New Releases by Carol Ryrie Brink

Travel Back to a Time of Innocence and Adventure "Until Kirby Mellen was ten nothing very exciting had ever happened to him or his father or his mother or his little sister Bitsy." All of this changes very suddenly with the death of far-distant Uncle Hiram, who leaves his Florida motel-painted pink-to Kirby''s mom. People like the Mellens, from Minnesota, do not paint their buildings pink. And these seven buildings are not just quietly pink-they are outrageously PINK. "It was pinker than Kirby''s necktie or Bitsy''s hair ribbon. It was pink, pink, PINK." It isn''t long after the Mellens arrive at the motel that things go even more off kilter with regulars (and some irregulars) taking up residence in the cottages. There''s old Miss Ferry who talks to crabs and other beach creatures, Marvello the magician, the two gangsters Locke and Black, and jolly Mr. Carver, who has a knack for uncovering the secrets left by Uncle Hiram. Carol Ryrie Brink''s classic children''s tale evokes a time of innocence and adventure in the lives of the Mellen children and their friends. Written long before the introduction of the internet, it speaks of people solving problems through understanding and coming together. With delightful illustrations by Sheila Greenwald, this story will capture the imagination of children of all ages.

When a ferocious storm hits their ship, young Mary and Jean become stranded on a deserted island. They’re not the only survivors; with them are four babies. Immediately the sisters set out to make the island a home for themselves and the little ones. A classic tale of courage and dedication from a Newbery Medalist author.

Caddie Woodlawn is back and there are more frontier adventures to go on in this sequel to the Newbery Medal–winning novel, Caddie Woodlawn! The high-spirited Caddie is back with her lively siblings for some amusing escapades. In these fourteen stories, learn about frontier life with the seven Woodlawn children. Join them as they romp through the pages, discovering a secret horde of watermelons long after melon season, engaging in cattail fights, and adopting baby animals. You’ll also encounter of a young preacher doing a favor for a wandering Indian, a poor girl revealing a surprising talent at a medicine show, and Caddie ruining her new dress at the Independence Day celebration. These latest adventures are sure to capture every reader’s attention—and heart.

The adventures of an eleven-year-old tomboy growing up on the Wisconsin frontier in the mid-nineteenth century.

Strangers in the Forest, originally published in 1959, was included in the Reader''s Digest Condensed Books series. Set in the white-pine timberland of the Idaho panhandle in 1908, the story explores the efforts of the early U.S. Forest Service to instill a sense of conservation in the land--a new concept affecting Idaho''s seemingly inexhaustible forests. Bundy Jones heads west to investigate the people taking timber homesteads in the north Idaho woods, suspecting that their real intention is to sell out for profit to lumber companies. Jones befriends the homesteaders, wins their confidence, and even admires them. When his connection with the Forest Service is revealed, most of the homesteaders turn against him. But the inferno of a north Idaho forest fire once again unites Jones and the timber settlers.

Three doctors travel to Opportunity, Idaho in the 1890s searching for success and fortune in a town where they find more tragedies than opportunities.

At the time of her death in 1981, Carol Brink had one remaining unpublished manuscript, the one people in Idaho had been awaiting for years. She called it A Chain of Hands. In this moving and wonderfully written reminiscence, this accomplished author has detailed many of the hands that touched hers. For the first time, Brink reveals in non-fiction form many of the people, places, and events that played so prominently in her fictional books for both adults and children.

Jehan hears the older boys talk about the fun they will have singing carols from house to house on Christmas Eve so he follows them.

A Depression family appropriates a summer cottage in the Wisconsin woods, where they spend the winter and welcome all visitors, including a runaway youth and two strangers.

This novel has interest ... in the picture it gives of the western white pine forests and efforts to protect them against exploitation when the United States was young (1890s) and just beginning to realize that its wealth of natural resources was not inexhaustible ...

Minneapolis and St. Paul - past and present.

When Kirby, Bitsy, and their parents inherit an unusual and very pink motel in Florida, they find it filled with eccentric characters, mystery, and adventure.

Three American children and their family visit France and experience royalty and disappointment.

The Ridgeway family of three--George, Susan, and Dumpling--live on College Avenue and have the football stadium in their laps.

An adult novel that recounts the pleasures and heartaches of aging actress Naomi Murdoch''s return to the unforgiving Minnesota town and family she left years earlier.