One stormy night just before Halloween a ginger cat finds shelter and kind people at a library, but at night, all alone, she recognizes that the library cannot be a real home because something is missing.

Jake narrates the story of his family's life in the Oklahoma dust bowl and the journey from their ravaged farm to California during the Great Depression.

A boy who came from far away to be adopted by a couple in this country remembers how unfamiliar and frightening some of the things were in his new home, before he accepted the love to be found there.

The Clark family keeps busy through all four seasons at their apple orchard, pruning dead branches at the end of winter, carrying the beehives among the trees in May, propping up branches heavy with summer fruit, and harvesting the apples in the fall.

Animals, trees, flowers--all react to a thunderstorm and its aftermath.

A series of poems convey the feelings of a young girl whose sense of joy and security at the family's summer house is shattered when an older boy who lives nearby sexually abuses her.

A series of poems describes the lives of a family of dolls and their servants living in a dollhouse in a young girl's room, from the perspective of Emma, the oldest of the doll children.

In 1776 Philadelphia, Thomas Jefferson seeks lodging with Ned and his mother when Congress convenes to debate the topic of freedom, and to draft the Declaration of Independence.

Twenty-one poems including suchtitles as "Spaghetti for One Thousand," "Horrendous, Gorrendous," and "Lucky You."

A girl describes the important parts of her day, from the warmth of the morning sun to the moon overhead at night.