Lydia tries hard to finish her hooked rug so she can take her first trip to the market with Pop, but so many other things divert her attention: a visit to the cider mill, a visit to a new baby, and a chase after a runaway pig.

7) The lion in the box

Author

De Angeli, Marguerite

Pub. Date

[1975]

Edition

First edition.

Language

English

Description

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Retells the events of a special Christmas for a poor family in New York City at the turn of the century.

8) Book of nursery and Mother Goose rhymes

Author

De Angeli, Marguerite

Pub. Date

1954.

Edition

[First edition].

Language

English

9) Skippack school: being the story of Eli Shrawder and of one Christopher Dock, schoolmaster, about the year 1750

Author

De Angeli, Marguerite

Pub. Date

1939.

Language

English

10) Jared's island

Author

De Angeli, Marguerite

Pub. Date

[1947]

Edition

[First edition].

Language

English

11) Thee, Hannah!

Author

De Angeli, Marguerite

Pub. Date

[1940]

Language

English

12) Elin's Amerika

Author

De Angeli, Marguerite

Series

Junior books

Pub. Date

1941.

Language

English

13) The goose girl

Author

Grimm, Jacob

Series

Grimm's Fairy Tales

Pub. Date

1964.

Language

English

Description

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In The Goose Girl a princess' maid turns on her mistress while traveling and forces her to switch roles with her. The False princess then kills the princess' horse to keep it from talking and forces the real princess to herd geese with the boy Conrad. Conrad begins to notice strange things about the new goose-girl and informs the king. The king coaxes the truth out of the real princess and the false princess is duly punished.