Bunting, Eve

One sunny Saturday in 1889, Lizzie helps her grandmother scrub, boil, rinse, and hang loads of laundry, although she would rather be having a tea party with her best friend, Lucy, and their dolls, Amelia Cordelia and Belinda Lavinia.

When Tim and his parents visit his grandmother in the nursing home where she is recovering from a broken hip, everyone pretends to be happy until Tim helps them express their true feelings.

On Wednesday nights when Grandma stays with Anna everyone thinks she is teaching Anna to read.

Tells the story of the faded wooden cart that was borrowed to carry the body of Martin Luther King, Jr. through the streets of Atlanta, Georgia, on the day of his funeral.

Frog invites Chameleon to his annual fall party despite his friends' protests, is embarrassed to learn that he is watched when he dances, and is captured by a girl who wants to turn him into a prince.

When a boy and girl are drowned in the Blackwater River, thirteen-year-old Brodie must decide whether to confess that he may have caused the accident.

Mr. and Mrs. Moose try to invite a turkey to their Thanksgiving feast.

While on a school field trip to an orchard to make cider, a young immigrant named Farah gains self-confidence when the green apple she picks perfectly complements the other students' red apples.

A conscientious mouse tries to locate the owner of a single unclaimed shoe.

When Josie, an orphan, is sent to live with an aunt and uncle on the northwest coast, she finds the area and people to be threatening, except for Eli.