Eve Bunting
3) Smoky night
Author
Publisher
Harcourt Brace
Pub. Date
c1994
Language
English
Description
When the Los Angeles riots break out in the streets of their neighborhood, a young boy and his mother learn the values of getting along with others no matter what their background or nationality.
10) Summer wheels
Author
Publisher
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Pub. Date
c1992
Language
English
Description
The Bicycle Man fixes up old bicycles and offers both his friendship and the use of the bikes to the neighborhood kids.
11) Tweak, tweak
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
While out for a walk, Mama Elephant answers her child's questions about a monkey, a frog, a songbird, a butterfly, and a crocodile, all the while teaching about Little Elephant too.
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
c1992
Language
English
Description
Four years after the death of her mother, seven-year-old Allie goes with her grandfather to a performance of "The Nutcracker" on Christmas Eve, hears about the special day he had with her mother going to her first "Nutcracker," and shares his loving memory of her.
13) Some frog!
Author
Language
English
Description
Billy is disappointed when his father doesn't show up to help him catch a frog for the frog-jumping competition at school, but the one he and his mother catch wins the championship and Billy begins to accept his father's absence.
14) Someday a tree
Author
Publisher
Clarion
Pub. Date
�1993
Language
English
Description
A young girl, her parents, and their neighbors try to save an old oak tree that has been poisoned by pollution.
15) December
Author
Publisher
Harcourt Brace
Pub. Date
c1997
Language
English
Description
A homeless family's luck changes after they help an old woman who has even less than they do at Christmas.
16) Mouse island
Author
Publisher
Boyds Mills Press
Pub. Date
©2008
Language
English
Description
Mouse enjoys living on his island but feels that something is missing from his life until the day he performs a daring rescue and acquires an unlikely friend.
19) Your move
Author
Publisher
Harcourt Brace
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English
Description
When ten-year-old James' gang initiation endangers his six-year-old brother Isaac, they find the courage to say "Thanks, but no thanks."