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Kentucky Authors and Illustrators

Here are just a few samples of books by Kentucky authors and illustrators.  Remember to check our catalog for other titles by these and other Kentucky authors and illustrators!

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Some friend - Marie Bradby
Call Number: YF Bradb
ISBN: 9780689856150
Publication Date: 2004
In 1963, fifth grader Pearl Jordan learns some difficult lessons about friendship when she befriends the odd, but artistically talented Artemesia, then shuns her in favor of the popular Lenore.

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River of dreams : the story of the Hudson River - Hudson Talbott
Call Number: Y974.7 Talbo
ISBN: 0399245219
Publication Date: 2009

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Did You Carry the Flag Today, Charley - Rebecca Caudill
Call Number: YF Caudi
ISBN: 0440400929
Publication Date: 2004

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On top of spaghetti - Paul Brett Johnson
Call Number: YE Johns
ISBN: 0439749441
Publication Date: 2006
Includes a recipe for Yodeler's spaghetti and meatballs on the dust jacket.
In an adaptation of the original parody, the hound Yodeler Jones tells what happened when his beloved meatball escaped from a plateful of spaghetti and ended up under a bush outside his restaurant.

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Pirate of Kindergarten - George Ella Lyon
Call Number: YE Lyon
ISBN: 1416950249
Publication Date: 2010
Schneider Family Book Award Winner, Young Children's Book, 2011.
Ginny has a vision disorder that makes her see double. For awhile she wears an eye patch like a Kindergarten pirate.

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Ratfink - Marcia Thornton Jones
Call Number: YF Jones
ISBN: 0525420665
Publication Date: 2010
Creative, impulsive Logan vows to turn over a new leaf in fifth grade so his parents will let him have a pet, but when a competitive new girl arrives at school and his forgetful and embarrassing grandfather takes over the basement of Logan's house, doing the right thing becomes harder than it has ever been.

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Which Side Are You On? - George Ella Lyon; Christopher Cardinale (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9781933693965
Publication Date: 2011-10-04
In 1931, Florence Reece, the wife of a union organizer in Kentucky, wrote and recorded "Which Side Are You On?". The song became a popular and galvanizing force for the labor movement. Which Side Are You On tells the harrowing story of the night that Florence wrote the song, her family under siege by anti-union thugs.

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