Jane Yolen
31) Snow in Summer
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Recasts the tale of Snow White, setting it in West Virginia in the 1940s with a stepmother who is a snake-handler.
34) Centaur rising
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In 1965, a year after Arianne thinks she sees a shooting star land in the fields surrounding her family's horse farm, a baby centaur is born and the family, already under scrutiny because Arianne's six-year-old brother has birth defects, struggles to keep the colt a secret.
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Sally and her brothers are walking home from school along the dunes in their Maine town when they come upon an enormous whale. He’s stranded on the beach. Her brother runs for help, and many people rally to respond, but the tide is going out quickly and the whale is just so big. Still, Sally is able to sit near the whale’s massive eye and tell him he’s beautiful and strong, and that she will miss him no matter what happens. Master storyteller...
38) Mouse's birthday
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One after another, several animals try to squeeze into Mouse's very small house to help him celebrate his birthday.
39) Trash Mountain
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When the gray squirrels kill his parents, a young red squirrel vows revenge, finding unlikely allies in the rats and gulls of Trash Mountain.