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  • Honk the Moose

    by Phil Stong ...
    Two ten year old boys, Waino and Ivar, returned from hunting one cold winter's day and skied back to the livery stable where Ivar's father boarded horses and mules. As Waino pinged his air rifle at a fence he dreamed about the moose he could have shot. All at once there was a very sad sound. It went "Haawwnnk ― hawnk ― hawnk ― haawwnnkk!" The two boys dropped everything."What do you think that is? ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Stranger's Return

    by Phil Stong ...
    Separated from her husband in New York and between jobs, Louise Storr finds herself at the steps of her grandfather's Iowa farm. Grandpa Storr, full of years and wisdom, is a patriarch who has been the master of the Storr lands for generations. Witty and grand, he rules his homestead with a serene indifference to the petulant brood of relatives who fill the household. Grandpa Storr immediately ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Farm Boy

    by Phil Stong ...
    Series Book 1 - Iowa Kids 1910
    As a nine-year old city boy travels from Des Moines, Iowa by train to visit his grandfather's farm in the early 1900s, he imagines how he will impress his cousins ― with stories of skyscrapers and trolley cars, automobiles and the Union Park Zoo, Ingersoll Amusement Park, and the Capitol ― things he thinks might dazzle farm boys. However, as his cousins and his grandfather introduce him to country ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • State Fair

    by Phil Stong ...
    Once a year, a tent city springs up overnight around the exhibition halls in Des Moines as farmers and their families pour in from across Iowa to attend the State Fair. After months of hard and often lonely work, farm families are given the chance to step out of their rural routines ― picnic and gossip, sing and dance, take a chance at the hoopla stands, and strut their stuff in stiff competition ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • County Fair

    by Phil Stong ...
    During the early 20th century, county fairs were anticipated with a passion that might only be compared to the modern fans’ fervor about an approaching Super Bowl. For most rural families the excitement built all year long, transmitted through the community and magnified to unendurable proportions as the opening of the county fair loomed. Everyone in the community prepared for the competition with ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • High Water

    by Phil Stong ...
    Series Book 2 - Iowa Kids 1910
    As a nine-year old city boy travels from Des Moines, Iowa by train to visit his grandfather's farm in the early 1900s, he imagines how he will impress his cousins ― with stories of skyscrapers and trolley cars, automobiles and the Union Park Zoo, Ingersoll Amusement Park, and the Capitol ― things he thinks might dazzle farm boys. However, as his cousins and his grandfather introduce him to country ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Edgar: The 7:58

    by Phil Stong ...
    Edgar’s crew was made up of five people: the hoghead, the hothead, the front snake, the back snake and the conductor ― the fathead, or swellhead. But, much to Edgar’s disgust, his crew argued all the time. Argue. Argue. Argue. Chaw. Chaw. Chaw. In fact they argued so much that they couldn’t get the train to Pittsville on time (because that’s what people expected and why do things differently?). ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • The Prince and the Porker

    by Phil Stong ...
    The Prince lives in a wonderful stable, has everything he wants, and demonstrates great intelligence and skill as a harness racer, except, well, he feels a little melancholy. Prince’s owner and his trainer try everything. They teach him tricks and exercise him more, and offer him a choice of stablemates ― five pug pups, two collies, and a chicken. All to no avail.Then one day The Prince meets a ... Read more

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  • Farmer in the Dell

    by Phil Stong ...
    The neon lights and promised excitement of Hollywood are sure different from the peepers and the cicadas of an Iowa night ― lots better ― at least according to Pa Boyers who had retired to the tinsel city after a fulfilling but hard life as an Iowa farmer. Although Boyers still gets a few hundred a year from his old farm, supporting his wife and daughter is proving to be a bit more expensive than ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Marta of Muscovy

    by Phil Stong ...
    The life of Catherine I , Empress of Russia, was said by Voltaire to be nearly as extraordinary as that of Peter the Great himself. Although there are no documents to confirm the date or place of her birth, it is thought that Marta of Muscovy came from Lithuanian stock and was one of four children of a Catholic peasant, Samuel Skavronski. When her parents died of the plague while she was still a ... Read more

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  • No-Sitch the Hound

    by Phil Stong ...
    Series Book 3 - Iowa Kids 1910
    Bert was nine years old and really needed a dog. So along came No-Sitch. He was a dog that mooed and galloped, loped, singlefooted, paced or cantered and often tried to do them all at once. As a puppy he stood about two-feet-six in his bare feet and was about three cats long. Afterward he grew. Probably the most unusual, endearing dog ever to grace the pages of a book, No-Sitch is a one-of-a-kind ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

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    A Nonfiction Companion to Magic Tree House #8: Midnight on the Moon

    by Mary Pope Osborne, Will Osborne ...
    Illustrated by Sal Murdocca ...
    Series Book 6 - Magic Tree House Fact Tracker
    The #1 bestselling chapter book series of all time celebrates 25 years with new covers and a new, easy-to-use numbering system! Getting the facts behind the fiction has never looked better.Track the facts with Jack and Annie!When Jack and Annie got back from their adventure in Magic Tree House #8: Midnight on the Moon, they had lots of questions. How did the universe begin? How long does it take ... Read more

    $4.99 USD