When 10-year-old Sylvia Freeman moves to Wakeview, South Carolina, she's sure that her summer is going to be plain ol' boring -- that is until she meets her 99-year-old neighbor, Miz Lula Maye. It's always been just Sylvia and her momma, but as the h...
Seven-year-old Tiger Turcotte has been dreading going to class because today is the day he has to take The Test. Armed with his lucky tiger-striped pencils, Tiger’s ready. The first five questions go okay -- they’re easy -- and the rest of the te...
There are plenty of things that Tiger Turcotte likes about the second grade. His classmate Donna Overton is NOT one of those things. She's a mean, bossy know-it-all. And lately, she's trying hard to make Tiger mad. Tiger might decide to fight back...
When her mother goes to Florida in 1978, ten-year-old Sylvia stays in South Carolina, but when she fails to make new friends at school, she realizes that her great-grandmother and best friend, Miz Lula Maye, may be the problem....