Author: Peter Lourie
Publisher: Boyds Mills Press
Keywords: chaco, canyon, mysteries, exploring, world, anasazi, lost
Number of Pages: 48
Published: 2007-01
List price: $11.95
ISBN-10: 1590784758
ISBN-13: 9781590784754

More than a thousand years ago, a people known as the Anasazi lived in the North American Southwest.  They produced pottery, baskets, and cloth, and engaged in trade. They were master builders and erected magnificent structures.  Then in the last half of the thirteenth century, something mysterious happened. The Anasazi walked away from their world and vanished into history. But why? One place to look for clues is in northwestern New Mexico, among the ruins of Chaco Canyon. The discovery of a network of roads leading to the canyon have led some archaeologists to believe that this may have

Author: Shulamith Levey Oppenheim
Publisher: Boyds Mills Press
Keywords: name, hundredth
Number of Pages: 32
Published: 1997-09
List price: $9.95
ISBN-10: 1563976943
ISBN-13: 9781563976940

To help his depressed camel, Qadlim, Salah, a Muslim boy prays to Allah for assistance, in a lyrical story that evokes village life along the Nile and captures a youngster’s faith.

Author: Georgia Heard
Publisher: Boyds Mills Press
Keywords: poems, sky, sea, earth, creatures
Number of Pages: 32
Published: 1997-01
List price: $10.95
ISBN-10: 1563976358
ISBN-13: 9781563976353

A collection of poems for young children, illustrated in dramatic detail thatcelebrates wildlife and the natural world around us. Full color.

Author: Joy Cowley
Publisher: Boyds Mills Press
Keywords: tractor, trusty, rusty
Number of Pages: 32
Published: 2000-02
List price: $9.95
ISBN-10: 1563978733
ISBN-13: 9781563978739

THIS EDITION IS INTENDED FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Mr. Hill of Hill’s Tractor Sales bets Micah’s Grandpappy that his rusty old tractor won’t make it through another hay season. But Micah learns that like an old friend, the tractor doesn’t let

Author: Margie Hayes Richmond
Publisher: Boyds Mills Press
Keywords: craft, tubes
Number of Pages: 48
Published: 1997-09
List price: $5.95
ISBN-10: 1563976773
ISBN-13: 9781563976773

Cardboard tubes are transformed into a vast array of toys, games, decorations and gifts.

Author: Pat Brisson
Publisher: Boyds Mills Press
Keywords: roses, wanda
Number of Pages: 32
Published: 2000-08
List price: $10.95
ISBN-10: 156397925X
ISBN-13: 9781563979255

THIS EDITION IS INTENDED FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Wanda cleans up an empty lot so the rosebush she found there can bloom, despite the doubts of her neighbors.

Author: Richard Ammon
Publisher: Boyds Mills Press
Keywords: year, amish
Number of Pages: 36
Published: 2007-08
List price: $10.95
ISBN-10: 1590784650
ISBN-13: 9781590784655

Spend a year with Anna and her family and learn what it is like to be Amish, from day to day and season to season. In the springtime, Anna looks forward to Easter festivities, planting the garden, and spring cleaning. Sumer begins with the school picnic. On a clear summer day, Anna’s family makes hay and afterwards enjoys a picnic with ice cream. In fall, Anna begins fourth grade in the one room schoolhouse, and at home she helps her mother can fruit for the winter. November is wedding season for the Amish, and Thanksgiving and Christmas follow soon after. Winter is a time for feas