1984 Master List
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- THE ANIMAL, THE VEGETABLE & JOHN D. JONES / Betsy Byars
- Delacorte, 1982. $9.95.
- A much looked forward to vacation with Dad gets complicated for Clara and Deanie when Dad's new girlfriend and her son join the party.
- CAN'T CATCH ME, I'M THE GINGERBREAD MAN / Jamie Gilson
- Lothrop, 1981. $9.95.
- Mitch is the only male contestant in a national baking contest.
- CHESTER / Mary Frances Shura
- Dodd, Mead, 1980. $7.95.
- Chester takes away everyone's "claim to fame" when he moves in and breaks all the records.
- CHESTER CRICKET'S PIGEON RIDE / George Selden
- Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 1981. $10.95.
- Chester gets an exciting ride and a pigeon's eye view of New York in this sequel to A Cricket in Times Square.
- THE CRANE WIFE / Katherine Paterson
- Morrow, 1981. $8.95.
- A beautifully told and illustrated oriental folktale of sacrifice and greed.
- DICEY'S SONG / Cynthia Voigt
- Atheneum, 1982. $10.95.
- 1983 Newbery winner. Dicey's conflict...wanting to be head of her family but still needing her grandmother's love and guidance.
- DINOSAURS OF NORTH AMERICA / Helen Roney Sattler
- Lothrop, 1981. $11.95.
- Another good dinosaur book for the lover of those large reptiles.
- THE DIVORCE EXPRESS / Paula Danziger
- Delacorte, 1982. $10.95.
- Phoebe and Rosie become friends on the weekly bus trip between homes of their divorced parents.
- DOG THAT STOLE FOOTBALL PLAYS / Matt Christopher
- Little, Brown, 1980. $6.95.
- A dog that can transfer its thoughts to a boy and a football team make a winning game.
- DR. DESOTO / William Steig
- Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1982. $9.95.
- 1983 Newbery Honor Book. Can mouse dentist Dr. DeSoto trust his patient, a well-dressed fox?
- FUNNYBONES / Allan Ahlberg
- Greenwillow, 1981. $9.95.
- The skeletons (and their skeleton dog) out looking for some "spooky" fun.
- THE HEADLESS ROOMMATE & OTHER TALES OF TERROR / Daniel Cohen
- Evans, 1980. $7.95.
- Scary folktales and legends.
- HOMESICK: MY OWN STORY / Jean Fritz
- Putnam, 1982. $9.95.
- Fritz's autobiographical historical novel about China in the early 1900's.
- JOEL: GROWING UP A FARM MAN / Patricia Demuth
- Dodd, 1982. $12.95.
- A book (via lots of photographs and narrative) at what life is like on a farm today.
- JOKES TO READ IN THE DARK / Scott Corbett
- Dutton, 1980. $10.25.
- Dumb jokes and a "how to" guide to make them up.
- KNOCK AT A STAR / X.J. & Doris Kennedy
- Little, Brown, 1982. $12.95.
- An introduction to poetry for children.
- LAST WAS LLOYD / Doris Buchanan Smith
- Viking, 1981. $9.95.
- When Lloyd tries to grow up it causes conflicts with his overprotective mother.
- LET THE CIRCLE BE UNBROKEN / Mildred Taylor
- Dial, 1981. $12.95.
- Sequel to Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry. Cassie and her family continue in their struggle for survival in prejudiced Mississippi.
- MAN FROM THE SKY / Avi
- Knopf, 1980. $4.99.
- Jamie finds out that real life can be just as exciting as day dreams and he needs to learn the difference.
- MISS NELSON IS BACK / Harry Allard, James Marshall
- Houghton Mifflin, 1982. $8.95.
- Sequel to Miss Nelson Is Missing. Adventures of substitute teachers.
- MONA LISA MYSTERY / Par Hutchins
- Greenwillow, 1981. $9.95.
- A school field trip in Paris becomes very exciting and frightening.
- MOVE OVER TWERP / Martha Alexander
- Dial, 1981. $7.95.
- How to survive when you're the smallest person on the school bus.
- MYSTERY OF PLUM PARK PONY / Lynn Hall
- Garrad, 1980. $6.27.
- Susan and Kent need to solve the mystery of a pony Susan rode but apparently doesn't exist in the amusement park stables.
- NICHOLAS BENTLEY STONINGPOT III / Ann McGovern
- Holiday, 1982. $11.95.
- For Nicholas being stranded on a desert island is just exactly what he wants.
- PELICAN / Brian Wildsmith
- Pantheon, 1982. $8.95.
- Paul finds a strange egg, it hatches into a pelican and Paul has to teach it how to fish.
- PLAYING BEATIE BOW / Ruth Park
- Atheneum, 1982. $9.95.
- Abigail discovers an earlier time and its people in her own neighborhood.
- PORCUPINE STEW / Beverly Major
- W. Morrow, 1982. $9.95.
- How can porcupines make stew? What do they really do with their quills. This dream/fantasy answers these and many more questions.
- POEM STEW / William Cole
- Lippincott, 1981. $9.95.
- Poems, poems and more poems about food.
- RALPH S. MOUSE / Beverly Cleary
- Morrow, 1982. $8.50.
- Cleary gives Ralph yet another adventure in this sequel to The Mouse and the Motorcycle and Runaway Ralph.
- RODEO: THE GREAT AMERICAN SPORT / Murray Tinklemen
- Greenwillow, 1982. $8.59.
- Pictures and descriptions combine to give an insider's book at the exciting rodeo world.
- A ROSE FOR PINKERTON / Steven Kellogg
- Dial, 1981. $10.95.
- Kellogg has given us another Pinkerton adventure to laugh at.
- SHADOW / Blaise Cendrars; Marcia Brown, ill.
- Scribner, 1982. $12.95.
- 1983 Caldecott winner. Vivid colors are used to illustrate this African tale by poet Blaise Cendrars.
- THE SHERIFF OF ROTTENSHOT / Jack Prelutsky
- Greenwillow, 1980. $9.95.
- A collection of funny short poems each with its own "rotten" drawing.
- SOUP'S DRUM / R. N. Peck
- Knopf, 1980. $6.95.
- Soup and Rob have more hilarious adventures when they decide to join the town's Fourth of July celebration.
- THAT TERRIBLE HALLOWEEN NIGHT / James Stevenson
- Greenwillow, 1980. $8.95.
- Grandpa tells about the terrible Halloween night that turned him from a boy into an old man.
- TODAY WAS A TERRIBLE DAY / Patricia Reilly Giff
- Viking, 1980. $8.95.
- A companion for Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day.
- THE UNICORN & THE LAKE / Marianna Mayer
- Dial, 1982. $7.95.
- Folk legend of the wonderful, magical unicorn and how he saved the world.
- WEIRD HENRY BERG / Sarah Sargent
- Crown, 1980. $7.95.
- An antique egg hatches and the new "baby" leads Henry on a very difficult mission.
- WESTMARK / Lloyd Alexander
- Dutton, 1981.
- Theo flees Westmark and joins up with mysterious Dr. Absalom for an exciting adventure.
- WHEN I WAS YOUNG IN THE MOUNTAINS / Cynthia Rylant
- Dutton, 1982.
- 1983 Caldecott Honor Book. Recollections of growing up on Appalachia.
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