While visiting her grandmother, Nora joins with the animated toys from an old chest to bring the stars down from the night sky, but their loss makes the sky black and sad.

From Newbery Medalist Patricia MacLachlan comes a reassuring story about new beginnings and making friends. Nora and her family have just arrived from Russia and are making a new home on the American frontier. The prairie is very different from the forested hills Nora is used to. Most of all, it’s lonely. Papa has the cows he sings to as he milks them. Baby brother Milo has a dog to follow him wherever he goes. But Nora has no one and nothing to call her own until Papa brings home a dozen chicks and two geese. Nora names each one, and they follow her everywhere — even to church! But what will happen when one of her beloved chicks goes missing?

A heartwarming story with stunning art by a Caldecott Medalist show how neighbors band together during the devastating Vermont Flood of 1927. A jewel!

After watching other people pick and carry off most of her roses while she is sick in bed, Nora has a special dream involving the flowers.

Nora Reiger is haunted by a series of frightening dreams, dreams that seem to be related to her past, a past that her mother denied to her. As she struggles to come to grips with the dreams she is drawn into the tragic past of her family and is faced with a threat to her own survival.

Accompanied by her doll, Maggie, Teddy the stuffed bear, and Kiki the dog, a little girl sets out to explore the mysterious castle on the hill.

What's going on in Nora's room? Is it a Moose on the Loose? Is it a game of Duck, Duck, Goose? Take a look inside!

Nora's outdoor tea party with her toys at the home of some friendly geese is disrupted by Benji, the greedy sheep from next door, but he eventually makes amends.

Every country in the exotic region along the Mediterranean sea has developed a cuisine that is similar yet basically distinctive from those of its neighbors with Egyptian food, the distinction is even greater: it has captured tile best features of them all and melded them subtly with basic recipes that have long been popular along the Nile. Here – at last in English – Nora George presents easy-to-follow recipes that she learned and practiced while growing up in Cairo. Whether you are searching for a new experience in appetizers, soups, salads, meats, seafood, meatless dishes, pickles or desserts, Nora George tells you how to proceed and where to find the ingredients in your neighborhood. www.norasfood.com

Relates the adventures of Nora, a young girl of extraordinary powers, and how she deals with adversity.