Kiowa County Public Library District

In Fannie Flagg's high-spirited first novel, we meet Daisy Fay Harper in the spring of 1952, where she's "not doing much except sitting around waiting for the sixth grade." When she leaves Shell Beach, Mississippi, in September 1959, she is packed up and ready for the Miss America Pageant, vowing "I won't come back until I'm somebody." But in our hearts she already is. Sassy and irreverent from the get-go, Daisy Fay takes us on a rollicking journey...

Two hundred years before Columbus, the cliff-dwelling Anasazi Indians built great stone cities in the American Southwest. Hunters and mystics of many clans roamed the desert. Viking explorers made their way across the territory while, from the vast Toltec kingdom of the south a mysterious trader, acclaimed as a fertility god by the clanswomen he visited, traveled from tribe to tribe. Kwani is driven from her tribe and embarks on a journey through...

Examines the plant and animal life of the prairie grasslands of North America and how they are interdependent.

A history of Jerusalem and its three religions, examining what the holy city means to Christians, Jews, and Muslims, and the implications of Jerusalem's sanctity in each tradition.

Four young misfits find themselves living in a strictly disciplined temple community where they become friends while also learning to do crafts and to use their powers, especially magic.

While at Gold Ridge castle to the north of Winding Circle, Daja and the three other mages-in-training who have become her friends develop their unique magical talents as they try to prevent a devastating forest fire from consuming everything in its path.

With the defenses of Winding Circle Temple seriously weakened by an earthquake, Tris and her fellow mages-in-training try to join their different magic powers to protect the Winding Circle community from a pirate attack.

Briar, a young mage-in-training, and his teacher Rosethorn must use their magic to fight a deadly plague that is ravaging Summersea.