Akron Public Library

When snow closes Greg Heffley's middle school, he and his best friend, Rowley Jefferson, face a fight for survival as warring gangs turn the neighborhood into a wintry battlefield.

A little pioneer girl and her family spend the winter in their log cabin in the Big Woods of Wisconsin.

Despite their elaborate preparations for the winter, the animals and birds are delighted by a surprise banquet after a big snow.

"The coat of a huge wooly musk ox named Cozy is the winter home for a growing number of Alaskan animals who mostly get along." -- from publisher.

One by one, a whole host of different animals and birds find their way out of the cold and into Bear's cave to warm up. But even after the tea has been brewed and the corn has been popped, Bear just snores on! See what happens when he finally wakes up and finds his cave full of uninvited guests, all of them having a party without him!.

Elfrida Phipps, once on the London stage and retired at sixty-two, never anticipates going off with a man. But after a devastating tragedy, church organist Oscar Blundell asks for her companionship. So, with her brown and white dog in tow, Elfrida begins her journey not knowing that joining her and Oscar at a rundown Victorian house in Scotland will be a young woman nursing a broken heart, a teenager escaping an unhappy home, and a stranger arriving...

"Frog is excited about the coming of winter, until he finds out that frogs sleep through the long cold months while they hibernate"--

Several animals sleep snugly in Nicki's lost mitten until the bear sneezes.

A retelling of the traditional tale of how a boy's lost mitten becomes a refuge from the cold for an increasing number of animals.