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Bringing the Rain to Kapiti Plain
Author:  Verna Aardema
Title:  Bringing the Rain to Kapiti Plain

A cumulative rhyme relating how rain came to the drought-stricken Kapiti Plain.
c1981 - VERSE CHOIR

 

Who's in Rabbit's House: A Masai Tale
Author:  Verna Aardema
Title:  Who's in Rabbit's House: A Masai Tale

Someone is in rabbit's house and won't let her in.
c1977 - VARIETY, HUMOROUS

 

Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears
Author:  Verna Aardema
Title:  Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears

West African tale which explains why mosquito, who is responsible for baby owl's death, buzzes in people's ears for forgiveness.
c1975 - HUMOROUS

 

Black is brown is tan
Author:  Arnold Adoff
Title:  Black is brown is tan

Describes in verse the life of the brown-skinned Momma, white-skinned Daddy and family.
c1973 - HUMOROUS, VERSE CHOIR

 

 
Author:  Arnold Adoff
Title:  Eats: Poems

Poems about food and eating.
c1979 - HUMOROUS, DUO, VERSE CHOIR

 

 
Author:  Arnold Adoff
Title:  Poetry of Black America

Anthology of the 20th Century American poetry by Afro-American authors.
c1973 - VARIOUS

 

 
Author:  Harry Allard
Title:  It's So Nice to Have a Wolf Around the House

Cuthbert O. Devine tries to hide the fact he's a wolf.
c1977 - HUMOROUS

 

 
Author:  Hans Christian Andersen
Title:  What the Good Man Does is Always Right

Man begins with a horse and ends up with a bag of rotten apples.
c1968 - HUMOROUS

 

 
Author:  Leone Anderson
Title:  Wonderful Shrinking Shirt

Flannel shirt is handed down through the family.
c1983 - VARIETY

 

And Still I Rise
Author:  Maya Angelou
Title:  And Still I Rise

Poetry
c1978 - SERIOUS

 

A Quiver Full of Arrows
Author:  Jeffrey Archer
Title:  A Quiver Full of Arrows

Variety of short stories.
c1980 - VARIETY

 

How to Turn Lemons in Money: A Child's Guide to Economics
Author:  Louise Armstrong
Title:  How to Turn Lemons into Money: A Child's Guide to Economics

Using a lemonade stand as an example, introduces basic economics.
c1977 - HUMOROUS, VERSE CHOIR

 

More Parts
Author:  Tedd Arnold
Title:  More Parts

A young boy is worried about what will happen to his body when he hears such expressions as “give him a hand” and “hold your tongue.”
c2001 - HUMOROUS

 

Parts
Author:  Tedd Arnold
Title:  Parts

Little child thinks he is falling apart when his tooth falls out, and his toes peel.
c1997 - HUMOROUS

 

Peeping Beauty
Author:  Mary Jane Auch
Title:  Peeping Beauty

Fractured fairy tale.
c1993 - HUMOROUS

 

 
Author:  James A. Autry
Title:  Nights Under a Tin Roof: Recollections of a Southern Boyhood

Poems
c1983 - VARIETY

 

In the Ghettos: Teens Who Survived the Ghettos of the Holocaust
Author:  Eleanor H. Ayer
Title:  In the Ghettos: Teens Who Survived the Ghettos of the Holocaust

Chronicles the deportation of Jews into ghettos during Hitler’s Third Reich and presents the narratives of three individuals whom, as teenagers, lived in the ghettos of Lodz, Theresienstadt, and Warsaw and survived amidst horrible conditions. For older children.
c1999 - SERIOUS SOLO, SERIOUS DUO

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