New Releases by Jennifer Armstrong

While working as a servant in the home of a naturalist, Mary Mehan gradually recovers from the numbing effects of her experience as a Civil War nurse and falls in love with a man who had lost his hearing.

A lyrical novel about a day in the life of a young pioneer girl growing up on the Dakota prairie is now available in a Knopf Paperback edition. This widely praised and beautifully crafted tale deftly evokes the vast expanse of the American West, the hardships faced by pioneer families, and the strong bonds of family and community.

Illustrations and rhyming text follow the sun and moon as they shine on a young boy''s day.

Meet Gretel Muller, a young German girl growing up in Galveston, Texas in 1855. Gretel dreams of living in a fairy-tale castle by the sea, but instead spends her days working with her short-tempered sisters in their mother''s hat shop. When a rich resident announces that she wants a young German girl to come stay with her, Gretel sees her opportunity. But how will she ever get a chance when everyone thinks she''s a lazy and foolish girl?

A spirited young girl does not want to leave her home in Norway to go to live in Minnesota, but aboard ship on the way to America, she proves why she is called "Lili the Brave".

Nine-year-old Patrick promises his buddies that his baseball hero will come to their playground in Hell''s Kitchen, bat for him, and chase the Copperheads out.

Illustrated in full color. Watch out below! Here comes a giant snowball tumbling down a hill, picking up everything--and everybody--in its path!

A small snowball gets bumped by a skier and rolls down the hill growing in size and picking up people as it goes.

Jailed by an evil foe, a king receives invaluable help from a crow that regularly brings him the latest news.

Absent-minded poet Wan Hu is so curious about the stars that finally, after several unsuccessful attempts, he finds a way to travel among them.

In 1858, Emily MacKenzie doesn''t give much thought to the growing tensions between the North and South until a southern family comes to the Wild Rose Inn with their slave.

A young girl learns the secret of a strange whittler whose carvings magically come to life.

Illus. in full color by Jon Goodell. Little Salt Lick, the Second Assistant Rotisserie Turner in the Department of Roasted Meats at the court of King Louis XIV, is fed up. Every day the dogs of Versailles lie in wait for him until he finishes work, when they chase him through the palace trying to lick the salt from his sweaty arms. "Shoo!" he scolds--to no avail. Then, after a banquet, King Louis''s precious poodle is missing. Everyone searches, but it is Little Salt Lick who finds Chou-Chou, resulting in a promotion.

Mom blames Eleanor and Mark for making a mess of the house until she finally sees that the real culprit is the baby.

Set in Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1695, Bridie has to overcome suspicions by the colony that she is practicing witchcraft.

When Laura meets a Yale University student she is introduced to the adventures and freedoms the new twentieth century will offer, a stark contrast to the traditional ways her parents follow.

Conflict ensnares emily when the Stockwells, a wealthy southern family, come to stay at the Inn with their slave.

Sixteen-year-old Ann and her twin brother, John, are dedicated to the cause of American independence, but when Ann falls in love with a British soldier, her resolve is tested.

Awaiting her fiance+a7''s return from World War II, Grace MacKenzie finds strength in managing her family''s inn and is heartbroken when Jimmy returns a changed man, bragging of his wartime heroics and insisting that she give up her own dreams. Original.

Struggling with financial difficulties due to the Prohibition and her brother''s wish to make the inn into a speakeasy, Claire MacKenzie is drawn into a mystery regarding the murder of the town drunk and fears her brother may be involved. Original.

In 1855 two thirteen-year-old girls, one white and one black, run away from a southern farm and make the difficult journey north to freedom, living to recount their story forty-one years later to two similar young girls.

Illus. in full color. When Chin Yu Min''s wealthy husband drowns, her life of idleness comes to an end--until she meets a mysterious ginger cat fishing with his long tail. Striking illustrations complement this original folktale of a haughty widow whose life is transformed by friendship.

Hugh wants to seek his fortune in the city but first he must find a way to pay the toll-taker at the bridge.

If Pets, Inc., doesn''t get more organized their business will be in danger. As much as Tina loves animals, too many pets means too many problems.

Two sisters and their best friends decide to form a pet-sitting business.