Zibby Oneal
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American academic and author
Books
The improbable adventures of Marvelous O'Hara Soapstone
The Soapstone family finds it very difficult to cope with their pig when she falls in love with the cement dolphin in the park lily pond.
A long way to go
An eight-year-old girl deals with the women's suffrage movement that rages during World War I.
In summer light
With the help of an attractive graduate student, Kate endures a summer with her overpowering artist father and gains the courage to pursue her own artistic goals.
War work
Bored with salvaging scrap material in their war efforts, three Midwestern children decide to hunt enemy spies and become embroiled in real intrigue.
Turtle and snail
Five episodes in which a turtle and a snail demonstrate their fondness for and loyalty to each other.
A formal feeling
Sixteen-year-old Anne, home from boarding school for the holidays, has difficulty accepting her new stepmother's presence in the house that holds so many memories of her dead mother.
Maude and Walter
Six stories chronicle some of the good and some of the bad times Walter has with his little sister Maude.
The language of goldfish
Thirteen-year-old Carrie, clinging to memories of her idyllic early childhood, struggles to communicate with family and classmates.
Grandma Moses, painter of rural America
A biography focusing on the early years of Grandma Moses, who was known for her paintings of rural America.