Turner, Ann Warren

Overview

Works:	74 works in 159 publications in 5 languages and 35,316 library holdings
Genres:	Fantasy fiction Historical fiction Picture books for children
Roles:	Creator
Classifications:	pz7.t8535, 811.54

Publication Timeline

1970 |

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Publications about Ann Warren Turner

Publications by Ann Warren Turner

Most widely held works about Ann Warren Turner

Something about the author. Volume 178 ( Book )
Something about the author. Volume 188 ( Book )

Most widely held works by Ann Warren Turner

The girl who chased away sorrow : the diary of Sarah Nita, a Navajo girl by Ann Warren Turner ( Book )
3 editions published between 1999 and 2003 in English and held by 2,111 libraries worldwide
The diary of Sarah Nita, a thirteen-year old Navajo girl, which describes the Navajos' forced 400-mile walk from their ancestral homeland to Fort Sumner in 1864.

Through moon and stars and night skies by Ann Warren Turner ( Book )
13 editions published between 1989 and 1995 in 3 languages and held by 1,690 libraries worldwide
A boy who came from far away to be adopted by a couple in this country remembers how unfamiliar and frightening some of the things were in his new home, before he accepted the love to be found there.

Dakota dugout by Ann Warren Turner ( Book )
9 editions published between 1985 and 1989 in English and held by 1,659 libraries worldwide
A woman describes her experiences living with her husband in a sod house on the Dakota prairie.

Grasshopper summer by Ann Warren Turner ( Book )
6 editions published between 1989 and 2006 in English and held by 1,331 libraries worldwide
In 1874 eleven-year-old Sam and his family move from Kentucky to the southern Dakota Territory, where harsh conditions and a plague of hungry grasshoppers threaten their chances for survival.

Nettie's trip South by Ann Warren Turner ( Book )
8 editions published between 1987 and 1995 in English and held by 1,329 libraries worldwide
A ten-year-old northern girl encounters the ugly realities of slavery when she visits Richmond, Virginia, and sees a slave auction.

Love thy neighbor : the Tory diary of Prudence Emerson by Ann Warren Turner ( Book )
2 editions published in 2003 in English and held by 1,271 libraries worldwide
In Greenmarsh, Massachusetts, in 1774, thirteen-year-old Prudence keeps a diary of the troubles she and her family face as Tories surrounded by American patriots at the start of the American Revolution.

Dust for dinner by Ann Warren Turner ( Book )
5 editions published between 1995 and 1997 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,184 libraries worldwide
Jake narrates the story of his family's life in the Oklahoma dust bowl and the journey from their ravaged farm to California during the Great Depression. Jake and Maggy lived on a farm where they loved to sing and dance to the music from Mama's radio. Then terrible dust storms came and ruined the land. The family had no choice but to auction off the farm and make the long, hard journey west to California-away from the dust storms, where the land is still green. Along the way, Papa tries to find work, and Jake and Maggy try to help too. But what if Papa can't find a job? What if California isn't better after all?

Abe Lincoln remembers by Ann Warren Turner ( Book )
3 editions published between 2001 and 2003 in English and held by 1,157 libraries worldwide
A simple description of the life of Abraham Lincoln, presented from his point of view.

Learning to swim : a memoir by Ann Warren Turner ( Book )
3 editions published between 2000 and 2002 in English and held by 1,050 libraries worldwide
A series of poems convey the feelings of a young girl whose sense of joy and security at the family's summer house is shattered when an older boy who lives nearby sexually abuses her.

Rosemary's witch by Ann Warren Turner ( Book )
5 editions published between 1991 and 1994 in English and held by 1,018 libraries worldwide
After moving into an old house in a small New England town, 9-year-old Rosemary discovers that the nearby woods conceal a 150-year-old witch, who once lived in the house and is using her magic to take it back.

Mississippi mud : three prairie journals by Ann Warren Turner ( Book )
1 edition published in 1997 in English and held by 951 libraries worldwide
Poems reflecting the points of view of three pioneer children describe their family's journey from Kentucky to Oregon.

Heron street by Ann Warren Turner ( Book )
9 editions published between 1985 and 1991 in English and held by 929 libraries worldwide
Over the centuries as people settle near the marsh by the sea, herons and other animals are displaced.

Katie's trunk by Ann Warren Turner ( Book )
3 editions published between 1992 and 1997 in English and held by 898 libraries worldwide
Katie, whose family is not sympathetic to the rebel soldiers during the American Revolution, hides under the clothes in her mother's wedding trunk when they invade her home. When raiders attack Katie's house during the American Revolution, she tries to save her family's possessions.

Secrets from the dollhouse by Ann Warren Turner ( Book )
2 editions published between 1999 and 2000 in English and held by 890 libraries worldwide
A series of poems describes the lives of a family of dolls and their servants living in a dollhouse in a young girl's room, from the perspective of Emma, the oldest of the doll children.

Pumpkin Cat by Ann Warren Turner ( Book )
2 editions published between 2003 and 2004 in English and held by 889 libraries worldwide
One stormy night just before Halloween a ginger cat finds shelter and kind people at a library, but at night, all alone, she recognizes that the library cannot be a real home because something is missing.

Hard hit by Ann Warren Turner ( Book )
2 editions published in 2006 in English and held by 834 libraries worldwide
A rising high school baseball star faces his most difficult challenge when his father is diagnosed with pancreatic cancer.

Rainflowers by Ann Warren Turner ( Book )
1 edition published in 1992 in English and held by 828 libraries worldwide
An autumn thunderstorm sweeps across a farm, sending animals scurrying.

Shaker hearts by Ann Warren Turner ( Book )
5 editions published between 1996 and 2002 in English and held by 735 libraries worldwide
Celebrates the way of life of the people who began forming communities in America in 1774 and who numbered more than 4,000 members in the late 1820s.

Drummer boy : marching to the Civil War by Ann Warren Turner ( Book )
1 edition published in 1998 in English and held by 697 libraries worldwide
A thirteen-year-old soldier, coming of age during the American Civil War, beats his drum to raise tunes and spirits and muffle the sounds of the dying.

Finding Walter by Ann Warren Turner ( Book )
7 editions published between 1996 and 1999 in English and held by 601 libraries worldwide
When she, her sister Rose, and her parents come to live in her grandmother's old country house, eight-year-old Emily draws them all into her efforts to find youngest of a neglected family of dolls.