Best Selling Books by Mary Stolz

Eleven-year-old Franny Davis and her best friend share school and family problems in this realistic, often humorous story set in New York''s Greenwich Village. 1966 Newbery Honor Book Notable Children''s Books of 1965 (ALA) Children''s Books of 1965 (Library of Congress) "City" Books of the Sixties (The Instructor)

Storm in the night. Thunder like mountains blowing up. Lightning licking the navy-blue sky. Rain streaming down the windows, babbling in the downspouts. And Grandfather? . . . And Thomas? . . . And Ringo, the cat? They were in the dark. Too early to go to bed, and with only flashes of lightning to see by, Thomas and his grandfather happily find themselves re-discovering the half-forgotten scents and sounds of their world, and having a wonderful time learning important, new things about each other in a spirited conversation sparked by darkness. Mary Stolz and Pat Cummings have each brought their unique talents to this lyrical tale about a magical, stormy night and a special relationship.

Despite his struggles to improve his behavior at school and at home, an overweight, eleven-year-old bully''s efforts to reform seem doomed to fail.

A Brother''s War Tom Rigby didn''t think that anything could ever come between him and his twin, Jack. But things begin to change when Tom learns that they are not allowed to play with their friend Aaron anymore because he''s a slave. Tom is upset, but Jack doesn''t seem to care. All Jack cares about is playing soldier. Eleven years later, when war breaks out, Jack joins the Confederation army. But Tom can''t bring himself to fight for a cause he doesn''t believe in -- slavery. So Tom rides north to join the Union army -- even though he knows he may one day have to face his brother on the battlefield.

Taylor, Jem, and B. J. each react differently to the breakup of their parents'' marriage.

After spending the day fishing in the Gulf of Mexico with Grandfather, eight-year-old Thomas has a quiet evening on the porch hearing more about his African heritage.

Many conflicts arise within the Reed family when they are forced to move in with relatives in the country.

A sweet story for anyone who''s ever dreamed of having a pet pig Emmett loves pigs and has all the toy pigs any kid could dream of. But Emmett wants a real pig. He lives in a New York City apartment, so Emmett’s family says that he can’t keep one in the house. Instead, on his birthday, his dreams will come true in the most surprising way! This Level Two I Can Read book is geared for kids who read on their own but still need a little help. This digital edition of the classic Emmett’s Pig by Mary Stolz and Garth William is a special commemorative edition celebrating the 60th anniversary of I Can Read books for beginning readers. The book features an anniversary burst and eight pages of bonus material on the history of I Can Read—including a timeline, origin stories of favorite characters, and never-before-seen early sketches.

Small twin mice, Bob and Ozzie, are chosen to bell the house cat.

Examines young people''s awareness of the conflicts and divisions in a college town through the story of two town girls and the different disappointments they suffer not going to college, the senior student who boards at their house as part of his thesis research, and a co-ed who recognizes the problem of "town versus gown" but lacks the assurance to take a strong stand.

In the attempt to redefine her family''s relationship after her parents'' divorce, Janine realizes there are no families without interpersonal conflicts.

Though they still listen to baseball and go fishing, Thomas and his grandfather find life in their small house in Florida changed when Great-aunt Linzy comes to stay.

When his mother is killed in a car accident, a thirteen-year-old boy tries to cope with his grief and sense of loss, and his father''s retreat into alcoholism.

It is a long time ago in a village near Germany''s Black Forest, and Erich, a foundling, has been left in the care of the good and charitable Frau Goddhart. Or, at least the publicly good and charitable Frau Goddhart; at home it''s quite another story. Erich''s young life of work and little love changes when old Ula, the town''s most skillful clockmaker, offers him a job as his helper. Ula is a patient and very slow worker, which is why his cuckoo clocks are the best anywhere. Ula teaches Erich about clockmaking, playing the fiddle, and many other useful and wonderful things. One day as Ula works at his clockmaking and Erich looks on, Baron Balloon storms in demanding a clock. Ula refuses, and decided right then and there to make a clock for himself, a wondrous, beautiful clock that will be his last and best. The clock he makes - with Erich''s help-is wonderful, beautiful, and magical, with a cheerful enchanted cuckoo bird that knows all the thirty-six songs of the birds of the Black Forest. Mary Stolz''s story is alive with the magic of art, and creation and is sure to enchant, as are the warm pencil illustrations by Pamela Johnson.

Mady Guthrie and Sue Ellen Forrest live across the hall from each other in a racially-mixed neighborhood.

In his old age Cezanne Pinto recalls his youth as a slave on a Virginia plantation and his escape to a new life in the North.

A story with truth and meaning for readers of all ages.

Examines the varying emotions and confrontations of three siblings as they attempt to rebuild a family after their mother has deserted them.

While out on a fishing trip with his son, a father is asked to say something about the moon, night, sky, wind, caves, brooks, and many other things that surround us in nature.

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While looking for employment, two scarecrows become separated from their cat child, finding each other again on Halloween.

For Edward Frost, getting a dog and getting rid of the bully, Martin Hastings, seem equally unlikely.

A big orange tomcat, unsuccessfully courting a lady cat, befriends a grouchy, lonely little boy who is staying in the tom''s Paris hotel, and each finds happiness.

Realizing his fate is to be spareribs, a pig disguises himself as a boy, runs away, finds employment, and becomes friends with a little girl.

Two mice, relegated to patrol the cellar of their house, escape from opression and face the insecurities of freedom afield.

Three nurses in their last year of hospital training ponder the future of their professional and personal lives.

In New York City during the Depression, fourteen-year-old Ivy tries to cope with feelings of not belonging in her elegant private school and with her father''s losing his job.

A portrait of a family as winter changes to spring: Cassie, unwilling to solve her conflict between honesty and tact; her older sister, flirtatious and vain, self-confident and selfish; her college-age brother, looking for love; their mother, lonely for her children''s childhood; and their father, only an unwelcome visitor when he returns from business trips.

Thomas talks his grandfather into driving across Florida to meet Coco Grimes, an old man who remembers the Negro Baseball League.

After mother''s death, father and two post-adolescent children cannot seem to understand each other.

A 13-year-old girl tells the story of several inhabitants of a small New York town.

Chosen to design a magnificent monument for a vain and demanding Pharaoh, an Egyptian stone carver conceives of and begins work on the Sphinx which still stands in the Egyptian desert today.

Emmett endures the death of his pet pig and his family''s move from New York City to Ohio and finally comes to accept the thought of getting another pet.

During her junior year in college a girl conquers her weight problem, improves her social life, and comes to an understanding of a roommate who is her opposite.

A nineteen-year-old reflects on her time in private school, when a coarse, hostile, brilliant daughter of a cleaning woman attended, and of the effect the girl had on those at the school, including the nineteen-year-old''s idealistic older brother.

Edward Frost is given Argess, a dog, who helps him come to terms with the local bully, Martin Hastings decides he must change his bad reputation, and Martin finally experiences success, as a baby-sitter.