Wisconsin : An Annotated Bibliography

These books are by Wisconsin authors or are books about Wisconsin and are available from the Wisconsin Talking Book and Braille Library catalog.

Categories include:

Adult Fiction
Adult Non-Fiction
Children's Fiction
Children's Non-Fiction

KEY: [BR, BRA, BRW] = Braille, [DB, DBC, DBW] = Digital Book, and [K] = Kit

Adult Fiction

Akins, Ellen. Public Life. A videographer is hired to refine a political candidate's media image. DB 37884.
Anderson, Kevin J. Champions of the force. In this Star Wars novel, Luke Skywalker lies comatose, fighting for survival on the spirit plane. DB 40279.
Anderson, Kevin J. Dark apprentice. In this Star Wars novel, one of Luke's Jedi students is seduced by the Dark Side of the Force. DB 40266.
Anderson, Kevin J. Darksaber. Luke and Han Solo return to Tatooine. DB 42038.
Anderson, Kevin J. Jedi search. This Star Wars novel opens as Luke Skywalker searches for Jedi descendants. DB 38884.
Ansay, A. Manette. Vinegar Hill. When James Grier loses his job, he takes his family home to Wisconsin to live with his parents. But the situation becomes stifling for his wife, Ellen, who suddenly finds herself running the household of a bitter and narrow-minded mother-in-law. Yet, Ellen finds the strength to endure. Some violence. Bestseller. DB 49824.
Berg, Elizabeth. Open house: a novel. Abandoned at forty-two, Samantha must make a new life for herself and her eleven-year-old son. After a shopping spree--at her husband's expense--she decides to take in boarders for income. King, who helps Samantha's first tenant move in, becomes a friend and encourages her independence. Some descriptions of sex and some strong language. Bestseller. DB 50525
Bloch, Robert. Bitter ends: the complete stories of Robert Bloch, v. 2. 31 stories published in the 1950s, in which Bloch explores the monsters living within humans. DB 38509.
Bloch, Robert. Final reckonings: the complete stories of Robert Bloch, v. 1. 27 suspense tales by Wisconsin's master of horror. DB 38508.
Bloch, Robert. Last rites: the complete stories of Robert Bloch, v. 3. 39 stories, mostly horror and suspense, in which Bloch takes ordinary situations and adds a twist. DB 39522.
Bloch, Robert. The night of the Ripper. A suspenseful recreation of the Jack the Ripper crimes of the 1880s. The many suspects in the gory murder cases include a lecherous surgeon, a woman-hating barrister, and Queen Victoria's kinky grandson Eddy. DB 22889.
Bloch, Robert. Once around the Bloch: an unauthorized autobiography. Milwaukee-born SF writer Bloch provides a tongue-in-cheek account of his life. DB 39377.
Bloch, Robert. Psycho. The classic thriller that inspired the Alfred Hitchcock movie of the same name. A young woman who has just stolen a lot of money has the bad luck to stay at a secluded motel run by a painfully shy manager with a fatal mother fixation. DB 19378.
Bloch, Robert. Psycho II. Norman Bates, murderer and former motel owner, is at large again after breaking free from a psycho ward. He cuts a wide swath of blood all the way to Hollywood, where, as it happens, they are making a movie about his life and crimes. DB 19431.
Bloch, Robert. Psycho House. The sequel to "Psycho" and "Psycho II" continues the story of Norman Bates. When the Bates Motel and house are rebuilt as a tourist attraction, the murders begin again. Determined to write a book on Bates, Amy Haines finds Fairvale uncooperative when she visits the town during this latest murder epidemic. Everyone seems a likely suspect, even Amy, whose research is leading her closer to the killer. DB 34353.
Bloch, Robert. Screams: three novels of suspense. Contains "The Will to Kill", "Firebug", and "The Star Stalker". DB 31106.
Bloch, Robert. Twilight Zone, the movie: a novel. Four-part fantasy novel based on the movie. DB 21398.
Bowen, Michael A. Can't miss: a novel. When a college senior hits .643, baseball scouts notice--even when it's a woman! DB 26622
Bowen, Michael A. Washington deceased: a mystery. A romp which combines politics (the art of the possible) with a locked-room murder (the art of the impossible). DB 34951.
Bringle, Mary. The Footpath Murder. Almost everyone in town had a motive for killing John Belford with a bizarre 19th century weapon. Inspector Davis must decide which one did it. BR 03345.
Bringle, Mary. The Man in the Moss-Colored Trousers. A half-dozen kids of Gilligan's Crescent, a working-class street in the village of Balgriffin near Dublin, discover the body of a stranger in an abandoned race track. Kindly middle-aged detective Sean Lynch has his work cut for him in identifying both the corpse and the murderer. DB 25357.
Bringle, Mary. Open Heart. Rafaella Leone, a beautiful young Italian widow, arrives at the famed Houston Med Center for cardiovascular surgery by world-reknowned Dr. Lassiter. Before the operation she meets documentary film maker Steven Morrissey, who befriends her and becomes her lover. DB 18884.
Bristow, Gwen. Tomorrow is forever. Happily married to her second husband, Elizabeth feels a tremor of recognition when a bearded fugitive writer from Germany comes into her life. DB 28289.
Browning, Pamela. Fly away. When Tim Vogel's old family farm in Curtisville, Kansas, is sold at auction, he unhappily sets out for parts unknown flying a Cessna plane into the Everglades. Then his buddy offers him a job as a crop duster in Wisconsin, where he falls in love with a young woman and is convinced that he has a new life ahead. DB 28761.
Buckley, William F. The Redhunter: a novel based on the life of Senator Joe McCarthy. The Wisconsin senator's life and anticommunist crusade are sympathetically recalled. DB 50333.
Canin, Ethan. Blue River. Two brothers discover they need each other's forgiveness. DB 34758.
Canin, Ethan. Emperor of the air: stories. This 1st short story collection won the Houghton Mifflin literary fellowship. DB 28224.
Canin, Ethan. For kings and planets: a novel. A look at the dark side of an eastern seaboard family. DB 47086.
Chang, Lan Samantha. Hunger: a novella and stories. A novella and five short stories revealing stresses within the family when Chinese immigrants confront cultural difficulties in America. Banta Award winner. DB 47737.
Daly, Maureen. Acts of love. As Retta and her parents fight a superhighway project, Retta is falling in love with Dallas Dobson, a transfer student whose family recently moved back to town. Retta finds a short story her mother wrote about a romance with Dallas' father, Danny. For high school and adult readers. BR 07776.
Daly, Maureen. Seventeenth Summer. A woman recalls the leisurely summer before World War II when she was seventeen and falling in love for the very first time. For high school and adult readers. BRW 245 / DB 25758.
Derleth, August W. Restless is the river. A historical novel of the Wisconsin River settlements. BRW 2193.
Derleth, August W. Wind over Wisconsin. A historical romance of Wisconsin, set during 1832's Black Hawk War. BRW 2103.
De Weese, Gene. The backhoe gothic. A young Milwaukee backhoe operator investigates her father's death. BRW 23.
De Weese, Gene. Chain of attack: a Star trek novel. While on a mapping expedition, the starship Enterprise is hurled into a distant galaxy of lifeless worlds, and the middle of an interstellar war. The starship finds itself under attack by both warring factions, and Captain Kirk must risk everything to stop the war. DB 26694.
De Weese, Gene. The final nexus: a Star trek novel. Centuries ago an unknown race from beyond our galaxy created a series of interstellar gates but left no clue as to how they worked. Those gates are now breaking down, and it is up to Captain Kirk and the crew of the Enterprise to solve the mystery of how they operate. DB 30281.
De Weese, Gene. Into the Nebula: Star Trek The Next Generation, No. 36. Captain Picard and the crew of the Enterprise discover a planet on which all life is dying. DB 44646.
Dintenfass, Mark L. Old world, new world: a novel. 20th century family saga follows the descendants of a Jewish couple who emigrate to New York City from Russia before World War One. DB 18063.
Dorner, Marjorie. Family closets. A skeleton is found in the cistern of Barbara Mullins' former family home. When it proves to be her father's brother, missing since World War II, she is determined to solve the mystery. DB 31198.
Ferber, Edna. American beauty. The Oakes estate, once the showplace of the Connecticut River valley, is in 1890 a starved, barren land. Spinster Judith, last of the Oakes, teams up with Polish immigrant Ondia Olszak in a struggle to save the farm. DB 18597.
Ferber, Edna. Cimarron. Oklahoma during the great land rush of 1889 is the background for the story of Yancey Cravat, dreamer, adventurer and gunman, and his wife Sabra, who makes herself into a sturdy pioneer woman and a member of Congress. DB 35647.
Ferber, Edna. Giant. An elegant young Virginia woman, married to a rich Texas rancher, adjusts with difficulty to the brash frontier lifestyle. DB 51155.
Ferber, Edna. Ice Palace. In Baranof, Alaska, a young Eskimo-Norwegian girl, reared by both grandfathers, must decide between a Seattle politician and an Eskimo pilot. DB 28439.
Ferber, Edna. Saratoga trunk. A married pair of adventurers set out to win their own railroad in 1880s Saratoga. DB 09491.
Ferber, Edna. So Big. A farm woman's indomitable spirit and love of beauty are unquenched by the years of hardship she endures for her son's sake. DB 44189.
Ferber, Edna. They brought their women: a book of short stories. A collection of 8 short stories written between 1927 and 1933. DB 35696.
Finney, Jack. From time to time. In this sequel to "Time and Again" Simon Morley attempts to prevent the "Titanic's" sinking. DB 40463.
Finney, Jack. Time and again. A classic time-travel mystery: Simon Morley travels to the 1880s and is trapped in the arson-fire that destroys "The New York World" building. DB 23888.
Gaiman, Neil. American gods. On his way to his wife's funeral, ex-convict Shadow meets the mysterious Mr. Wednesday, who has an uncanny knowledge of Shadow's life. Accepting Wednesday's job offer throws Shadow into a supernatural world where ancient gods abound. Explicit descriptions of sex, violence, and strong language. Bestseller 2001. DB 52917.
Gaiman, Neil. Neverwhere. En route to a formal dinner, London businessman Richard Mayhew spots a young woman lying wounded in the street. He takes the victim to his home and awakes the next day to find that he has lost his identity in the real world. Mayhew joins the now-healed woman in a perilous quest through an eerie subterranean realm. DB 72813.
Gaiman, Neil. Stardust. The town of Wall in rural England borders on a bewitched meadow inhabited by Faeries. At a festival, Dunstan Thorn, of Wall, mates with a Faerie lass and produces a son, Tristran. Years later, Tristran promises his intended to retrieve a fallen star and embarks on an arduous quest. Some violence. DB 49777.
Garland, Hamlin. Main-travelled roads: six Mississippi Valley stories. Stories of 19th-century pioneer life. BRW 78.
Garland, Hamlin. A Son of the Middle Border. Hamlin Garland's view of himself winning his way against obstacles that would have daunted lesser men. He writes of his 19th century Wisconsin roots--fronter and pioneer life in the former North West Territory. BRW 84.
Garlock, Dorothy. Larkspur. Wisconsin spinster inherits a Montana ranch in 1883. DB 45933.
George, Margaret. The autobiography of Henry VIII: with notes by his fool, Will Somers: a novel. Combines history, dramatic narrative, and an account of the pleasures and perils of power. DB 24919.
George, Margaret. Mary, called Magdalene. On her first pilgrimage to Jerusalem, young Mary of Magdala unearths a beautiful idol that she keeps hidden from everyone. By the time she is married, the demonic idol is the first of six that will possess Mary, who finds relief and salvation through Jesus. DB 56687.
George, Margaret. Mary Queen of Scotland and the Isles: a novel. This dramatic historical narrative reminds us that Mary was twice-widowed and thrice-married before the age of 21. DB 36369.
George, Margaret. The Memoirs of Cleopatra: a novel. A fictionalized autobiography of the Graeco-Egyptian queen. DB 45481.
Gunn, Robin Jones. As you wish: Christy and Todd, the college years; 2. Christy Miller starts college in California and continues to date Todd. When Matthew, someone she knew in Wisconsin, arrives on campus, Christy trusts that God will help her make the right decisions in her relationships. Sequel to Until Tomorrow (DB 55037/BR 14443). For senior high and older readers. DB 55038.
Gunn, Robin Jones. I promise: Christy and Todd, the college years; 3. College students Christy Miller and Todd Spencer become engaged. When family and friends offer conflicting advice on the upcoming wedding, Christy starts having doubts--but trusts that God will provide. Sequel to As You Wish (DB 55038). For senior high and older readers. DB 55039.
Gunn, Robin Jones. Until tomorrow: Christy and Todd, the college years; 1. Nineteen-year-old college student Christy Miller has been studying in Switzerland when her friends Katie and Todd join her for a vacation. Christy is jealous and unsure of her relationship with Todd--but puts her trust in God. For senior high and older readers. DB 55037.
Hamilton, Jane. The book of Ruth. Banta-Award-winning novel of an Illinois farm wife. DB 29464.
Hamilton, Jane. Disobedience: a novel. High school senior Henry describes how he accidentally opens his mother's e-mail and discovers that she is having an affair. DB 52026.
Hamilton, Jane. A map of the world. School nurse is suspected in a child's drowning. DB 39001.
Hamilton, Jane. The short history of a prince: a novel. Walter McCloud is a teenager in the 1970s when his life changes: He realizes he will never be a renowned ballet dancer, he accepts his homosexuality, and his brother dies of cancer. DB 48456.
Henley, Patricia. Hummingbird house. Feeling burned-out after eight years of nursing in Nicaragua, Kate breaks up with her gunrunner lover to return to the States. Stopping over in Guatemala, Kate finds romance with a Catholic priest and commits herself to supporting the human rights of homeless orphans and victimized indigenous people. Some strong language. DB 50804.
Houston, Victoria. Dead Creek: a Loon Lake fishing mystery. Loon Lake Police Chief Lewellyn Ferris has her fly fishing interrupted by another death. Retired dentist Paul Osborne helps solve the case. DBC08229.
Houston, Victoria. Dead water: a Loon Lake fishing mystery. Once more death stalks the fly fishermen of Loon Lake, Wisconsin, and Police Chief Lewellyn Ferris must cease casting and catch the killer. DBC08228.
Hribal, C. J. American beauty. Tough, intelligent, uninhibited, and armed with only her stunning all-American beauty, young Dorie Keillor flees at age 17 from the midwestern farming community of her childhood and from her troubled family life. Her extraordinary beauty generates a power enabling her to survive, but does little to free Dorie from crushing but comforting small-town ties and entangling family ghosts. Strong language and explicit descriptions of sex. DB 27442.
Hunnicutt, Ellen. Suite for calliope: a novel of music and the circus. Picaresque novel of a handicapped street musician who comes to live at a circus' winter home. Banta Award. DB 26887.
King, Stephen. Black House: a novel. Some 20 years after The Talisman (DB 21209), retired homicide detective Jack Sawyer tries to help rural Wisconsin police solve a series of brutal murders. Gradually Jack is drawn back to the parallel universe that he had forgotten. Some violence and some strong language. Bestseller. DB 52919.
Kirchoff, Mary L. Flint, the king. Attempting to avenge his brother's murder, hill dwarf Flint Fireforge runs afoul of the evil Pitrick and ends up facing certain death in the beast pit. Rescued by gully dwarves, he is proclaimed, with much reluctance on his part, King Flint of Mudhole. But can his new subjects help him thwart Pitrick's evil plans? Sequel to Riverwind the Plainsman (DB 37189). DB 37198.
Kirchoff, Mary L. Kendermore. Charged with breaking his marriage promise to his betrothed, the dwarf Tasslehoff Burrfoot is taken into custody and hauled back to his native Kendermore to face the council of elders. Trying to extricate himself from this predicament, he runs afoul of an evil wizard and an assassin. Can the light-fingered escape artist win the day? Sequel to Darkness and Light (DB 37714). DB 37715.
Lamar, Jake. If 6 were 9. African American professor Clay Robinette comes to the aid of fellow teacher Reggie Brogus, a former black militant, who has found a white student dead in his office. Violence and strong language. DB 55248.
Lamar, Jake. The last integrationist. Political tale set in a racially divided America. DB 42965.
Lamar, Jake. Rendezvous eighteenth. Ricky Jenks, an African American expatriate in Paris, agrees to help his hated cousin Cash, a doctor, find his runaway wife. Violence, strong language, and some explicit descriptions of sex. DB 58521.
Lamm, Richard D. 1988. A fast-moving novel about a man who turns politics into show business. DB 24471.
Lemery, Alysse. Winter's end. When Eric McLean returns to Platteville, Wisconsin, to attend his father's funeral, he plans to close forever the unhappy chapter of his childhood as the son of a powerful politician. His feelings change when he sees Chrys Morrissey, his college sweetheart, whom he left because of his father's disapproval. Some explicit descriptions of sex. DB 26834.
Levin, Meyer. The architect. A biographical novel about Frank Lloyd Wright. DB 19062.
Levinson, Deirdre. Modus vivendi. A mother copes with the loss of her infant son in this unsparing narrative. DB 22771.
Maxwell, William. Over by the river, and other stories. Twelve short stories set in New York City, the Middle West, and France, reveal the cross currents of memory and love. DB 26436.
McAllister, Anne. Dream chasers. After much searching, Owain comes from California to find his natural child, born of an early love affair with a woman now dead. Astonished to discover he is actually the father of twins who have been adopted by an attractive woman, he knows he cannot reveal himself to the family, yet his heart will not let him leave the Wisconsin town. Some strong language. DB 27897.
McConnell, Frank D. Blood lake. Harry Garnish, fast-talking Chicago private investigator, follows a woman whose husband suspects adultery to a resort in the Wisconsin woods, where he finds the woman's body in the lake. Strong language and some descriptions of sex. DB 26830.
Milofsky, David. Playing from memory. The life of a highly successful, stubbornly independent violinist changes radically in the twenty years after he falls victim to multiple sclerosis. DB 16742.
Mitchard, Jacqueline. The deep end of the ocean. Bestselling novel of a kidnapping's repercussions by a Milwaukee native. DB 42874.
Mitchard, Jacqueline. The most wanted. A prisoner's teenage bride and their attorney narrate his escape in alternating chapters. DB 46773.
Mitchard, Jacqueline. A Theory of Relativity. Tells the story of an ordinary family pushed to the edge over the guardianship of a baby girl. Abridged. DBW 12.
Mitchard, Jacqueline. Twelve Times Blessed. Widowed mother True Dickinson celebrates her forty-third birthday at a Cape Cod bar, where she meets Hank Bannister, ten years her junior. DB 58414.
Moore, Lorrie. Birds of America: stories. 12 short stories of vulnerable women who rue their lives. DB 47005.
Moore, Lorrie. Who will run the frog hospital? a novel. As she attempts to save her marriage, Berie recalls a teenage friendship. DB 40148.
Names, Larry D. Boomtown. A gold discovery turns a barren patch of desert into Carthage City almost overnight. First come other prospectors and merchants, then come the gamblers, the riff-raff, and the women. Finally comes trouble--some who want all of the gold and will stop at nothing to get it. DB 19771.
Names, Larry D. The cowboy conspiracy. A western detective story set in Arizona in the early 1900s. When Pinkerton detective Charlie Siringo and Wyatt Earp join forces to hunt down Marshall Phillips' killer, they stumble upon a crooked real estate scheme and a plot to kill the president. DB 26692.
Nunez, Elizabeth. Beyond the limbo silence. Sara is one of three young women from the West Indies integrating a white college in Wisconsin in 1963. Her love for Sam, an African-American involved in the civil rights movement, causes her to examine her beliefs and attitudes during that historic year. DB 50043.
Olsen, Theodore V. Arrow in the sun. Army private Honus Gant survives an Indian attack on his troop. With a former captive, he treks back toward the fort. Some violence and some strong language. DB 48785.
Olsen, Theodore V. Day of the buzzard. Young Jason Drum accompanies the enraged Val Penmark through Apache territory in search of seven bank robbers who killed Penmark's wife. DB 10769.
Olsen, Theodore V. There was a season. While Jefferson Davis sits in a northern prison, the Confederate president thinks back 33 years, when he first got a taste of field action in the Black Hawk War. Strong language and explicit descriptions of sex. DB 40731.
Olsen, Theodore V. Track the man down. "Big" witnesses a brutal killing and forgets his ironclad rule about staying out of white affairs. DB 40474.
Olsen, Theodore V. Treasures of the sun: a South-Western story. Christopher Fallon is engaged as a field guide by Sir Wilbur Tennington to travel to Peru in search of secret Incan treasure. Some violence. DB 49674.
Packer, Ann. The dive from Clausen's pier. Carrie, raised in Wisconsin and engaged to her high school sweetheart, feels her life is all too predictable. Her fiancé's dive off a pier, leaving him a quadriplegic, precipitates her move to New York City and a lot of soul searching. Some descriptions of sex and some strong language. DB 54324.
Patterson, James. Sam's letters to Jennifer: a novel. When grieving widow Jennifer returns to Lake Geneva, the resort town where her grandmother Samantha, "Sam," is in a coma, Jennifer finds letters addressed to her from Sam detailing the love of Sam's life, someone not her husband. DB 58826.
Paulos, Sheila. Champagne and red roses. An ambitious young cartoonist for the "Milwaukee Post" makes a name for herself satirizing the city's bachelor mayor--until she meets him in the flesh. DB 21700.
Quindlen, Anna. Black and blue: a novel. After yet another beating, emergency room nurse Fran Benedetto finally leaves her policeman husband, Bobby. She takes their ten-year-old son and flees to Florida through an underground organization. There, they begin quite different lives while they wait to see if Bobby can find them. Strong language and violence. DB 45715.
Quindlen, Anna. Blessings: a novel. Skip Cuddy, caretaker of elderly Lydia Blessing's country estate, discovers an abandoned newborn baby on the doorstep and, naming her Faith, is encouraged by his employer to keep her. Some strong language. DB 54938.
Quindlen, Anna. Object lessons. It's summer in the 1960s and Maggie Scanlon turns 13. In this summer of changes, Maggie discovers illicit sex, romance, arson, power shifts, and new alliances, and begins to see the relationships among her relatives. Some strong language. DB 33059.
Quindlen, Anna. One true thing. Ellen's father demands her return from a fledgling journalism career to care for her terminally ill mother. Strong language. DB 40750.
Riggs, John R. The last laugh: a mystery. Garth Ryland, newspaper editor in the very small Wisconsin town of Oakalla, writes a running feature based on the diaries of the town's biggest practical joker, now dead of an apparent heart attack. The diaries reveal a grisly chain of events that began years before with a "harmless" childhood prank and that climaxes with terror and murder and what appears to be the resurrection of the dead man. Some strong language. DB 21576.
Riggs, John R. Let sleeping dogs lie: a mystery. Trouble starts for small-town newspaper publisher and editor Garth Ryland when he finds an abandoned 1936 Cadillac in a barn in Oakalla, Wisconsin, and tries to have it restored for his housekeeper. But misfortunes plague the mechanics who work on it--the first disappears, and the second has a suspicious fire in his garage. Garth finds himself torn between helping to solve the mysteries and putting out his newspaper. Sequel to "The Last Laugh" (DB 21576). Some strong language. DB 25010.
Ross, Dana Fuller. Wisconsin! Wagons West; 19. A continuing saga of adventure and romance that features famed roughrider and frontiersman Toby Holt, son of the legendary wagon master Whip Holt. He struggles to build his fledgling lumber operation in Wisconsin's forests despite the opposition of the established wealthy lumber barons. Sequel to Illinois. Bestseller 1987. DB 26013.
Rush, Mallory. Love game. Widow Chris Nicholson becomes reacquainted with her high school flame Greg Reynolds--now a twice-divorced marine with a teenager--on Christmas Eve. They agree only to a fling because Chris is looking for a father for her six-year-old. But Greg falls in love. Explicit descriptions of sex and strong language. DB 55363.
Sandburg, Carl A. Remembrance Rock. A novel which begins in 1943, travels back in time 300 years, and then chronicles America's story. DB 14265
Schwarz, Christina. Drowning Ruth. In this Oprah selection set in March 1919, nurse Amanda Starkey, seeking refuge, returns to her family home to live with her younger sister Mathilda and Mathilda's 3-year-old child, Ruth. Within a year, Mathilda is dead and Amanda is raising Ruth as her own. But both Amanda and Ruth are hiding memories of the night Mathilda died. DB 50849
Shreve, Susan R. Daughters of the New World. Five generations of women inherit an independent spirit that sustains them. The story centers around Amanda, who grew up motherless among Wisconsin's Chippewa. She becomes a self-reliant young woman whose enterprise and love of photography take her around the world and fortify her as she raises her fatherless daughter and influences her granddaughter and great-granddaughters. Some strong language and some descriptions of sex. DB 35234
Simak, Clifford D. Cemetery world. An artist of the far future, an archaeologist aided by robots, and a band of attractive ghosts search for treasure on an earth that has been turned into a well-kept cemetery by mercenary Mother Earth, Inc. DBC07268
Simak, Clifford D. A choice of gods. In the 22nd century, Earth has been abandoned except for a few hundred Native American immortals. Robots and an occasional teleporting alien are their only visitors. DB 26313
Simak, Clifford D. The goblin reservation. Peter Maxwell, a professor of folklore, transports home from a strange crystal planet to discover that a duplicate already returned and was killed. Aided by a Neanderthal, a ghost, and a young woman with a pet sabertooth tiger, Maxwell attempts to unravel the mystery. BRW 50
Simak, Clifford D. Highway of eternity. A private investigator hunts a vanished client through time and space. DBC11921
Simak, Clifford D. Mastodonia. Discovering that his dog can dig tunnels to other eras, archaeologist Asa Steele sets up to guide time-tours for a living. DB 13439
Simak, Clifford D. Shakespeare's planet. Only one crewman survives in an earth vessel that lands on a remote planet after a thousand years in space. There he finds a bizarre creature warning him of danger. DBC07249
Simak, Clifford D. Way station. Enoch Wallace, an immortal Civil War veteran, keeps a secret intergalactic way station in southwest Wisconsin. BR 3570 / BR 15514 / DB 58565
Simak, Clifford D. Why call them back from heaven? In the year 2148 people spend their entire lives in poverty to ensure their happiness and comfort in eternity. DB 19786
Simpson, Mona. Anywhere but here. Adele August drives from Wisconsin to California to make her daughter a movie star. DB 25479
Simpson, Mona. The lost father. Ann Stevenson, the 12-year-old girl from Anywhere but Here, now a medical student, begins an obsessive search for her elusive Egyptian father. Some descriptions of sex. DB 34742
Simpson, Mona. Off Keck Road. A novella venturing into the hearts of three women--Bea, June, and Shelley--who have ties to Green Bay, Wisconsin. In the opening vignette, Bea drives her Christmas-present car to pick up the more-popular but less-wealthy June while both are home from college in 1956. Bestseller. DB 51410
Simpson, Mona. A regular guy: a novel. When Tom and Mary Owens decide to split, Mary takes daughter Jane to a commune, while Tom strikes it rich in biotechnology. Descriptions of sex and some strong language. DB 44127
Smith, Kay Nolte. Catching fire. When an Italian actor opens a small off-Broadway theatre, union troubles lead to murder. BR 05246
Smith, Kay Nolte. The watcher. One balmy evening in Manhattan, social scientist Dr. Martin Granger plunges from his townhouse terrace to his death on a sharp fence below. Did he fall or was he pushed? Some strong language. DB 90779
Spencer, LaVyrle. Bitter sweet. Maggie Stern returns to her Wisconsin hometown for a wedding and meets her married first love. DB 31028
Spencer, Scott. Endless love. When David is forbidden to see Jade because their affair has become too torrid, he sets fire to the Butterfield house on an impulse, and is consequently sent to a mental institution. DB 15115
Stashower, Daniel M. The adventure of the ectoplasmic man. Sherlock Holmes sets out to clear Wisconsin magician Harry Houdini of espionage charges. DB 23441
Tax, Meredith. Rivington Street: a novel. A gutsy lower East Side saga centers on the lives of four strong women as it tells the story of the Jews who wanted to rise with their class, not from it. DB 18336
Tax, Meredith. Union Square: a novel. The author continues the story of the Levy family, begun in Rivington Street. DB 29542
Toland, John W. The gods of war. A wealthy Japanese family and an American diplomatic family are caught in the conflicts of World War II. BR 06223 / DB 22876
Toland, John W. Occupation. The Tokyo war-crimes trials are the focus for a fictional account of the immediate post-war years in Japan. Sequel to The gods of war. BR 07297 / DB 27478
Vinge, Joan D. Catspaw. Cat is kidnapped by a planetary government to prevent the assassination of Lady Elnear. DB 29141
Vinge, Joan D. Dreamfall. Cat visits the planet Refuge to uncover his Hydran heritage. DB 45330
Vinge, Joan D. Psion. In 2500 A.D., on a distant planet, Cat must serve his government as a psionic spy. DB 29149
Vinge, Joan D. The snow queen. Arienrhod, the ancient but beautiful Winter Queen of the planet Tiamant, creates a clone to rule after her. DB 45269
Vinge, Joan D. The summer queen. In this 3rd volume of the Snow Queen trilogy, Moon Dawntreader, the Summer Queen, must lead her people back to traditional ways if they are to survive. Sequel to World's End. DB 34560
Vinge, Joan D. World's End. BZ Gundhalinu is reassigned to World's End on planet Four and fears he will never see Moon Dawntreader again. However, his search for his brothers on Four will lead to many unexpected changes. Strong language and some violence. DB 53897
Watson, Larry. Justice. Saga of 50 years in a Montana family, 1899-1949. DB 42536
Watson, Larry. Montana 1948: a novel. A family is devastated by their uncle's rape trial. DB 37940
Watson, Larry. White crosses. A sheriff's cover-up leads to tragedy. DB 47181
Weaver, Gordon. The eight corners of the world: a novel. A comic history of Japan and Japanese-American relations from 1920 to 1945. DB 29925
Weaver, Gordon. Men who would be good: a novella and six stories. In each story, a man examines what has become of his life and asks "what's it all about?" Strong language and some violence. DB 37276
Weinbaum, Stanley G. The best of Stanley G. Weinbaum. 12 short stories from the 1930s published before the death of this talented young Milwaukee writer at age 33. DB 17626
Weis, Margaret. The cataclysm: tales II trilogy, v. 2. An epic poem and ten stories relate the adventures of different personalities in the fantasy world of Krynn during the time of the Cataclysm. DB 37233
Weis, Margaret. Doom of the Darksword. Joram, magicless, was denied the throne and supposedly killed. But he returns to claim it, bringing war in his wake. DB 38683
Weis, Margaret. Dragon wing. Ages ago the Sartan, powerful wizards, split the world into four parts--sky, fire, earth, and water--and imprisoned the Patryn in the Labyrinth, from which escape would take centuries. Should they succeed, great magical powers would be theirs. In Arianus, the Realm of Sky, Haplo tries to stir up trouble, and King Stephen wants the prince killed. DB 39361
Weis, Margaret. Dragons of a fallen sun. In this trilogy that follows Dragons of Summer Flame (DB 41425), many still remember the Chaos War. Now, for the heart and soul of the world itself, a new war begins. It will be guided by Mina, a mystic young woman who arrives out of a violent magical storm. DB 54880
Weis, Margaret. Dragons of a lost star. In this sequel to Dragons of a Fallen Sun (DB 54880), many have fallen prey to Mina and her army of knights as, guided by an unknown god, she sweeps across the land. However, one lone dragon vows to find the answer to the mystery of the One God before darkness engulfs them all. DB 54881
Weis, Margaret. Dragons of a vanished moon. In this sequel to Dragons of a Lost Star (DB 54881) the flames of war devour Ansalon, while Mina and her army of dead souls march on toward conquest. A small band of heroes, from which two unlikely protagonists emerge, leads a fight against Mina. DB 54882
Weis, Margaret. Dragons of autumn twilight. Dragons have returned to Krynn, and war threatens to engulf the land, but a barbarian woman, a knight, a warrior, a dwarf and an elf join on a quest for the lost Dragonlance. DB 29171
Weis, Margaret. Dragons of spring dawning. The people of Krynn, armed with their dragonlances, battle with the dragons. DB 29173
Weis, Margaret. Dragons of summer flame. Despite her previous defeat at the hands of the Solamnic knights, the Dark Queen has again grown powerful and now commands new minions dedicated to serving her. She again lays plans for the conquest of Krynn, until a young woman appears in Palanthas with knowledge of a magical race of beings known as the Irda. DB 41425
Weis, Margaret. Dragons of winter night. The land of Krynn is engulfed in war, but the band of heroes finds the Dragonlance with the 0rb's help. DB 29172
Weis, Margaret. Elven star. Haplo, on his mission of revenge, now moves to Pryan, the Realm of Fire. In this land of vast jungles, Haplo discovers that the resident humans, dwarves, and elves are already warring with each other, and thus he has little to do. But an elf, a human, and a dwarf will unite in an effort to save Pryan. Some violence. DB 39362
Weis, Margaret. Fire sea. Haplo and his enemy and traveling companion, Alfred, are now in Abarrach, the Realm of Stone. Here the humans, dwarves, and elves have almost died off because of the extremely cold, dark climate of the caves in which they live. Haplo's lord may have found a way for Haplo to leave Abarrach, but Haplo may have to risk more than his life. Violence. DB 39363
Weis, Margaret. Forging the dark sword. An emperor's son is condemned to die because he lacks magical powers. DB 27287
Weis, Margaret. The hand of chaos. Haplo and Bane, the human child, have been ordered to return to Arianus. They will not have Alfred's help as he has been cast into the Labyrinth. Because the dragon-snakes have escaped through the Death Gate, there are powerful new alliances at work throughout the universe. Should Haplo risk his life to follow his master's orders? Violence. DB 39365
Weis, Margaret. Into the labyrinth: a Death gate novel. Xar, lord of the Nexus and now lord of Abarrach, wants to control the Seventh Gate, which will give him the power to unite or destroy the worlds of air, fire, stone, and water. Only Haplo seems to know the location of the Seventh Gate, and yet he doesn't realize it. Xar must kill Haplo and then restore him to life to learn the secret. Violence. DB 39365
Weis, Margaret. Kender, gully dwarves, and gnomes. Nine short stories and a novella featuring the brothers Sturm, Tanin, and Palin, and the outlandish dwarf Dougan Redhammer. DB 36746
Weis, Margaret. Legacy of the darksword. In the conclusion of the Darksword legend, Joram must surrender it to save humanity. DB 46310
Weis, Margaret. Love and War. Ten stories featuring the heroes and villains of Krynn in love and/or war. DB 36771
Weis, Margaret. The magic of Krynn. Nine short stories and a novella set in the land of Krynn. DB 26633.
Weis, Margaret. Mistress of dragons. To locate a renegade, the Parliament of Dragons sends Draconas, in human form, to abduct the Mistress of Dragons. The mission goes horribly awry when her true identity is revealed. Some descriptions of sex and some violence. DB 58682.
Weis, Margaret. The reign of Istar: tales II trilogy, v. 1. Seven stories and a novella depict life in the legendary land of Krynn prior to the Cataclysm and during the time of the Kingpriest. Some violence. DB 37231.
Weis, Margaret. Serpent mage. Haplo and Alfred arrive in Chelestra, the Realm of the Sea. Here Alfred finds his own people, and Haplo's magical powers are rejuvenated. Though this is the one realm where humans, elves, and dwarves live in harmony, danger lurks in the form of powerful dragon-snakes. Some violence. DB 39364.
Weis, Margaret. The seventh gate: a Death Gate novel. With Haplo captured, it is up to Marit, his former lover, and Hugh the Hand to rescue him before Xar turns him into an undead. But first Marit and Hugh must go into the Labyrinth and liberate Alfred. Although they are aided by good dragons, and some Sartans, they may still have to enter the Seventh Gate to save Hugh. Violence. DB 39367.
Weis, Margaret. Test of the twins. Raistlin and Crysania have used their magical powers to reach the Portal that leads to the Abyss, where they will challenge the Queen of Darkness. Now they must again call upon their faculties to open the Portal. But just then, Raistlin's twin, Caramon, employs his ability to change time, leaving him and Tasslehoff to face the queen. Some violence. DB 39694.
Weis, Margaret. Time of the twins. The darkness was over in Krynn with the ending of the War of the Lance, but Raistlin Majere wants to see the darkness return. There are only two people who can prevent Raistlin from reaching his goal: Caramon, his twin brother, and Crysania of the House of Tarinius, who is a cleric of good. Some violence. DB 39671.
Weis, Margaret. Triumph of the darksword. Joram approaches the border Watcher holding the darksword, pulls it from its sheath, and in an act of mercy drives it into the stone heart. Some violence. DB 39237.
Weis, Margaret. The war of the Lance: tales II trilogy, v.3. The Heroes of the Lance continue their efforts to thwart the agents of evil who have risen to power in the war-torn fantasy world of Krynn. Ten stories, preceded by a stage-setting epic poem, chronicle the adventures of the magician Raistlin, Mara the Queen of Thieves, kender Tasslehoff Burrfoot, and others. DB 37243.
Weis, Margaret. War of the twins. One hundred years have passed since the Cataclysm struck Istar. The sky poured fire, the mountain toppled onto the city, and the sea rushed in, destroying the Temple. Raistlin, with renewed powers, had escaped, along with his twin, Caramon, and the cleric Crysania. Now Raistlin plans to challenge the Queen of Darkness. DB 39686.
Wescott, Glenway. Apartment in Athens. Story of the inhumanity of the Germans in occupation of defeated countries describes the influence of a German officer on a simple, middle-class Greek family. DB 11297.
Wescott, Glenway. The grandmothers: a family portrait. In this beautifully crafted historical novel, a group of old women reminisce about their Wisconsin pioneer youth. BRW 124 / DB 46733.
Wescott, Glenway. The pilgrim hawk: a love story. Novel of an American's love affair gone wrong in a 1920s French village. DB 34839.
Whitehead, Colson. The intuitionist. In this allegorical mystery set in the 1940s, Lila Mae Watson, the city's first minority woman elevator inspector, works by psychic intuition. When an elevator fails on her watch and her empiricist rivals seek her undoing, Lila conducts a secret probe that yields a startling discovery. Some strong language. DB 50558 / DB 91574.
Whitehead, Colson. John Henry Days: a novel. A cynical freelance African American journalist attends a festival in West Virginia commemorating black folk legend John Henry, who died pitting his strength against a machine. Strong language and some descriptions of sex. DB 53611.
Wick, Lori. A song for Silas. A rural romance set in 1889 Wisconsin. DB 41473.
Wilder, Thornton. The bridge of San Luis Rey. The lives of five people killed in a bridge collapse are explored in this Pulitzer-Prize-winning novel. BRW 16394 / DB 41185.
Wilder, Thornton. The Cabala. An ironic novel concerning the decaying Italian nobility after World War I as seen through the eyes of a young New Englander who comes to Rome to study ancient ruins. DB 17679.
Wilder, Thornton. The Eighth Day. Set in Coaltown, Illinois, in 1902, the story begins with the murder of Breckenridge Lansing and the subsequent trial of John Ashley. DB 37676.
Wilder, Thornton. Heaven's my destination. Humorous study of young George Brush, a successful Middle-west textbook salesman, who insists on everyone else being good. DB 16861.
Wilder, Thornton. Theophilus North. An old-fashioned tale set in 1926 in the plush summer resort of Newport, Rhode Island. BRW 2096.
Wilder, Thornton. The woman of Andros. A retelling of Terence's Greek comedy of the 2nd century B.C.--the story of Chrysis, who charms all the young men with her beauty and wisdom. DB 17887.
Zettel, Sarah A. A sorcerer's treason. Wisconsin's Lake Superior shore, 1899. Bridget Lederle, the tender of a lighthouse, foresees a shipwreck and then rescues its occupant, Valin Kalami. As lord sorcerer to the dowager empress of Isavalta, he transports Bridget with her gift for visions to his world in order to save his beleaguered monarch. DB 54461.
Zettel, Sarah A. The usurper's crown: a novel of Isavalta. Sorcerer Avanasy, banished mentor of princess Medeoan of Isavalta, falls in love with Ingrid Loftfield while exiled in Wisconsin. Some descriptions of sex and some violence. DB 56122.

Adult Non-Fiction

Aaron, Hank. I had a hammer: the Hank Aaron story. The former Milwaukee Braves player reveals his thoughts about setting baseball records and about his struggle to endure the abuse that African-Americans were subjected to in predominantly white leagues. DB 33003.
Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem. Black profiles in courage: a legacy of African American achievement. Presents a historical gallery of heroes of African descent, recounting the stories of their contributions to the nation. The subjects include sixteenth-century explorer Estevanico, Crispus Attucks at the Boston Massacre, and Rosa Parks, who valiantly kept her seat on a segregated bus in 1955. DB 44030.
Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem. Brothers in arms: the epic story of the 761st Tank Battalion, World War II's forgotten heroes. Basketball great Abdul-Jabbar and journalist Walton chronicle the training, battlefield, and postwar experiences of the first African American armored unit to fight in World War II alongside white troops. Authors describe the soldiers' 183 days on the French and German fronts and their struggles with racial prejudice. DB 58545.
Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem. Giant steps. Candid, thoughtful discussion of the racial, political, and religious controversies that surrounded the basketball star's career. DB 20795.
Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem. Kareem. The Milwaukee Bucks superstar tells his story. DB 31191.
Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem. A season on the reservation: my sojourn with the White Mountain Apaches. Inspired by General Colin Powell, ex-basketball star Abdul-Jabbar volunteers to assist in coaching a high school team on the White Mountain Apache Reservation in Arizona. Over time he learns about the Native American culture and the problems facing many of the young people he encounters. For senior high and older readers. DB 50198.
Adams, John G. Without precedent: the story of the death of McCarthyism. The author, who served as Army Counsel during the bitter Army-McCarthy hearings of the early 1950s, tells of his role in the developments which finally precipitated the downfall of Senator Joseph McCarthy. DB 19449.
Ambrose, Stephen E. Band of brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest. Story of a World War II combat rifle unit. DB 40283.
Ambrose, Stephen E. Citizen soldiers: the U.S. Army from the Normandy beaches to the Bulge to the surrender of Germany, June 7, 1944-May 7, 1945. An eleven-month World War II chronicle spanning the period from D-Day to Germany's surrender on May 7, 1945. Using first-hand accounts of combat soldiers, the author depicts the valor and determination of Allied forces who advanced and prevailed in the face of harsh adversities. Sequel to D-Day (DB 38858). Strong language and violence. DB 45003.
Ambrose, Stephen E. Comrades, brothers, fathers, heroes, sons, pals. Depiction of famous male friendships. DB 48827.
Ambrose, Stephen E. D-Day, June 6, 1944: the climactic battle of World War II. From an interview with Supreme Commander General Eisenhower in 1964 through the recollections of hundreds of Allied and German veterans, a military historian reconstructs the most decisive day of World War II. Some strong language. DB 38858.
Ambrose, Stephen E. Eisenhower: soldier, general of the army, President-elect, 1890-1952. The first volume of a definitive biography of the one 20th century leader to achieve his country's highest military and civilian ranks. DB 21174.
Ambrose, Stephen E. Eisenhower: the president. A balanced human portrait that covers Eisenhower's two terms, retirement, and his death in 1969. DB 22304.
Ambrose, Stephen E. The Mississippi and the making of a nation: from the Louisiana Purchase to today. Inspired by their 2,350-mile steamboat journey on the Mississippi, noted historians Ambrose and Brinkley present the watershed's regional history in a national context. Chronicling its exploration and settlement from the 1803 Louisiana Purchase, they discuss the river's influence on literary masters and jazz legends and its place in black history. DB 56583.
Ambrose, Stephen E. Nixon: the education of a politician, 1913-1962. The first volume of a three volume biography covers Nixon's life from his birth to his unsuccessful run for the California governorship. DB 26109.
Ambrose, Stephen E. Nixon, vol. 2: the triumph of a politician, 1962-1972. Covers Nixon from his defeat in the 1962 California gubernatorial race to his 1972 re-election as President of the United States. DB 31418.
Ambrose, Stephen E. Nixon, vol. 3: ruin and recovery, 1973-1990. Discusses Watergate and the former president's roles as author and elder statesman. Ambrose traces Nixon's struggle to extricate himself from the wrongdoings of his reelection campaign, and shows how--following his resignation-Nixon orchestrated his life in an attempt to regain respect in history. DB 35772.
Ambrose, Stephen E. No end save victory: perspectives on World War II. Historians and participants provide accounts of incidents from the war fought between 1939 and 1945. Includes the memoirs of Kanji Suzuki, a Japanese kamikaze pilot who survived a suicidal attack on an American ship. DB 51886.
Ambrose, Stephen E. Nothing like it in the world: the men who built the transcontinental railroad, 1863-1869. A look at the investors, politicians, engineers, surveyors, and laborers involved in the construction of America's first transcontinental railroad. Records the Union Pacific and the Central Pacific Railroads' fierce competition, which ended in a team effort in 1869, to connect America's two coasts by rail. DB 50872.
Ambrose, Stephen E. Pegasus Bridge: June 6, 1944. A British glider-borne assault on a key bridge on D-Day. DB 23221.
Ambrose, Stephen E. To America: personal reflections of an historian. Historian intersperses his personal story with reflections on American history. His topics include the transcontinental railroad, World War II, Native Americans, Vietnam, civil rights, and women's rights. Also describes well-known persons such as Washington, Lincoln, Lewis and Clark, Nixon, and Eisenhower. DB 55747.
Ambrose, Stephen E. Undaunted courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the opening of the American West. Why Captain Lewis was chosen by the President to explore the Louisiana Purchase. DB 43291.
Ambrose, Stephen E. The victors: Eisenhower and his boys: the men of World War II. A vivid account of the last year of the war. DB 47706.
Ambrose, Stephen E. The wild blue: the men and boys who flew the B-24s over Germany. A historian describes the B-24 bomber missions over Nazi-occupied Europe during World War II, recounting the training of the crews and celebrating their skill. DB 52895.
Ambrose, Stephen E. What if? : the world's foremost military historians imagine what might have been : essays. Twenty essays examine alternate outcomes in military history. Examples include the death of Alexander the Great in his first battle, the defeat of the thirteen colonies in the American Revolution, and a Confederate victory in the Civil War, among others. DB 49463.
Antekeier, Kristopher. Ringmaster!: my year on the road with "The Greatest Show on Earth". In 1986, Antekeier became the 27th ringmaster in the 115-year history of the Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus. This account of his year under the big top relates tales of travels to 52 cities in 28 states in 47 weeks and tells of the glamour as well as the drudgery of life with the circus. DB 31680.
Antler. Antler: the selected poems. A collection of out-of-print work of a major poet from the Boomer/post-Beat era, and a Milwaukee Poet Laureate. BRW 212.
Austin, Harry R. The Milwaukee Story: the making of an American city. A history of Wisconsin's largest city. BRW 2105.
Austin, Harry R. The Wisconsin Story: the building of a vanguard state. This history of Wisconsin was first published in part as a daily serial in the Milwaukee Journal during February and March 1948. BRW 2098.
Bach, Marcus. Let life be like this! How to discover the hidden, adventurous side to your life. DB 08637.
Backes, David. A wilderness within: the life of Sigurd F. Olson. Authorized biography of the American environmental writer and activist based on his papers and diaries. DB 48148.
Badger Association of the Blind. The Dining with Duke Cookbook. The 75th Anniversary Celebration Badger Association of the Blind Cookbook includes recipes from celebrities, recipes popular in the 1920s, and recipes for dog treats. BRW 104.
Bayley, Edwin R. Joe McCarthy and the press. Explores the role of the news media in the Wisconsin senator's rise and fall. DB 18100.
Berliner, Don. Want a job? Get some experience. Want experience? Get a job. Practical tips for out-of-work job hunters. DB 14267.
Berkow, Ira. Red: A Biography of Red Smith. A biography of the famous Wisconsin-born sportswriter. DB 24481.
Blum, Deborah. The Monkey Wars. Madison author examines the struggle between the animal-rights organizations and the scientific community over primate research. DB 42660.
Bly, Nellie. Oprah! up close and down home. Profiles the former Milwaukee resident whose television talk show and movie roles have made her famous. DB 38894.
Boyer, Dwight. Driftless Spirits: Ghosts Of Southwest Wisconsin. Tales collected in the taverns, cafes, and bait shops of southwest Wisconsin by a Dodgeville resident. BRW 51.
Boyer, Dwight. Northern Frights: A Supernatural Ecology Of The Wisconsin Headwaters. The headwaters of the Wisconsin River provide the setting for this collection of ghost stories from a Dodgeville conservation activist. BRW 53.
Boyer, Paul S. When time shall be no more: prophecy belief in modern American culture. A U-W historian examines the belief that the course of history is foretold in the Bible. DB 37257.
Bradley, James. Flags of our fathers. Recounts the story of the six young marines who raised the flag at Iwo Jima during fierce combat on the obscure Japanese-held island in 1945. Wisconsin author Bradley, the son of one of the soldiers, recreates his father's experiences as well as those of the five men who fought beside him. Bestseller. DB 50264.
Bradley, James. Flyboys: a true story of courage. Wisconsin author of Flags of Our Fathers (DB 50264) recounts events that led to the bombing of Japanese communication towers on Chichi Jima by nine American airmen in 1945. Discusses Japanese-American relations and reveals the horrors endured by the men who died and by the one survivor, George H.W. Bush. Violence. Bestseller. DB 57005.
Brady, Frank. Citizen Welles: a biography of Orson Welles. Welles epitomizes the professions of writer, director, and actor in the 20th century. DB 30336.
Bremer, Arthur H. An Assassin's Diary. Writings of the 22-year-old unemployed Wisconsin busboy who tried to kill Alabama governor George Wallace. DB 07867.
Broad, William J. Star warriors: a penetrating look into the lives of the young scientists behind our space age weaponry. Whitefish Bay author examines the lives of scientists working on x-ray lasers at Lawrence Livermore Labs. DB 23720.
Broad, William J. Teller's war: the top-secret story behind the Star Wars deception. Pulitzer-Prize-winner examines Edward Teller's role in the United States Strategic Defense Initiative (Star Wars). DB 35578.
Broad, William J. The universe below: discovering the secrets of the deep sea. Traces the human quest to understand the sea from ancient times to today. DB 45122.
Brown, Jared. The fabulous Lunts: a biography of Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne. The Lunts are portrayed as devoted, generous, and disciplined performers, whose lives revolved around the theater during a period when most actors were turning to film. DB 26063.
Clement, Herbert. The Great Circus Parade. Describes Milwaukee's annual celebration of circus pageantry. BRW 36
Clifton, Lucille. Blessing the boats: new and selected poems, 1988-2000. A collection of poetry about the human condition personalized through the voice of an African American woman. DB 52339.
Collins, Billy. Sailing alone around the room: new and selected poems. Selections of poetry from four previous collections with twenty new poems by the United States Poet Laureate. DB 53069.
Current, Richard Nelson. The Lincoln nobody knows. Concentrates upon selected, controversial aspects of Lincoln, viewing him as family man, politician, war leader and peacemaker. DB 12407.
Current, Richard Nelson. Those terrible carpetbaggers. Carpetbaggers, or Northerners who came to the South to run the Reconstruction governments after the Civil War, have generally been dismissed as ignorant, greedy opportunists. In this reinterpretation, the author, a well-known Civil War historian, interweaves the stories of ten carpetbaggers who were unselfish, intelligent, admirable men. DB 27643.
Current, Richard Nelson. Wisconsin: a Bicentennial history. The history and contributions of the state known as dairyman and brewer to the nation. Discusses the character of its people, including the strong German influence, and its culture and political system. DB 16216.
Dahmer, Lionel. A father's story. Since learning of his son Jeffrey's killing and mutilation spree, chemist Lionel Dahmer has agonized over whether the compulsions that overwhelmed his son had their origins in things he might or might not have done with Jeffrey. DB 38774.
Damasio, Antonio R. The feeling of what happens: body and emotion in the making of consciousness. A neurologist theorizes about the nature of consciousness and the construction of the self. Brings together findings in biological and emotional development to provide perspective on great unsolved problems of human psychology. DB 53230.
Davidson, Bill. Spencer Tracy, tragic idol. Biography of the talented Hollywood actor, with sketches of his youth in Milwaukee. DB 28109.
Dewhurst, Colleen. Colleen Dewhurst: her autobiography. The actress died before completing the manuscript, so Viola talked to friends and colleagues to fill in the gaps. Some strong language. DB 45509.
Dikkers, Scott. Our dumb century: 100 years of headlines from America's finest news source. The editors offer headline articles from the satirical newspaper The Onion. Includes tongue-in-cheek commentaries on both world wars, movie stars, television, and presidents. Some strong language. Bestseller. DB 48431.
Eckert, Allan W. Twilight of empire: a narrative. Covering the period from 1801 to 1838, this is an account of the events surrounding the Black Hawk War of 1832 that was fought for possession of the upper Mississippi Valley. DB 29942.
Eisenberg, Arlene. What to expect: the toddler years. The authors of What to Expect When You're Expecting (RC 36978) and What to Expect the First Year (DB 31632) now tackle the second and third year. A month-by-month guide discusses common traits and possible concerns specific to each age, and the second portion of the book covers aspects of the care, health, and safety of toddlers. Also included are common home remedies and more "best-odds" recipes emphasizing nutrients for good health. Bestseller. DB 41162
Eisenberg, Arlene. What to eat while you're expecting. The authors expand their nutrition chapter from What to Expect When You're Expecting (BR 10288 / BR 14234). They provide detailed instructions on formulating proper eating habits before, during, and after pregnancy. They include tips on setting up the kitchen, "best-odds" recipes, a quiz to evaluate your current diet, and nutritional information on food additives and junk food. BR 10401 / DB 41851
Eliot, Marc. Kato Kaelin, the whole truth: the real story of O.J., Nicole, and Kato. The Simpson murder trial, from the viewpoint of a Wisconsin participant. DB 40803.
Ellis, Melvin R. Run, Rainey, run. Story of a German short-haired pointer who refused to be a pet, but wanted life as a hunting dog on his own terms. BR 00485
Englund, Steven. Man slaughter. Examines the trial of abused wife Jennifer Patri for arson/murder in rural Wisconsin. DB 21676
Favre, Brett. Favre: For the record. Autobiography of the Green Bay Packers' Super-Bowl-winning quarterback. DB 60140
Fedo, Michael. The man from Lake Wobegon. A biography of radio storyteller and Wisconsin resident Garrison Keillor. DB 28783
Fine, Ralph Adam. Escape of the guilty. Wisconsin trial judge attacks the criminal court system. DB 25358
Finney, Jack. Forgotten news: the crime of the century and other lost stories. Former Milwaukee newsman recounts famous news stories of the 19th century. DB 19321
Flax, Marshall E. Coping with low vision. Information for everyone coping with visual impairment, including friends, family, and caregivers, compiled by a Wisconsin professional. DB 38113
Foster, Rory C. I never met an animal I didn't like. Lighthearted reminiscences about the years the author and his wife spent building a veterinary practice. Foster recounts his work with injured wild animals and ailing pets. He talks about treating a fawn hit by a car, a loon who mistook a puddle on an airport runway for a lake, and a kitten, whom he temporarily adopted, with a badly fractured leg. DB 33146
Fox, C.P. The Horse-drawn wagon collection at the Circus World Museum, Baraboo, Wisconsin. History and description of the world's largest collection of antique circus wagons. BRW 8
Fox, Stephen R. John Muir and his legacy: the American conservation movement. Biography of the Wisconsin-raised naturalist. DB 32116
Frazier, Patrick. The Mohicans of Stockbridge. After the Mohican Indians accepted Christianity in the Massachusetts community of Stockbridge, they became known as Stockbridge Indians and lost their identity as Mohicans. DB 39143
Gale, Zona. Miss Lulu Bett: an American comedy of manners. The 1920 Pulitzer-Prize-winning play. BRW 46
Gard, Robert E. We were Children Then: Stories from The Yarns of Yesteryear Project. Elderly interviewees reminisce about their Wisconsin childhoods. BRW 156
Gard, Robert E. Wisconsin lore; antics and anecdotes of Wisconsin people and places. A harvest of lumberjack stories, ghost tales, Indian legends, circus yarns, home remedies, practical jokes, superstitions, proverbs, and sayings from the 19th-century Badger State. BRW 2071
Garland, Hamlin. A Son of the Middle Border. The Wisconsin native's autobiography. BRW 84
Gilbert, Julie G. Ferber: A biography. Life of the Wisconsin-born Pulitzer-Prize winning author Edna Ferber. DB 15906
Gill, Brendan. Many masks: a life of Frank Lloyd Wright. The turbulent career of Wisconsin's most creative and cantankerous architect. DB 27227
Gordon, Linda. The great Arizona orphan abduction. Wisconsin history professor describes how racial politics caused a social upheaval in 1904. The New York Catholic Foundling Hospital placed children with Mexican-American families in the Clifton-Morenci, Arizona, mining area. Infuriated, local Anglos took the fair Irish-American orphans from their new Hispanic homes. The Supreme Court ruled in favor of the vigilantes. Banta Award. DB 51313
Great Lakes Indian Fish & Wildlife Commission. A Guide to understanding Chippewa treaty rights. This guide addresses common questions and misperceptions of Chippewa treaty rights, and provides background information on treaties and tribal sovereignty. BRW 3009
Gurda, John. The making of Milwaukee. History of Milwaukee from its origins as a Native American settlement to its present status as Wisconsin's largest city. DVD00056
Gurda, John. Milwaukee: City of Neighborhoods. Chronicles the essence of Milwaukee's thirty-seven unique neighborhoods from the 1800's to the present. DBC08346
Gurda, John. Milwaukee: A City Built on Water. Early settlers to the modern day Milwaukeeans embrace water sources for industry, recreation, and more. DBC15438
Gurda, John. One People, Many Paths: A History of Jewish Milwaukee. Entrepreneurial, intellectual and cultural contributions by the city's Jewish residents over the past have made Milwaukee a richer place. DBW 24
Hammarstrom, David. Big top boss: John Ringling North and the circus. Biography of the showman who moved the big top indoors. DB 47428
Harr, Jonathan. A civil action. An in-depth study of an 8-year legal battle over industrial pollution. DB 41279
Harrison, Gilbert A. The enthusiast: a life of Thornton Wilder. Full-length study of the man and writer, best known for "Our Town" (RC 12934) and winner of three Pulitzer Prizes. DB 21816
Harrison, Kit. America's favorite backyard birds. A popular guide to bird watching focuses on the ten most common species, offering a wealth of information on each: what they look like, what they eat, where they live, how they behave, when they nest, and how the young are raised. DB 20534
Hatfield, Fred. North of the sun: a memoir of the Alaskan wilderness. With a desire for adventure and a love for the beauty of the wild, the author moved from Wisconsin to Alaska in the early 1930s. DB 33409
Herman, Arthur. Joseph McCarthy: reexamining the life and legacy of America's most hated senator. A sympathetic portrait of the 20th century Wisconsin senator and "single most despised man in American political memory." DB 49881
Herman, Woody. The woodchopper's ball: the autobiography of Woody Herman. The story of how a white kid from Milwaukee became the leader of "the band that plays the blues". DB 37380
Heyrman, Christine L. Southern cross: the beginnings of the Bible Belt. Brookfield author offers a historical account of the rise of evangelical religion in the US. DB 44695
Higham, Charles. Orson Welles, the rise and fall of an American genius. This biography tackles the life of the complex Wisconsin-born film-maker. DB 23855
Hildebrand, John. Mapping the farm: the chronicle of a family. This memoir of his wife's family farm earned UW-Eau Claire Professor Hildebrand the 1996 Banta Award for best book by a Wisconsin author. DB 41897
Hildebrand, John. Reading the river: a voyage down the Yukon. A memoir of travel in Canada and Alaska. DB 29300
Ingalls, Robert P. Point of order: a profile of Senator Joe McCarthy. A concise biography of the unknown first-term senator from Wisconsin who became world famous in the "nightmare" decade after World War II by charging that Communists had infiltrated the government. For junior and senior high and adult readers. DB 22187
Jackson, Jacqueline D. More stories from the round barn. Novelist Jackson tells more stories of growing up on her family's farm near Beloit. Broadcast on Wisconsin Public Radio's Chapter-a-Day in 2002. BRW 145
Jackson, Jacqueline D. Stories from the round barn. Novelist Jackson tells stories of growing up on her family's farm near Beloit. Broadcast on Wisconsin Public Radio's Chapter-a-Day in 1998. BRW 144
Kennan, George F. Around the cragged hill: a personal and political philosophy. Scholar, diplomat, and Pulitzer Prize-winning author reflects on domestic politics and foreign policy. DB 36383
Kennan, George F. The nuclear delusion: Soviet-American relations in the atomic age. A former ambassador to Russia offers his perspective on the arms race. BR 05290
Kennan, George F. Sketches from a life. A collection of diary entries from more than sixty years as a career diplomat. DB 30994
King, Norman. Everybody loves Oprah! her remarkable life story. Discusses the former Milwaukee resident who rose to prominence through her television talk show. DB 28285
Kramer, Jerry. Farewell to football. The former Green Bay Packer says goodbye to football. BR 01242
Leopold, Aldo. A Sand County almanac, and Sketches here and there. Poses the question "whether a higher standard of living is worth the cost in things natural, wild, and free?" DB 52718
Lerner, Gerda. A death of one's own. UW professor tells of her husband's death from a brain tumor. DB 15344
Lesy, Michael. The forbidden zone. How Americans deal with mortality. DB 26856
Lesy, Michael. Wisconsin death trip. A depressing discussion of the hard lives endured in rural Wisconsin in the 1890s. BRW 2084
Loew, Patty. Indian Nations Of Wisconsin: Histories Of Endurance And Renewal. Describes the history, social life, and customs of Wisconsin's Native American tribes. DBC04750
Logan, Ben. The land remembers: the story of a farm and its people. Nostalgic account of the author's boyhood on a Wisconsin farm. Banta Award. DBC24813
Lombardi, Vince. Run to daylight! The late fiery coach of the Green Bay Packers offers an insider's view of pro football. DB 21456
Lovell, Jim. Lost moon: the perilous voyage of Apollo 13. Apollo 13 was to have been the 5th mission to the moon. But 2 days into the trip, on April 13, 1970, the oxygen tank exploded in the command module, placing the 3 astronauts in grave danger. Lovell describes those terrifying days as astronauts, contractors, and Mission Control struggled to bring Apollo 13 safely back to earth. DB 40691
Lyden, Jacki. Daughter of the Queen of Sheba. Memoir of growing up with a mentally ill mother. DB 45333
Maraniss, David. First in his class: a biography of Bill Clinton. Pulitzer-prize winning Madison journalist looks sympathetically at the political development of President Clinton. DB 40458
Maraniss, David. They marched into sunlight: war and peace, Vietnam and America, October 1967. Interwoven accounts of two Vietnam war-related events in October 1967: the deadly jungle ambush of the Black Lions army battalion and a violent antiwar student protest in Wisconsin against recruiters for the Dow Chemical Company. DB 58193
Maraniss, David. When pride still mattered: a life of Vince Lombardi. The life and times of football giant Vince Lombardi are chronicled, including his humble beginnings in Brooklyn and his many years in school athletics, before he became head coach of the Green Bay Packers in 1959. DB 49258
Martin, Ralph G. Golda: Golda Meir, the romantic years. Martin delineates the Milwaukee teacher's courage, strength, and brilliance, as well as her romantic side. BR 07685 / DB 29234
McCall, Edith S. Sometimes we dance alone: your next years can be your best years. Believing that life is a gift of endless possibilities, 80-something writer McCall urges others not to drop out of the dance of life just because they live alone in their later years. DB 38967
McCann, Dennis. The Wisconsin Story: 150 Stories, 150 Years. 150 stories from Wisconsin history, collected by a Milwaukee Journal Sentinel columnist. DBC15461
McGilligan, Patrick. George Cukor: a double life. Cukor, who died in 1983, had a successful career as a director of over 50 films. DB 35555
McGilligan, Patrick. Jack's life: a biography of Jack Nicholson. In researching the life of this movie star with 40 years in show business, the Wisconsin author unearthed facts previously unknown even to the actor. DB 38281
Mebane, Mary E. Mary. An autobiographical account of a young black woman born in the 1930s who struggles to free herself from oppression in the back country of North Carolina. DB 16756
Meine, Curt. Aldo Leopold: his life and work. In-depth biography of the Wisconsin naturalist. DB 29405
Meir, Golda. My Life. Memoirs of the Russian-born University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee graduate who became Prime Minister of Israel. DB 09845
Miller, John E. Becoming Laura Ingalls Wilder: the woman behind the legend. Biography of the woman who wrote the Little House on the Prairie series. DB 48844
Mori, Kyoko. The dream of water: a memoir. UW professor tells how she fled Japan for America at age 20. DB 43518
Muir, John. My first summer in the Sierra. In this diary, Muir tells of his first trip to the Sierra Nevada mountains, where the seed was planted for his lifelong campaign to create a series of national parks. DB 30838
Muir, John. Nature writings: the story of my boyhood and youth, my first summer in the Sierra, the mountains of California, Stickeen, selected essays. A selection of four books and eighteen essays by Scottish-born naturalist John Muir (1838-1914), a key figure in the creation of the American national parks system. DB 58485
Muir, John. The story of my boyhood and youth. Muir's extraordinary abilities enabled him to escape from the rural poverty of his Wisconsin boyhood to become a distinguished naturalist. DB 12877
Muir, John. Travels in Alaska. Last book written by Wisconsin naturalist John Muir (1838-1914), who recounts three trips to Alaska between 1879 and 1890. DB 58721
Muir, John. The wilderness world of John Muir. Selections from journals and publications of the Scottish-born conservationist, who emigrated to Wisconsin at age eleven. DB 58404
Niven, Penelope. Carl Sandburg: a biography. Poet and biographer Sandburg worked as a newspaper reporter in Milwaukee. The unflagging support of his wife Paula, a suffragette, bolstered him even when Socialist party activities put both their new marriage and his writing on hold. DB 34376
North, Sterling. Raccoons are the brightest people. An informal compilation of hints on raising and training raccoons, stories gleaned from correspondence, and a plea for the conservation of America's disappearing wildlife. BR 00307
O'Brien, Michael. Vince: a personal memoir of Vince Lombardi. Recollections of the head coach of the Green Bay Packers. DB 27250
Olson, Sigurd F. Of time and place. Collection of essays by the late naturalist and wilderness guide of 60 years in the Lake Superior country. DB 58591
Olson, Sigurd F. Reflections from the North Country. An ecologist and wilderness interpreter offers a collection of essays on his experiences on rivers, lakes, and primitive terrain from northern Wisconsin to the Arctic Circle. DB 58735
Oppenheim, Joanne. The elementary school handbook: making the most of your child's education. A consumer guide to parenting a school-age child. DB 32252
Oppenheim, Joanne. Raising a confident child: the Bank Street year-by-year guide. How to develop your child's social skills. DB 22813
Peirce, Neal R. The Great Lakes States of America: people, politic, and power in the five Great Lakes States. A detailed look at the people, politics, economics, and industry of the five Great Lakes states--Michigan, Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin, and Ohio. DB 16716
Pernin, Peter. The Great Peshtigo Fire: an eyewitness account. Over 1100 people lost their lives in this 19th century disaster. DBW09424
Perry, Michael. Population, 485: meeting your neighbors one siren at a time. A volunteer firefighter from New Auburn, Wisconsin, describes local social life and customs as observed on fire calls. DBC15442
Peters, Margot. Design for living: Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne: a biography. Recounts the tempestuous lives of the famous acting team who captured the hearts of American theatergoers from 1919 to 1959. DB 58567
Peters, Margot. The house of Barrymore. Biography centers on the most famous Barrymores: Ethel, Lionel, and John. DB 32826
Peters, Margot. Unquiet soul: a biography of Charlotte Brontë. Explores the world of the 19th-century novelist and the friends who supported her in a Victorian society that was not ready for her radicalism. DB 09782
Peters, Robert L. Crunching gravel: growing up in the thirties. A Wisconsin poet reminisces. DB 31726
Prucha, Francis P. The great father: the United States government and the American Indians, II. A survey of the scope of American Indian policy from the 1880s to 1980. DB 26134
Pyron, Darden Asbury. Liberace: an American boy. Portrays the life of Milwaukee musical prodigy Wladziu Valentino Liberace (1919-1987), assessing his influence on American culture. DB 51916
Ratigan, William. Great Lakes shipwrecks & survivals. History of maritime disasters on each of the North American inland seas: Lakes Michigan, Huron, Erie, Superior, and Ontario. DB 47621
Reedy, George E. Lyndon B. Johnson, a memoir. A colleague's recollection of the former senator and president. BR 05270
Reedy, George E. The U.S. Senate: paralysis or a search for consensus? Insightful discussion and commentary on the inner workings of the U.S. Senate. DB 25327
Reeves, Thomas C. Gentleman boss: the life of Chester Alan Arthur. Biography of the 21st President of the U.S. DB 15760
Reeves, Thomas C. The life and times of Joe McCarthy: a biography. An objective, in-depth biography of the former Wisconsin Senator. DB 18081
Reeves, Thomas C. A question of character: a life of John F. Kennedy. The author, a history professor specializing in twentieth-century American politics and religion, sheds new light on discrepancies between the public life and private behavior of Kennedy. DB 33026
Rehnquist, William H. All the laws but one: civil liberties in wartime. Chief Justice of the Supreme Court expostulates on how civil liberties are curbed during times of war. DB 48639
Rehnquist, William H. Grand inquests: the historic impeachments of Justice Samuel Chase and President Andrew Johnson. Account of the nineteenth-century impeachment of a justice and a president by the Chief Justice. DB 38303
Rehnquist, William H. The Supreme Court: how it was, how it is. The Chief Justice offers an overview of the Court. DB 27628
Rogers, Katharine M. L. Frank Baum, creator of Oz: a biography. Biography of celebrated children's author Lyman Frank Baum (1856-1919). DB 58766
Sandburg, Carl. Abraham Lincoln, the prairie years. Sandburg's rich, Pulitzer-winning biography covering 1809-1860. DB 15989
Sandburg, Carl. Abraham Lincoln, the war years. Sequel: covers 1861-1865. DB 11766
Sandburg, Carl. Always the young stranger. Sandburg's autobiography of his early years. DB 20626
Sandburg, Carl. Selected poems. Representative poems selected from the published collections of Pulitzer Prize-winning American poet, Carl Sandburg (1878-1967). Contains most of the Chicago Poems published in 1916, including the "groundbreaking" poems first published in Poetry. DB 54500
Sandburg, Carl. Ever the winds of chance. The unfinished memoirs of the renowned American poet. DB 20791
Sandburg, Carl. Fables, foibles, and foobles. A collection of nonsensical pieces taken from Sandburg's lectures, poetry, stories, and novel. BR 07608 / DB 28627
Sandburg, Carl. Harvest poems, 1910-1960. 13 previously unpublished poems. BR 00661
Sandburg, Carl. Honey and salt. A collection of 75 poems, published when Sandburg was 85, which expound upon the themes which engaged him for over half a century--love, life and death. DB 28412
Sandburg, Carl. More rootabagas. The lack of fairy tales native to the United States, the famous poet decided to write his own. DB 41593
Sandburg, Carl. The People, Yes. Seventy-seven poems published on the American poet's eighty-fifth birthday. DB 31535
Schultz, Gwen M. Ice Age lost. Covers every conceivable question the general reader might ask about glaciers. DB 14256
Secrest, Meryle. Frank Lloyd Wright. Portrait of the controversial "dean" of 20th-century American architecture. DB 35765
Seldes, George. Witness to a century: encounters with the noted, the notorious, and the three SOBs. Accounts of meetings with Trotsky, Isadora Duncan, Mussolini, Lenin, Hemingway, H.G. Wells, and numerous other luminaries by the author his critics call the grand old man of muckraking journalism. Some strong language. DB 26873
Shaughnessy, Mary Alice. Les Paul: an American original. A biography of the Waukesha bandleader. DB 39699
Smith, Rowland P.("Red"). Red Smith on baseball: the game's greatest writer on the game's greatest years. Five decades--from the 1940s to the 1980s--of baseball columns by the Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter who was called "The Shakespeare of the Press Box." DB 50569
Starr, Bart. Starr: my life in football. Autobiography of the football player who became coach of the Green Bay Packers. DB 27668
Thomas, Bob. Liberace: the true story. A biography of "Mr. Showmanship", the charming Milwaukee-born pianist who concealed his homosexuality until his 1982 palimony suit. DB 27255
Thorson, Scott. Behind the candelabra: my life with Liberace. In this dual biography, Thorson gives a detailed account of his life with Liberace until the Milwaukee-born pianist's death from AIDS. DB 28885
Toland, John W. Adolf Hitler. Comprehensive biography that reveals the dictator as man, politician, and military leader. DB 14750
Toland, John W. But not in shame; the six months after Pearl Harbor. Suspenseful account of the tragic defeats the United States endured at Wake Island, the Philippines, and in the Java Sea during World War II. DB 11905
Toland, John W. Captured by history: one man's vision of our tumultuous century. Memoir of a historian who witnessed some of the twentieth century's significant events and interviewed many of its central figures. Recounts his adventures riding the rails as a hobo during the depression and his years in uniform during World War II. Violence. DB 44876
Toland, John W. Infamy: Pearl Harbor and its aftermath. Investigates the possibility that prior knowledge of the forth-coming Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor may have been suppressed by President Roosevelt and other high-ranking officials for political purposes. DB 17722
Toland, John W. The rising sun: the decline and fall of the Japanese Empire, 1936-1945. Chronicles well-known military actions of World War II. DB 44604
Veblen, Thorstein. The theory of the leisure class: an economic study of institutions. A classic of American economic theory. DB 33666
Vizenor, Gerald R. The people named the Chippewa: narrative histories. Essays discussing the last century of the Chippewa or Anishinaabeg people from the Great Lakes area of Wisconsin and Minnesota. DB 35286
Vizenor, Gerald R. Wordarrows: Indians and whites in the new fur trade. Seventeen narratives use actual events and people as well as composite profiles to portray Native American experiences during the 1960s and 1970s. DB 35023
Walsh, John E. The bones of St. Peter: a first full account of the search for the Apostle's body. Describes the archeological exploration begun in 1939 in Rome to unearth the lost remains of St. Peter. DB 18965
Walsh, John E. Darkling I listen: the last days and death of John Keats. Chronicle of the last hundred days of John Keats's life, when the 25-year-old English poet fought, and then succumbed to, consumption. DB 52079
Walsh, John E. The execution of Major Andre. Revisionist account dispels the legends about the bravery and sophistication of the British officer who conspired with American general Benedict Arnold to take West Point in September 1780. DB 55190
Walsh, John E. Night on fire: the first complete account of John Paul Jones's greatest battle. Complete account of John Paul Jones's victory over the British man'o'war Serapis. DB 16212
Walsh, John E. One day at Kitty Hawk: the untold story of the Wright brothers and the airplane. Dramatic account of the airplane's invention and development reveals that Wilbur was the aeronautical genius and Orville was his junior assistant. Contends that Orville's role was exaggerated because he outlived Wilbur by 36 years. DB 09832
Walsh, John E. Unraveling Piltdown: the science fraud of the century and its solution. Recounts the infamous scientific fraud known as "Piltdown" and suggests its perpetrator. DB 43891
Weatherford, Jack M. Indian givers: how the Indians of the Americas transformed the world. The discovery and conquest of the New World changed the Old World forever. The author shows how the gold and silver mined by the American Indians financed the rise of modern Europe. The Indians' knowledge of pharmacology was far superior to that of the Europeans, and their social organization was truly democratic. DB 31100
Weatherford, Jack M. Native roots: how the Indians enriched America. Describes how Native American practices have shaped what now is modern America. DB 37165
Weatherford, Jack M. Tribes on the Hill. An anthropologist takes a look at the ceremonies, rituals, and traditions of the U.S. Congress and draws a parallel between Congress and primitive tribes in their ways of getting and holding power, gaining seniority, selecting assistants, establishing taboos and pecking orders, and beating back the competition. DB 18956
Wells, Robert W. Daylight in the swamp. A history of lumbering in the Old Northwest--Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin. DB 12514
Wells, Robert W. Daylight in the swamp. The earthy and colorful history of the 19th century lumberjacks who moved from Maine to the silent forests of Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin, waiting for Saturday night. BRW 2118
Wells, Robert W. This is Milwaukee. A guidebook to historic Milwaukee upon the city's 150th anniversary. BRW 2118
Wescott, Glenway. Continual lessons: the journals of Glenway Wescott, 1937-1955. Autobiography of the Wisconsin writer. DB 34549
West, Richard. Daniel Defoe: the life and strange, surprising adventures. Biography of the British author of Robinson Crusoe (DB 27138). Portrays Defoe in the context of his times--England in the late 1600s and early 1700s. DB 49585
Wilder, Thornton. The long Christmas dinner: a play in one act. A one-act play which covers 90 years of Christmas dinners in the Bayard household. DB 16191
Wilder, Thornton. Our town: a play in three acts. Daily life in a typical American town, Grover's Corners, New Hampshire. DB 12934
Wilder, Thornton. Three plays: Our town, The skin of our teeth, The matchmaker. Three famous American plays by a Wisconsin playwright. BR 169 / DB 65265
Willard, Frances E. How I learned to ride the bicycle: reflections of an influential 19th century woman. This book by the founder of the WCTU was a bestseller in 1895. DB 33443
Williams, William A. America confronts a revolutionary world, 1776-1976. UW-Madison professor maintains the US has become a counter-revolutionary society. DB 11944
Wolfe, Linnie Marsh. Son of the wilderness: the life of John Muir. Biography of Scottish-born conservationist and nature writer John Muir (1838-1914). Depicts Muir's early childhood, 1849 move to America, University of Wisconsin studies, wilderness travels recorded in his writings, and efforts to preserve forestland and create national parks. Pulitzer Prize. DB 58081
Wright, Frank Lloyd. A Testament. This book is an attempt to describe the principle which the author feels brings man to construct his world in harmony with nature. BR 421
Yates, Brock. Outlaw machine: Harley-Davidson and the search for the American soul. History of the Milwaukee motorcycle manufacturer's first 95 years. DB 50469

Children's Fiction

Balian, Lorna. Amelia's Nine Lives. Nine of Nora's friends and relatives bring her replacement cats after she loses her beloved Amelia, but there still is one surprise in store. Print-braille for preschool-grade 2. BRW 140
Balian, Lorna. The Aminal. Patrick catches a small "aminal" in his lunch bag. As one friend tells another during recess, the "aminal" grows in size, hunger, and fierceness until the fearful friends decide that they must rescue Patrick. Grades K-3. BRW 146
Balian, Lorna. Bah! Humbug. Two children set a trap for Santa Claus, but only one of them manages to see him. Print-braille for preschool-grade 2. BRW 147
Balian, Lorna. Humbug potion, an A B Cipher. A homely witch is delighted to find a secret recipe for beauty, but it is written in a code that the reader must help her decipher by learning the letters of the alphabet. Print-braille for preschool-grade 2. BRW 148
Balian, Lorna. I Love You, Mary Jane. A small boy reminds all his friends to bring a gift to Mary Jane's birthday party. Print-braille for preschool-grade 2. BRW 154
Balian, Lorna. Mother's Mothers' Day. Hazel the mouse goes to visit her mother on Mother's Day, but finds she has gone to visit her mother. Print-braille for preschool to grade 2. BRW 150
Balian, Lorna. The Socksnatchers. Whenever a sock disappears in the Perkins household, no one suspects the Socksnatchers who live in the cellar. Print-braille for preschool-grade 2. BRW 61
Balian, Lorna. The Sweet Touch. Peggy's genuine plastic good ring conjures up a tiny genie who is only a beginner, and doesn't know how to put a stop to the wish he granted. Print-braille for preschool-grade 2. BRW23561
Balian, Lorna. A Sweetheart for Valentine. When a large baby in a large basket is left on the steps of the St. Valentine village hall, the villagers decide that she will belong to all of them, and they name her Valentine. Print-braille for kindergarten-grade 3. BRW 153
Bauer, Joan. Backwater. Sixteen-year-old Ivy Breedlove feels out of place in her family of opinionated attorneys. While helping an elderly relative compile a family history, Ivy sees similarities between herself and a reclusive aunt who lives in the Adirondacks. Ivy sets out to find her mysterious aunt. For junior and senior high readers. DB 51739
Bauer, Joan. Hope was here. Sixteen-year-old Hope and her aunt Addie, a professional waitress/cook team, move to Wisconsin to help G.T. Stoop run his restaurant. Soon they become involved in removing the corrupt mayor from office, and Hope finds the father she needs. For junior and senior high readers. Newbery Honor. Bestseller. DB 54218
Bauer, Joan. Rules of the road. Sixteen-year-old Jenna loves selling shoes for the Chicago Gladstone Shoe Store. But when her drunken father arrives in town, Jenna jumps at the opportunity to drive ornery Mrs. Gladstone to Texas. Jenna and the elderly woman fret over the future of the store chain, now in Gladstone's son's unscrupulous hands. For junior and senior high readers. BRW 56
Bauer, Joan. Squashed. Ellie Morgan, sixteen, has two goals in life: to win the Rock River (Iowa) Pumpkin Weigh-In and to lose twenty pounds. For grades 6-9 and older readers. BRW 57 / DB 36479
Bauer, Joan. Stand tall. Tree, at age twelve, is more than six feet tall. He copes with his parents' recent divorce and his failure as an athlete by helping his grandfather, a Vietnam veteran who recently had his leg amputated. Tree befriends Sophie, a new girl in town, and weathers a flood. For grades 5-8. DB 61672
Bauer, Joan. Sticks. Ten-year-old Mickey wants to win the youth tournament at his grandmother's pool hall. He has his talent inherited from his late dad plus the help of math wiz Arlen, who coaches him on shot angles. But he needs more to beat obnoxious thirteen-year-old Buck. When a long-lost billiards-expert friend of his dad's arrives in town, Mickey is overjoyed, but his mom is not. For grades 3-6. BRW 58 / DB 45165
Bauer, Joan. Thwonk. High school senior A.J. McCreary has a lot of problems. After four failed relationships, she now has a crush on unattainable Peter Terris, her father forbids her to pursue a career as a photographer, and she is running out of time to take a perfect photo for the Valentine issue of the school paper. Then A.J. receives a visit from a tiny, irritating cupid complete with arrows that go "thwonk." For junior and senior high and older readers. BRW 59
Bauer, Marion Dane. Am I blue?: coming out from the silence. Sixteen stories delving into various aspects of homosexuality. In "Winnie and Tommy," Tommy must finally tell his close friend Winnie that he is gay. "Holding," portrays a teenage boy reluctantly admitting that his father's significant other is a guy. "Dancing Backwards" is the story of two girls' school roommates who eventually understand they love each other. For junior and senior high and older readers. DB 41466
Bauer, Marion Dane. Like mother, like daughter. Leslie has trouble relating to her mother and turns instead to the school's new journalism advisor. When the mesmerized Leslie, eager for attention, focuses on an article about an inept math teacher, a crisis occurs that puts a different perspective on things. Grades 6-9. BR 6497
Bauer, Marion Dane. On my honor. Joel's best friend Tony goads him into a bike trek to the bluffs at the state park. To Joel's dismay, his father consents. Halfway there, Tony becomes fascinated with the dangerous Vermillion River, and convinces Joel to swim despite warnings not to go near the river. The boys race, and Tony disappears in the water. With his father's help, Joel comes to grip with his guilt and sorrow, and understands the power of choice. Grades 5-8. DB 26123
Bauer, Marion Dane. A question of trust. Furious with his mother for moving out, Brad, 12, refuses to answer her calls or let his little brother Charlie speak with her either--in hope of forcing her to return. The boys take in a stray cat and watch her give birth, suspect her of eating a kitten, and try to drive her away. Grades 5-8. DB 38686
Bauer, Marion Dane. Rain of fire. Steve is very proud of his big brother Matthew, who fought in World War II, and wants to know all about Matthew's heroic actions. But when Matthew refuses to talk about his experiences, Steve makes up stories to tell his friends. Grades 5-8 and older readers. DB 22623
Bauer, Marion Dane. Runt. Runt, the smallest wolf cub in the litter, has to prove his usefulness to his father, King, and the rest of the pack. But Runt can't seem to do anything right--until one day he warns his father of trouble. For grades 3-6. DB 56009
Bauer, Marion Dane. Shelter from the wind. After her father remarries, Stacey runs away in search of her real mother, but she only gets as far as the cabin of a wizened old woman who lives alone in the desert. Strong language. Grades 5-8. DB 72080
Bauer, Marion Dane. A taste of smoke. Thirteen-year-old Caitlin goes camping with her college-aged sister, Pam. Before they enter the park, they stop off at a museum to learn about the Hinckley fire that destroyed a whole town about a century earlier. But when Pam's boyfriend shows up at the campsite, Caitlin feels left out until she meets Frank, the ghost of one of the boys who died in the fire. And before he disappears, he gives Caitlin a gentle kiss. For grades 5-8. BRW 4 / DB 40637
Bauer, Marion Dane. Touch the moon. Counting on the horse her father said she could have for her eleventh birthday, Jennifer is bitterly disappointed to receive instead a promise of riding lessons and a china horse that he treasured as a boy. But the china figure becomes a beautiful palomino stallion that only she can see. Moonseeker, difficult and terribly afraid of being confined, can also talk, and they set out on an adventure. For grades 3-6. DB 34836
Baum, L. Frank. Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz. Dorothy returns to Oz to aid the Wizard. Grades 3-6. DB 26288
Baum, L. Frank. The emerald city of Oz. The powerful Nome King, Roquat the Red, resolves to destroy the Land of Oz, enslave Princess Ozma and the people of Oz, and recover his magic belt. Dorothy, Aunt Em, and Uncle Henry arrive in the Emerald City just as he is about to invade it. For grades 4-7. DB 26287
Baum, L. Frank. Glinda of Oz: in which are related the exciting experiences of Prince Ozma of Oz, and Dorothy, in their hazardous journey to the home of the Flatheads, and to the Magic Isle of the Skeezers, and how they were rescued from dire peril by the sorcery of Glinda the Good. Dorothy and Ozma search for the missing Good Witch. Grades 3-6. DB 32728
Baum, L. Frank. Little Wizard stories of Oz. Short stories introduce the magical inhabitants of the marvelous land of Oz. Grades 3-6. DB 24449
Baum, L. Frank. The magic of Oz: a faithful record of the remarkable adventures of Dorothy and Trot and the Wizard of Oz, together with the Cowardly Lion, the Hungry Tiger and Cap'n Bill, in their successful search for a magical and beautiful birthday present for Princess Ozma of Oz. Princess Ozma decrees that only Glinda the Good and the Wizard may practice magic in Oz, but the former Nome King objects. Grades 3-6. DB 32281
Baum, L. Frank. El maravilloso Mago de Oz. A Spanish language retelling of Dorothy's arrival in Oz. Grades 3-6. DB 29963
Baum, L. Frank. Our landlady. Humorous stories about Baum's life in South Dakota. DB 43370
Baum, L. Frank. Ozma of Oz. On a voyage to Australia with Uncle Henry, Dorothy is shipwrecked in Oz with Billina, a talking hen. Grades 3-6. DB 32280
Baum, L. Frank. The patchwork girl of Oz. Ojo the Munchkin boy joins the Patchwork Girl and the Glass Cat on an adventure. Grades 3-6. DB 32282
Baum, L. Frank. The road to Oz: in which is related how Dorothy Gale of Kansas, the Shaggy Man, Button Bright, and Polychrome, the Rainbow's daughter met on an enchanted road and followed it all the way to the marvelous land of Oz. Dorothy and the Shaggy Man, in search of the road to Butterfield, suddenly find themselves in Oz! Grades 3-6. DB 34766
Baum, L. Frank. The Tin Woodman of Oz: a faithful story of the astonishing adventure undertaken by the Tin Woodman, assisted by Woot the Wanderer, the Scarecrow of Oz, and Polychrome, the Rainbow's daughter. The Tin Woodman searches for the pretty Munchkin girl he loved before the Witch of the East turned him to tin. Grades 3-6. DB 33057
Baum, L. Frank. The Wizard of Oz and The land of Oz. How Dorothy first arrived in Oz, and how she found the lost princess, Ozma. Grades 3-6. DB 15141
Berg, Elizabeth. Durable goods. Katie is twelve, anxiously awaiting breasts, trying to impress boys, missing her dead mother, and fearing the wrath of her army colonel father. She confides to her patronizing older friend that she hopes her sister Diane's boyfriend Dickie will run away with her instead. When their father announces the family is moving to yet another base, Katie gets swept up in Diane's rebellion. Some strong language. Junior & senior high readers. DB 37047
Berg, Elizabeth. Joy school. In this sequel to Durable Goods (DB 37047), Katie has moved to a new town with her still aloof father. As she turns thirteen, Katie learns many lessons. Taylor Sinn, a pretty delinquent, may not be as good a friend as Cynthia, a wallflower. Katie thinks she is in love, but Jimmy is ten years older and married. Some descriptions of sex and some strong language. For junior and senior high readers. DB 45179
Berg, Elizabeth. True to form. 1961. Thirteen-year-old Katie Nash, from Durable Goods (DB 37047) and Joy School (DB 45179), has trouble fitting in and misses her old friends when she moves from Texas to Missouri with her widowed father. But a trip back home forces her to reevaluate her own discontent. For junior and senior high and older readers. DB 55811
Birdseye, Tom. Look out, Jack! The giant is back! Taking up where "Jack and the Beanstalk" left off, the felled giant's big brother comes after Jack, but once again Jack's quick mind gets him out of trouble in the nick of time. Kindergarten-grade 3. BRW 187
Bock, Lee. Oh, Crumps! Ay, Caramba! The misadventures of a sleepy farmer as he agonizes over a mixed-up list of the coming day's chores. How will he ever milk the fence, repair the cow, mow the silo and climb the hay before morning comes? Bilingual English/Spanish Print/Braille for kindergarten-grade 3. BRW 167
Bottner, Barbara. Big boss! Little boss! Two short stories about sisters--Penny and Lizzie. Grades K-3. BR 04654
Bottner, Barbara. Dumb old Casey is a fat tree! Is Casey too fat to dance as a tree in the recital? Grades 2-4. DB 19553
Bottner, Barbara. Hurricane Music. Hurricane Gladys blows away Aunt Margaret's clarinet. Grades K-3. DB 42616
Bottner, Barbara. Nothing in Common. Melissa mourns the death of her best friend, who also happened to be Sara's mother. Junior & senior high readers. DB 28801
Brink, Carol Ryrie. Andy Buckram's tin men. Inventive Andy builds four robots to help with farm work and babysitting. The robots operate by switches and batteries until an electrical storm produces startling results. Grades 4-6. BR 3214
Brink, Carol Ryrie. The Bad Times Of Irma Baumlein. To impress classmates in her new school, Irma Baumlein brags that she owns the biggest doll in the world. Grades 3-5. BRW 2037 / DB 39993
Brink, Carol Ryrie. Caddie Woodlawn. Life is difficult for the Woodlawn family after they leave New England for the Wisconsin frontier in the 1860s, but 11-year-old Caddie loves the challenge of adjusting to pioneer life and making friends with the nearby Indians. Grades 4-7. DB 22917
Brooks, Bruce. The moves make the man: a novel. Jerome, the "Jayfox," a brilliant black student and top-notch basketball player, reaches out to an emotionally troubled white boy. As Jerome attempts to help the boy through basketball, a special friendship develops between the two. Strong language and some scenes of racial bigotry. For junior and senior high readers. DB 23531
Brooks, Walter R. Freddy and the baseball team from Mars. Freddy the pig searches for a kidnapped Martian. Grades 3-6. DB 17044
Brooks, Walter R. Freddy and the perilous adventure. Freddy help advertise the circus by ballooning. Grades 3-6. DB 26515
Buell, Ellen L. A family treasury of Little Golden Books: 46 best-loved stories. Collection of stories about animals and pets, firemen and policemen, and happy families from forty-six Little Golden Books published between 1942 and 1957. For grades K-3. DB 56060
Buss, Fran Leeper. Journey of the sparrows. A Salvadoran refugee family begins a new life in Chicago. Junior and senior high and older interested readers. DB 39970
Butler, Beverly. Ghost Cat. Annabel spends an eerie summer on a farm with relatives she has never met before. She comes upon a mysterious white cat that no one else sees, uncovers old family secrets, and stirs up the ghost in an abandoned house. Grades 6-9. DB 24627
Butler, Beverly. Gift of Gold. While hoping that some of her vision may be restored, Cathy Wheeler fights the opposition of a new department chairman who insists that speech therapy is an unrealistic profession for a blind student. Grades 6-9. BRW 7004 / DB 66740
Butler, Beverly. Light a single candle. Cathy's life changes drastically when she loses her sight at fourteen. It takes courage and alertness to explore an uncharted world, but adjusting to blindness is often easier for Cathy than handling the reactions of the people around her. Grades 6-9. BRW 7 / DB 22637
Cameron, Ann. Colibri. Tzunun, a twelve-year-old Mayan girl kidnapped at age four by a man she calls "Uncle," wanders the Guatemalan countryside with him being pressured to beg, lie, and steal. Dependent and afraid to escape, Tzunun contemplates her individuality and morality with the encouragement of a fortune-teller. Some violence. For grades 6-9. DB 57425
Cameron, Ann. Gloria rising. The sequel to Gloria's Way (DB 50553) starts in a supermarket where fourth-grader Gloria meets Dr. Grace Street, a famous astronaut who encourages her to believe in herself. Gloria finds it hard to apply this advice as she copes with a difficult teacher and a class bully. For grades 2-4. DB 54652
Cameron, Ann. Gloria's Way. Gloria Jones sometimes thinks everything has to be done her way. But in these six short stories Gloria, with the help of her friends Huey, Julian, and Latisha, finds there can be many ways to do some things. Gloria learns about friendships, fractions, and making promises. For grades 2-4. DB 50553
Cameron, Ann. Julian, dream doctor. Julian wants to give his dad a special gift for his birthday. Grades 2-4. DB 31512
Cameron, Ann. Julian, secret agent. Julian, his little brother Huey and their friend Gloria become "crimebusters". For grades 2-4. BRW 377 / DB 29894
Cameron, Ann. Julian's glorious summer. Julian tells a series of incredible stories to cover up his fear of learning to ride a bike. Grades K-4. BR 07447 / DB 27536
Cameron, Ann. More stories Julian tells. An African-American child recounts five events in his life. Grades K-4. BR 06945 / DB 26051
Cameron, Ann. The most beautiful place in the world. Juan lives with his grandmother in a contemporary Guatemalan mountain town. Grades 2-6. DB 31581
Cameron, Ann. The stories Huey tells. Julian's little brother tells his own stories. Grades 2-4. DB 44733
Cameron, Ann. The stories Julian tells. Six humorous episodic stories featuring an African-American family. Grades K-4. DB 26478
Carter, Alden R. Between a rock and a hard place. A few years ago Mark's brother and a friend took the same canoe trip that Mark's father and uncle completed long ago. Now Mark and his cousin Randy are going, and they are both unhappy with the idea. But as the trip turns nightmarish, the two boys find strength in their new friendship. Some strong language. For junior and senior high readers. DB 42881
Carter, Alden R. Bull catcher. Bull Larsen's primary love has always been baseball. Living with his grandparents in Wisconsin, he has single-mindedly aimed for a career in the major leagues. As his high school days near an end, Bull has to face many decisions involving his future. Some strong language. For senior high readers. DB 56438
Carter, Alden R. Crescent Moon. Living in the logging area of northern Wisconsin during the early 1900s, thirteen-year-old Jeremy helps his uncle carve a statue of a Chippewa maiden as a tribute to the vanishing culture of her people. For grades 6-9. DB 52107
Carter, Alden R. Sheila's dying. Jerry is a basketball player who plans to break up with outgoing, bubbly Sheila. Then Sheila learns that she has terminal cancer, and Jerry knows he must stick with her until the end. Grades 9-12 and older readers. DB 28959
Carter, Alden R. Up country. Living in the basement to escape his alcoholic mother and her "dates", 16-year-old Carl yearns for a better life. Grades 7-12. BRW 128 / DB 32933
Carter, Alden R. Wart, son of Toad. Steve's dad is giving him a hard time about grades, but it's hard adjusting to high school when your father is the most unpopular biology teacher around. Grades 7-12. DB 24968
Clymer, Eleanor. The get-away car. Maggie's grandmother has a knack for helping people. Grades 3-6. DB 17834
Clymer, Eleanor. Horatio goes to the country. Horatio the cat hates the country, until he explores a meadow on a moonlit night. Grades k-3. DB 17827
Clymer, Eleanor. The horse in the attic. Caroline discovers a mysterious painting of a horse, which she tries to identify. Grades 4-7. DB 23269
Cole, Brock. Alpha and the dirty baby. Alpha drives out devil imps and rescues her parents. Grades k-3. DB 36451
Cole, Brock. Buttons. When an old man eats so much that his britches burst and his buttons pop into the fire, his three daughters think up different plans for replacing them. PRINT/BRAILLE. For grades K-3. BR 13070 / BRW23551
Cole, Brock. Celine. Celine misses her absent father, is neglected by her stepmother, and befriends the boy next door. Junior and senior readers. DB 31517
Cole, Brock. The facts speak for themselves. At thirteen Linda calmly and dispassionately reveals to a social worker how adults, especially her mother, have failed her. Linda gives this account of her life after she witnesses the murder of her seducer by her mother's former lover. Some descriptions of sex, some strong language, and some violence. For junior and senior high and older readers. BR 11594
Cole, Brock. The Goats. As a camp prank, two naked teens are abandoned on an island, where they must survive. Junior and senior high readers. DB 29197
Delton, Judy. Angel in charge. When Angel's mother decides she needs a vacation, and leaves for Canada, Angel, ten, and Rags, four, are left with Mom's somewhat dizzy friend Alyce. When Alyce breaks her leg, Angel takes charge of the household herself. For grades 3-6. DB 29587
Delton, Judy. Angel's mother's baby. Angel, now in 5th grade, believes with her new stepfather she now has the perfect family--until she learns her mother is having a baby! All will be ruined! For grades 3-6. DB 32475
Delton, Judy. Angel's mother's boyfriend. Angel and Rags discover that their mother's boyfriend is a professional clown. For grades 3-6. DB 29100
Delton, Judy. Angel's mother's wedding. Angel is worried that her mother is not giving enough thought to the impending nuptials, while misadventures surround them. For grades 3-6. DB 29648
Delton, Judy. Back yard Angel. Despite having to spend the summer watching her four-year-old brother, Rags, ten-year-old Angel manages a few adventures. For grades 3-6. DB 29586
Delton, Judy. The elephant in Duck's garden. Duck has an elephant in his garden, and he cannot decide how to remove it. For grades K-2. DB 25700
Delton, Judy. Kitty from the start. Kitty is the new girl in Sister Charlene's third grade class in St. Anthony's School in the 1940s. For grades 3-6. DB 26552
Delton, Judy. Kitty in high school. Despite meeting new friends, Kitty learns the values of old friendships. For grades 3-6. DB 26555
Delton, Judy. Kitty in the middle. Kitty's adventures in fourth grade. For grades 3-6. DB 26553
Delton, Judy. Kitty in the summer. Kitty gets to stay in the rectory with her aunt, the priests' housekeeper, and plans to win a puppy at the church bazaar. For grades 3-6. DB 26554
Delton, Judy. Rabbit goes to night school. Rabbit takes a magic class at night school. For grades K-2. DB 28196
Demuth, Patricia B. Max, the bad-talking parrot. Mrs. Goosebump misunderstands Max, but a burglary solves the problem. Preschool-grade 2. DB 28058
De Weese, Gene. Major Corby and the unidentified flapping object. Fourteen-year-old Russ Nelson is picked up by a UFO near Milwaukee and asked to return with five pounds of lead within eleven hours. If he fails, the ship will vaporize eastern Wisconsin. For grades 5-8. DB 16283
Dorros, Arthur. Abuela. While riding on a bus with her grandmother, a little girl imagines that they are carried up into the sky and fly over New York City. Preschool-grade 2. BRW23509
Dorros, Arthur. Art cities. This books describes how ants live and work together to build and maintain their cities. For grades 2-4 and older readers. DB 32473
Dorros, Arthur. Elephant families. Describes the lives of African elephants in the wild from grandmother to the young children that live together in families. For grades K-3. DB 42955
Enright, Elizabeth. Gone-away lake. On the edge of a swamp, four children find a row of half-ruined summer houses and two lonely old recluses who live in them. Grades 4-7. DB 10042
Enright, Elizabeth. Thimble summer. One scorching day in the middle of a drought, Garnet Linden finds a silver thimble she believes to be magic, and wishes for rain, which falls that night. Grades 4-7. BRW 313 / DB 23207
Erdrich, Louise. The birchbark house. 1840s. In Omakayas's seventh spring, she helps her Ojibwa family build a summer home on an island in Lake Superior. That winter during a smallpox outbreak, Omakayas shows her devotion to her family and learns about her heritage. For grades 4-7. DB 48991
Ernst, Kathleen. Trouble at Fort La Pointe. In 1732 twelve-year-old Suzette, an Ojibwe French girl living along Lake Superior, hopes her father wins the trapping contest so that he can quit being a voyageur--pelt collector for the French fur-trading companies--and stay home. When he is accused of stealing, Suzette investigates to find the real thief. For grades 4-7. DB 55774
Erwin, Betty K. Who is Victoria? A strange girl in old-fashioned clothes arrives in town one wild March day. Grades 4-6. DB 08914
Estes, Rose. Indiana Jones and the lost treasure of Sheba: Find your fate adventure; 2. A do-it-yourself adventure which the reader creates by making choices at crucial points in an incredible journey to the depths of Ethiopia with Indiana Jones. Grades 5-8. BR 5889
Ets, Marie Hall. Gilberto and the wind. A small boy discovers the wind is a playmate of many moods. Grades K-2. DB 11511
Ets, Marie Hall. Just Me. A little boy enjoys imitating the walk of one animal after another, but runs as only he can to meet his father for a boat ride at the end of the day. For Preschool-Grade 2. BR 03798
Ets, Marie Hall. Nine days to Christmas. Ceci, a little Mexican girl, is excited because she is old enough to buy a pinata for the village Christmas party. Grades K-3. BR 05922 / DB 22909
Ets, Marie Hall. Play with me. A little girl searches for playmates. For Preschool-Grade 2. BR 04681
Ferry, Charles. O Zebron Falls! A small town high school senior faces a future clouded by World War II. For junior & senior high readers. DB 16309
Gaiman, Neil. Coraline. While exploring her new home, Coraline goes through a doorway that shouldn't be there into a dangerous world where she has a disturbingly different set of parents. Since this other mother kidnaps Coraline's real parents, it is up to Coraline to rescue them and return to her world safely. For grades 4-7. DB 54845
Gault, William C. Trouble at second. The success of the New York Titans depends on the team's cohesiveness, which is threatened by a Chicano rookie with a gigantic chip on his shoulder. For grades 6-9. DB 08619
George, Lindsay B. William and Boomer. William doesn't understand why he can't swim like Boomer, the wild goose. Preschool-grade 2. BRW23495
George, William T. Beaver at Long Pond. As the other animals fall asleep, Beaver begins searching for food. K-3. DBC06599
Gilson, Jamie. 4B goes wild. As a reward for good behavior, Mr. Star's 4th-grade class receives a 3-day trip to Camp Trotter in Wisconsin. Grades 4-7. DB 21434
Green, Phyllis. Eating ice cream with a werewolf. A wacky babysitter and her book of magic keep Brad and his little sister guessing the entire week their parents are away on a trip. Grades 4-7. DB 21777
Green, Phyllis. Gloomy Louie. Despite his .000 batting average and his family's impending move to Phoenix, Louie begins to develop self-confidence when he saves a neighbor from her burning house. Grades K-3. BR 07359
Gunn, Robin Jones. A heart full of hope: Christy Miller; 6. Sixteen-year-old Christy is swept off her feet by Rick, a handsome Christian boy who wants to go steady with her. Her friendship with Todd makes her decision a difficult one. For junior and senior high readers. DB 55017
Gunn, Robin Jones. Island dreamer: Christy Miller; 5. Christy travels to Hawaii for her 16th birthday where she practices her driving on the island roads. Her friend Paula from Wisconsin joins the family, but Christy's new faith in God at first confuses her. For junior and senior high readers. DB 55016
Gunn, Robin Jones. A promise is forever: Christy Miller; 12. Eighteen-year-old college student Christy Miller travels to England on a missionary trip with her church youth group. When she is sent on to Spain, Christy is reunited with her former boyfriend Todd, and they realize that they are still in love. For junior and senior high readers. DB 55023
Gunn, Robin Jones. Seventeen wishes: Christy Miller; 9. Christy Miller volunteers for a week as a camp counselor--but the girls are much wilder than she expects. She is relieved when one girl becomes a fervent Christian. For junior and senior high readers. DB 55020
Gunn, Robin Jones. Starry night: Christy Miller; 8. Sixteen-year-old Christy Miller feels insecure with her friends-especially with the guys. She is annoyed with her parents' Christmas plans, until she finds peace with the Lord one beautiful evening. For junior and senior high readers. DB 55019
Gunn, Robin Jones. Summer promise: Christy Miller; 1. Fourteen-year-old Christy Miller, a farm girl from Wisconsin, is spending the summer in California with her wealthy aunt and uncle. But dealing with the fast beach crowd leads to moral dilemmas that are only resolved when she meets a group of Christian teens. For junior and senior high readers. DB 50281
Gunn, Robin Jones. Surprise endings: Christy Miller; 4. Sophomore Christy Miller hopes to make the cheerleading squad at her new school, but she faces a jealous classmate, financial problems, and complications between the two guys she's interested in. Based on her faith in God, she makes a surprising decision. For junior and senior high readers. DB 50284
Gunn, Robin Jones. Sweet dreams: Christy Miller; 11. Christy Miller and her friend Katie are glad to be finally graduating from high school. Christy is secure in her future with Todd while Katie, influenced by her boyfriend, is falling away from her faith. For junior and senior high readers. DB 55022
Gunn, Robin Jones. A time to cherish: Christy Miller; 10. Seventeen-year-old Christy Miller is happy now that Todd has made a commitment to her. Then best friend Katie gets involved with the wrong boy, and pal Doug becomes more withdrawn. Christy asks God to set things straight. For junior and senior high readers. DB 55021
Gunn, Robin Jones. True friends: Christy Miller; 7. Sixteen-year-old Christy and her friend Katie head to the ski slopes of Lake Tahoe. Christy becomes part of the fast crowd. But Katie warns her of trouble and Christy remembers her religious values. Christy is also frustrated because she hasn't heard from Todd. For junior and senior high readers. DB 55018
Gunn, Robin Jones. A whisper and a wish: Christy Miller; 2. When her family relocates to California, 15-year-old Christy Miller faces new dreams and disappointments as she decides what price she's willing to pay for making new friends. Her newfound religious faith sustains her in tough times. For junior and senior high readers. DB 50282
Gunn, Robin Jones. Yours forever: Christy Miller; 3. Fifteen-year-old Christy Miller expects her friend Todd to reciprocate her romantic feelings when she sees him during Christmas vacation. But after many misunderstandings with friends and family, she begins to grasp the implications of "forever" in the context of her faith. For junior and senior high readers. DB 50283
Haas, Dorothy F. The bears upstairs. The oddest-looking characters Wendy has ever seen turn out to be bears disguised in human clothing. Wendy befriends them and helps them find food, evade detection, and communicate with space bears from planet Brun. Grades 3-6. DB 17838
Haas, Dorothy F. Poppy and the outdoors cat. Poppy is heartbroken when her mother flatly refuses to let her keep the little kitten she has rescued from a trashcan. 0nly her father can come up with a solution to satisfy both Poppy and her mother. Grades 2-4. DB 18366
Haas, Dorothy F. The secret life of Dilly McBean. Orphaned Dilly McBean's magnetic powers make him the target of a mad scientist. Grades 5-8. DB 28768
Haas, Dorothy F. Tink in a tangle. Tink blames her red hair for all her problems. Grades 2-4. DB 23219
Hall, Lynn. Danger dog. 13-year-old David watches his lawyer father defend the owner of Max, an attack dog, against a deliveryman's suit. Grades 6-9. DB 27910
Hall, Lynn. Danza! Paulo, who loves the Paso Fino stud colt from birth, weans and trains him until a brief oversight almost kills the promising champion. Grades 5-8. DB 19866
Hall, Lynn. Half the battle. Two brothers, one blind, enter a dangerous 100-mile horseback race that has been widely publicized throughout New Mexico. Grades 7-12. BR 05513 / DB 20428
Hall, Lynn. Just one friend. Burdened by reading difficulties and mental slowness, Dory, a sensitive LD student is terrified when she is mainstreamed into regular high school. Grades 7-12. DB 24648
Hall, Lynn. The soul of the silver dog. Cory trains a blind Bedlington terrier for agility competition. Grades 6-9. DB 37893
Hall, Lynn. Tin Can Tucker. 16-year-old Ann Tucker runs away from her Missouri foster home to make a way on the rodeo circuit. Grades 6-9. DB 21696
Hall, Lynn. Uphill all the way. 17-year-old Callie Kiffin grows out of her naivety when she realizes she cannot win the uphill battle to help a young drifter stay out of trouble. DB 24500
Hautman, Pete. Hole in the sky. By 2036, a deadly flu wipes out most of Earth's population. Ceej Kane lives with his uncle and sister at the Grand Canyon until they both disappear. Ceej, his friend Tim, and Bella, a Hopi girl, search for them--and for a portal to another world. For senior high readers. DB 53176
Hautman, Pete. Stone cold. Life is good for 16-year-old Dennis Doyle--he has a profitable landscaping business, a loyal girlfriend, and bright prospects. Then he develops a talent for high-stakes poker, begins to drift away from his family and friends, and eventually finds himself risking the biggest stake of all--his own future. For senior high readers. DB 49638
Hautman, Pete. Sweetblood. As 16-year-old Lucy's diabetes spirals out of control, she becomes obsessed with a vampire chat room on the Web. Theorizing that vampires are somehow related to untreated diabetics, Lucy struggles with her illness, her family, and school problems before she accepts her condition. Some strong language. For senior high readers. DB 56722
Heide, Florence P. Banana blitz. Jonah Krock, television and candy-bar addict, has run out of money and candy bars. He thinks he can win some easy money for himself from the American Banana Institute just for watching their commercials on TV. Instead of solving his problems, however, the scheme creates new ones. Grades 4-7. DB 20171
Heide, Florence P. Banana twist. A comedy of errors about Jonah's attempts to avoid a new neighbor who thinks he has a banana fixation. Grades 4-7. DB 15415
Heide, Florence P. The hidden box mystery. The police ask the Spotlight Club to watch out for a sneak thief in their neighborhood. Grades 3-6. DB 09421
Heide, Florence P. The House of Wisdom. When the caliph sends him on an expedition in search of books for the House of Wisdom, Ishaq enjoys his journey. But his greatest discovery is the power of the written word. PRINT/BRAILLE. For grades 2-4. BR 13001
Heide, Florence P. Mystery of the melting snowman. A strange who smashes all the neighborhood snowmen and an iron dog hidden in one launch the Spotlight Club on a winter adventure. Grades 3-6. BR 03157
Heide, Florence P. The mystery of the missing suitcase. The Spotlight Club is on the case when Jeff picks up a bank robber's suitcase at the bus station. Grades 3-6. DB 08585
Heide, Florence P. Secret dreamer, secret dreams. The inner world of a mentally handicapped girl who cannot read, write or speak. Grades 7-12. DB 16419
Heide, Florence P. The shrinking of Treehorn. One day Treehorn notices he is shrinking. When adults don't notice, he saves himself with help from a cereal box game. Grades 2-5. DB 42734
Heide, Florence P. Time's up! Noah, bored to death in his new town, learns the girl next door has a ten-speed bike. Grades 4-7. DB 21318
Heide, Florence P. Tío Armando. When Lucita's great-uncle Armando comes to live with them, he teaches her many truths about life. For grades K-3. Print/Braille. BRW 65
Heide, Florence P. Treehorn's treasure. The leaves on the maple tree in Treehorn's back yard turn into dollar bills for one day. Grades 3-6. DB 18779
Heide, Florence P. Treehorn's wish. On his birthday, Treehorn finds a bottle complete with genie. Grades 3-6. DB 24662
Henkes, Kevin. The birthday room. When twelve-year-old Ben visits his uncle in Oregon for the first time in ten years, he becomes caught up in the strained relationship between his mother and her brother. Ben also becomes interested in the girl next door and in making his future as an artist. For grades 5-8. DB 49749
Henkes, Kevin. Chester's way. Chester has his own ways of doing things, with which his best friend Wilson agrees. Then Lily moves to the neighborhood! Grades K-3. DB 31330
Henkes, Kevin. Chrysanthemum. Chrysanthemum loves her name until her first day at school, when the other kids laugh at it. Preschool-grade 2. DB 37939
Henkes, Kevin. Julius, the baby of the world. Before Julius was born, Lily was the best big sister in the world. But now he's here! Preschool-grade 2. DB 32672
Henkes, Kevin. Lilly's purple plastic purse. Lilly loves school, and her teacher, Mr. Slinger--until the day she takes her musical purple plastic purse for show-and-tell. Grades K-3. DB 45212
Henkes, Kevin. Olive's ocean. After Olive's death, twelve-year-old Martha reads an excerpt from Olive's journal and mourns her barely known classmate. DB 63636
Henkes, Kevin. Owen. Owen's blanket means the world to him. Preschool-grade 2. BR 9913
Henkes, Kevin. Protecting Marie. Fanny resents her father for giving away her dog, but comes to understand him. Grades 5-8. DB 42025
Henkes, Kevin. Sun & Spoon. 10-year-old Spoon learns to cope with his Gram's death. Grades 4-7. DB 47597
Henkes, Kevin. A weekend with Wendell. Wendell visits Sophie for the weekend while his parents are away. Grades K-3. DB 28343
Henkes, Kevin. Wemberly worried. Wemberly worries about everything--big things, little things, and even in-between things. She worries all day long. Her biggest worry is about going to school for the first time. But Wemberly gets a surprise when she arrives for the first day. For preschool-grade 2. DB 50855
Henkes, Kevin. Words of stone. Timid Blaze and brash Joselle form a tentative friendship until he catches her in a lie. Grades 4-7. DB 36970
Hennessy, B.G. The dinosaur who lived in my backyard. A young boy muses on what his neighborhood was like in the age of the dinosaurs. Preschool-grade 2. DB 33063
Henry, Marguerite. Benjamin West and his cat Grimalkin. A colonial cat tells of a small boy who wanted to become an artist. Grades 2-4. BRW 103
Henry, Marguerite. Black Gold. The story of the only Kentucky Derby winner raised by a Native American. Grades 3-6. DB 10282
Henry, Marguerite. Born to trot. Twinned stories--of Rosalind, the first filly to win the Hambletonian, and of Hambletonian, the founding sire of the American Standardbred breed of horse. Grades 3-6. BR 03206 / DB 15691
Henry, Marguerite. Brighty of the Grand Canyon. The story of a Grand Canyon burro. Grades 3-6. BRW 517 / DB 40762
Henry, Marguerite. Brown Sunshine of Sawdust Valley. Molly's old mare birth's a beautiful mule. Grades 3-6. DB 44027
Henry, Marguerite. Justin Morgan had a horse. The story of Figure, the horse who founded a breed all by himself. Grades 3-6. BRW 518 / DB 10772
Henry, Marguerite. King of the wind. The story of the Godolphin Arabian. Grades 3-6. DB 16570
Henry, Marguerite. The little fellow. The story of a foal. Grades 2-4. BR 03191
Henry, Marguerite. Misty of Chincoteague. The story of a wild pony. Grades 3-6. BRW00520 / DB 25353
Henry, Marguerite. San Domingo, the medicine hat stallion. In pre-Civil War Wyoming, a teenager's life is complicated when his strangely hostile father trades the boy's beloved horse to the Pony Express. DBC03219
Henry, Marguerite. Sea Star, orphan of Chincoteague. The story of an orphan pony foal. Grades 3-6. DB 11535
Henry, Marguerite. Stormy, Misty's foal. Misty has a foal. Grades 3-6. BRW 521 / DB 15203
Hermann, Harriet. Jenny's magic wand. Blind Jenny is transferring to a public school. Preschool-grade 2. DB 28266
Hirsch, Karen. Ellen Anders on her own. 11-year-old Ellen gains insight after reading her dead mother's diary. Grades 3-6. DB 41233
Hodgell, P.C. Dark of the gods. Contains God Stalk and its sequel Dark of the Moon. Junior & senior high and older readers. DB 52635
Hodgell, P.C. God stalk. Jaime, a young Kencyr, is the heroine of this brilliant young adult allegorical fantasy by a professor at UW-Eau Claire. Junior & senior high and older readers. BRW23397 / DB 52635
Hodgell, P.C. Seeker's mask. Before Jame has time to reconnect with her brother Tori, she winds up in the Women's Halls at Gothregor. She doesn't conform well to their constrictions and soon is off on another perilous adventure. Sequel to Dark of the Gods (DB 52635). Junior & senior high and older readers. DB 52636
Holabird, Katharine. Angelina's Christmas. Angelina, her cousin Henry, and the rest of the Mouseling family share Christmas cheer with a lonely, retired postman. Grades K-2. DB 23630
Howard, Arthur. Hoodwinked. A young witch searches for a creepy pet. For preschool-grade 2. BRW 191
Howard, Elizabeth F. Chita's Christmas tree. An African-American father and daughter take a buggy ride into the turn-of-the-century Baltimore countryside to find a Christmas tree. For preschool-grade 2. DB 32775
Howard, Elizabeth F. Papa tells Chita a story. An African-American father tells his daughter about his service in the Spanish-American war. For preschool-grade 2. DB 45245
Hyde, Dayton O. Island of the loons. A young boy is held captive on an island in Lake Superior. Grades 6-9. DB 24616
Jackson, Jacqueline D. The ghost boat. On the night of a moon eclipse, some children spot a derelict boat they think belongs to the ghost of a drowned fisherman. Grades 4-6. DB 10402
Jackson, Jacqueline D. Missing Melinda. While two sisters are tree-climbing, their antique doll disappears. During the search, one of the sisters vanishes too. Grades 3-6. BR 01191
Joosse, Barbara M. Alien brain fryout: a Wild Willie mystery. When the neighborhood bully starts following Willie, Lucy, and Kyle around and acting goofy, they suspect that he has been abducted by aliens, until Scarface the parrot presents another possibility. For grades 2-4. DB 52490
Joosse, Barbara M. Ghost trap: a Wild Willie mystery. Willie is thrilled that his old best friend, Kyle, is moving back into the neighborhood. Willie's new best friend, Lucy, is not as happy. But the three band together to investigate Kyle's mysterious house. For grades 2-4. DB 52510
Joosse, Barbara M. The losers fight back: a wild Willie mystery. Lucy and Willie are upset when big bully Chuckie calls the Bruisers--their soccer team--the losers. With advice from his detective partner King Kyle, Wild Willie and Lucy figure out how to make their team winners. For grades 2-4. DB 52476
Joosse, Barbara M. The morning chair. Bram and his family leave their small brick house in Holland and travel to a new life in New York City. Kindergarten-grade 3. DB 43247
Joosse, Barbara M. Wild Willie and King Kyle-Detectives. Best friends and neighbors Willie and Kyle are upset when Kyle has to move to Ohio but cheer up when they play detective agency. Their first case has Willie spying on the girl who moves into Kyle's old house. For grades 2-4. DB 54524
Kherdian, David. Bridger: the story of a mountain man. Jim Bridger, trapper and explorer, graphically relates his adventures from the time he leaves St. Louis at the age of eighteen to travel up the Missouri River and become a mountaineer, until his discovery in 1824 of the Great Salt Lake. Grades 6-9. BR 07030
Kherdian, David. The mystery of the diamond in the wood. While illegally hunting squirrels, Sam and Howie find some diamond rings in a hollow tree, and decide to catch the thief. Grades 5-8. BR 05710 / DB 21661
Kherdian, David. A song for Uncle Harry. Pete remembers the wonderful times he had growing up with his Uncle Harry, a disabled veteran of World War I. Grades 4-7. DB 31543
Kjelgaard, Jim. Big Red. Seventeen-year-old Danny Pickett takes a shine to a big red Irish setter on a nearby ranch. Naming the dog "Red," he uses him to help hunt a dangerous bear who's been killing livestock. Prequel to Irish Red (DB 49526). For grades 4-7. BR 12530 / DB 49525
Kjelgaard, Jim. Irish Red. Though he seems hopeless as a pup, the runty offspring of Big Red--a champion Irish Setter--finally shows that he can follow in his father's footsteps. For grades 4-7. Sequel to Big Red (BR 12530 / DB 49525). DB 49526
Kjelgaard, Jim. Outlaw Red. Sean, a champion show dog and the son of Big Red (BR 12530 / DB 49525), does not like being shut up in a kennel. He longs for the freedom of the wilderness. But when that chance comes, Sean must learn to survive on his own. For grades 5-8. DB 42838
Kjelgaard, Jim. Snow dog. Chiri, a husky puppy, must survive in the wild after wolves slay his mother and littermates. Grades 4-7. DB 42731
Kjelgaard, Jim. Stormy. Allan rescues a Labrador retriever that has fallen through the late November pack ice. Grades 5-8. DB 42584
Korman, Gordon. Son of the mob. Seventeen-year-old Vince Luca's father is the head of the local crime organization. Problems arise when Vince falls in love with Kendra Bightly, an FBI agent's daughter. And it's Kendra's father who's wiretapping Vince's house. Some strong language. For junior and senior high readers. DB 62117
Kraus, Robert. Leo the late bloomer. Leo the tiger can't read, or write, or draw, or eat neatly. But just as his mother always believed, one day Leo blooms! Grades K-2. BR 13068
Kraus, Robert. Milton the early riser. Milton the panda bear wakes up early one morning. When he gets lonely without anybody else to play with, he does everything he can think of to wake up his parents and the other animals. For grades K-3. BR 02469
Kraus, Robert. Spider's first day at school. It was the first day back after summer vacation, and Spider was worried. Grades K-2. DB 30902
Lawrence, Mildred. Drums in my heart. When Eliot Talbot breaks his engagement with Val's beautiful sister, Val is afraid that her relationship with Eliot's brother Rob may suffer. For junior and senior high readers. BR 01712
Lesser, Carolyn. What a wonderful day to be a cow! Each month is special to some animal on the farm. Preschool-grade 2. DB 44674
Lorelli, Michael K. Traveling again, Dad? A family's pet hamster describes how everyone feels when Dad has to go away on a business trip. Print-braille for kindergarten-grade 3. BRW 1998
Lovelace, Maud H. Betsy in spite of herself. Betsy and Tacy, now sophomores, are popular members of the "crowd" at school. Betsy decides that she should become more sophisticated if she is to be Phil's girlfriend, and goes to visit Tib in Milwaukee for two weeks to change her personality. Sequel to Heaven to Betsy (DB 27077). For grades 5-8. DB 27078
MacBride, Roger L. Little house on Rocky Ridge. In 1894, following several years of fires and drought, Laura and Almanzo Wilder decide to leave their farm in South Dakota and travel to Missouri where they hope the land will be better. For grades 3-6. BR 10160 / DB 40671
Mackel, Kathy. Can of worms. Bullied and unhappy at school, 13-year-old Mike, who has always thought that he might be an alien, sends a distress call into space asking to be rescued from the ignorance and cruelty of his life on Earth. Grades 4-7. BRW 184
Martin, C.L.G. The dragon nanny. An elderly lady is put in charge of baby dragons. Grade k-3. DB 32454
Martin, Jacqueline B. Washing the willow tree loon. When a loon is covered with oil in a polluted Wisconsin bay, volunteers arrive to help. Grades K-3. DB 44710
Masters, Susan R. Summer song. Etta May's long gone mother reappears in her life. Grades 4-7. DB 42737
McCall, Edith S. Message from the mountains. In 1826 Missouri, teens Jim Matthews and Kit Carson plan to run off on the Santa Fe trail. Grades 5-8. DB 28775
McInerney, Judith W. Judge Benjamin, superdog. Judge Benjamin, a large St. Bernard with an equally large sense of humor, rescues his human family from one disaster after another. Grades 4-7. DB 23249
McInerney, Judith W. Judge Benjamin, the superdog secret. A 200-lb. St. Bernard stows away in his family's camper for their three-week vacation. Grades 4-7. DB 23250
McKenzie, Ellen K. A bowl of mischief. Ranji ignores a holy man's wisdom until after Phufadia dies. Grades 5-8. DB 41467
McKenzie, Ellen K. Under the bridge. Ritchie and Rosie miss their vanished mother. Grades 4-7. DB 41049
Moore, Lorrie. The forgotten helper: a Christmas story. One Christmas, Santa's grouchiest elf is left behind at the house of a very bad little girl. He must now find a way to improve her behavior so Santa will return the following Christmas and take him back to the North Pole. For grades 3-6. DB 52596
Mori, Kyoko. One bird. After her mother abandons them, 15-year-old Megumi tries to understand her father's need for his mistress. Junior & Senior high readers. BRW 107
Mori, Kyoko. Shizuko's daughter. After her mother's suicide when she is twelve years old, Yuki spends years living with her distant father and his resentful new wife, cut off from her mother's family, and relying on her own inner strength to cope with the tragedy. BRW 5 / DB 42155
Murphy, Jim. The journal of James Edmond Pease, a Civil War Union soldier. In 1863, a sixteen-year-old orphan and misfit joins up with G Company of the New York Volunteers. For grades 5-8. DB 53440
Murphy, Jim. The last dinosaur. This story, set at the end of the Age of Dinosaurs, depicts what life may have been like for the last dinosaurs on earth. For grades 3-6 and older readers. BR 08924
Murphy, Jim. Night terrors. Five horror stories surrounded by episodes from the odd career of the narrator, known as Digger because he digs graves. For grades 6-9 and older readers. DB 40015
O'Dell, Scott. The amethyst ring. A Spanish seminarian sees the fall of the Mayas with the coming of Cortes. Grades 7-12. DB 24574
O'Dell, Scott. The black pearl. Despite the dangers, a 16-year-old is determined to return a valuable black pearl to the sea. Grades 5-8. DB 62509
O'Dell, Scott. Black star, bright dawn. A young Eskimo girl faces the challenge of the Iditarod. Grades 5-8. DB 30425
O'Dell, Scott. The captive. A young Spanish seminarian is held captive in the 16th century by the Mayans, who think him a god. Grades 7-12. DB 17140
O'Dell, Scott. The feathered serpent. A young Spanish seminarian whom the Mayans believe their god Kukulcan witnesses the coming of Cortes and the fall of Tenochtitlan. Grades 7-12. DB 24573
O'Dell, Scott. Island of the Blue Dolphins. Accidentally abandoned on a California coastal island by her tribe, a young Native American girl must survive for eighteen years. Grades 6-9. DB 62761
O'Dell, Scott. Kathleen, please come home. After her mother accidentally causes her boyfriend's death, Kathleen runs away with her rebellious girlfriend to Baja. Grades 7-12. DB 13329
O'Dell, Scott. My name is not Angelica. Fictional account of the Virgin Island slave revolt of 1733-34. For grades 5-8. Hans Christian Andersen Award. DB 33660
O'Dell, Scott. The road to Damietta. Obsessed by Francis of Assisi, a young girl follows him on crusade. Grades 7-12. DB 24793
O'Dell, Scott. Sarah Bishop. After her family is killed by British troops, Sarah flees to the wilderness with a musket for protection. Grades 6-9. BR 05156 / DB 18158
O'Dell, Scott. Sing down the moon. A novel of the Navaho death march in 1864. Grades 6-9. DB 25275
O'Dell, Scott. Streams to the river, river to the sea: a novel of Sacagawea. An autobiographical retelling of the life of Lewis and Clark's scout. Grades 5-8. DB 26090
O'Dell, Scott. Thunder Rolling in the Mountains. Chief Joseph's daughter tells of the defeat of the Nez Perce revolt. Grades 5-8. DB 38901
O'Dell, Scott. Zia. Zia rescues her aunt, Karana, from the "Island of the Blue Dolphins". Grades 6-9. DB 44035
Olson, Arielle N. Noah's cats and the devil's fire. Noah's cats drive the devil, disguised as a mouse, from the Ark. Preschool-grade 2. DB 39070
Oppenheim, Joanne. You can't catch me! A pesky black fly taunts all the animals, boasting that they can't catch him, until he taunts one animal too many. Preschool-grade 2. DB 26262
Otis, James. Toby Tyler; or, Ten weeks with a circus. Toby Tyler runs away from home with the lemonade man to join the circus, and then works very hard to run away from the circus and go home again. In between, he makes many good friends, including the Living Skeleton and Mr. Stubbs, the monkey. For grades 4-7. DB 12108
Pellowski, Anne. First farm in the valley: Anna's story. Saga of six-year-old Anna and her Polish-American family, pioneer settlers in Wisconsin in the 1870s. Grades 3-6. DB 24583
Pellowski, Anne. Willow Wind farm: Betsy's story. Follows a year in the life of 7-year-old Betsy and her large family on their Wisconsin farm. Grades 3-6. DB 46644
Pellowski, Anne. Winding Valley farm: Annie's story. Six-year-old Annie loves living on a Wisconsin farm with her large Polish-American family. Her only fear is that her father will sell out and move them all to town where there is nothing to do. Companion to First Farm in the Valley: Anna's Story (DB 24583). For grades 3-6. DB 46640
Pfitsch, Patricia C. Keeper of the light. The daughter of the Port Henry lighthouse keeper fights a Lake Superior storm. Grades 5-8. DB 46595
Qualey, Marsha. Come in from the cold. In 1969, 17-year-old Maud's activist sister is killed in a bombing. She finds solace with Jeff, a senior at another Minnesota high school, whose brother died in Vietnam. Junior & senior high readers. DB 43049
Qualey, Marsha. Revolutions of the heart. Racism and Indian treaty rights are at the center of this YA novel set in Northern Wisconsin. For junior and senior high readers. DB 39933
Raskin, Ellen. Figgs & phantoms. Preposterous fantasy chronicling the adventures of the Figg family after they leave show business and settle in the town of Pineapple. For grades 5-8. DB 62884
Raskin, Ellen. The tattooed potato and other clues. In a humorous detective spoof, 17-year-old Dickory Dock answers an ad for an artist's assistant and finds herself embroiled in a web of mysteries. Grades 5-8. DB 10582
Raskin, Ellen. The Westing game. The mysterious death of an eccentric millionaire brings together an unlikely assortment of heirs who must uncover the circumstances of his death before they may claim their inheritance. Grades 5-8. DB 58350
Rawls, Wilson. Summer of the monkeys. 14-year-old Jay finds a tree full of escaped circus monkeys along the river. Grades 5-8. DB 12258
Rawls, Wilson. Where the red fern grows: the story of two dogs and a boy. 10-year-old Billy yearns for a pair of coonhounds. Grades 5-8 and older readers. DB 32449
Reiss, Kathryn. Riddle of the prairie bride. In 1878, twelve-year-old Ida Kate and her widowed father welcome a mail-order bride and her baby to their Kansas homestead. But Ida Kate soon suspects that the bride is not the same woman with whom Papa had corresponded. For grades 5-8. DB 53429
Ryder, Joanne. My Father's hands. A young girl enjoys examining the small creatures that her father finds in the garden and brings to her cupped in his hands. PRINT/BRAILLE. For preschool-grade 2. 1994. BR 15006
Ryder, Joanne. The night flight. A child's flight dream. Grades 2-4. DB 25753
Sandburg, Carl A. The Huckabuck family and how they raised popcorn in Nebraska and quit and came back. When Pony Pony Huckabuck finds a Chinese silver slipper buckle in a squash, her parents say it is a sign their luck will change one way or another. That very night a fire starts popping the popcorn harvest on their farm. One of the Rootabaga Stories (DB 25522). PRINT/BRAILLE. For grades K-3. BR 12050
Sandburg, Carl A. More Rootabagas: Stories by Carl Sandburg. As noted in the foreword, Sandburg, searching for bedtime stories for his three daughters, lamented the lack of fairy tales native to the United States. So, the famous poet wrote his own, which he described as "tales with American fooling in them." Companion to Rootabaga Stories (DB 25522). For grades 4-7 and older readers. DB 41593
Sandburg, Carl A. Rootabaga Stories. Nonsense tales about the American Middle West. Grades 4-7. DB 25522
Sargent, Susan. My favorite place. A small blind girl enjoys a day at the beach. Grades k-3. BR 05925 / DB 22912
Shannon, George. Climbing Kansas mountains. Sam and his dad spend Saturday together. Grades K-3. BRW 3 / DBC08712
Shaw, Janet Beeler. Changes for Kaya: a story of courage. In this sequel to Kaya Shows the Way (DB 56109), Kaya faces danger from a sudden mountain fire while searching for Steps High, the horse stolen from her. For grades 2-4. DB 56108
Shaw, Janet Beeler. Changes for Kirsten: a winter story. Swedish pioneer family's cabin burns. Grades 2-4. DB 43756
Shaw, Janet Beeler. Happy birthday, Kirsten! A springtime story. Kirsten's pioneer family and friends create a friendship quilt for her birthday. Grades 2-4. DB 47354
Shaw, Janet Beeler. Kaya and Lone Dog: a friendship story. In this sequel to Kaya's Hero (DB 56111), Kaya still grieves over her friend's death and misses her stolen horse and kidnapped sister. She tries to earn the trust of a lone and starving dog who is about to have puppies. For grades 2-4. DB 56110
Shaw, Janet Beeler. Kaya shows the way: a sister story. When Kaya and her family go to fish for red salmon again, her hope is to be reunited with her blind younger sister, Speaking Rain, who was kidnapped some time before. Sequel to Kaya and Lone Dog (DB 56110). For grades 2-4. DB 56109
Shaw, Janet Beeler. Kaya's escape: a survival story. Fall 1764. After Kaya and her blind sister, Speaking Rain, are kidnapped from their Nez Perce village by enemy horse raiders, she tries to find a way to escape back home. Sequel to Meet Kaya (DB 55342). For grades 2-4. DB 56107
Shaw, Janet Beeler. Kaya's hero: a story of giving. 1764. Kaya greatly admires a courageous and kind young woman, Swan Circling, who is newly married and living in her Nez Perce village. Kaya wants to be worthy of her respect. Sequel to Kaya's Escape! (DB 56107). For grades 2-4. DB 56111
Shaw, Janet Beeler. Kirsten learns a lesson: a school story. Swedish pioneer Kirsten attends her first day of school in America. Grades 2-4. DB 43752
Shaw, Janet Beeler. Kirsten saves the day: a summer story. Kirsten endangers herself trying to harvest honey from a bee tree by herself. Grades 2-4. DB 43755
Shaw, Janet Beeler. Kirsten's surprise: a Christmas story. Kirsten and her family bring their Swedish Christmas heritage to their new land. Grades 2-4. DB 43753
Shaw, Janet Beeler. Meet Kaya: an American girl. In 1764, when Kaya and her family reunite with other Nez Perce Indians to fish for the red salmon, she learns that bragging, even about her swift horse, can lead to trouble. Grades 2-4. DB 55342
Shaw, Janet Beeler. Meet Kirsten, an American girl. Nine-year-old Kirsten sails to America alone from Sweden in 1854. Grades 2-4. DB 43751
Sinykin, Sheri C. The Shorty Society. 3 short 7th-graders plan revenge on their tormentors. Grades 4-7. DB 45645
Smith, Dean W. Men in black: the green saliva blues. Jay and Elle of the secret Men in Black organization charged with defending Earth against aliens are locked in a battle with the Zahurians, a race of plants that has invaded the planet to devour animal and human flesh. Some violence and some strong language. For junior and senior high readers. DB 51835
Stone, Bruce. Half Nelson, full Nelson. When Nelson's parents separate, he decides to kidnap his little sister in hope of reuniting the family. Grades 7-12. DB 24967
Tapp, Kathy K. The Scorpio ghosts and the Black Hole Gang. Renovation of a historic one-room school in a Wisconsin cornfield is interrupted by the appearance of a phantom bookmobile and two ghostly librarians. Grades 3-6. DB 27916
Temple, Frances. The Beduins' gazelle. In 1302, Halima becomes lost in a sandstorm and is found by rival Beduins. Hearing of her capture, Atiyah races across the North African desert to save her. For junior and senior high readers. DB 48021
Temple, Frances. Grab hands and run. 12-year-old Felipe and his family must flee for their lives to Canada from the political turmoil in El Salvador. Grades 6-9. BRW 16894 / DB 36866
Temple, Frances. The Ramsay scallop. After Father Gregory sends them on a chaste pilgrimage to Spain in 1299, Elenor and Thomas come to know themselves and each other. For junior and senior high readers. DB 39908
Temple, Frances. Taste of salt: a story of modern Haiti. Djo, a 17-year-old bodyguard of Haitian leader Jean-Bertrand Aristide, tells his story from his hospital bed where he is recuperating from a beating from the "Tonton Macoutes"--thugs of deposed dictator Duvalier. For junior and senior high readers. DB 37094
Temple, Frances. Tiger soup: an Anansi story from Jamaica. How hungry Anansi the spider tricks Tiger out of the sweet soup he has just made, and how the little monkeys end up living in trees. For preschool-grade 2. DB 39838
Temple, Frances. Tonight, by sea: a novel. In Haiti, Paulie's uncle is secretly building a boat so they can cross the sea to seek a better life. The boat, Chache Lavi (Seek Life), is almost finished when tragedy strikes. For grades 5-8. DB 41398
Terris, Susan. The latchkey kids. After her father's mental illness causes her mother's return to work, "latchkey kid" Callie gets into trouble. Grades 4-7. DB 25104
Terris, Susan. The pencil families. After she discovers a dead body and a gold pencil, Emily's life becomes even more suspenseful than the stories she had created about her drawings--her "pencil families". Grades 5-8. BR 03393
Thomas, Jane R. Courage at Indian Deep. Cass is alone with his dog in the middle of a blizzard when he sees a distress signal from a foundering ship in gale-swept Lake Superior. For grades 4-7. DB 22708
Tolan, Stephanie S. The face in the mirror. Teenager Jared Kingsley's actress mother sends him to live with his father, a famous director, whom he has never known. There Jared discovers his innate acting ability--and a sinister ghost. For grades 5-8. DB 49754
Tolan, Stephanie S. A good courage. When Tie-Dye's flower-child mother pledges them both to a religious cult, the 14-year-old must find the courage to survive. Grades 7-12. DB 31111
Tolan, Stephanie S. The great Skinner enterprise. The Skinners start an odd-job business. Grades 6-9. DB 29836
Tolan, Stephanie S. The great Skinner getaway. The Skinners tour America. Grades 6-9. DB 29837
Tolan, Stephanie S. The great Skinner homestead. The Skinners become homesteaders. Grades 6-9. DB 31208
Tolan, Stephanie S. The great Skinner strike. Mrs. Skinner goes on strike. Grades 6-9. DB 29835
Tolan, Stephanie S. Ordinary miracles. Tired of being his twin brother Matthew's shadow, eighth-grader Mark Filkins is excited about meeting a Nobel Prize-winning genetic engineer who challenges some of the boy's fundamentalist Christian beliefs. Grades 5-8. DB 49721
Tolan, Stephanie S. Save Halloween! 6th-grader Johnna must decide whether celebrating Halloween goes against her conscience. Grades 3-6. DB 40364
Tolan, Stephanie S. Surviving the Applewhites. Kicked out of several public schools, Jake winds up being home schooled with an eccentric family of artists at the Applewhite's Creative Academy. For grades 5-8. DB 55806
Tolan, Stephanie S. Who's there? After their parents are killed, Drew and Evan go to live with their grandfather--in a haunted house! Grades 5-8. DB 43207
Watkins, Yoko K. My brother, my sister, and I. Memoir of a Korean refugee family in Japan just after World War II. Grades 6-9. DB 40136
Watkins, Yoko K. So far from the bamboo grove. A Japanese mother and daughter flee invading armies down the Korean peninsula in a boxcar. Grades 6-9. DB 27295
Wilder, Laura Ingalls. The adventures of Laura and Jack: Laura, book 1. Laura and her beloved bulldog, Jack, share many experiences as the Wilder family moves from Wisconsin to Kansas and later to Minnesota. For grades 2-4. BR 13983
Wilder, Laura Ingalls. Animal adventures: Laura, book 3. Living on the frontier, Laura and her pioneer family have many adventures with animals such as bears, deer, Texas Longhorns, ponies, a badger, wolves, and a panther. For grades 2-4. BR 13981
Wilder, Laura Ingalls. By the shores of Silver Lake. The story of the Ingalls family as they move to North Dakota in the early days of the railroads. Grades 4-7. BR 04444 / DB 21197
Wilder, Laura Ingalls. Christmas stories: Laura; book 10. Laura and her family celebrate several joyous Christmases on the western frontier. Even when there isn't much money, Christmas is a time for good things to eat, visits from friends, and gifts from the heart. For grades 2-4. BR 12961
Wilder, Laura Ingalls. Farmer boy. Delightful account of farm life in upper New York State in the 1860s. Grades 4-7. DB 21019
Wilder, Laura Ingalls. Farmer boy days: Laura, book 6. Nine-year-old Almanzo Wilder has plenty of chores to do as he grows up on his family's farm in New York state. He loves working with animals and dreams of having a colt of his own. For grades 2-4. BR 13978
Wilder, Laura Ingalls. The first four years. A story of the first years of married life on a homestead in the Dakota Territories in the late 1800s. Grades 4-7. BRW 2074 / DB 21351
Wilder, Laura Ingalls. Hard times on the prairie: Laura, book 8. Laura and her pioneer family struggle against the hardships of living on the Kansas frontier that include a prairie fire, a grasshopper invasion, and a blizzard. For grades 2-4. BR 13976
Wilder, Laura Ingalls. Laura and Nellie: Laura, book 5. Laura tries to get even with Nellie, the meanest girl in school. For grades 2-4. BR 13979
Wilder, Laura Ingalls. Laura's Pa: Laura; book 12. Laura's father continues his quest for the ideal place to live and builds a new log house on the Kansas prairie. In "Digging a Well," Pa saves the life of Mr. Scott, who fainted in the bottom of the unfinished well. For grades 2-4. BR 12955
Wilder, Laura Ingalls. Little house farm days: Laura, book 7. Laura helps out on the family farms in the Big Woods and on the prairie. For grades 2-4. BR 13977
Wilder, Laura Ingalls. Little house friends: Laura, book 9. Laura has different adventures with the new friends she makes as her family moves on the frontier. She rides ponies on the prairie with her cousin Lena. When her father builds a house in town, Laura meets girls and boys in the school. For grades 2-4. BR 12964
Wilder, Laura Ingalls. Little house in the big woods. A story about the pioneering life of two young girls and their parents who live in a log cabin in the Wisconsin woods. Grades 4-7. BRW 138 / DB 50921
Wilder, Laura Ingalls. Little house on the prairie. A family moves westward from Wisconsin in a covered wagon and builds a cabin on the Kansas prairie, right in the middle of Indian territory. Grades 4-7. DB 50922
Wilder, Laura Ingalls. Little house parties: Laura, book 14. Laura enjoys all kinds of gatherings. She goes to a maple syrup party at her grandpa's house in the Big Woods in Wisconsin. Later she has parties with her school friends in Plum Creek and attends her first boy/girl birthday celebration in the Dakota Territory. For grades 2-4. BR 12950
Wilder, Laura Ingalls. A little house sampler. Favorite episodes from the Little House? For grades 4-7. DB 31817
Wilder, Laura Ingalls. Little town on the prairie. Begins in 1881 with Mary, who is blind, leaving for college, and Laura beginning to work in town. Grades 4-7. BR 04237 / DB 21199
Wilder, Laura Ingalls. The long winter. The Ingalls family move from their stake on the Dakota prairie to their store in town to escape the severe winter. Grades 4-7. DB 21198
Wilder, Laura Ingalls. On the banks of Plum Creek. The pioneering Ingalls family leaves the Kansas prairie for a farm and a primitive sod hut in Minnesota, where a flood, a blizzard, and a devastating plague of grasshoppers must be battled. Grades 4-7. DB 21196
Wilder, Laura Ingalls. Pioneer sisters: Laura, book 2. Laura and her family don't have many neighbors on the frontier, so her sisters, Mary and Carrie, are her best friends. Together the girls share adventures while living on the prairie. For grades 2-4. BR 13982
Wilder, Laura Ingalls. School days: Laura, book 4. Laura and her sisters share some good and bad times when they attend different schools near their various prairie homes. Grades 2-4. BR 13980
Wilder, Laura Ingalls. These happy golden years. Laura Ingalls and Almanzo Wilder enjoy a delightful romance while Laura teaches school. Grades 4-7. DB 21200
Wilkes, Maria D. Brookfield days: adapted from The Caroline years books. Caroline Quiner lives in a frame house in the frontier town of Brookfield, Wisconsin, with her mother, two sisters, and grandmother. For grades 2-4. BR 12963
Wilkes, Maria D. Brookfield friends: adapted from the Caroline years books. Living in the frontier town of Brookfield, Wisconsin, Caroline has many friends. She makes a new one when she helps a German girl named Elsa learn English. For grades 2-4. BR 12952
Wilkes, Maria D. Caroline & her sister: adapted from The Caroline years books. On the frontier in Wisconsin, six-year-old Caroline and her older sister, Martha, share wash-day chores, playing in the snow, and making a new friend on the first day of school. For grades 2-4. BR 12960
Wilkes, Maria D. Frontier family: adapted from the Caroline years books. Caroline Quiner likes working on her pioneer family's farm in Wisconsin. For grades 2-4. BR 12957
Wilkes, Maria D. Little clearing in the woods. Young Caroline Quiner, who would grow up to be Laura Ingalls Wilder's mother, and her family move to a new farm near Concord, Wisconsin. Grades 3-6. DB109121
Wilkes, Maria D. Little house in Brookfield. Young Caroline Quiner and her family survive their first year without Father in the frontier town of Brookfield, Wisconsin. Grades 3-6. DB109118
Wilkes, Maria D. A new little cabin: adapted from the Caroline years books. When Caroline Quiner and her family are forced to move from Brookfield further west, Caroline has mixed feelings about leaving. For grades 2-4. BR 12954
Wilson, Karma. Bear snores on. On a cold winter night many animals gather to party in the cave of a sleeping bear, who then awakes and protests that he has missed the food and the fun. For preschool-grade 2. DBC 6802 / KIT 113
Wright, Betty Ren. Christina's ghost. While house-sitting with her Uncle Ralph in a gloomy Victorian mansion, 10-year-old Christina meets a ghost and solves a 30-year-old mystery. Grades 3-6. BR 6735 / DB 31858
Wright, Betty Ren. The dollhouse murders. A dollhouse filled with ghostly light and dolls that move lead Amy to solve a grisly family mystery. Grades 5-8. BR 08243/RC 24318
Wright, Betty Ren. The ghost comes calling. Chad must find a way to put the ghost of a wronged truck driver to rest. Grades 3-6. DB 40186
Wright, Betty Ren. A ghost in the window. Meg is contacted through dreams by a ghost who needs her help clearing his name. Grades 6-9. DB 30023
Wright, Betty Ren. The ghosts of Mercy Manor. Orphaned Gwen Maxwell, 12, helps her new foster family solve its ghost problem. Grades 5-8. DB 39002
Wright, Betty Ren. Nothing but trouble. While staying with Aunt Bert, Vannie's dog Muffy disappears! Grades 2-4. DB 43214
Wright, Betty Ren. Out of the dark. Reading Grandma's childhood diaries, Jessica learns how to lay a ghost. Grades 5-8. DB 43913
Wright, Betty Ren. The Pike River phantom. Charlie and Rachel must forestall the vengeful ghost of the "Sunbonnet Queen". Grades 4-7. DB 40159
Wright, Betty Ren. The scariest night. A jealous teenage girl consults a medium. BRW 123 / DB 40345
Wright, Betty Ren. The secret window. Seventh-grader Meg believes she is crazy because her dreams come true. Grades 6-9. DB 30022
Zolotow, Charlotte. Early sorrow: ten stories of youth. Ten short stories about young people whose lives have been somehow touched by sorrow or grief. Grades 7-12. BR 7206 / DB 27793
Zolotow, Charlotte. The hating book. After two friends argue, one nurses her anger until overcome by loneliness, when she decides to talk to her friend. Grades K-3. DB 45541
Zolotow, Charlotte. I know a lady. A little girl describes her favorite neighbor. Grades K-3. DB 22248
Zolotow, Charlotte. Mr. Rabbit and the lovely present. A small girl seeks help from a wise rabbit in selecting a gift for her mother. Preschool-grade 2. BR 03387
Zolotow, Charlotte. My friend John. A lovely story of friendship. Grades K-3. DB 12421
Zolotow, Charlotte. The old dog. Ben's dog doesn't wake up one morning. Grades K-3. BR 10034
Zolotow, Charlotte. The quarreling book. A disagreeable mood begun by a chain of unpleasant reactions is reversed by a playful dog who saves the day. Grades K-3. DB 51977
Zolotow, Charlotte. The seashore book. A mother's words help a little boy imagine the seashore. Grades P-2. BR 08969
Zolotow, Charlotte. Summer is ... . A simple, poetic text evokes the joys of the seasons. Preschool-grade 2. BR 05607
Zolotow, Charlotte. The three funny friends. When a little girl moves to a new town her three imaginary friends help her cope with the change. But when she gets to know the little boy next door her make-believe companions disappear. For preschool-grade 2. DB 58533
Zolotow, Charlotte. A tiger called Thomas. A tiger costume helps a shy boy make new friends on Halloween. Grades K-3. BR 15029 / DB 56914
Zolotow, Charlotte. William's doll. A little boy's wishes and needs for a doll are laughed at by his family, but understood by his grandfather. Grades K-3. DB 43039

Children's Non-Fiction

Aaseng, Nathan K. Baseball, it's your team. Puts readers in the shoes of professional baseball owners, inviting them to make decisions about crucial decisions about crucial situations involving ten major league teams. Grades 5-8 and older readers. RC 24541
Aaseng, Nathan K. Baseball, you are the manager. Puts readers in the shoes of professional managers, makes decisions about do-or-die situations in ten world series games. Grades 5-8 and older fans. RC 22088
Aaseng, Nathan K. Baseball's greatest teams. The author profiles eight teams that he considers the greatest in major league baseball history. Grades 5-8 and older readers. RC 27787
Aaseng, Nathan K. Baseball's worst teams. The author profiles wretched performances by eight teams he has selected as the all-time worst in major-league history. Grades 5-8 and older readers. RC 28372
Aaseng, Nathan K. Better mousetraps: product improvements that led to success. Focuses on refiners such as George Eastman and K.C. Gillette, instead or original inventors. Grades 4-7. RC 33257
Aaseng, Nathan K. Breaking the sound barrier. A history of aviation showing how one test pilot after another gradually increased the speed of aircraft until on October 14, 1947, Chuck Yeager finally broke the sound barrier. Included in this account is information on other pilots such as Frank Whittle, Robert Goddard, Ezra Kotcher, and Lawrence Bell. For grades 6-9. BR 10342
Aaseng, Nathan K. Construction: building the impossible. Profiles seven structures of engineering genius and their builders: Imhotep's Step Pyramid, Marc Brunel's Thames Tunnel, John and Washington Roebling's Brooklyn Bridge, Alexandre Gustave's Eiffel Tower, George W. Goethals's Panama Canal, Frank Crowe's Hoover Dam, and William Lamb's Empire State Building. For grades 5-8. RC 52503
Aaseng, Nathan K. The disease fighters: the Nobel Prize in medicine. Robert Koch, Bela Schick, Edward Jenner, Emil von Behring, Paul Ehrlich and other Nobel Prize winners who discovered the causes, cures and prevention of infectious and nutrient deficient diseases are presented. Grades 5-8 and older readers. BR 7856/RC 29850
Aaseng, Nathan K. Football, you are the coach. Puts readers in the shoes of professional coaches, inviting them to make decisions about do-or-die situations in ten National Football League championship games. Grades 5-8 and older readers. RC 22089
Aaseng, Nathan K. Football's most controversial calls. Ten controversial calls by NFL officials in crucial games are presented in lively fashion. Grades 4-7 and older readers. RC 26110
Aaseng, Nathan K. The fortunate fortunes. Illustrates the role of luck in the growth of well-known businesses such as Kellogg's and Wrigley's. Grades 4-7 and older readers. RC 33244
Aaseng, Nathan K. The inventors: Nobel prizes in chemistry, physics, and medicine. Tells the story of eight inventions or discoveries--x-rays, radio, EKG, phase contrast microscope, transistor, radiocarbon dating, lasers and the CAT-scan--that brought the Nobel prize to their developers. Grades 5-8 and older readers. RC 30517
Aaseng, Nathan K. Jobs vs. the environment: can we save both? Aaseng rejects the claim that environmentalists negatively impact the economy, yet also proposes ways to protect the Earth that would disrupt workers' lives least. He provides an overview of the issue from 1681 to the 1990s. For junior and senior high and older readers. BR 10709
Aaseng, Nathan K. More with less: the future world of Buckminster Fuller. A biography of the inventor, architect, and thinker known for his commitment to designing a better world in transportation, housing and conservation, and achieving more with less. Fuller's best-known invention is the geodesic dome. Junior and senior high and older readers. RC 26800
Aaseng, Nathan K. Multiple sclerosis. Combines the personal stories of movie, television, and sports figures who were diagnosed with MS--multiple sclerosis--with a medical discussion of the neurological disease. Covers symptoms, methods of detection, effects, treatments, and approaches to living with MS. For grades 6-9. RC 51076
Aaseng, Nathan K. Navajo code talkers. During World War II, nearly 4,000 Navajo Indians answered the call to serve in the U.S. military, despite the legacy of Native American genocide. Perhaps their most important contribution to the war effort was the development and use of a special code by a select corps of Marines known as the code talkers. The unbreakable communications code was based on the Navajo language, and proved invaluable in the Pacific theater. Grades 6-9. RC 36463
Aaseng, Nathan K. Poisonous creatures. Explores the diverse world of poisonous animals that employ a kind of "chemical warfare" for hunting their food or for protecting themselves from predators. Discusses venomous sea creatures, insects, snakes, and mammals, as well as antivenin research and the treatment of snakebite. For grades 5-8. RC 49050
Aaseng, Nathan K. The problem solvers. Today's problems can be tomorrow's corporations. Grades 4-7 and older readers. RC 33333
Aaseng, Nathan K. The Rejects. Companies such as Xerox and Lear Jets, which bounced back from rejection. Grades 4-7 and older readers. RC 33246
Aaseng, Nathan K. Science versus pseudoscience. The author describes pseudoscience as a doctrine, belief, or fraud that is passed off as a science. He lists ten criteria to help determine if something is a science and measures such things as astrology, extrasensory perception, creation science, and alternative medicine against them. For junior and senior high readers. BR 10449
Aaseng, Nathan K. The unsung heroes. Unsung heroes of the business world. Grades 4-7 and older readers. RC 33259
Aaseng, Nathan K. Women Olympic champions. Profiles the lives and struggles of seven outstanding female Olympic champions from various time periods, nations, and events: Sonja Henie, figure skating; Babe Didrikson, track and field; Fanny Blankers-Koen, running; Dawn Fraser, swimming; Lydia Skoblikova, speed-skating; Nadia Comaneci, gymnastics; and Jackie Joyner-Kersee, heptathlon. For grades 5-8. RC 54640
Aaseng, Nathan K. You are the juror. The author presents the details and evidence from eight famous cases, including those involving the Lindbergh kidnapping, Patty Hearst, and O.J. Simpson. Readers are asked to review the information and make decisions as if they were part of the jury. For grades 6-9. BR 11803
Aaseng, Nathan K. You are the President. Re-enacts eight crises and asks the reader to chose a course of action. Junior & senior high. RC 41892
Ambrose, Stephen E. The good fight: how World War II was won. Chronologically relates the key events of the Second World War (1939-1945) as well as the social and economic history of the times. For grades 5-8 and older readers. RC 53569
Ambrose, Stephen E. Ike: Abilene to Berlin; the life of Dwight D. Eisenhower from his childhood in Abilene, Kansas, through his command of the Allied forces in Europe in World War II. The life of the war hero from his boyhood in Abilene, Kansas, to his command of the Allied victory in Europe during World War II and his presidency. Grades 7-12. RC 08593
Ancona, George. Powwow. A celebration of the shared heritage of the Lakota, Ojibwa, Cheyenne, Crow, Cree, Blackfeet, Fox, and other Native peoples for grades k-3. RC 44148
Anderson, Peter. Charles Eastman: physician, reformer, and Native American leader. In 1873, at the age of fifteen, Ohiyesa was on the verge of becoming a Sioux warrior when his father, who was believed to have been killed by whites eleven years earlier, reappeared. His father encouraged him to adopt white ways, and Ohiyesa became Charles Eastman. Eastman would become a respected physician and champion of the rights of Native Americans. For grades 4-7 and older readers. RC 36974
Anderson, Peter. John Muir, wilderness prophet. A biography of the Wisconsin-born naturalist for grades 3-6. RCW 1015
Anderson, William. Laura Ingalls Wilder: a biography. A biography of the pioneer girl who lived the "Little House" stories and later captured them for posterity in her books. For grades 3-6 and older readers. RC 37298
Bachrach, Susan D. The Nazi Olympics: Berlin 1936. Examines the 1936 games in the historical context of Nazi beliefs and propaganda. For grades 5-8 and older readers. RC 52698
Bachrach, Susan D. Tell them we remember: the story of the Holocaust. Presents historical facts about Nazi Germany, focusing on the annihilation of more than one million children and teenagers, the majority being Jewish. For grades 5-8. RC 46509
Bauer, Marion Dane. What's your story?: a young person's guide to writing fiction. The author states that stories help one understand the world, teaching about possibilities and the achievements of those who struggled before. An award-winning novelist, Bauer describes how to write fiction and systematically discusses its various components, including plot, character, focus, dialogue, tension, and revisions. For grades 5-8 and older readers. BR 09877/RC 39912
Belton, John. Card games. Step-by-step instruction for 9 card games. Grades 4-7. RC 16642
Berliner, Don. Aviation: reaching for the sky. A history of aviation beginning with hot air balloons and ending with manned flights into space. The author traces human fascination with flying from attempts to strap on wings to efforts to break the sound barrier. He discusses the dirigible, glider, airplane, seaplane, and helicopter. For grades 5-8. RC 48236
Billings, Charlene W. The loon: voice of the wilderness. Brief description of the seasonal activities of a pair of loons for grades 3-6. RC 30531
Bonvillain, Nancy. Black Hawk, Sac rebel. A biography of Black Hawk for grades 6-9 and older readers. RC 39630
Breining, Greg. The northern forest. Explores the ecosystem of the northern forest that spreads from the St. Lawrence River and the Great Lakes in Canada and the United States all the way into central Alaska. For grades 5-8. RC 55160
Breitenbuche, Cathy. Bonnie Blair: Golden Streak. Biography of the Olympic skating champion. Grades 3-6. RC 39988
Briggs, Carole S. Women in space: reaching the last frontier. Profiles of women astronauts for grades 4-7. BR 12629/RC 30205
Brody, Polly. Discovering Wisconsin. A child's guide to Wisconsin for grades 2-4. BRW 2184
Buehr, Walter. Ships of the Great Lakes. The story of Great Lakes shipping, with descriptions of some of the ships that sailed there. For grades 6-7 and older readers. RCW 5017
Burchard, Marshall. Sports hero: Kareem Abdul Jabbar; the story of Lew Alcindor. A biography of this basketball superstar from his boyhood in Harlem to his election in 1972 as Most Valuable Player of the NBA. For grades 3-6. RC 06869
Burkert, Nancy Ekholm. Schneewittchen : a tale from the Brothers Grimm. When Snow White runs away from the jealous queen, she is protected by seven dwarfs until the disguised queen gives her a poisonous apple. A young prince, however, brings Snow White out of her deep sleep with a kiss. Grades K-3. BR 7536
Burkert, Nancy Ekholm. Valentine & Orson: re-created as a folk play in verse. Classic romance cast as a folk play performed by 16th-century players in Flanders. Grades 4-7 and older readers. RC 33272
Burns, Diane L. Cranberries: fruit of the bogs. Explains what happens season by season on two Wisconsin cranberry farms. Also briefly describes how cranberries grow in nature and the history of farming the fruit. Includes glossary. For grades 3-6. BR 10862
Burns, Diane L. Sugaring season: making maple syrup. 10-part explanation of a maple sap harvest for grades k-3. RC 34394
Butler, Beverly. Maggie by my side. When the author's beloved guide dog dies, she decides to get another, Maggie, and tells of their training. Grades 4-7. RC 31732
Butler, Dori Hillestad. W is for Wisconsin. For each letter of the alphabet, a special aspect of Wisconsin is highlighted. Wisconsin cities beginning with each letter and the sign language letter also are provided. Preschool-grade 2. Print/braille. BRW 82
Carlson, Bernice Wells. The party book for boys and girls. Each chapter describes a different kind of party with novel ideas for invitations, decorations and favors, refreshments, and games to play. For grades 4-7. BR 01822
Carter, Alden R. I'm tougher than diabetes! Natalie explains her disorder--diabetes--and what she must do every day to keep her blood sugar at a safe level. She tells how her parents and sister help her and how supportive her classmates are. Includes a section of frequently asked questions and answers on diabetes. For grades 3-6. RC 54548
Carter, Alden R. Radio: from Marconi to the space age. A history of radio from the earliest experiments in the 1800s to current developments in satellite transmissions. Grades 6-9 and older readers. BR 07871
Chang, Ina. A separate battle: women and the Civil War. Among other profilees, Eliza Wilson was attached to the 5th Wisconsin Regiment. Grades 5-8. RC 37020
Clark, Tom. Noodlehead, and other friends of the family. Humorous stories from a Kenosha teacher for grades 3-6. RCW 171
Clark, Tom. Sparks from the story fire. Wisconsin storytellers from Kenosha and West Bend team up to offer 9 delightful tales for grades 2-4. RCW 5732
Clayton, Edward Taylor. Martin Luther King, the peaceful warrior. This simple biography, by one of Dr. King's close associates, tells about his life and about the "peaceful revolution" he sought. For grades 3-6. RD 06287
Coatsworth, Elizabeth. The Adventures of Nanabush: Ojibway Indian stories. Trickster tales for grades k-3. RCW 5714
Cobb, Vicki. Bet you can't! Science impossibilities to fool you. More than sixty tricks, each based on clearly explained scientific principles. Grades 4-7. RC 19715
Cobb, Vicki. I face the wind. Introduces the characteristics and actions of the wind through simple hands-on activities that require adult assistance. For grades K-3. RC 57724
Cobb, Vicki. Magic ... naturally! Science entertainments & amusements. Clear directions for 30 entertaining tricks using readily available supplies. Grades 5-8. RC 11587
Cobb, Vicki. Science experiments you can eat. The author believes that a good kitchen is a laboratory and that a good cook is also a scientist. She designed these experiments to help curious readers learn about nature and become better cooks at the same time. Grades 5-8. RC 50733
Cobb, Vicki. The scoop on ice cream. The story of ice cream, from milking the cows and gathering the other ingredients to showing where the customers' money goes. Includes an ice cream taste test and a recipe for homemade ice cream. For grades 2-4. BR 07184
Cobb, Vicki. The secret life of hardware: a science experiment book. Examines the inventory of a hardware store from tools and cleaners to ropes, glues, and electrical supplies. Explains how things were invented, why they work, what you can do with them, and what you can do to find out for yourself. Grades 5-8 and older readers. RC 22183
Cobb, Vicki. Why can't I live forever? and other not such dumb questions about life. Using a question-and-answer format, Cobb describes the functions that define biological life and what living things have in common. She explains chromosomes and DNA, and discusses the human life cycle. Includes definitions of scientific terms. For grades 3-6. RC 47016
Cobb, Vicki. You gotta try this! absolutely irresistible science. Presents almost fifty experiments and activities (many requiring adult supervision) that can be done at home. Learn to use orange juice to test for sensitivity to bitter taste; make a square egg; or stack a tower of ice cubes, while discovering the scientific reasons why. For grades 3-6. RC 51502
Cowcher, Helen. Antarctica.A colorful look at our smallest continent and its inhabitants. Grades K-4. Kit 46
Cowcher, Helen. Rain Forest. A vivid portrait of the world of the rain forest. Grades K-4. Kit 47/RC 30486
Cowcher, Helen. Tigress. A vivid print-braille account of a tigress in an Indian wildlife sanctuary. Gr. K-3. BR 08951/Kit 73
Daly, Maureen. Smarter and smoother: a handbook on how to be that way. An etiquette book for adolescent girls covering grooming, manners, and social customs in an informal style. For junior and senior high readers. BRA 00964
Davidson, Margaret. The Golda Meir story. A biography of the UW-Milwaukee graduate who became prime minister of Israel for grades 4-7. BR 03340
Davis, Frances A. Frank Lloyd Wright: maverick architect. Biography of Wisconsin's most famous resident. Grades 5-8. RC 44581
Demuth, Jack. City horse. Depicts Hannon, a New York City mounted police horse. Grades 3-6. BR 04156/RC 14157
Demuth, Patricia B. Joel, growing up a farm man. 13-year-old Joel lives and works on his family's farm in Illinois. Grades 4-7. RC 22127
Derleth, August W. Land of Grey Gold: Lead Mining In Wisconsin. A history for young adults of the contribution of lead mining to Wisconsin's economy. Grades 6-9. RCW 5296
Dickmann, Jean-Andrew. Early bird stories. Preschool stories from Wisconsin tellers Judy Farrow Busack, Jean-Andrew Dickmann, and Maggie Melvin. RCW 5711
Dickmann, Jean-Andrew. Storylore: a sampling of stories old and new. Contains "The Ant", "Bilingual", "First Impressions", "Folly Loppie", "The Horseblanket", "Metamorphosis", "The Mushroom Story" and "The Rice Dumpling Adventure". RCW 5701
Dickmann, Jean-Andrew. Twittertales: two Jaybirds and a Magpie. A story-telling seed-sampler from Judy Farrow-Busack, Jean-Andrew Dickmann and Maggie Melvin. RCW 5700
Doherty, Kieran. Voyageurs, lumberjacks, and farmers: pioneers of the Midwest. Discusses the exploration and settlement of the American Midwest. Describes the lives and contributions of founders such as Charles Langlade in Wisconsin. For grades 5-8. RC 57625
Donahue, Parnell. Germs make me sick; a health handbook for kids. Describes a wide variety of diseases and their treatments for grades 3-6. RC 10611
Donoval, Nancy. Brave hearts and faithful friends: tales of courage and cleverness from around the world. 5 folktales for grades 4-7 and older interested readers. RCW 4034
Donoval, Nancy. Cemetary Mary, and other spirited tales. 5 supernatural stories. RCW 4035
Donoval, Nancy. Changes of heart: tales of laughter, loss and love. Contents: "The Tears of Atum/Sekhmut", "The Fortune Teller", "Variation 8,013--The Vanishing Hitchhiker", "The Lost Key", "Morgan and the Pot'o'Brains", "The Last Five Minutes". RCW 5293
Dorros, Arthur. Ant cities. Explains how ants live and work together to build and maintain their cities. Grades k-3. RC 32473
Dorros, Arthur. Elephant families. African elephants in the wild for grades K-3. RC 42955
Doucette, Eddie. The Milwaukee Bucks and the remarkable Abdul-Jabbar. A brief history of Milwaukee's basketball team, focusing on their most famous player. Grades 5-8. RCW 231
Duvall, Jill. The Oneida: a New True Book. Oneida culture for grades 2-4. RCW 1014
Ehlert, Lois. Cuckoo: a Mexican folktale = Cucú : un cuento folklórico mexicano. A beautiful cuckoo proves her bravery when a fire starts in the farm fields. Print/braille for grades K-3. English/Spanish. BR 12006
Ehlert, Lois. Moon rope: a Peruvian folktale = Un lazo a la luna: una leyenda peruana. Spanish/english animal fable for preschool-grade 2. RC 40759
Emberley, Barbara. The story of Paul Bunyan. Retelling of the mythical Wisconsin lumberman's tall tale for grades 2-4. RC 44385
English, Billie J. The Wisconsin story. Traces the history of Wisconsin from pre-history to the 1980s. Grades 3-6. RCW 1098
Epstein, Beryl. The Great Houdini: magician extraordinary. A juvenile biography of the great Jewish magician and escape artist from Appleton, Wisconsin, for grades 4-7. BRI 04130
Epstein, Sam. Dr. Beaumont and the man with the hole in his stomach. A fascinating series of experiments performed at Green Bay's Fort Howard in 1822. Grades 4-7. RC 14304
Esbensen, Barbara J. Dance with me. Poems that celebrate the dance for grades 2-4. RC 43151
Esbensen, Barbara J. Great northern diver: the loon. Introduces the elusive loon to grades 3-6. RC 34713
Esbensen, Barbara J. Ladder to the sky: how the gift of healing came to the Ojibway Nation; a legend retold. When a grieving grandmother climbs the magic vine which connects the kingdom of the Great Spirit with earth, sickness and death descend, but so does the knowledge of healing plants. Grades 4-7. RC 36513
Esbensen, Barbara J. Tiger with wings: the great horned owl. Describes the bird's life-style for grades 2-4. RC 36389
Esbensen, Barbara J. Who shrank my grandmother's house? poems of discovery. More than twenty poems about the everyday discoveries of childhood. For grades 3-6 and older readers. BR 09475
Fielde, Adele M. Chinese fairy tales. Malcolm and Margaret Rosholt, of Rosholt, Wisconsin, edited this new edition of classic Chinese fairy tales they first encountered as journalists in Shanghai in the 1930s. Grades 4-7 and older interested readers. RCW 378
Flahive, Robert. We live and work in Wisconsin. A child's geography for grades 2-4. BRW 102
Foster, Genevieve S. Abraham Lincoln. Tells the life story of the sixteenth president from the time of his childhood in Kentucky to his guiding of the nation through the Civil War. For grades 3-6. BR 08020
Foster, Genevieve S. Abraham Lincoln's world, 1809-1865. Lincoln's life is placed in the context of the 19th century world. Grades 6-9. Newbery Honor book. RC 14602
Foster, Genevieve S. Augustus Caesar's world: a story of ideas and events from B.C. 44 to 14 A.D. The life of Augustus is placed in the context of contemporary world events. Grades 6-9. RC 35236
Foster, Genevieve S. George Washington's world. Washington's life is placed in the context of contemporary world events. Grades 6-9. Newbery Honor book. RC 15696
Foster, Genevieve S. Theodore Roosevelt, an initial biography. A picture of the timid and delicate boy who became one of the liveliest, busiest, and most forceful of our presidents. For grades 6-9. BRA 07406
Foster, Genevieve S. The world of Columbus and sons. An account of world events over a period of 88 years beginning with the birth of Columbus and ending with the death of his younger son, Ferdinand. For grades 5-8. BRA 01691
Foster, Genevieve S. The world of William Penn. Places William Penn in the context of his time. Grades 5-9. RC 07156
Foster, Joanna. Homes: shelter and living spaces. A description of several kinds of homes, including caves, yurts, log cabins, mobile homes, and geodesic domes. Grades 2-4. BRA 14399/RD 06829
Foster, Rory C. Dr. Wildlife, the crusade of a Northwoods veterinarian. Facing down state wildlife officials for whom fauna were a harvestable crop, Dr. Foster established the Northwoods Wildlife Hospital and Rehabilitation Center, which treats sick and injured wildlife and provides education for its Wisconsin community. Grades 7-12. BR 06745
Fox, Mary V. Princess Diana. Biography of the former Princess of Wales for grades 6-9. RC 27777
Gellman, Marc. Always wear clean underwear! And other ways parents say "I love you". Interprets the hidden meanings behind thirty-two things parents tell their children to do--over and over again. For example, cleaning your plate means being grateful for what you have, and keeping your shoes off the couch is a way to show respect to your parents. For grades 3-6. BR 11487
Gellman, Marc. Bad stuff in the news: a guide to handling the headlines. A rabbi and a priest discuss media coverage of terrorism, child abuse, natural disasters, violence in sports, and hate crimes--and why these bad things happen. They offer advice on how to deal with fears and how to change the world for the better. For grades 5-8. RC 56155
Gellman, Marc. Does God have a big toe? Stories about stories in the Bible. A rabbi humorously retells stories from the Old Testament for grades 3-6. RC 32181
Gellman, Marc. God's mailbox: more stories about stories in the Bible. Rabbi Gellman tells 18 stories from the Pentateuch. Grades 3-6. RC 44360
Gellman, Marc. How do you spell God? Answers to the big questions from around the world. Rabbi Gellman and a Catholic priest compare Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam and Judaism for grades 6-9 and older interested readers. RC 39981
Gellman, Marc. Lost & found: a kid's book for living through loss. A rabbi and a priest offer advice on dealing with different kinds of loss. These range from losing stuff (toys or gifts) to more emotional losses (friends, health, a part of the body) to the biggest losses from death. Authors provide practical suggestions for help in difficult times. For grades 3-6. RC 56334
Gherman, Beverly. Georgia O'Keeffe: the wideness and wonder of her world. Biography of the famous artist from Sun Prairie for grades 5-8 and older interested readers. RC 24513
Gibbons, Gail. Marge's diner. Everyone knows Marge. She owns the diner in her small town. Come spend the day with Marge and her workers as they order supplies, cook, and serve meals to hungry customers. For preschool-grade 2. BR 08937
Gibbons, Gail. The milk makers. How Wisconsin processes and distributes one of nature's most nutritious foods. Grades K-3. BR 06116
Gibbons, Gail. Wolves. Basic information about this endangered Wisconsin animal for grades 3-6. RC 41035
Giblin, James C. Milk: the fight for purity. History of Wisconsin's pure, nourishing milk. Grades 3-6. RC 27867
Giff, Patricia R. Laura Ingalls Wilder: growing up in the little house. Laura Ingalls Wilder was a pioneer girl, born in Wisconsin in the 1870s, who traveled across the great unsettled prairie in a covered wagon. Her childhood stories became the "Little House" books that children still read and love. For grades 2-4. RC 27852
Greene, Laura. I am an Orthodox Jew. A young Jewish-American boy explains his ancient traditions. Grades 2-4. RC 17828
Gurko, Miriam. The ladies of Seneca Falls; the birth of the woman's rights movement. View of the start of the feminist movement for junior and senior high readers. RC 10531
Gurko, Miriam. Restless spirit; the life of Edna St. Vincent Millay. Biography of the noted American poet. BRA 07104/RC 31885
Haas, Dorothy F. My First Communion. A young Catholic girl describes how members of her second grade parochial school class prepare for their First Holy Communion, the actual ceremony, and the celebration afterwards. Grades 2-4. RC 26480
Hahn, James. The metric system. Traces the history of the metric system for grades 5-8. RC 12400
Hahn, James. Recycling: re-using our world's solid wastes. Discusses personal, community, and individual contributions to the task of recycling paper, glass, metal, and other materials for grades 5-8. RC 08841
Hall, Elvajean. Jobs in marketing and distribution. Explores career possibilities in the field of marketing and distribution for grades 6-9. RC 12584
Hall, Lynn. Careers for job lovers. Includes breeding, kennel keeping, training, teaching, and healing careers. Grades 5-8. RC 12432
Heide, Florence P. Grim and ghastly goings-on. 21 poems about monsters for grades 2-4. Print/braille. BR 9905
Heide, Florence P. Oh, grow up! poems to help you survive parents, chores, school, and other afflictions. Humorous survival poems for grades 2-4. RC 43419
Henry, Marguerite. All about horses. Short background pieces on the major horse breeds in use in North America. Grades 3-6. RC 14481
Henry, Marguerite. Mustang, wild spirit of the West. The story of America's wild horse. Grades 3-6. RC 17029
Herda, D.J. Cancer. The author discusses many different aspects of the disease. For grades 6-9 and older readers. RC 35951
Herda, D.J. Christmas. Describes the traditions and history of the season in many parts of the world. Grades 3-6. RC 26087
Herda, D.J. Halloween. Describes the history and traditions of the season in many parts of the world. Grades 3-6. RC 26490
Hieb, Jane A. Visions and voices: Winnebago elders speak to the children. Interviews with elders conducted by at-risk Winnebago youth in Black River Falls, WI. Grades 5-8 and older interested readers. RCW 147
Houlehen, Robert J. Jobs in agribusiness. Recounts possible careers in agriculture for grades 7-9. RD 08416
Hunt, Bernice K. Chipmunks. An introduction to the appearance, life cycle, and habits of chipmunks. For grades K-3. RD 06522
Hunt, Bernice K. Communications satellites: message centers in space. Traces the development of the satellites that link television and telephone users at different ends of the globe. For grades 4-7. BR 03260
Hunt, Bernice K. The organic living book. Simple guide to ecological living in the city or country for grades 5-8. RC 07719
Jacobs, Herbert A. Frank Lloyd Wright: America's greatest architect. Biography of the Wisconsin architect. Grades 4-7. RCW 1039
Kahl, Jonathan D. Wet weather: rain showers and snowfall. Life on earth would not be possible without water from the sky. Grades 3-6. RC 38925
Kalbacken, Joan. The Menominee: a New True Book. Menominee culture for grades 2-4. RCW 1016
Kann, Bob. The chocolate chip cookie boy: humorous stories. Contains "The Chocolate Chip Cookie Boy", "Google", "Dincerella", "Mr. Lips and Mrs. Tongue", "The Funky Librarians". RCW 5703
Keene, Ann T. Earthkeepers: observers and protectors of nature. Profiles include John Muir and Aldo Leopold. Grades 4-7 and older interested readers. RC 44547
Kesselmann-Turkel, Judi. The grammar crammer: how to write perfect sentences. A modern stylebook for junior and senior high. RC 33126
Kherdian, David. Feathers and tails: animal fables from around the world. Collection of animal folktales for grades 2-4. RC 38034
Kherdian, David. Finding home. In this second installment of the author's biography of his mother, she arrives in the U.S. as a 15-year-old mail order bride. (Sequel to The Road from Home.) Grades 9-12. RC 19565
Kherdian, David. The road from home: the story of an Armenian girl. The biography of a young Armenian girl who survives the Turkish massacres of World War I and emigrates to the USA. Grades 9-12. Newbery Honor Book. Banta Award. RC 16607
King, Sandra. Shannon: an Ojibway dancer. A 13-year-old Ojibway girl's life is firmly rooted in her cultural heritage. Grades 2-4. BRW 1
Kirk, Rhina. Circus heroes and heroines. A history of the flash and finery of circuses and circus people. Includes tales of such circus greats an Annie Oakley, Buffalo Bill, Jumbo, the Ringling Brothers, and Emmett Kelly. For grades 4-7. RC 06876
Krull, Kathleen. The book of rock stars: 24 musical icons that shine through history. Two dozen mini-biographies of rock music legends. For grades 3-6. RC 57423
Krull, Kathleen. Boy on Fairfield Street: how Ted Geisel grew up to become Dr. Seuss. Describes the renowned writer's childhood in Springfield, Massachusetts, where he lived near both the zoo and the library; also discusses his career. For grades 3-6. RC 58115
Krull, Kathleen. Cosechando esperanza: la historia de Cesar Chavez. Biography of the California migrant-worker hero. PRINT/BRAILLE. For grades 3-6. Spanish language. BRW 210
Krull, Kathleen. Harvesting hope: the story of Cesar Chavez. Biography of the California migrant-worker hero. PRINT/BRAILLE. For grades 3-6. BR 15027
Krull, Kathleen. A kids' guide to America's Bill of Rights: curfews, censorship, and the 100-pound giant. Examines the first ten amendments to the United States Constitution--the Bill of Rights--explaining what the additions mean, how they have been applied, and the rights they guarantee. For grades 5-8 and older readers. RC 54528
Krull, Kathleen. Lives of extraordinary women: rulers, rebels (and what the neighbors thought). Biographical sketches of twenty powerful women--queens, warriors, prime ministers, revolutionary leaders, Indian chiefs, and first ladies--and how they triumphed. Grades 3-6. RC 52047
Krull, Kathleen. Lives of the artists: masterpieces, messes (and what the neighbors thought). Portraits of nineteen artists, providing information about their childhood years and the works that made them famous. Grades 3-6. BR 11425/RC 48267
Krull, Kathleen. Lives of the athletes: thrills, spills (and what the neighbors thought). Portraits of twenty well-known athletes, filled with information about their childhood and how they handled fame and fortune. Grades 3-6. BR 11431/RC 45894
Krull, Kathleen. Lives of the musicians: good times, bad times (and what the neighbors thought). Biographies of 20 musicians for grades 3-6. BR 11474/RC 37607
Krull, Kathleen. Lives of the presidents: fame, shame, and what the neighbors thought. Unusual biographical facts about the personal lives of the presidents of the United States. Grades 3-6. BR 11927/RC 47067
Krull, Kathleen. Lives of the writers: comedies, tragedies (and what the neighbors thought). Biographies of 20 writers for grades 3-6. BR 11475/RC 41209
Krull, Kathleen. One nation, many tribes: how kids live in Milwaukee's Indian community. Portrays the lives of 2 students at the Milwaukee Indian Community School for grades 4-7. RC 45685
Krull, Kathleen. They saw the future: oracles, psychics, scientists, great thinkers, and pretty good guessers. Accounts of twelve visionaries--people who predict the future--presented in chronological order from the oracles of ancient Greece to twentieth-century figures. Grades 5-8. RC 49850
Krull, Kathleen. Wilma unlimited: how Wilma Rudolph became the world's fastest woman. Biography of Wilma Rudolph for grades 2-4. RC 43739
Lalicki, Tom. Spellbinder: the life of Harry Houdini. Life of the celebrated magician and escape artist. Born in Budapest in 1874, Houdini came to Appleton, WI, in 1878. After his debut in a backyard circus, age nine, he developed ever more complicated tricks, entertaining the world with escapes from handcuffs, packing cases, and straitjackets. For grades 5-8 and older readers. RC 52204
Lawson, Marion. Proud warrior: the story of Black Hawk. Biography of the Sac and Fox chief for grades 5-8. RCW 180
Lowery, Linda. Martin Luther King Day. An easy-to-read explanation of why we celebrate Dr. King's birthday for grades 2-4. BR 06943/RC 26069
Lowery, Linda. One more valley, one more hill: the story of Aunt Clara Brown. Biography of an intrepid woman born into the hardships of slavery in Virginia. For grades 5-8. RC 57201
Lunge-Larsen, Lise. The troll with no heart in his body and other tales of trolls from Norway. Nine Norwegian folktales featuring trolls--frightful but tiny-brained monsters who love to eat children and little animals. Grades 2-4 and older readers. RC 49812
Macy, Sue. A Whole New Ball Game: The Story of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. Describes the activities of the members of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League, the women's professional baseball league that existed between 1943 and 1954. Three teams in the league were based in Wisconsin: the Milwaukee Chicks, the Kenosha Comets, and the Racine Belles. Grades 5-8. RCW 182
Malone, Bobbie. Back to beginnings: the early days of Dane County. A history of Dane County, Wisconsin, published for the 1998 Wisconsin Sesquicentennial. Grades 3-6 and older interested readers. BRW 86
Marsh, Carole. Hard-To-Believe-But-True! Wisconsin History, Mystery, Trivia, Legends & Lore. Trivia about Wisconsin history, mysteries, legends, lore, and more. Grades 3-6. RCW 5276
Marsh, Carole. Wisconsin pirates, bandits, bushwackers, outlaws, and scalawags. A book of villain-related state trivia for grades 3-6. RCW 5283
Marsh, Carole. Wisconsin's most devastating disasters! A book of Wisconsin disaster trivia. Grades 3-6. RCW 5284
Mayer, Hans. Just a little hug. La Crosse singer/songwriter performs 12 songs for grades 2-4. RCW 4034
Mayer, Hans. See you later, alligator. La Crosse children's performer does 11 songs for Grades 2-4. RCW 4033
Mayo, Gretchen W. Earthmaker's tales: North American Indian stories about earth happenings. The collected stories feature natural events such as earthquakes, rainbows and snowstorms. grades 6-9. RC 33687
Mayo, Gretchen W. Meet tricky Coyote! A collection of Native American legends about the cunning trickster. For grades 2-4. RCW 349
Mayo, Gretchen W. Star tales: North American Indian stories about the stars. 16 exciting tales about the night sky and constellations retold in easy language for grades K-5. RCW 5722
McLellan, Joe. Nanabosho, Soaring Eagle, And The Great Sturgeon. An Ojibway fishing story for grades K-3. BRW 2
McNulty, Faith. Peeping in the shell: a whooping crane is hatched. One tiny whooping crane chick struggles to hatch from his shell at the Baraboo International Crane Foundation. Grades 4-7. RC 30415
Merriam, Eve. Bam, bam, bam. Slam, slam, slam goes the wrecking ball. Bam, bam, bam against a stone wall. Merriam's poem provokes the noise and violence of tearing down a building so a new one can take its place. PRINT/BRAILLE. For preschool-grade 2. BR 09948
Merriam, Eve. Blackberry ink: poems. A collection of 24 simple nonsense verses about everyday things. Grades K-2. RC 25008
Merriam, Eve. Finding a poem. A collection of poems, with an essay on writing poetry. Grades 9-12. BR 02413
Merriam, Eve. Fresh paint: new poems. Forty-five crisply written poems on subjects ranging from fresh paint to the first snowfall. Grades 3-6. RC 26381
Merriam, Eve. It doesn't always have to rhyme. A collection of 50 humorous poems for grades 4-7. BR 1836
Merriam, Eve. The singing green: new and selected poems for all seasons. A collection of poems about a wide variety of topics. Selections include "Animalimericks," "Circus Time," "Arithmetrix," and "The Baby-sitter and the Baby." For grades 3-6 and older readers. BR 09515
Miller, Reid. Hear A Story! Sing A Song! In this activity book, the listener solves problems or performs activities related to the songs on the accompanying tape. Grades K-2. Kit 20
Murphy, Jim. Across America on an emigrant train. A documentary account of westward expansion for grades 5-8. DB 38715
Murphy, Jim. An American plague: the true and terrifying story of the yellow fever epidemic of 1793. Describes the horrific events in Philadelphia in 1793 when citywide illness prevented Congress from convening. For grades 6-9. DB 57418
Murphy, Jim. Blizzard: the storm that changed America. An account of the massive snow storm that shut down America's east coast in March 1888, killing hundreds. For grades 5-8. DB 52323
Murphy, Jim. The boys' war: Confederate and Union soldiers talk about the Civil War. Although precise records do not exist, 10 to 20% of the soldiers who fought in the Civil War were boys 16 and younger. Through primary sources the author presents a vivid portrait of their experiences. For grades 6-9 and older readers. Golden Kite Award. DB 34876
Murphy, Jim. Gone a-whaling: the lure of the sea and the hunt for the great whale. A history of the whaling industry from prehistoric hunters to 1990s practices. For grades 6-9. DB 46785
Murphy, Jim. The great fire. An account of the conflagration that leveled much of Chicago in 1871. For grades 5-8. A Newbery Honor Book. DB 44868
Murphy, Jim. The Indy 500. A detailed, behind-the-scenes tour takes the reader through an Indy 500 race, including the crash of one of the cars. For grades 5-8 and older readers. DB 23115
Murphy, Jim. Inside the Alamo. An overview of the struggle between the American settlers and Mexico's General Santa Anna for control of Texas. For grades 5-8. DB 57612
Murphy, Jim. The long road to Gettysburg. In July 1863, one of the most brutal battles of the Civil War--a battle that claimed 6,000 lives and left 42,000 men injured--was fought at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. For grades 6-9 and older readers. DB 36261
Murphy, Jim. Pick & shovel poet: the journeys of Pascal D'Angelo. Biography of an Italian peasant who immigrated to America at age sixteen in 1910. For grades 5-8. DB 52683
Olney, Ross R. Air traffic control. Shows what goes on behind the scenes in a modern airport. Grades 6-9. DB 13502
Olney, Ross R. Drama on the speedway. Heart-stopping moments of 16 great auto races. Grades 5-8. DB 14197
Olney, Ross R. Modern racing cars. Describes the characteristic features of 14 Formula One racers. Grades 6-9. DB 15313
Olney, Ross R. They said it couldn't be done: the stories behind ten feats of engineering that defied belief in their own times. Includes the Golden Gate Bridge, the Empire State Building, Hoover Dam, and the moon landing. Grades 6-9. DB 20380
Olney, Ross R. The young runner. An introduction to the joy of running for grades 4-7. DB 16285
Osofsky, Audrey. Dreamcatcher. Ojibway parents hung dream nets on babies' cradleboards to catch bad dreams, while allowing good dreams to flow through to the sleeping child. Grades K-3. BR 08983
Patent, Dorothy H. The whooping crane: a comeback story. Efforts to save the endangered crane, from captive breeding programs to protected sanctuaries, are discussed. The Baraboo International Crane Foundation is featured. Grades 4-7. DB 30532
Pellowski, Anne. The storytelling handbook: a young people's collection of unusual tales and helpful hints on how to tell them. Suggestions on story telling for grades 3-6. DB 43271
Perl, Lila. It happened in America: true stories from the fifty states. Wisconsin's story focuses on the Ringling family of Baraboo, creators of the "Greatest Show on Earth"--the Ringling Brothers Circus. Grades 5-8. DB 40314
Plume, Ilse. The shoemaker and the elves. A vivid retelling of the Grimm tale. Kindergarten-grade 3. DB 36058
Pringle, Laurence P. Restoring our earth. Discusses environmental restorations of marshes, grasslands, and lakes in North America, including the University of Wisconsin-Madison arboretum. Grades 6-9. DB 28142
Rivers, Glenn. Those who love the game: Glenn "Doc" Rivers on life in the NBA and elsewhere. Former Marquette player tells of his life. For junior and senior high readers. DB 42656
Romano, Louis G. Exploring our state, Wisconsin. A guide to the Badger State. Grade 4. BRW 178
Roop, Peter. Seasons of the cranes. Chronicles a year in the life of a family of whooping cranes, beginning with the spring and the end of the birds' 2,700-mile journey from Texas to their nesting ground in Canada. For grades 4-7 and older readers. RC 35322
Roop, Peter. Sojourner Truth: in their own words. Biography of a woman who was born a slave in 1797 and struggled through many heartaches to become a free human being. For grades 3-6. DB 56798
Ryden, Hope. America's bald eagle. A look at our national symbol for grades 6-9. DB 25754
Ryden, Hope. The little deer of the Florida Keys. A look at the tiny white-tailed deer that live on the chain of islands that ends in Key West. Grades 3-6. DB 15427
Ryder, Joanne. Fireflies. The fascinating life of a firefly. Grades 2-4. DB 12673
Sandburg, Carl A. Rainbows are made: poems. 70 humorous and serious poems by one of America's most famous poets. Grades 6-9. DB 21845
San Souci, Robert. Larger than life: the adventures of American legendary heroes. "Paul Bunyan and Babe the Blue Ox" is one of five stories for grades 3-6. DB 38170
Scott, John A. Woman against slavery: the story of Harriet Beecher Stowe. Biography of the writer of Uncle Tom's Cabin for high school and adult readers. DB 12790
Shannon, George. Still more stories to solve: fourteen folktales from around the world. Brief folktales with mysteries to solve for grades 3-6. DB 40523
Shannon, George. Stories to solve: folktales from around the world. In each of these 14 brief folktales, there is a mystery (a riddle or problem) to solve. Grades 3-6. DB 25059
Shannon, George. True lies: 18 tales for you to judge. Problem stories for grades 3-6. DB 45366
Siebert, Diane. Heartland. A poetic tribute to the Midwest includes familiar Wisconsin scenes for grades 2-4. DB 34779
Siebert, Diane. Train song. "Out in back/railroad track/clickety-clack/ clickety-clack." Thus begins this tribute to trains, all kinds, which criss-cross the nation carrying goods and people. The lilting verse captures the cadence of the rolling cars. For preschool-grade 2 to share with older readers. BR 08913
Siebert, Diane. Truck song. A rhymed text about all kinds of trucks and their drivers as they roll through prairies and cities listening to their CBs, stopping at diners, loading and unloading their cargo. Bold, brightly colored illustrations. For grades K-2. BR 06123
Stein, R. Conrad. America the Beautiful: Wisconsin. Discusses the geography, history, government, economy, culture, historic sites and famous people of Wisconsin. Grades 4-7. DB 34630
Tessendorf, K.C. Kill the tsar!: Youth and terrorism in old Russia. A fast-paced history of liberal reform, anti-Tsar activity, and terrorism in Russia from 1861 to 1881. For junior and senior high readers. DB 25571
Thomson, Peggy. Auks, rocks, and the odd dinosaur: inside stories from the Smithsonian's Museum of Natural History. Backstage at the museum for grades 3-6. DB 24434
Thomson, Peggy. Keepers and creatures at the National Zoo. Backstage at the Washington, DC, zoo for grades 3-6. DB 29435.
Thomson, Peggy. Museum people: collectors and keepers at the Smithsonian. Who does what behind the scenes explained for high school and adult readers. DB 19918.
Thomson, Peggy. The nine-ton cat: behind the scenes at an art museum. Explains the work of various museum staff for grades 5-8. DB 46219.
Turner, Dorothy. Milk. Basic introduction to milk sources, production, and processing. For grades 2-4. DB 33837.
Vogt, Gregory L. Deep space astronomy. Describes various celestial objects, where they are located, and how they are measured and observed from Earth and from spacecraft. Grades 5-8. DB 50251.
Vogt, Gregory L. John Glenn's return to space. Focuses on John Glenn's second flight into space in 1998 at age seventy-seven, comparing it with his first flight in 1962. For grades 4-7. DB 52682.
Vogt, Gregory L. Magellan and the radar mapping of Venus. How the long-term study of Venus by the Magellan spacecraft was planned. Grades 5-8. DB 39734.
Walker, Barbara M. The Little house cookbook: frontier foods from Laura Ingalls Wilder's classic stories. Includes commentaries about Wisconsin events and conditions of the time. Grades 2-4. DB 18894.
Weidhorn, Manfred. Robert E. Lee. Biography of the Confederate general for grades 6-9. DB 30305.
Weiss, Malcolm E. Seeing through the dark: blind and sighted--a vision shared. Discusses one major problem of blindness--the sighted people who fear or misunderstand it. Grades 5-8. DB 14184.
Wheeler, M. J. First came the Indians. Gives a simple description of everyday life in 6 representative Native American tribes: Creek, Iroquois, Chippewa, Sioux, Makah, and Hopi. Grades 2-4. DB 21622.
Wilder, Laura Ingalls. On the way home; the diary of a trip from South Dakota to Mansfield, Missouri, in 1894. The diary describes the journey by covered wagon across the prairie frontier. Grades 6-9. DB 08811.
Wilder, Laura Ingalls. West from Home: Letters of Laura Ingalls Wilder to Almanzo Wilder; San Francisco, 1915. Long letters to the author's husband reflect her excitement on a visit to San Francisco in 1915. Grades 7-12. RC 57993.
Winter, Jeanette. The Christmas tree ship. In 1912, Captain Herman Schuenemann's ship sank in a Lake Michigan storm. For 22 more years, his wife and daughters sailed the "Christmas Tree Ship". Grades K-3. DB 40471.
Wright, David K. Brunei. Guide to the Red Sea nation for grades 4-7. DB 38553.
Zeinert, Karen. The Salem witchcraft trials. A vivid recounting of the mass hysteria that engulfed the Massachusetts frontier settlement in 1692. Grades 6-9. DB 31335.
Zeinert, Karen. Suicide: tragic choice. Surveys the issue of suicide, including its history, causes, and psychology. Includes information about the right-to-die debate, assisted suicide, and survivors of the deceased. For junior and senior high readers. DB 50486.

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