Joan W Blos

The journal of a fourteen-year-old girl, kept the last year she lived on the family farm, records daily events in her small New Hampshire town her father's remarriage, and the death of her best friend.

Illustrations and very brief text depict a seed changing into a flower a bee into a swarm, a thought into a poem, and other changes.

McGinty the monkey and his new owner, a woman journalist, travel from Singapore to New York where he finally takes up residence at the Menagerie.

Thirteen-year-old Catherine Cabot Hall put ink to the first unblemished page of her diary on October 17, 1830, the day after her father returned from Boston with the diary tucked conspicuously under his arm. Catherine's mother had died of fever four years before, and now Catherine performs the duties of housewife and mother, living contentedly with her father and younger sister Matty on their New Hampshire farm. In spite of the daily hardships, Catherine...

After his grandmother has tucked his stuffed animals into bed one by one, a young boy is ready to go to sleep himself.

A variety of hats afford Martin many adventures.