short-term adventures that will benefit you and others
McMillon, Bill
2009
Contains profiles of over 150 organizations in the U.S. and around the world that offer short-term opportunities for volunteers to work with people, animals, or the environment, each with contact data, costs, and dates.
Eleven-year-old Portia and her family return with cousin Julian to the site they visited the previous summer, this time to take possession of a large Victorian house, unoccupied for fifty years and full of treasures and secrets.
a summer tale of four sisters, two rabbits, and a very interesting boy
Birdsall, Jeanne
2007
While vacationing with their widowed father in the Berkshire Mountains, four lovable sisters, ages four through twelve, share adventures with a local boy, much to the dismay of his snobbish mother.
Beany definitely does not want to spend her summer vacation at camp, but she endures bugs and a bossy cabin-mate, finds a new friend, and has an okay time after all.