New Releases by George Ella Lyon

Having been forced to act as mother and housekeeper during Mama''s illness, twelve-year-old Amanda has a holiday in Memphis, far removed from the Depression drudgery of her Kentucky mountain family, and finds her world expanding even as she grows to understand and appreciate her background.

This poem compares a book to a house, a treasure chest, a farm, and a tree full of leaves in a sensory adventure which ends with a benediction: "May it hold you. May it set you free". Full color.

Present-day visitors describe what they see when they visit the pueblos where the Anasazi lived long ago.

The author simply describes how she considered various careers as she grew and how she combined them all into her work as a writer.

When discovered on the playground in front of the drive-in movie screen, Boulevard, a stray cat, stays in her new home for a short while before taking to the road.

The rhyming verse presents all sorts of "appetizing" meals to be had outdoors, including "puddle ink to drink," "gravel crunch for lunch, and "worms and dirt for dessert."

Through ghostly visitation and a diary that seems mysteriously to write itself with twelve-year-old Abby''s hands, a Civil War nurse asks for help with medical supplies across an abyss of 133 years.

The author describes how her love of words and her personal experiences evolved into a career as a writer.

When Sumi''s brother leaves for boarding school, her best friend moves away, her grandfather dies, and her mother withdraws into grief, Sumi finds herself facing the beginning of adolescence alone and afraid.

One friend helps another through the pitfalls and pratfalls of a day at summer camp.

A small dog suffers from a broken heart when her dog companion dies until a veterinarian advises the family that there is only one thing to do.

A boy thinks about the possible scenarios that exist for him at home if his father goes off to fight in the Civil War.

A mother describes her job working as a miner.

Five brothers and sisters drive their parents to distraction with their musical band composed of such instruments as spoons, skillets, and pots.

A girl provides a lighthearted account of the spring floods at her rural home.

Over the years, Grandma''s basket becomes embedded in many family legends.

" "I don''t agree with all the choices people make," says the author. "You probably won''t either. My job is to let them tell their stories." And so she does in these thirteen warm, funny, and sad short stories about people making hard decisions for themselves and for their families: · Like Iona, who accidentally accepts a marriage proposal · And Daryll, just about to graduate from high school, whose mother is eager for him to "make something" of himself. · And Lexie and Jeb, deep in debt and already struggling to feed their six children, who find out a seventh is on the way.

An illustrated poem about friendship and togetherness.

When Sumi''s brother leaves for boarding school, her best friend moves away, her grandfather dies, and her mother withdraws into grief, Sumi finds herself facing the beginning of adolescence alone and afraid.

An alphabet book introducing the leaves from a variety of trees.

An illustrated poem about friendship and togetherness.

A boy is hired to shepherd a boxcar of animals.

Text and illustrations describe how each day comes to us as Father Time tosses down one of the 365 packets he keeps safe in his vault in the clouds.