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John Vernon Lord,Janet Burroway
One hot summer in Itching Down,Four million wasps flew into town.What are the villagers going to do about this noisy, nasty nuisance of a swarm? Make a giant jam sandwich…
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Janet Burroway
In the small town of Sintiempo in Arizona, in the hot summers of 1942 and 1943, young Millie Delaney is the solitary teacher at the tiny local school. There are…
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ALERT: Before you purchase, check with your instructor or review your course syllabus to ensure that you select the correct ISBN. Several versions of Pearson’s MyLab & Mastering products exist…
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In 1955, Maxine Kumin submitted a poem to the Saturday Evening Post. Lines on a Half-Painted House made it into the magazine - but not before Kumin was asked to…
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In 1955, Maxine Kumin submitted a poem to the Saturday Evening Post. This book brings together Kumin, Julia Alvarez, Jane Smiley, Erica Jong, and fifteen other accomplished women of this…
Janet Burroway (Florida State University)
Rosalind Brackenbury
Anna Parrish and Ruby Smith have been intimate friends from childhood. Anna is blonde, coolly interrogative, more traditionally beautiful and, in subtle senses, dominant. Ruby is dark-haired, more impulsive, less…
In this funny and zany picture book, villagers make a giant jam sandwich to trap the wasps that have invaded their town.
It’s a dark day for Itching Down. Four million wasps have just descended on the town, and the pests are relentless. What can be done? Bap the Baker has a…
Four million wasps invade Itching Down, so the villagers make a giant jam sandwich to trap them.
It’s a dark day for Itching Down. Four million wasps have just descended on the town, and the pests are relentless! What can be done? Bap the Baker has a…
Janet Burroway,Patricia Hampl,Carl H. Klaus
These essays chronicle loss and renaissance in a life that reaches from Florida to Arizona across to England and home again. Burroway weaves her way through the dangers of daily…
Janet Burroway,Elizabeth Stuckey-French,Ned Stuckey-French
Classic creative writing text now in its tenth edition.
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