For the first time in the history of the Little House books,this new edition features Garth Williams' interior art in vibrant,full color, as well as a beautifully redesigned cover. The little settlement that weathered the long, hard winter of1880-81 is now a growing town. Laura is growing up, and she goes toher first evening social. Mary is at last able to go to a collegefor the blind. Best of all, Almanzo Wilder asks permission to walkhome from church with Laura. And Laura, now fifteen years old,receives her certificate to teach school.
If there's one thing Georgie Hall has always been, it'sdetermined. So when her stepcousins Eleanor and Eddy tell her that she can'tfly, Georgie doesn't get discouraged -- she just tries harder Shefeels a peculiar lightness when she leaps from the top of thestaircase, and is even more certain of her seemingly impossibleability when she jumps from the porch and soars to the rooftopbefore landing safely on the ground. And now that a mysteriousCanada goose is visiting Georgie's window on a nightly basis, theHall family begins to wonder just what Georgie is capableof....
Bobby Burns knows he’s a lucky lad. Growing up in sleepy KeelyBay, Bobby is exposed to all manner of wondrous things: starsreflecting off the icy sea, a friend that can heal injured fawnswith her dreams, a man who can eat fire. But darkness seems to beapproaching Bobby’s life from all sides. Bobby’s new school is acold, cruel place. His father is suffering from a mysteriousillness that threatens to tear his family apart. And the USA andUSSR are testing nuclear missiles and creeping closer and closer toa world-engulfing war. Together with his wonder-working friend, Ailsa Spink, and thefire-eating illusionist McNulty, Bobby will learn to believe inmiracles that will save the people and place he loves. From the Hardcover edition.
