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|  | Rachel Carson by Bank Street Staff
She was always a writer. 10-year-old Rachel Louise Carson, born in 1907 in Springdale, PA, was first published in the St. Nicholas literary magazine for children. A reader and devotee of all nature, the shy girl continued writing throughout adolescence, and chose an Englilsh major at Pennsylvania College for Women. Not until junior year, when a biology course reawakened the sense of wonder with which she had always encountered the natural world, did she switch her job to zoology, not yet aware that her literary and scientific passions might be work together to make her one of the most influential environmentalists in the world. AUTHOR: Bank Street Staff
PUBLISHER: McGraw-Hill Trade
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: General 
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 | The World According to Garp by Michael Prichard
Journey through generations & across two continents with the astonishing family of T.S. Garp, bastard son of a belligerant mother. Garp loves, lusts, labors & triumphs in a world of assassins, wrestlers, feminist fanatics, tantalizing teen-age babysitter, adoring children & a wayward wife AUTHOR: Michael Prichard
PUBLISHER: Random House Audio Publishing Group
FORMAT: Audio
CATEGORY: General
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 | Zen Seeing, Zen Drawing by Frederick Franck
Franck, the author of Zen of Seeing, the classic guide, returns with more teachings and instructions. AUTHOR: Frederick Franck
PUBLISHER: Bantam Books
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: General
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 | The Schoolmouse by Dick King-Smith, Rosemary Leach
Flora is a mouse who is different from her brothers and sisters. She happily explores the kindergarten classroom, where she and her family live in one of the cupboards, and she even learns to read. Flora wants to move onto the first grade--just like the human children--but her quest for education leads to dangerous adventures. But the risks are worth it, as Flora and her family find out when her ability to read helps them to avoid the exterminator's deadly bait. AUTHOR: Dick King-Smith, Rosemary Leach
PUBLISHER: Disney Press
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: General
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 | Debt to Pleasure by David Case, John Lanchester
Tarquin Winot, an impeccably correct English Francophile, journeys not just to his cottage in Provence, but through a forest of sensual description as he offers the story of his life through food. It is only gradually that we begin to realize that Tarquin Winot is not merely the witty voluptuary he seems to be. AUTHOR: David Case, John Lanchester
PUBLISHER: Picador
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: General
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 | The Mixed-Up Morning by Mercer Mayer
Description not available.Little Critter's morning goes from bad to worse when he wakes up late, can't find his favorite shirt, and misses the school bus, but his teacher knows just how to cheer him up. Includes activities. AUTHOR: Mercer Mayer
PUBLISHER: McGraw-Hill
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: General
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