Best Selling Books by Natalie Savage Carlson

An old tramp, adopted by three fatherless children when their mother hides them under a bridge on the Seine, finds a home for the mother and children and a job for himself.

A snake constantly plays tricks on his best friend, a mongoose, until he causes them both to get into serious trouble.

When the parochial school in French Grove, Louisiana is desegregated, 10-year-old Lullah Royall joined her red-haired friend Oralee at school, but one by one all the students desert St. Joseph''s, frightened by phone calls and threats.

SUMMARY: When the girls of the French orphanage visit the dog cemetary, Brigitte gets left behind and has an adventure with a woman whose husband is a pretender to the French throne.

A twelve-year-old girl looks forward to a summer filled with many events, especially showing her half-sisters, arriving from boarding school, how grown up she is.

When a baby is left in the orphanage''s breadbasket, all the little girls hope to keep it, even though it is a boy and should be in the boys'' home.

An eleven-year-old girl goes to Resurrection City with her grandmother and finds new friends with whom she has much in common.

A young French Canadian boy, who wants an accordion more than anything, attaches a note telling of his wish to a Christmas tree which will be sold in the United States.

Story is about Jacot le Beau, a young fisherman and woodcarver, set in the Breton seacoast and describes the customs and dress of the inhabitants.

Ann Aurelia finally finds a foster mother she really likes and a friend who is lots of fun, but when her real mother comes back to claim her, she must decide with whom she wants to live.

A bear from the wilderness joins the army of New France as a solider.

An untalented but enthusiastic provincial circus family try to join a big Paris show but find a more appropriate place managing a farm for retired circus animals.

Marie Louise, the brown mongoose, runs away after her mother spanks her for being naughty.

Adventures of a farm dog trying to find his way home.

Story of an orphan boy stowaway on a seal-hunting ship off Newfoundland, and of the Captain''s dog who befriends him.

In 1900, times were hard in a little Maryland village. Ten-year-old Belle''s uncle lost his job, and Belle looks for odd jobs to help out. A surprising result leads Belle back to the school in the valley.

Hortense is a placid, motherly cow in Normandy whose search for her firstborn take her first to Africa and then to a reunion with her calf in the Petit Trianon of Marie Antoinette.