Central Skagit Library District

Anne is finally off to Redmond College! While she's sad to be leaving Marilla and the twins, she's excited to finally become a full-fledged BA, and to embark on new adventures with the other Avonlea folks attending Redmond, a group that includes her friend Gilbert Blythe. At Redmond Anne meets Philippa Gordon, a frivolous but charming girl who pulls Anne into the center of the Redmond social scene. As Anne becomes the object of several boys' affection,...

I cannot forget Carcosa where black stars hang in the heavens; where the shadows of men's thoughts lengthen in the afternoon...I pray God will curse the writer, as the writer has cursed the world with this beautiful, stupendous creation, terrible in its simplicity, irresistible in its truth - a world which now trembles before the King in Yellow. The weird tales in this slim volume are all linked by a play, the second act of which reveals truths so...

A stray dog is befriended by a family of poor farmers in 1869 Texas.

Maycomb, Alabama. Twenty-six-year-old Jean Louise Finch -- "Scout"--Returns home from New York City to visit her aging father, Atticus. Set against the backdrop of the civil rights tensions and political turmoil that were transforming the South, Jean Louise's homecoming turns bittersweet when she learns disturbing truths about her close-knit family, the town and the people dearest to her. Memories from her childhood flood back, and her values and...

Newbery Award winning author Marguerite Henry s beloved novel about a legendary horse and his determined jockey is now available in a collectible hardcover gift edition. No one thinks much of Black Gold because he is so small. But Jaydee sees something special in his eyes. He knows that Black Gold would be a winner if only he were the horse s rider! Finally, Jaydee gets his wish, and Black Gold grows strong and fast under his careful hands. Soon it...

After an October blizzard, Laura's family moves from the claim shanty into town for the winter, a winter that an Indian has predicted will be seven months of bad weather.

"Anne's daughter, fourteen year old Rilla, can think of little else but daydreaming of her first dance and hoping for her first kiss. However, everything changes at Ingleside when Rilla's brothers go off to fight in the 'Great War' and she comes across an orphaned child that requires care and a loving home"--Back of jacket.

Harold goes for an adventurous walk in the moonlight with his purple crayon.

Ma and the girls follow Pa west by train where they make their home at a rough railroad camp and plan for their own homestead.

Chronicles the joys and sorrows of the four March sisters as they grow into young women in mid-nineteenth-century New England.