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Curry, Jane Louise was born on September 24, 1932 in East Liverpool, Ohio, United States. Daughter of William Jack and Helen Margaret (Willis) Curry.
(Ten-year-old Rosemary thinks the word cut into the marker...)
Ten-year-old Rosemary thinks the word cut into the marker stone in her aunt's old herb garden in Maine should be spelled T-H-Y-M-E until she tastes a sprig of it, and finds everything but herself ... stopped! Flies hang in mid-flight, a measuring worm in mid-reach. Not a leaf rustles. Before long Rosemary, a rather timid, proper child, is plunged into an extraordinary adventure-- in the eighteenth century! Who would have thought
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(Nearly all that remains of some Indian tribes of Texas an...)
Nearly all that remains of some Indian tribes of Texas and the Southern Plains are their stories. Here twenty-six tales are brought together from fourteen tribes and at least five different cultures. They are stories of humor, guidance, and adventure that have been passed down through the generations. From the Tejas story that explains how the universe began, to the Lipan Apache tale in which a small lizard smartly outwits a hungry coyote, these stories are sure to delight young readers. Additional information about each tribe is included in the "About the Storytellers" section. Once again Jane Louise Curry has skillfully retold traditional tales of Native Americans. Hold Up the Sky is in keeping with the style of her previous, highly acclaimed collections of Native American stories, Back in the Beforetime, The Wonderful Sky Boat, and Turtle Island. This, too, is a collection to be treasured.
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(When 15-year-old Robin Hood is declared an outlaw after h...)
When 15-year-old Robin Hood is declared an outlaw after he is tricked into shooting one of the king's deer, he flees into Sherwood Forest to join the robbers and homeless folk who live there. The classic story of Robin Hood is freshly told with great gusto and high humor and illustrated with action-packed pictures.
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(Tee (short for Leticia) Woodie and her family have moved ...)
Tee (short for Leticia) Woodie and her family have moved into a big, old house that is a part of her father's inheritance from Great-uncle Sebastian. While exploring the contents of Great-uncle's antiques-and-junk store, they find a parcel marked FOR DEAR LETICIA, MY SHABTI BOX. The decorated Egyptian box inside holds the shabti, a colorful wooden figure of a girl in painted mummy wrappings from the waist down. The writings on those wrappings are ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics. Charles, Tee's younger -- and very curious -- brother, borrows the figure and uses the Internet to discover what sounds the old hieroglyphics stand for. When he reads the Egyptian words aloud to Tee, strange things begin to happen. That evening, slow in answering her father's call to come and dry the dishes, Tee reaches the kitchen door only to hear the clink and rattle of plates and cutlery being put away. Peering in, she sees a costumed figure busy at work. Egyptian costume? The shabti? Surely not! But it is. Soon Tee is thinking of ways a secret, magical shabti-servant can help her with homework...with school...with...All goes well until the shabti begins to enjoy taking Tee's place. A frightened Tee must get her back into her box, but -- can she? Inspired by the shabti figures in the British Museum, the Fitzwilliam Museum, and London's Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology, Jane Curry has written an amusing, then scary story that catches and holds the reader in its magic to the very last word.
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(When their pregnant mother gets sick on the eve of their ...)
When their pregnant mother gets sick on the eve of their move from California to Pennsylvania, the four younger Smith children find themselves in the custody of the city leaving their twelve-year-old sister Boo, with the help of eccentric old Auntie Moss, to somehow trace their whereabouts and get the family back together again.
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(Ten-year-old Rosemary thinks the word "Time" cut into a s...)
Ten-year-old Rosemary thinks the word "Time" cut into a stone in her aunt's old herb garden should be spelled "Thyme" until she picks a sprig of the herb around it and discovers herself back in the eighteenth century.
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(JoEllen resents having to stay with Granty in her home, W...)
JoEllen resents having to stay with Granty in her home, Winterbloom, while her mother is on her honeymoon, but after the discovery of the magic round window, allowing her to travel back in time, she begins a grand adventure of her own. Jr Lib Guild.
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(A series of Robin Hood adventures includes the tales of F...)
A series of Robin Hood adventures includes the tales of Friar Tuck's induction into the Merry Men, Lady Marian's escape from the Sheriff of Nottingham to the safety of Sherwood Forest, and Robin's competition in an archery match.
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( In this collection of twenty-seven delightful stories,...)
In this collection of twenty-seven delightful stories, there are trickster tales full of sly humor and tales of magic and the supernatural, of adventure and derring-do. "How and Why" stories explain why the buzzard is bald and how the alligator's nose was broken. We laugh along with Rabbit when, to impress the pretty girl he wants to marry, he tricks Wolf into letting him ride him like a horse. Tales from familiar peoples such as the Cherokee, Choctaw, Seminole, and Cree are here, as well as from less well-known tribes. Jane Curry has also provided helpful notes "About the Southeastern Tribes," "About the Storytellers," and "About the Stories." There is a happy variety in these stories, retold with great skill by a gifted writer, whose earlier book of Native American tales, Back in the Beforetime, has been a favorite for years. Storytellers and young readers alike will welcome The Wonderful Sky Boat.
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(When a savings and loan threatens to repossess their gran...)
When a savings and loan threatens to repossess their grandmother's house, the five Smith children, with the help of some friendly neighbors, uncover a con artist's scam.
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(In his History of Early Rome, the ancient historian Livy ...)
In his History of Early Rome, the ancient historian Livy tells the story of a Roman girl named Cloelia who was taken prisoner by Larth Porsena, the king of the Etruscans. Cloelia came up with a daring plan of escape from her Etruscan captors and in the process won the admiration of all Rome and of the Etruscan king himself, who freed her. For saving her city, a grateful Rome set up a statue in her honor, the first such ever to be put on the Sacred Way. Jane Louise Curry tells this exciting and true story in Brave Cloelia, beautifully illustrated by Jeff Crosby. Jane Louise Curry is the author of many books for young people, most recently Hold Up the Sky and Other Indian Tales of Texas and the Southwest and The Egyptian Box. Brave Cloelia is his sixth children's book.
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(Sixteen-year-old Maggie attempts to save recently orphane...)
Sixteen-year-old Maggie attempts to save recently orphaned Kip from permanently going back in time to 1758 as an adopted Lenape in the primeval forests of western Pennsylvania.
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(Though two boys are paying attention to her, a seventeen-...)
Though two boys are paying attention to her, a seventeen-year-old in East Liverpool, Ohio, is painfully shy until she discovers in herself the eye, hand, and heart of a potter.
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(When their farm and everything on it is reduced to miniat...)
When their farm and everything on it is reduced to miniature by a mysterious machine, Pete and his grandmother do all they can to keep themselves and their farm from being lost forever.
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( Nearly all that remains of some Indian tribes of Texas...)
Nearly all that remains of some Indian tribes of Texas and the Southern Plains are their stories. Here twenty-six tales are brought together from fourteen tribes and at least five different cultures. They are stories of humor, guidance, and adventure that have been passed down through the generations. From the Tejas story that explains how the universe began, to the Lipan Apache tale in which a small lizard smartly outwits a hungry coyote, these stories are sure to delight young readers. Additional information about each tribe is included in the "About the Storytellers" section. Once again Jane Louise Curry has skillfully retold traditional tales of Native Americans. Hold Up the Sky is in keeping with the style of her previous, highly acclaimed collections of Native American stories, Back in the Beforetime, The Wonderful Sky Boat, and Turtle Island. This, too, is a collection to be treasured.
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(Twelve-year-old biracial James has grown up in a musical ...)
Twelve-year-old biracial James has grown up in a musical family. Not only are both of his parents musicians, but his four grandparents are as well. Everyone assumes that James will pursue music, yet he would rather become a newspaper reporter...or an astronomer...or a cook...anything that will let him leave music behind and be his own self. Everything changes when, on a family visit to London, James discovers a portal that leads to London in the year 1600, then finds himself unable to return to the point in time he had left behind. James is forced to join the Children of the Chapel Royal, a group that performs for the queen of England, and the musical talents he denied are now put to the test and pushed to their limits. In this alternate world James comes to realize that he cannot survive and get back to the twenty-first century without recognizing, understanding, and making the most of his musical gifts. Jane Louise Curry brings Elizabethan London to life in this remarkable story about music, family, and finding one's place in the world.
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(When he goes to live with his cousin at the family's ance...)
When he goes to live with his cousin at the family's ancestral home, a ten-year-old boy finds a secret room and clues that could help unravel the riddle of the family treasure.
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This is an Authors Guild/BIP title. Please use Authors Guild/BIP specs. Author's bio: Born in Ohio, Jane Curry worked as an actress, artist, and art teacher before studying English literature at UCLA and London University, and earning a Ph.D. at Stanford. She taught in Stanford's English Department for several years before "retiring" to write full time. Description: Here, greedy, boastful Coyote cannot wait for the newly-formed earth to dry, and leaves footprints on it that make mountain ridges and valleys. Brave Blue Jay and Ground Squirrel steal dawn from the Dawn People to shaare it with the world. Other creatures, some brave, some foolish, some comical or wicked, scurry through these tales told with humor and a storyteller's relish.
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(A retelling of twenty-two legends about the creation of t...)
A retelling of twenty-two legends about the creation of the world from a variety of California Indian tribes.
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( The Algonquins are a great family of tribes who were w...)
The Algonquins are a great family of tribes who were widely spread across the North Central, Northeastern, and Middle Atlantic United States and Canada. Among them are the Lenapé, the Blackfoot, the Cree, the Micmac, the Ojibway, the Pequot, and the Wampanoag. A number of the tribes vanished in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and their stories with them, for not until the late nineteenth century were many tales written down. In Turtle Island, Jane Curry retells twenty-seven such tales from a selection of tribes across the ancient Algonquian homelands. Here are stories of shapechangers, of magic and mystery, of heroes and tricksters, of how the world was made, and of why crows are black and beavers have broad tails. Animals and humans are of equal importance, sharing the world around them, sometimes as friends, sometimes as opponents. Skillfully retold by a master storyteller and with evocative illustrations that reflect the customs and culture of the Algonquins, this is a special book for all who, like the Algonquins, enjoy a good story.
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(Perry, Mab, Oriole Bird and their mother fly to Austria i...)
Perry, Mab, Oriole Bird and their mother fly to Austria in search of their father: Professor Bird has disappeared while investigating strange earth tremors. Villainous Dr. Pfnur is clearly up to no good, but surely he cant be making earthquakes! And surely the giant Ice Ghost Mab sees cant be realcan it? A thoroughly absorbing and original mystery story.Childrens Books of the Year(London). The plot is ingeniously woven and sustained in a beautifully vivid setting.The Horn Book
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(Gordy and his friends find secret rooms, mysterious burgl...)
Gordy and his friends find secret rooms, mysterious burglaries, and a shadowy villain on the trail of a treasure supposedly lost in Johnstown's flood of 1889.
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Curry, Jane Louise was born on September 24, 1932 in East Liverpool, Ohio, United States. Daughter of William Jack and Helen Margaret (Willis) Curry.
Student, Pennsylvania State University, 1950-1951; Bachelor of Science, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, 1954; postgraduate, University of California at Los Angeles, 1957-1959; AM, Stanford University, 1962; Doctor of Philosophy, Stanford University, 1969; student, University London, 1961-1962, 65-66.
Teacher art East Liverpool schools, 1955, Los Angeles schools, 1956-1959. Teaching assistant department English Stanford University, 1959-1961, 64-65, acting instructor, 1967-1968, instructor, 1983-1984, lecturer, 1988. Fulbright scholar University London, 1961—1962, Leverhulme fellow, 1965—1966.
Postdoctoral fellow Center Medieval & Renaissance Studies, University of California at Los Angeles, 1976—1979. Storyteller, since 1962.
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(Perry, Mab, Oriole Bird and their mother fly to Austria i...)
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( Nearly all that remains of some Indian tribes of Texas...)
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