Liz Garton Scanlon
1) Lolo's light
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Once in your life, sometime after your first memory but before you can drive a car, something is going to happen to you that doesn't happen to anyone else you know. It might be something good. It might be something bad, or special, or funny, or shocking. For Millie, it's something really sad. Lolo, her neighbors' infant daughter, dies -- unexpectedly, suddenly, inexplicably -- on the night Millie babysits. There's nothing she could have done. There's...
11) Dear substitute
Author
Publisher
Disney/HYPERION
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
In a series of letters a student laments the absence of her teacher and daily routine, but she soon realizes there are benefits to mixing things up, and that perhaps having a substitue teacher is not so bad afterall.
13) One dark bird
Author
Publisher
Beach Lane Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
A single starling is joined by hundreds more, and together they dance across the sky, finally settling into the trees.
14) Full moon pups
Author
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"A litter of baby wolf pups are born in the wild and grow during their first full lunar cycle"--
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Spring rains change Water from a tumbling creek to a roaring river and bring Tree nutrients it needs to stretch toward the sky. As Sun's rays intensify, the sprouts and fruits and insects of the forest grow and bloom and develop, all working together in harmony. Even Fire, whose work causes Tree to ache from the inside, brings opportunity for the next generation of flora and fauna. Paired with the vivid, organic imagery of Dominique Ramsey, Liz Garton...
16) Noodle & Lou
Author
Publisher
Beach Lane Books
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Noodle, a worm, is sad and feeling bad about himself, but his friend Lou, a bird, convinces him that he is likeable just as he is.
Author
Publisher
Arthur A. Levine Books, An Imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Posy Peyton and her friends are very sad that she will be moving away, but when they try to cheer themselves up by baking a pie, they realize that Posy's leaving does not have to mean saying goodbye.
18) I want a boat!
Author
Publisher
Neal Porter Books/Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
A girl uses her imagination to turn an ordinary box into a sailboat.
19) In the canyon
Author
Publisher
Beach Lane Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Illustrations and simple rhyming text present a child who is hiking with a group into the Grand Canyon, enjoying the wonders of nature--whether a lizard, a picture on the stone, or a glimpse of the moon from the bottom.