Frank Carlson Library

In 1849, a twelve-year-old girl who calls herself Lucy is distraught when her mother moves the family from Massachusetts to a small California mining town, where Lucy helps run a rough boarding house and looks for comfort in books while trying to find a way to get "home."

Pinky and Rex are seven years old. One day, Pinky can't find Rex. After Rex attends a wedding, she has a great idea. If Rex and Pinky get married, they will never have to spend another day apart.

Feeling neglected, Nora makes more and more noise to attract her parents' attention.

A young girl discovers the beauty and dangers of markers.

Papa Bear's attempt to scare a band of young campers by telling them about ghosts in the woods comes to an unexpected conclusion with a double ghost lesson.

After causing a family commotion when they fight with each other, the Berenstain cubs learn that sometimes even the best of friends don't get along.

When Shirley convinces her husband Claude to help fulfill their adopted daughter's dream of a visit from Santa, she doesn't reckon on the real Santa Claus showing up at their place in Texas.

Here lies Sam Barlow Coward -Thief-Murderer Killed by Cullen Baker. I burned those words on a rough board and dug the grave deep and left them for Barlow to see. Then I started to practicing with my Colt ten hours a day, till it leaped into my hand and found the target like a living thing. I was ready for Barlow now. I had invented the deadliest form of hand-to-hand fighting the world had ever seen.