Ted Rand
2) My buddy
Author
Publisher
H. Holt
Pub. Date
c1992
Description
A young boy with muscular dystrophy tells how he is teamed up with a dog trained to do things for him that he can't do for himself.
4) My shadow
Author
Series
Description
An illustrated version of the poem in which a child describes her relationship with her shadow.
5) Mailing May
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
c1997
Description
In 1914, because her family cannot afford a train ticket to her grandmother's town, May gets mailed and rides the mail car on the train to see her grandmother.
Author
Pub. Date
2000
Description
Each button on Laura's memory string represents a piece of her family history. The buttons Laura cherishes the most belonged to her mother - a button from her prom dress, a white one off her wedding dress, and a single small button from the nightgown she was wearing on the day she died. When the string breaks, Laura's new stepmother, Jane, is there to comfort Laura and search for a missing button, just as Laura's mother would have done. But it's not...
12) Night tree
Author
Publisher
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Pub. Date
c1991
Description
A family makes its annual pilgrimage to decorate an evergreen tree with food for the forest animals at Christmastime.
13) Country crossing
Author
Publisher
Atheneum
Pub. Date
1991
Description
Recreates the sights and sounds at a country crossing one summer night, as an old car patiently awaits the passing of a long and noisy freight train. Whooawoo!
14) My mountain song
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
2004
Description
One summer day on her great-grandparents' Kentucky farm, a squabble with her cousin Melvin spurs Brenda Gail to begin choosing the moments that will become her own special song made of memories.
19) Christmas trees
Author
Publisher
H. Holt
Pub. Date
c1990
Description
An offer from a city man to buy the trees on his land awakens in a country fellow a keener awareness of the value of both his trees and his friends at Christmas.