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Pub. Date
2006
Description
The lowdown on family car camping and tent camping and experience necessary. Easy-to-use guide for families and first-time campers: how to do it, what to buy, best places to go, and what to do when you get there. Tips on keeping kids happy, healthy, and motivated during the trip plus how to engage them in the natural world.
Author
Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Formats
Description
Luis loves to read, but soon his house in Colombia is so full of books there's barely room for the family. What to do? Then he comes up with the perfect solution--a traveling library! He buys two donkeys--Alfa and Beto--and travels with them throughout the land, bringing books and reading to the children in faraway villages. Complete with an author's note about the real man on whom this story is based.
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Series
Pub. Date
2024.
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Description
The Tiger Family is going on an exciting vacation! But this time, they're taking an airplane. Since Daniel hasn't flown before, he's a little nervous. What happens when you walk through the security line? Where does your luggage go? From finding his seat to looking out the window to experiencing turbulence, Daniel has his parents and the flight attendant to explain things and ease his fears.
Author
Series
Wilma Porter novels volume 1
Pub. Date
[2004]
Description
When a traveling salesman mysteriously appears in smalltown Ebb, Nebr., he quickly settles in at Wilma Porter's Come Again B&B and sets about solving all the problems plaguing Ebb's small social circle in this chatty, earnest novel. While no one fully believes that the impeccably dressed Vernon Moore has truly come to sell games of chance (there are no prospective buyers, for one thing), they are eager to keep him around for excitement and advice....
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Series
Rance Dehner westerns volume 5
Pub. Date
2024.
Formats
Description
"The wild west becomes even wilder as violence erupts over booze in the Texas town of Red Horse. A play, The Devil's Brew, which demands the abolition of liquor, is greeted with gunfire. The author is brutally murdered, and the cast threatened with death by the appearance of devil dolls. Detective Rance Dehner quickly discovers that no one in the cast of the play believes in abolition. They are struggling actors trying to make a living. But powerful...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
"For seven-year-old M, the world is guided by a firm set of principles, based on her father D's life as a traveling salesman. Enchanted by her father's trade, M convinces him to take her along on his routes, selling hardware supplies amid the backdrop of Pinochet-era Chile. As she becomes part of a tight-knit community of fellow salesmen and grifters, M is regaled with parables and anecdotes that inform her "parallel education," D's excuse for letting...
29) The library bus
Author
Pub. Date
2020
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"Five-year-old Pari accompanies her mother on her library bus rounds for the first time, stopping at a village and a refugee camp so that girls there can exchange books and have a lesson in English. Talking with her mother as they drive, Pari learns that she is lucky that she can attend school the next year. Pari's mother had to learn in secret when it was forbidden to teach girls to read, and the young women the bus visits weekly have no other access...
34) Darkbeast
Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 10
Description
Twelve-year-old Keara runs away rather than sacrifice Caw, the darkbeast she has been bound to all her life, and, pursued by the Inquisitors who would punish her for heresy, she joins a performing troupe of Travelers.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
"For fans of Shuggie Bain and A Burning, a queer coming-of-age novel set in 1990s India, about a young man who joins a traveling theater troupe Shagun knows he will never be the kind of son his father demands. After the sudden deaths of his beloved twin sisters, Shagun flees his own guilt, his mother's grief, and his father's violent disapproval by enrolling at an all-boys boarding school. But he doesn't find true belonging until he encounters a traveling...
Author
Series
Secrets of Wayfarers Inn volume 12
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
The Wayfarer Inn is hosting the debut for a traveling theater company, but acts of sabotage soon derail the production. Meanwhile, Harry gives the inn a box of old books from his antique shop that includes a battered fragment of an antique script. A clue on the cover makes the Inn Crowd wonder if it has something to do with the inn's role as a station on the Underground Railroad.
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Description
"After amassing piles of books, Luis, a voracious reader, dreams up a way to share his collection with 'faraway villages.' He starts with two burros--one for himself, one for books--and heads off. Tough terrain and menacing bandits challenge him along the way, but at last he reaches a remote town, where he holds a story hour and loans titles to eager kids before returning home to his wife and reading late into the night"--Amazon.com.
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