Jane Kurtz
1) Lanie
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
108 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Ten-year-old Lanie of Cambridge, Massachusetts, who loves nature and the outdoors, wants to go camping with her family but her favorite aunt teaches Lanie to find the wonders of nature anywhere, even in her own backyard.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
106 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Ten-year-old Lanie's wildflower garden is thriving and attracting butterflies to her Cambridge, Massachusetts, backyard, but a neighbor not only objects to her growing "weeds," she also uses harmful chemicals on her own plants.
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
Illustrations and easy-to-read, rhyming text follow a flock of chickens that gets loose and runs rampant through a city, causing mischief and mayhem. Includes information about keeping chickens in an urban environment.
10) Celebrating Ohio
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
36 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 30 cm
Language
English
Description
"Discover the true story of the race between two paleontologists to find dinosaur fossils in this nonfiction picture book. O. C. Marsh and Edward Cope met in 1863 and bonded over their shared love of fossils, becoming the best of friends. Until one day Marsh discovered an error in Cope's work, and the Bone Wars began! Marsh and Cope raced each other around the world, excavating fossils and trying to find the most important never-before-seen discoveries."--...
16) Anna was here
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
279 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Three generations of the Nickel family reunite when fourth-grader Anna, her Mom and Dad, and four-year-old sister Isabella relocate to Oakwood, Kansas.
18) Planet Jupiter
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
278 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Having spent her life on the road with her family young Jupiter feels out of place when her family rents a house for the summer and takes in an adopted cousin from Ethiopia who hatches a plan to return home.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
207 pages : illustrations (some color).
Language
English
Description
After being kidnapped and brought to the emperor's palace in Gondar, Ethiopia, twelve-year-old Saba discovers that she and her brother are part of the emperor's desperate attempt to consolidate political power in the mid-1840's.
Author
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
Kofi can't sleep in his new home in the United States, so his older sister Abena soothes his fears about life in a different country by telling him two folktales from their native Ghana about the nature of wisdom and perseverance.
