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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