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1) Bluffton: my summers with Buster

Author

Phelan, Matt

Pub. Date

2013.

Edition

First edition.

Language

English

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The year is 1908, and a troupe of vaudeville performers has arrived in sleepy Muskegon, Michigan to spend the summer. Young Henry Harrison is fascinated with the animals and performers, but mostly with a slapstick performer his own age named Buster Keaton, who is also a master prankster and loves to play baseball.

2) The storm in the barn

Author

Phelan, Matt

Pub. Date

2009.

Edition

First edition.

Language

English

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In Kansas in the year 1937, eleven-year-old Jack Clark faces his share of ordinary challenges: local bullies, his father's failed expectations, a little sister with an eye for trouble. But he also has to deal with the effects of the Dust Bowl, including rising tensions in his small town and the spread of a shadowy illness.

3) Around the world

Author

Phelan, Matt

Pub. Date

2011.

Edition

First edition.

Language

English

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Challenged with circling the world at the end of the nineteenth century, three very different adventurers--avid bicyclist Thomas Stevens, fearless reporter Nellie Bly, and retired sea captain Joshua Slocum--embark on epic journeys.