Brian Floca
1) Locomotive
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Details what the first passengers experienced as they traveled West on the transcontinental railroad in the summer of 1869.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
Summoned to the Great Castle of Firenze to create a special dress for Princess Isabella Caramella Gorgonzola, Anabel, a talented seamstress, is at first delighted but then increasingly despairing as time passes and her efforts are continually subverted by an unseen sprite.
4) Poppy
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperTrophy
Pub. Date
2007.
Lexile measure
670L
Language
English
Description
Poppy, a deer mouse, urges her family to move next to a field of corn big enough to feed them all forever, but Mr. Ocax, a terrifying owl, has other ideas.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
Oscar Westerwit, a squirrel who loves baseball and Broadway musicals, fights back when a gangster rat named Big Daddy Duds and his thugs move uptown in the year 1900, invade Central Park, and evict Oscar and his animal friends from their homes.
8) Hawk rising
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
This non-fiction picture book follows the lives of a family of red-tailed hawks.