Lyons Regional Library

Amos Fortune's life was a journey toward one destination--freedom! The journey begins is a slave trader's canoe on Africa's Gold Coast. At-Mun, a young king, is taken with his black tribesmen and thrus

A biography of the blind and deaf girl who overcame both handicaps with the help of her teacher, Annie Sullivan.

"An illustrated picture book autobiography in which award-winning author Yuyi Morales tells her own immigration story"--

A young boy living in the Ozarks achieves his heart's desire when he becomes the owner of two redbone hounds and teaches them to be champion hunters.

A biography of a self-taught scientist who photographed thousands of individual snowflakes in order to study their unique formations.

Provides the story of the black woman whose refusal to give up her seat on a bus in Alabama set in motion all the events of the civil rights movement that resulted in the end of the segregated South

The author relates incidents in his life and how they inspired parts of his books about the character, Brian Robeson.

When Librarian Vicki Myron finds a young kitten abandoned in the Spencer Library return box, she nurses him back to health, deciding then and there that he will be their library cat, and naming him, appropriately, Dewey Readmore Books. Dewey loves his new home, but once he discovers the littlest library visitors- who like to chase him, pull his tail, and squeeze him extra tight- Dewey begins to wonder if he's truly cut out for the demands of his new...

Follows the popular children's author from her childhood years in Oregon through high school and into young adulthood, highlighting her family life and her growing interest in writing.

A collection of the author's stories for children, including "Moses the Kitten," "The Market Square Dog," and "Smudge, the Little Lost Lamb."