Eve Bunting

Refugees from a Caribbean island embark on a dangerous boat trip to America where they have a special reason to celebrate Thanksgiving.

Frog finds a flower and tries to keep it alive, flies on his seagull friend's back, and gets help from his friends when he has trouble falling asleep.

A band of trick-or-treaters and a mother cat and her kittens spend a very scary Halloween.

Frog and his friends are alarmed by a strange object that appears on his pond, share a thoughtful--if scratchy--gift, and meet a hippopotamus that has run away from the zoo.

Jamie seeks a way to prove he is not too young to march in the big St. Patrick's Day parade.

"Almost everything Callie's family owns is spread out in their front yard--their furniture, their potted flowers, even Callie's bike. They can't stay in this house, so they're moving to an apartment in the city. The new place is 'small but nice,' Mom says, and most of their things won't fit, so today they are having a yard sale. But it's kind of hard to watch people buy your stuff, even if you understand why it has to happen"--Amazon.com.

The reader is invited to help Duck and his animal friends find a missng item.

A toy skeleton at Halloween provides menace and mystery.

A family makes its annual pilgrimage to decorate an evergreen tree with food for the forest animals at Christmastime.

While still grieving for her mother and unable to accept her stepmother, a girl clings to the memories represented by forty-three buttons on a string.