Query: Novels by Mildred D. Taylor or about Cleveland or Children's novellas
Domain: books
Relevant documents:
The Firework-Maker's Daughter
The Apple and the Arrow
The Land (Taylor novel)
The Changelings (novel)
HaJaBaRaLa
Detour (Brodsky novel)
The Road to Memphis (novel)
The Puppy Sister
The Butterfly Clues
The Code of Romulus
Magic Maize
Coraline
Seedfolks
Stone Fox
Song of the Trees
The Friendship
Let the Circle Be Unbroken
Evidence from documents: The Firework-Maker's Daughter: '''''The Firework-Maker's Daughter''''' is a children's novella by Philip Pullman.
The Changelings (novel): '''''The Changelings''''' is a novel by Jo Sinclair (Ruth Seid) first published in 1955 by McGraw Hill. Features tomboy protagonist Judith "Vincent" Vincent, a 12-year-old who is the newly deposed leader of a gang of pre-teen and teenage children in her Jewish/Sicilian neighborhood in Cleveland, Ohio.
HaJaBaRaLa: '''''HaJaBaRaLa''''' (), or '''''HJBRL: A Nonsense Story''''', is a children's novella by Sukumar Ray. ''Ha Ja Ba Ra La'' is considered one of the best nonsense stories of Bengali literature. To highlight its genre, artistic merit and style, it is frequently compared to ''Alice In Wonderland.''
The story starts with a child, the narrator, suddenly waking up from sleep and finding that the handkerchief they had placed just beside them before sleeping has turned into a cat. The child starts talking to the cat, who speaks nonsensically about a handkerchief before disappearing over the hedge. Then the child finds Kakeshwar doing mathematical calculations on a slate, that appears very unusual to the narrator. This includes multiplication that is purely illogical and fallacious. After arguing over math, a goat appears and narrates his life about eating paper and other artificial things. Hijibijbij appears and laughs hysterically at improbable situations and keeps changing his mind about the names of his family members. Then many animals appear, and confusion results. The child wakes up from their odd dream and finds the cat, which does not talk.
Most of the characters have found idiomatic usage in Bengali language, which is true for many of Ray's works.
Detour (Brodsky novel): '''''Detour''''' is Michael Brodsky's first novel. It is the first person partly autobiographical account of an often bored film devotee going to Cleveland for medical school, making observations on everything in his daily life, either in a philosophical manner, or by comparing any given incident with some classic film scene, or both. Halfway through, the narration is interrupted by Steve's story, also told in first person. The novel eventually resumes with the original first person narrator, who finally decides medical school is not for him.
The Road to Memphis (novel): '''''The Road to Memphis''''' is a historical fiction novel written by Mildred D. Taylor.
The Puppy Sister: a children's novella written by S. E. Hinton and published in 1995.
The Butterfly Clues: The Butterfly Clues'' written by Kate Ellison, follows the story of Penelope “Lo” Marin and is set in Cleveland, Ohio.
The Code of Romulus: a children's novella by Caroline Lawrence, published in 2007 to celebrate the 10th anniversary of World Book Day
Magic Maize: a children's novella written and illustrated by Mary and Conrad Buff.
Coraline: '''''Coraline''''' () is a dark fantasy children's novella by British author Neil Gaiman, published in 2002 by Bloomsbury and Harper Collins.
Seedfolks: '''''Seedfolks''''' (1997) is a children's novella written by Paul Fleischman, with illustrations by Judy Pedersen.
Stone Fox: '''''Stone Fox''''' is a children's novella
Song of the Trees: a 1975 story by author Mildred Taylor and illustrator Jerry Pinkney.
The Friendship: Novels by Mildred D. Taylor: a children's novella by Mildred Taylor
Children's novellas: a children's novella by Mildred Taylor.
Let the Circle Be Unbroken: '''''Let The Circle Be Unbroken''''' is the 1981 sequel to ''Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry'' (1976), written by Mildred D. Taylor.