Lyon, George Ella 1949-

My friend, the starfinder by George Ella Lyon( Book )

2 editions published in 2008 in English and held by 2,414 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A child relates some of the wondrous tales told by an old man who once found a falling star and stood at the end of a rainbow

Borrowed children by George Ella Lyon( Book )

11 editions published between 1988 and 2010 in English and Undetermined and held by 2,291 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Having been forced to act as mother and housekeeper during Mama's illness, twelve-year-old Amanda has a holiday in Memphis, far removed from the Depression drudgery of her Kentucky mountain family, and finds her world expanding even as she grows to understand and appreciate her background

Come a tide by George Ella Lyon( Book )

6 editions published between 1990 and 1993 in English and held by 1,751 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A girl provides a lighthearted account of the spring floods at her rural home

The pirate of kindergarten by George Ella Lyon( Book )

7 editions published in 2010 in English and held by 1,633 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Ginny's eyes play tricks on her, making her see everything double, but when she goes to vision screening at school and discovers that not everyone sees this way, she learns that her double vision can be cured

All the water in the world by George Ella Lyon( Book )

8 editions published between 2011 and 2013 in English and held by 1,570 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Introduces young children to the water cycle with simple text and illustrations

With a hammer for my heart : a novel by George Ella Lyon( )

19 editions published between 1996 and 2014 in 3 languages and held by 1,425 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

While selling magazines door-to-door, a Kentucky girl befriends an old man living in a bus. When some boys steal his diary and make it public, police arrest the man, reading into it things that never happened. The novel describes the girl's campaign to clear the man's name

Trucks roll! by George Ella Lyon( Book )

7 editions published in 2007 in English and held by 1,089 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Illustrations and simple, rhyming text reveal many different--and sometimes silly--items that trucks can haul

Mother to tigers by George Ella Lyon( Book )

5 editions published between 2002 and 2003 in English and held by 1,070 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Tells the story of how Helen Frances Theresa Delaney Martini cared for baby zoo animals, started the first zoo nursery and became the first woman zookeeper at the Bronx Zoo. You are a Bengal tiger cub, one of three -- Dacca, Rajpur, Raniganj -- abandoned by your mother. You are so cold and thin that someone with kind hands puts you on a heating pad and sits by you for hours, moistening your mouth with milk. When you give a weak cry and look up, there is a human face almost crying too. Your new mother is Helen Delaney Martini, who has already raised a lion cub in her New York apartment. Tigers in the bathtub will be no problem for her and her husband, Fred. This remarkable book -- strikingly striped as tigers are, sympathetically spoken as any child could wish -- tells the story of Helen Martini, founder of the Bronx Zoo's animal nursery in 1944 and its first woman zookeeper

Cecil's story by George Ella Lyon( Book )

2 editions published between 1991 and 1995 in English and held by 1,006 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A boy thinks about the possible scenarios that exist for him at home if his father goes off to fight in the Civil War

Planes fly! by George Ella Lyon( Book )

3 editions published in 2013 in English and held by 968 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Illustrations and easy-to-read rhyming text celebrate different kinds of planes, their instruments, what they carry, and what it is like to go for a flight