Chadwick the Crab
Priscilla Cummings
Hardcover/1986

A blue crab is depressed because he will soon have to swim to the deeper waters of the Chesapeake Bay to sleep through the winter. His dream of fame, fortune, and adventure is realized when, through a series of mishaps, he becomes a star in the crab exhibit at the Baltimore Aquarium.

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Sunday afternoons are special for Sarah and Susan because that's when they visit Aunt Flossie -- she has a memorable collection of hats, each with a special story. "A picture book warmly expressive of personal history and intergenerational affection."

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Chita's Christmas Tree
Elizabeth Howard
Paperback/1993 

What is that awful green and purple gunk bubbling up in the normally blue waters of the Chesapeake Bay? Chadwick the Crab and his friends call the unsightly stuff garplegrungen. And, although they don’t know what the garplegrungen is, they decide to find out and get rid of it once and for all.

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Elizabeth Howard's Young Chita discovers the true meaning of Christmas through the surprise appearance of her very own special Christmas tree.

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Charlotte is sent to live with her aunt in Baltimore to escape the threat of Indian attacks in the Indiana Territory. She finds herself surrounded by both enemies and patriots, and doesn't know who to trust.

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A straightforward account of how the first brood of peregrine falcon chicks to hatch in the wild in the eastern U.S. in 30 years was born on the ledge of a Baltimore skyscraper.

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Earle takes children on an undersea journey to explore an amazing "underwater city." In addition, the author introduces other animals that live in and near the reef and stresses the importance of protecting corals from pollution.

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After her free-spirited mother dies, Livvy is uprooted from her New York home and sent to Baltimore to live with her mother's old college friend, a woman Livvy has never heard of.

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