Kimberly Willis Holt
Author
Series
Piper Reed volume 1
Language
English
Description
Piper is sad about leaving her home and friends behind when her father, a Navy aircraft mechanic, is transferred yet again, but with help from her often-annoying sisters and a surprise from their parents, she finds happiness in their new home in Pensacola, Florida
Author
Series
Piper Reed volume 6
Language
English
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Description
Ten-year-old Piper moves yet again when her father, who is a Chief Petty Officer in the Navy, gets assigned to Norfolk, Virginia, and although the move takes a bit of adjustment, she soon makes friends with the girl next door and catches up with old friends too.
Author
Series
Piper Reed volume 2
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
While her father, a Navy Chief, is on ship duty for six months, nine-year-old Piper stays busy with new neighbors, Christmas at a spaceship beach house, a trip to New Orleans, and especially the upcoming Gypsy Club pet show
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Series
Language
English
Description
Previously published as Piper Reed, the Great Gypsy.
The Gypsy Club Creed
We are the Gypsies of land and sea.
We move from port to port.
We make friends wherever we go.
And everywhere we go, we let people know
That we're the Gypsies of land and sea.
Piper's dad-the Navy Chief-might be gone again, but Piper's got plenty to keep her busy at home: new neighbors, a spaceship beach house, a trip to New Orleans, and most important, the upcoming Gypsy...
Author
Series
Piper Reed volume 4
Language
English
Description
In Kimberly Willis Holt's Piper Reed, Campifire Girl, the Reed family is going camping on Halloween, and Piper is determined to make it a holiday to remember.
Piper and her family are going camping--nothing could be better. But when Piper finds out that the camping trip falls on Halloween, nothing could be worse! Still, catching fish, roasting marshmallows, and sleeping in a trailer are right up Piper's alley, even if getting poison ivy is not....
Author
Series
Piper Reed volume 5
Language
English
Description
A visit to Piper's grandparents' ranch means time for exploration and adventure!-in Kimberly Willis Holt's Piper Reed, Rodeo Star, featuring illustrations by Christine Davenier
Piper's parents are going on vacation to France and not taking the whole family. What rotten luck! Still, Piper always looks on the bright side. The Reed sisters will be visiting their two sets of grandparents in Piney Woods, and Piper is determined to have four adventures....
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Can Piper make enough money to buy the Gypsy members a clubhouse? Find out in Piper Reed, Party Planner, by author Kimberly Willis Holt and illustrator Christine Davenier
Piper Reed and her fellow Gypsy Club members are in need of a clubhouse. Raising money to buy one proves a challenge. Piper, being the resourceful fifth grader that she is, launches her own party-planning business and gets her first job throwing young Brady's birthday celebration....
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Language
English
Description
Bernard has never been to dinner at a friend's house before. His mother gives him quite the list of rules to follow-no elbows on the table, put your napkin on your lap, don't talk with food in your mouth, and so on. But Bernard isn't prepared to discover that the Goldsmiths think the table is the best place for elbows and feet, never put their napkins on their laps, and talk with food in their mouths! How will Bernard survive dinner with such an obnoxious...
Author
Language
English
Description
Kimberly Willis Holt explores themes of divorce, acceptance, intergenerational friendship, and the power that comes with noticing in The Lost Boy's Gift, an insightful middle-grade audiobook. There are places where you want to go and places where you want to leave. There are also places where you want to stay.
Nine-year-old Daniel must move across the county with his mom after his parents' divorce. He's leaving behind his whole life - everything...
14) Part of Me
Author
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
The journey begins in 1939 with Rose, who moves with her mother and siblings from rural Texas to live with their estranged grandfather on the Louisiana bayou. Rose connects with this flavorful community by driving a bookmobile. Two decades later, Merle Henry, Rose’s son, is more passionate about trapping a mink than about reading, although there is a place in his heart for Old Yeller. In 1973, Merle Henry’s daughter, Annabeth, feels...
Author
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Whenever her feelings get the best of her, Jaynell Lambert climbs into an old junker in Clifton Bailey’s Automobile Salvage and Parts and pretends to drive away. It’s the summer of 1968, and within a year the dirt road in front of her house will be paved, Grandpap will move in, and men will walk on the moon. It’s enough to make anyone wonder. But for now, Jaynell, her sister, Racine, and their parents live with dust and potholes,...
Author
Series
Piper Reed volume 3
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Piper Reed returns for more exciting adventures in this entertaining chapter book.
Piper Reed and the Gypsy Club members need a clubhouse. Raising money is challenging so Piper launches a party planning business. Throwing Brady's birthday celebration is her first job. When things don't go as expected, Piper's friends and family come to the rescue.
Piper Reed and the Gypsy Club members need a clubhouse. Raising money is challenging so Piper launches a party planning business. Throwing Brady's birthday celebration is her first job. When things don't go as expected, Piper's friends and family come to the rescue.
18) My Louisiana sky
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Language
English
Description
Growing up in Saitter, Louisiana, in the 1950s, twelve-year-old Tiger Ann struggles with her feelings about her stern, but loving grandmother, her mentally slow parents, and her good friend and neighbor, Jesse
Author
Publisher
H. Holt
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
208 p. ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Ten stories trace the connections between four generations of one Louisiana family from 1939 when a young girl leaves school to help support her family to 2006 when an eighty-year-old woman embarks on a book tour