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|  | Women Inventors by Jean F. Blashfield
Description not available.Each volume presents brief accounts of five women and their inventions, including Sybilla Masters, Madam C. J. Walker, Mary Anderson, and Nancy Perkins. AUTHOR: Jean F. Blashfield
PUBLISHER: Capstone Press, Incorporated
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: General 
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 | At the Crossing Places by Kevin Crossley-Holland
Arthur de Caldicot has achieved his dream. He now serves as squire to Lord Stephen of HOlt Castle. But this new world opens up fresh visions as well as old concerns. Arthur longs to escape the shadow of his unfeeling father and meet his birth mother. To marry the beautiful Winnie, but maintain his ties with his friend Gatty. And to become a Crusader, with all the questions of might and right involved AUTHOR: Kevin Crossley-Holland
PUBLISHER: Random House Audio Publishing Group
FORMAT: Audio
CATEGORY: General
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 | Surprise Island by Gertrude Chandler Warner, Mary Gehr, Phyllis Newman
Grandfather promised his grandchildren a surprise for the summer. They're all going to a family-owned island for the summer. AUTHOR: Gertrude Chandler Warner, Mary Gehr, Phyllis Newman
PUBLISHER: Whitman, Albert & Company
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: General
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 | El Loro Parlanchmn by David Paloma
Description not available.When a talkative parrot loses his ability to speak, he cannot understand what could have become of his voice. AUTHOR: David Paloma
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: General
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 | Butterflies by Gail Saunders-Smith
Description not available.Illustrations and simple text describe the life cycle of butterflies. AUTHOR: Gail Saunders-Smith
PUBLISHER: Capstone Press, Incorporated
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: General
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 | Mountain Windsong by Robert J. Conley
Set against the tragic events of the Cherokees' removal from their traditional lands in North Carolina to Indian Territory between 1835 and 1838, Mountain Windsong is a love story that brings to life the suffering and endurance of the Cherokee people. It is the moving tale of Waguli ( Whippoorwill ) and Oconeechee, a young Cherokee man and woman separated by the Trail of Tears. Just as they are about to be married, Waguli is captured by federal soldiers and, along with thousands of other Cherokees, taken west, on foot and then by steamboat, to what is now eastern Oklahoma. Though many die along the way, Waguli survives, drowning his shame and sorrow in alcohol. Oconeechee, among the few Cherokees who remain behind, hidden in the mountains, embarks on a courageous search for Waguli. Robert J. Conley makes use of song, legend, and historical documents to weave the rich texture of the story, which is told through several, sometimes contradictory, voices. The traditional narrative of the Trail of Tears is told to a young contemporary Cherokee boy by his grandfather, presented in bits and pieces as they go about their everyday chores in rural North Carolina. The telling is neither bitter nor hostile; it is sympathetic but unsentimental. An ironic third point of view, detached and often adversarial, is provided by the historical documents interspersed through the novel, from the text of the removal treaty to Ralph Waldo Emerson's letter to the president of the United States in protest of the removal. In this layering of contradictory elements, Conley implies questions about the relationships between history and legend, storytelling and myth-making. Inspired by the lyrics of Don Grooms's song, Whippoorwill , which open many chapters in the text, Conley has written a novel both meticulously accurate and deeply moving. AUTHOR: Robert J. Conley
PUBLISHER: University of Oklahoma Press
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: General
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