BOOKS ABOUT TRAVELING

Title: Bonjour, Mr. Satie

Author: de Paola, Tomie

Illustrator: de Paola, Tomie

Publisher: Putnam

Year: l9

Grade Level: K-2

Genre: MF; PB

Description: A traveling cat enters into the lives of many of the famous painters of Paris.

Topics: Artists; Uncles; Cats; France

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Title: The Cay

Author: Taylor, Theodore

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Publisher: Doubleday

Year: 1969

Grade Level: 5-6

Genre: HF

Description: When the freighter on which they are traveling is torpedoed by a German submarine during World War II, a prejudiced young white boy and a black West Indian man are stranded on a barren Caribbean island.

Topics: Survival; Shipwrecks; Friendship; Caribbean Area; Prejudices

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Title: The Golly Sisters Ride Again

Author: Byars, Betsy

Illustrator: Truesdell, Sue

Publisher: HarperCollins

Year: 1994

Grade Level: K-2

Genre: HF; PB

Description: The Golly Sisters, May-May and Rose, share further adventures as they take their traveling show through the West.

Topics: Entertainers; Sisters; Frontier and Pioneer Life; U.S., History

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Title: Hooray for the Golly Sisters!

Author: Byars, Betsy

Illustrator: Truesdell, Sue

Publisher: HarperCollins

Year: 1990

Grade Level: 3-4

Genre: HF; PB

Description: In continued adventures, May-May and Rose take their traveling show to more audiences.

Topics: Sisters; Frontier and Pioneer Life

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Title: The Not-Just-Anybody Family

Author: Byars, Betsy

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Publisher: Delacorte

Year: 1986

Grade Level: 5-6

Genre: CRF

Description: With a young brother in the hospital, a grandfather in ~ail, and their mother traveling with a rodeo, Maggie and Vern try to settle family problems.

Topics: Family Problems; Brothers and Sisters

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Title: The Traveling Musicians of Bremen

Author: Page, P.K. (adapter)

Illustrator: Denton, Kady MacDonald

Publisher: Little, Brown

Year: 1992

Grade Level: K-2

Genre: TP; PB

Description: Contemporary adaptation of the Grimm fairy tale in which four animals friends mistreated by their masters set out to become musicians and enter a den of thieves.

Topics: Folldore -- Germany; Fairy Tales

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