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The Jazz Man
Night after night Zeke and his mother and father listen to the jazz man play his piano. Then his mother tires of his father not working, and she leaves them. Soon his father goes as well, and Zeke is alone. As the gloomy days and nights pass, Zeke dreams of the jazz man and of better, happier times.- Fiction, General Fiction
- John Newbery Medal 1967 (Honor Title)
- ISBN: 9780689717673
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Sam, Bangs & Moonshine
Sam, a fisherman's daughter, has a bad habit of making up stories. The little girl learns to distinguish the truth from “moonshine” only after her best friend and her cat nearly meet tragedy. The book's pictures capture Sam's confusion of fact and fancy.- Fiction, General Fiction
- Randolph Caldecott Medal 1967 (Medal Winner)
- ISBN: 9780805003154
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Up a Road Slowly
When Julie is seven, her mother dies. She and her little brother are sent to live with her strict, schoolteacher aunt. Through the years, Julie keeps hoping that her father will want them back, that staying with Aunt Cordelia is just temporary, but slowly she comes to love her aunt and wants to stay.- Fiction, General Fiction
- John Newbery Medal 1967 (Medal Winner)
- ISBN: 9780448164960