Brian Floca
1) Lightship
Author
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Story of the ships that provided light to other ships where lighthouses could not be built.
2) Locomotive
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
It is the summer of 1869, and trains, crews, and families are traveling together, riding America's brand new transcontinental railroad. The story comes alive with the details of the trip and the sounds, speed, and strength of the mighty locomotives; the work that keeps them moving; and the thrill of travel from plains to mountain to ocean. Come hear the hiss of the steam, feel the heat of the engine, watch the landscape race by. Come ride the rails,...
3) Five trucks
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Five different trucks do five different jobs to get an airplane ready for takeoff.
Author
Series
Poppy and friends volume 5
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Poppy, accompanied by her troublesome son Junior, his skunk friend, and Uncle Ereth the porcupine, responds to a summons to return to her ancestral home, Gray House, to save the mice there from destruction by a bulldozer.
10) Poppy
Author
Series
Poppy and friends volume 2
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
A hoot owl, Ocax, rules Dimwood Forest and promises to protect the mice as long as they ask his permission to move about. Poppy is a deer mouse under the owl's protection, but when her fiance is killed by Ocax she defies the owl and begins a journey to a new place. Poppy wants to find a place where her family can live away from Ocax, but she has to do it without Ocax catching her.
Author
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Summoned to the Great Castle of Firenze to create a special dress for Princess Isabella Caramella Gorgonzola, Anabel, a talented seamstress, is at first delighted but then increasingly despairing as time passes and her efforts are continually subverted by an unseen sprite.
12) Ereth's birthday
Author
Series
Poppy and friends volume 4
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Feeling neglected on his birthday, Ereth, the cantankerous old porcupine, sets out looking for his favorite treat and instead finds himself acting as "mother" to three young fox kits.
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Publisher Annotation: Princess Cora is sick of boring lessons. She's sick of running in circles around the dungeon gym. She's sick, sick, sick of taking three baths a day. And her parents won't let her have a dog. But when she writes to her fairy godmother for help, she doesn't expect that help to come in the form of a crocodile-a crocodile who does not behave properly. With perfectly paced dry comedy, children's book luminaries Laura Amy Schlitz...
Author
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
While spending Christmas at their grandparents' farm, Lily becomes convinced that her younger brother Liam is right about White Cow being lonely and helps him seek a companion for her, leaving little time for Christmas preparations or reading.
Author
Series
Marty McGuire books volume 2
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
With help from her Grandma Barb, Marty builds a habitat for worms in her school cafeteria as part of the Save the Earth Project.
Author
Series
Marty McGuire books volume 3
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
After visiting a great ape sanctuary, Marty and her friends set out to raise the money to "adopt" a chimpanzee by organizing a talent show at school and starting a pet-sitting business in Marty's basement--which soon gets out of hand.