Tony Johnston
63) Scary stories
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An imp, a goblin, and a scalawag get together to tell the scariest stories they can think of.
66) The wagon
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A young boy is sustained by his family as he endures the difficulties of being a slave, but when he finally gains his freedom, his joy is tempered by the death of President Lincoln.
69) Go track a yak
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A couple of bumbling parents with a hungry baby seek help from a tricky little witch, but it is a sweet black-eyed yak who really helps them to live happily ever after.
71) Angel City
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An old black man finds a baby abandoned in a dumpster and raises him in a rough Los Angeles neighborhood to know both African American and Mexican American ways.
73) Pages of music
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A childhood visit to Sardinia haunts a composer, who returns there one Christmas to repay with his music the kindness of the island's inhabitants.
77) Grandpa's song
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When a young girl's beloved, exuberant grandfather becomes forgetful, she helps him by singing their favorite song.
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From Belfast, from Cairo, and from the other side of the world come the voices of ordinary people experiencing the devastation of war. The twenty-six poems here speak in sorrow, in numb horror, in hope, and in cautious joy, all yearning for an end to armed conflicts. Journey through Tony Johnston's haunting poems and Susan Guevara's astonishing paintings in this passionate call for peace.
79) That summer
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A family, including a child who is dying, sews together a quilt of its memories and love.