The spring brings many changes to ten-year-old Ariel's life. The prospect of a new baby in the house leaves her feeling strange and left out. But Grandma knows how to make Ariel feel a part of things. Together, secretly, they will make a beautiful qu...
Based on a true story, this is a girl's touching recollection of the unusually severe winter of 1903, which she spent on a small island near Nantucket. Although her father, who worked for the Coast Guard, visited regularly, the girl and her mother we...
On a scary, magical, starry night, a young girl, out to watch stars with her mother, finds herself sailing away on Pegasus' back, all fears forgotten, flying higher than any nighthawk and past whirling stars and planets...
Young Henry always listens carefully to all his grandfather's tales about the northern wood, stories that everyone else tells him are untrue, until one evening, Henry and his grandfather set out in search of the fiddler and become witness to somethin...
Shelby is originally disappointed with the old-fashioned camera she receives from her grandmother on her birthday, until she learns of its history and the family heritage it has recorded and quickly realizes what a special gift it truly is....
When her grandfather gives her a goat named Stanley for her ninth birthday in 1945, Molly is disappointed, especially when Stanley keeps getting into trouble by climbing on the car, eating Mama's Victory Garden, and doing other mischievous acts....
Spending the summer with his grandfather is special for Arlis because his grandfather takes great care and time to teach him about various things, but at summer's end, Arlis is sad about having to leave but knows he is doing so as a stronger person t...
Thirteen-year-old Iris won't give up her family farm in northern Vermont -- not without a fight. Unlike her brother, Lucien, who can't wait to get out, Iris feels deeply and happily rooted. Then, tragedy strikes. With a burned-down barn and a father ...
When the first star twinkles in the evening sky, Margaret squeezes her eyes shut and makes three wishes-one, for a sister; two, for a dog; and three, the most important of all, that Mama will let her study medicine.
But Margaret knows it wil...
On a small Vermont farm in 1932, 12-year-old Lily constantly argues with her older sister, Emily. Into this combative atmosphere comes Great-Aunt Nell, who seems to understand both girls. But everything changes when in an act of revenge, Lily pushes ...
Filled with stunning woodcut illustrations, a fascinating picture book captures life on the farm throughout the year, from chores such as chopping wood in the fall and weeding in the summer, to fun activities such as night-swimming in the pond in the...
To Ruby, her log-riding lumberjack pa is the most wonderful person in the world. There's nothing she'd rather do than follow in his footprints, but a lumber camp is no place for an eight-year-old girl.
So Ruby goes to school. There she disco...
Take a journey back in time to an era of simplicity where no telephones or electricity exists in order to experience the Christmas celebrations of one family in a rural town where sleigh rides, family stories, and moonlight skating on an ice pond are...
Quila MacFarlane is devastated by the death of her mother, especially now that it’s just her and her father on Devils Rock where her father is the lighthouse keeper. They can’t leave and almost no one ever comes to visit them. But the morning aft...
A flood is coming! When the water climbs to the rooftops, where will everybody go? To Grandma's house, of course, high up on a hill. Before long, the house is full ofpeople, chickens, ducks, pigs, horses, cats, and even a cow. There's only one per...
Natalie Kinsey-Warnock's beautifully told, warm hearted novel tells the story of one girl's journey to find the mother she never had, set against the period backdrop of a small farming town in 1950s Vermont. For her entire life, 10-year-old Blue has ...