Seymour, Tres

No one ever outbids Aunt Lou or Miss Logsdon at local auctions, until a young girl sets her sights on a straw hat.

While visiting the fair, a child describes the most exciting event--the demolition derby and its surprise winner.

While visiting the fair, a child describes the most exciting event--the demolition derby and its surprise winner.

In illustrations and simple text, tells how Melville Murrell invented the first flying machine in 1876.

Although her friends try to discourage her, Rebecca begins to develop a close relationship with a talented but troubled high school classmate.

Squawking gulls on Lake Superior warn of danger, for the hungry lake has swallowed up many ships, even the mighty Edmund Fitzgerald.

When friends playing on a Civil War battlefield begin to imitate what happened there, Papaw asks them to quit because he knows a better game.

A child watches as more and more people join in the attempts to catch the family cow that has gotten loose, each remarking on how special the cow is.

When high-school senior Bruce Wells inadvertently snitches on his friends, he learns painful lessons about being true to himself and different from his classmates.

In its "old, old, old familiar way, " an "endless ribbon" of birds, with its noise and germs, flies over a town, until the townspeople decide to do something about it.