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Matthew's Truck: Super Sturdy Picture Books

1 review
Katherine Ayres

Candlewick, 2005

Magical Mystery Tour
Matthew, an adorable Beatle mopped toddler loves his toy dump truck, a truck that "likes to go places." He navigates his truck throughout the house, taking readers along for a magical mystery tour of vivid imagination. Matthew converts household items and rooms into a forum for his truck. Plants become a forest; the fish tank a lake; his bed a place to park his beloved truck for the night. ...

Up, Down, and Around Big Book (Big Books)
Katherine Ayres

Candlewick, 2008

"An inviting introduction to the wonder of plants, food, and gardening. . . . Will be a favorite of teachers, students, and home readers alike." ? KIRKUS REVIEWS From seeds dropping into soil to corn bursting from its stalks, from children chasing butterflies to ants burrowing underground, everything in this vibrant picture book pulses with life ?- in all directions! Sprightly illustrations set the mood for a rhythmic text that follows ...

North by Night: A Story of the Underground Railroad

21 reviews
Katherine Ayres

Yearling, 2000

North By Night
When I read this book, I immediately fell in love with it. Not only does it have adventure and romance, but it made me actually interested in history for once. This book is about the courageous 16-year-old abolitionist Lucinda Spencer, whose house is a station in the underground railroad. Her world is a world of slave rescue and secrecy, division between the north and south over the Fugitive ...

A Long Way

1 review
Katherine Ayres

Candlewick, 2003

A single box for fun
As a general rule of thumb, it's usually a good idea not to confuse both your adult and child audiences when creating a picture book. Now I came into this title a huge fan of illustrator Tricia Tusa. If you'd like your little preschooler's mind to be blown for a minute or two, check out her wacky and wonderful, "How To Make a Night". A whiz-bang concoction of craziness and gleeful insanity, ...

Stealing South: A Story of the Underground Railroad

15 reviews
Katherine Ayres

Yearling, 2002

Saving Slaves
My book Stealing South is about a 17 year old boy named William Spencer. He used to steal slaves as a boy, but now he has decided to stop and become a peddler boy. Now his most recent slave has asked hem to go to Kentucky and steal his brother and sister and bring them north to Canada. When he gets there the brother has already run for Canada and his sister won't leave without him. Instead of ...

Up, Down, and Around

3 reviews
Katherine Ayres

Candlewick, 2008

Vegetable awareness, organic gardening, vegetarian fun!
This book is great in so many ways. My 15 mo. old loves it because it has a fun rhythm to it and because he hunts for little things on each page (the kitty, the dog, the butterflies, the vegetables). I like it because it shows kids how plants grow "Corn grows up. Carrots grow down. Cucumbers climb around and around. Peppers grow up. Potatoes grow down. Pumpkins vine around and around...." I ...

Silver Dollar Girl

1 review
Katherine Ayres

Yearling, 2002

A girl's adventures during the silver rush.
Ever since her father headed west to mine for silver in Colorado, motherless twelve-year-old Valentine "Vallie" Harper has lived with her relatives in Pennsylvania. Her aunt is sympathetic, but her uncle resents her and her cousin plays mean pranks on her. Disguising herself as a boy and taking the money her father left for her, Vallie sets out for Colorado with the intention of finding her ...

Macaroni Boy

4 reviews
Katherine Ayres

Yearling, 2004

Caroline's Macaroni boy review
I read a nutmeg book titled Macaroni Boy by Katherine Ayres. It is an interesting and suspenseful story that left me hanging every time I closed the book. This book was set in Pittsburgh during the time of the depression. The main characters in this story are Andy Simms-the school bully, Michael Costa who is nick named Macaroni boy because his family owns a food company, Joseph who is ...

Family Tree (Yearling)

6 reviews
Katherine Ayres

Yearling, 1997

Real genealogy buff loves the history and family angle.
I am a teacher, and I research my own family history. I loved this book. Children who feel cut off from their past will relate to Tyler's uncovering of her own past, and any child (or adult!) will love the well-woven story of Tyler's determination, courage, and eventual compassion.

Voices at Whisper Bend (American Girl History Mysteries)

4 reviews
Katherine Ayres

American Girl, 1999

A Voice In Favor
This history mystery takes place in 1942. America has joined the fighting in World War II and the normal patterns of everyday life have been disrupted. Charlotte's brother is in the Navy, her mother is working in a local factory, and her father and his tugboat are very busy hauling freight on the Monongahela River. Charlotte has started a drive at her school to collect scrap metal. Before they ...

Up, Down, and Around
Katherine/ Westcott, Nadine Bernard (ILT) Ayres

Candlewick Pr, 2007

Matthew's Truck
Katherine/ Takahashi, Hideko (ILT) Ayres

Candlewick Pr, 2005

Up, Down, and Around
Katherine/ Westcott, Nadine Bernard (ILT) Ayres

Candlewick Pr, 2007

History Mysteries Books 4-6: Voices at Whisper Bend/Secrets on 26th Street/Mystery of the Dark Tower (History ...

1 review
Katherine Ayres, Elizabeth McDavid Jones, ...

American Girl, 2000

Secrets on 16th Street
Easiest book to review I ever saw; all pages were completely blank. But the blurb on the back outside cover was certainly intriguing. :)

Macaroni Boy
Katherine Ayres

Random House Childrens Books, 2004

Under Copp's Hill (American Girl History Mysteries)

6 reviews
Katherine Ayres

Pleasant Company Publications, 2000

Is The Settlement House Haunted?
That's the key question in this "history mystery". The setting is Boston's North End in 1908. Innocenza "Innie" Moretti, an eleven-year-old girl, lives in a tenement with her Uncle Giovanni's family and her grandmother. Her parents were killed in a fire when she was only two. She loves the club for girls from immigrant families at the new settlement house in her neighborhood. Here she can listen ...

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