Patricia Polacco
2) Pink and Say
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English
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Chronicles the frienship of Pink, a fifteen-year-old African-American Union soldier, and Say, his poor white comrade, as one nurses the other back to health from a battle wound and the two of them are imprisoned at Andersonville. Based on a true story.
3) Thunder cake
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English
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A grandmother helps her granddaughter get over her fear of thunderstorms by getting her to help bake a thunder cake.
10) The bee tree
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English
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To teach his grandaughter the value of books a grandfather leads a growing crowd in search of the tree where the bees keep all their honey.
11) Babushka's Doll
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English
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A little girl gets a doll that turns out to be twice as rambunctious as her owner.
14) Mrs. Mack
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English
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The author remembers the summer when she was ten years old and staying with her father in Michigan where she took riding lessons and became best friends with a perfect horse.
15) Some birthday!
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English
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On her birthday Dad takes a young girl and her brother to see the Monster at Clay Pit Bottom.