Each Little Bird That Sings

3 cassettes, 5hrs 7mins

Ten-year-old Comfort Snowberger knows a thing or two about death. Her family owns the town funeral home and she has attended 247 funerals. She can tell you which casseroles are worth tasting, whom to sit next to and whom to avoid at all costs. Number one on that "avoid" list is Comfort's sniveling, whining, unpredictable cousin Peach, who ruins every family vacation.
 So when Great-great-aunt Florentine drops dead - just like that - Comfort expects a family gathering to remember. What she doesn't count on is: One, she has to watch over Peach after the funeral. And two, her best friend, Declaration, has suddenly turned downright mean. Now, even if it means missing the most important funeral of her life, all Comfort really wants to do is sit in her closet with her dog, Dismay, and hide. But life is full of surprises. And the biggest one of all is learning what it takes to handle them.

Deborah Wiles

Listening Library

Freedom Summer

Listening Library (Audio)

Ten year old Comfort Snowberger knows a thing or two about death. Her family owns the town funeral home and she has attended 247 funerals. She can tell you which casseroles are worth tasting, whom to sit next to, and whom to avoid at all costs. Number one on that Avoid list is Comfort's sniveling, whining, unpredictable cousin Peach, who ruins every family occasion. So when Great-great-aunt Florentine droops dead-just like that-Comfort expects a family gathering to remember. What she doesn't count on is: One, she has to watch over Peach after the funeral. And two, her best friend, Declaration, has suddenly turned downright mean. Now, even if it means missing the most important funeral of her life, all Comfort really wants to do is sit in hercloset with her dog, Dismay, and hide. But life is full of surprises. And the biggest one of all is learning what it takes to handle them.

scholastic

John Henry swims better than anyone I know. He crawls like a catfish, blows bubbles like a swamp monster, but he doesn't swim in the town pool with me. He's not allowed. Joe and John Henry are a lot alike. They both like shooting marbles, they both want to be firemen, and they both love to swim. But there's one important way they're different: Joe is white and John Henry is black and in the South in 1964, that means John Henry isn't allowed to do everything his best friend is. Then a law is passed that forbids segregation and opens the town pool to everyone. Joe and John Henry are so excited they race each other there...only to discover that it takes more than a new law to change people's hearts. This stirring account of the "Freedom Summer" that followed the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 powerfully and poignantly captures two boys' experience with racism and their friendship that defies it.

Children's Books

Jerome Lagarrigue

Literature & Fiction

Atheneum Books for Young Readers

Love, Ruby Lavender

Walker Books

Ten-year-old Comfort Snowberger has attended 247 funerals--her family owns the local funeral home, after all. And even though Great-uncle Edisto keeled over with a heart attack and Great-great-aunt Florentine dropped dead--just like that--six months later, Comfort knows how to deal with loss, or so she thinks. She's more concerned with avoiding her crazy cousin Peach and trying to figure out why her best friend, Declaration, suddenly won't talk to her. But life is full of surprises. And the biggest one of all is learning what it takes to handle them. In this heartfelt and quintessentially Southern coming-of-age novel, Comfort will charm young readers with her wit, her warmth, and her struggles as she learns about life, loss, and ultimately, triumph. "I""ncludes reader's guide and a biography of the author."

Teen & Young Adult

Turtleback Books

Ruby Lavender and Miss Eula are a pretty good team, for a couple of chicken thieves. What other granddaughter-grandmother duo could successfully drive the getaway car for chickens rescued from a journey to the slaughterhouse, paint a whole house shocking pink, and operate their own personal secret-letter post office? So, when Miss Eula leaves for Hawaii to visit her new grandbaby, Ruby is sure that she will have a lonely, empty, horrible summer in boring old Halleluia, Mississippi. What happens instead? She makes a new friend, saves the school play, writes plenty of letters to her favorite (and only) grandmother . . . and finally learns to stop blaming herself for her grandfather's death. Not too bad, for a nine-year-old.

Love, Ruby Lavender (Lib)(CD)

Classics

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Classroom Library Award Winning Books: The Marvelous Misadventure of Sebastian; Stuck in Neutral; the Cay; Ice Drift; Sailor Returns; a Wrinkle in Time; Dovey Coe; Racing the Sun; Shooting the Moon; Each Little Bird That Sings

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Each Little Bird That Sings

Each Little Bird That Sings

Freedom Summer

Each Little Bird That Sings

Each Little Bird That Sings

Freedom Summer

Love, Ruby Lavender

Each Little Bird That Sings

Love, Ruby Lavender (Lib)(CD)

Classroom Library Award Winning Books: The Marvelous Misadventure of Sebastian; Stuck in Neutral; the Cay; Ice Drift; Sailor Returns; a Wrinkle in Time; Dovey Coe; Racing the Sun; Shooting the Moon; Each Little Bird That Sings