Bent Northrop Memorial Library

"Meek little Mole, willful Ratty, Badger the perennial bachelor, and petulant Toad. Since their first appearance over a hundred years ago in 1908, they've become emblematic archetypes of eccentricity, folly, and friendship. And their misadventures--in gypsy caravans, stolen sports cars, and their beloved Wild Wood--continue to capture readers' imaginations and warm their hearts long after they grow up. Begun as a series of letters from Kenneth Grahame...

A collection of poems reflecting the experiences of a little English boy growing up in the early part of the twentieth century. Nonsense verses about people, animals, and situations. There is a beetle who is mistaken for a match, and a knight whose armour doesn't squeak.

Relates the adventures and misadventures of the four Moffat children living with their widowed mother in a yellow house on New Dollar Street in the small town of Cranbury, Connecticut.

Just as Henry Huggins is complaining that nothing exciting ever happens, a friendly dog sits down beside him and looks pleadingly at his ice-cream cone. From that moment on, the two are inseparable. But when Ribsy's original owner appears, trying to reclaim his dog, Henry's faced with the possibility of losing his new best friend. Has Klickitat Street seen the last of rambunctious Ribsy?

Because of a bet, Billy is in the uncomfortable position of having to eat fifteen worms in fifteen days. The worms are readily supplied by his opponent, whose motto seems to be the bigger and juicier, the better! Billy's family, after checking with the doctor, takes everything in stride and even helps Billy through the gastronomic ordeal that twists and turns with each new day, leaving the outcome of the bet continually in doubt.

Determined to be brave, six-year-old Ramona Quimby has to deal witharting first grade, her mother's new job, and a teacher who does nonderstand how hard it is for Ramona to grow up.

Fourteen-year-old John comes of age and gains self-reliance during the summer he spends up in the Wyoming mountains tending his father's herd of sheep.