Johanna Hurwitz
2) Lexi's tale
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Lexi the squirrel and his guinea pig friend Pee Wee, who live in Central Park, help a hungry stranger with a funny hat.
4) Mostly Monty
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Because he suffers from asthma, six-year-old Monty is nervous about starting first grade but he soon learns to cope with his illness and use his special talents to make friends.
6) Mighty Monty
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Monty, a quiet first-grader continues to come into his own--playing the part of a tree in a comically miscued school play, sharing his enthusiasm for ants at an outdoor birthday party, and even signing up for karate class despite his asthma.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
The identical Kelly twins Arlene and Ilene are excited for Halloween. They do everything together, and so they both decide to be witches. However, before the day arrives Arlene gets sick and has to go to the hospital, leaving Ilene all alone for the first time in her young life. However, the twins know that they have each other, no matter if separate or together.
10) PeeWee & Plush
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Here is an all-new Park Pals adventure from the author of PeeWee's Tale and Lexi's Tale. When Plush, a female guinea pig, ends up in Central Park, PeeWee thinks he'll have a family soon. But at first, Plush would rather listen to classical music than explore the wild outdoors with him. Then PeeWee finds out that winter will be comingsomething neither of them have ever faced. And for once, PeeWee's best friend, Lexi, who always has something...
13) One small dog
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Curtis gets a dog when his parents divorce, but his beloved new dog causes problems that he did not expect.
14) Busybody Nora
Author
Language
English
Description
Relates the adventures of an inquisitive little girl who lives in a large apartment building in New York with her parents and little brother Teddy.
15) Russell's secret
Author
Language
English
Description
When Russell decides to stay home from nursery school and be a baby just like his new sister, he discovers that being treated like a baby when you are a big boy is no fun at all.
18) Starting school
Author
Language
English
Description
Although placed in separate classes, twins Marius and Marcus prove to be double trouble for their kindergarten teachers.
19) Faraway summer
Author
Language
English
Description
In the summer of 1910, Dossi, a poor Russian immigrant from the tenements of New York, spends two weeks with the Meade family on their Vermont farm, and all their lives are enriched by the experience.
20) Class president
Author
Language
English
Description
Julio hides his own leadership ambitions to help another candidate win the nomination for class president.