Frank Carlson Library

From the Newbery Award - winning author of Sarah, Plain and Tall comes a story about one brave girl who saves her family from losing everything. Everyone in Lucy's family sings. Opera. Rap. Lullabies. Everyone, except Lucy. Lucy can't sing; her voice just won't come out. Just like singing, helping Aunt Frankie prepare for flooding season is a family tradition - even if Frankie doesn't want the help. And this year, when the flood arrives, danger finds...

When her mother has a new little cow, Raisin hates the changes his arrival creates, but when she sees how scared the new baby is during a thunderstorm, she offers comfort and even inspired to give him a name as sweet as her own.

Introduces the characteristics of dairy cows and their calves and the dairy farming industry.

A cow sneezes and sets off a series of ridiculous events.

Hoping to have an adventure to impress her grandcows, Emmadine Cow joins Admiral Richard E. Byrd on his 1933 expedition to the South Pole.

While showing her timid gal pals the wonders of the woods, brave Nadine the cow discovers that she is not entirely fearless.

The county fair is coming up! Libby wants to enter a contest. She decides to show Fred the cow, when Fred acts up in the show ring, it appears all is lost. But Libby and Fred work together and learn first place isn't the only winner.

When Mr. and Mrs. Noodleman start a chicken farm, they are terrorized by a ghostly cow that seems to be keeping the hens from laying any eggs, but upon further investigation they discover the real culprit.

When Interrupting Cow tries to help Old Dog learn a new trick, they both end up learning something new.

"In rhyming quatrains with a chant-along refrain, a sick cow has a run-in with a sheet on a clothesline and is mistaken for a ghost because her stuffed-up nose turns every "moo" to "boo." She is disheartened when her friends are frightened of her, but she uses the situation to her advantage to scare off a marauding fox. Recognized at last, the cow is nursed back to health by her friends, but a lighthearted twist suggests that the cold is contagious."--...