Morrow junior books

A memorable story of three delightful girls, growing up against the exotic background of India. The two English girls and the lovely French girl, contrasting strongly with each other and with the exotic, teeming life of Calcutta. Inseparable, they shared a joyous, carefree girlhood. Parted during the war, when they met again they were young ladies in a newer, more modern India. An India where there seemed to be a great many more young men, and it wasn't long after their arrival that some of those young men became aware that new girls had been added to the city's meager total.

Describes the day-to-day adventures of a little Negro boy who lives on an island, including how he learns to tie his shoelaces and tell time, and how he finally makes a boat trip around the island.

Third graders create a zoo for small animals in their classroom.

A general introduction to the monkey families of the old and new worlds, their behavior in the wild, and the special attention they need in captivity.

Defines the structure and insides of fruit, flowers, seeds, vegetables, stems, and leaves, describing how each nourishes itself.

David was a young train lover who met an adult who was also a fan and part of a train club. David decides to start his own club amongst his young friends.

Eight-year-old Eddie Wilson, who collects valuable property and stray animals, acquires a goat and an old fire engine.

Tells where to find seeds of trees and how to grow them, and explains the pipelines in trees, how trees grow, how they differ from each other, and tree flowers. Includes simple observations and experiments.

Teenage novel from 1955. American girl goes to boarding school in Switzerland, where she learns to ski and meets a boy from back home.

A teacher has arrived in Lansat village teaching about the God of heaven and not the devils that the villagers are used to. Damin, one of a widow's two sons, goes on a trip to clear forest for rice paddies, but a few later, he falls dangerously ill. Soon, his younger brother Pala is ill too. The widow consults the village witch doctor, but after paying the witch doctor with everything, the two boys are even sicker. The teacher who teaches about God charges nothing and is kind. Can the teacher's medicine and the believers' prayers save the lives of the two boys and win the hearts of small family and the villagers?

Five-year-old Kwei-li lived in a village on the seacoast of China, called Locust Village because of the locusts that sang in the pine trees in the square. When Kwei-li's father and her brother Shan brought back a donkey from the fair, she was overjoyed. She had seen just such a donkey ridden by a rich little girl whose summer home was on the beach. The only difference was that the new donkey had no jingling bells - and Kwei-li longed for them

Ken gets on the team by good playing but he has a secret to hide and when his past catches up with him, it threatens to ruin his game.

A biography of Jacques Cartier, the 16th century French explorer who discovered the St. Lawrence River during his explorations of Canada.

Eddie has a pet goat named Gardenia who gets into too much trouble for Father to put up with, so Uncle Ed offers to have Gardenia on his ranch in Texas to live, and Eddie to stay with them for a few months.

Discusses lions, tigers, cheetahs, and other big cats whose strength, speed, and cunning make them very successful hunters.

In 1838, two missionary couples, the Walkers and the Eellses, joined the party going west as a reinforcement to the Oregon Mission. Just married when the trip began, Mary Walker and Myra Eells rode on horseback from Missouri to Oregon, keeping diaries throughout the months on the hazardous trail. After spending a winter at the Whitman mission in present-day Washington, the Walkers and Eellses moved north to do missionary work among the Spokane Indians. Throughout On to Oregon the presence of Myra Fairbanks Eells is deeply felt, but it is Mary Richardson Walker who will be remembered for perhaps the richest diary we have from a woman pioneering in the West.

Illustrations, large type text, and more detailed text explain how the everyday things inside a house work--doorbell, electric light, stove, refrigerator, furnace, toilet, and faucet.

Ginnie wanted to have curly hair and wear frilly clothes but she looked better with straight hair and simple clothes. She hated to do things she couldn't do well, but got over this on a gala holiday where swimming was essential for the sailing she yearned for.

More than anything, Star wants to go to school - but she's not old enough. Every morning she watches her big sister Betsy, and all her friends, walk to school, and wishes she could go with them. But Star can't stay sad. She's too busy having adventures! One day she does go to school - in a milk truck! On Halloween, she and her friends play a funny trick - and scare the big kids. Then Star finds Butch, a new friend who's just her age. Butch and Star discover something terrific - that makes all the other children wish they could stay home from school too! When her birthday comes, Star has only one wish - for a very special present. Will her wish come true?

A little Chinese girl, who lives with her adopted American missionary parents in China, has many adventures such as being lost in a dust storm, getting a new baby sister, going to school with other Chinese girls, and meeting her real parents.

It was difficult for Vickie to tell the twins apart, until something happened to one of them, which seemed to solve her problem.

Instructions on collecting specimens for and maintaining a salt or fresh water aquarium. Describes the behavior of both types of specimens in captivity.

Directions for growing plants from roots, stems, leaves, and seeds of common potatoes, beans, and house plants. Tells how a seed grows and presents simple gardening experiments.

Four-year-old twins in search of a dog to eat their two dog biscuits find all the dogs undeserving and so they look for another recipient.

First DateFifteen-year-old Jean is astonished when a handsome Johnny whirls her 'round the dance floor. She's never given much thought to boys before; now Johnny is all that's on her mind. Finally she finds the courage to invite him to a dance. But the excitement of a new dress and a scheme to take Johnny's photograph cannot stop jean's growing uneasiness that she likes Johnny a lot more than he likes her . . .This high-school story, which is both funny and touching, is about a girl who lacks self-confidence, and a boy who has too much.

A brief introduction to the anatomy of a clam, starfish, earthworm, grasshopper, fish, frog, and dog.

With interference and suggestions from his twin sister Janet, four-year-old Jimmy sets out to dig the biggest hole in the world.

Eddie doesn't want to play anything but ball, but when the school starts an orchestra, he decides to learn something fast so that he can join too.

Dexter the dragon finds he can blow smoke and gets so excited by this newfound skill that he lords it over the other animals until they get sick of him and won't play with him anymore. When he becomes lonely he thinks of an ingenious way to get his friends to like him again.