrace the
strangeness of life through the lingering peculiarities of the
human body. Skull Cathedral, Wiley's second book of nonfiction, won
the 2019 Autumn House Nonfiction Prize.
Fox and Crow can agree on two things: their love of cheese and
loathing of each other. These cagey animals will do whatever they
can to outwit their sworn enemy and claim sole possession of the
prized cheese they keep finding. But they are too caught up in
their plotting and planning to realize they've picked the wrong
house to steal from--since the mother of the house is one fed up
Mama Bear who knows exactly how to contend with freeloaders.
Meet Martha the little girl who would grow up to be Laura Ingalls
Wilder's great-grandmother. It's 1788, and six year old Martha
lives in a little stone in Glencraid, Scotland. Martha's father is
Laird Glencaraid, and the life of the Laird's daughter is not
always easy for a lively girl like Martha. She would rather be
running barefoot through the fields of heather and listening to
magical tales of fairies and other Wee Folk than learning to sew
like a proper young lady. But between her dreaded sewing lessons,
Martha still finds time to play on the rolling Scottish hills.
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