By: Eve Bunting
Irish teenager Barry O'Neill is journeying to New York on the Titanic's fateful maidenBRvoyage. He's homesick and worried about the Flynn boys traveling in steerage, whoBRhave threatened to throw him overboard. Little does Barry know that a struggle...
By: Eve Bunting
Francisco, a young Mexican-American boy, helps his grandfather find work as a gardener, even though the old man cannot speak English and knows nothing about gardening.
By: Eve Bunting
Four pairs of eyes stare from the blackness to watch fearsome creatures trick-or-treat.
By: Eve Bunting
What do leprechauns do? They bury a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, of course. But as Mrs. Bally Bunion's ox, Miss Maude Murphy's hen, and Old Jamie soon find out, they can't resist having a little fun along the way. For, besides burying pots...
By: Eve Bunting
A boy and his father visit the Vietnam Veteran's Memorial in Washington, D.C., in a work about memory and loss. Reprint. SLJ. H. AB. C. K.
By: Eve Bunting
Jesse Harmon is tortured by guilt because he survived the hit-and-run accident that killed his brother, Bry. His guilt is compounded when he finds he is attracted to Bry's girlfriend, Chloe. Together Jesse and Chloe try to track down the drunk...
By: Eve Bunting
Simon and his mom don't have much--the cardboard house they built for themselves, a tiny Christmas tree, and a picture of an angel pinned to one wall. On Christmas Eve they take in a frail stranger who needs a place to keep warm, and the next morning...
By: Eve Bunting
Follow the progress of a little girl and her father as they purchase 'a garden,' and board the bus to carry it home. The pansies, tulips, daffodils, geraniums, and daisies are lovingly planted in a window box, and the candles on the cake are...
By: Eve Bunting
Rooster is spreading the word: 'Hurry! Hurry!' The crowd gets bigger, faster, and noisier as all the animals follow Rooster, arriving at the peaceful barn just in time to greet the tiniest member of the farm family as he pecks his way out of his...
By: Eve Bunting
All we see are two pairs of sneakers--one large, one small--as a little girl and her father tour a dark, mysterious house.
By: Eve Bunting
By moonlight in the quiet forest, a young boy and his family decorate their favorite tree with popcorn, apples, tangerines, and sunflower-seed balls as a gift for the animals of the woods. "Sure to become a Christmas favorite, this beautifully...
By: Eve Bunting
In the late 1880s, a Cheyenne boy named Young Bull is taken from his parents and sent to a boarding school to learn the white man's ways. 'Young Bull's struggle to hold on to his heritage will touch children's sense of justice and lead to some...
By: Eve Bunting
When Grandma sends her grandson a backpack, he can't wait to fill it with interesting things. His toy train fits just right. His blocks and his big brother's baseball socks fit perfectly, too. And there's still room for more, including his teddy...
By: Eve Bunting
When a violent ocean storm causes a crate holding assorted plastic tub toys -- including one resilient little duck -- to wash overboard, the course of Ducky's life alters drastically. This engaging story based on a real event includes an author's...
By: Eve Bunting
The young narrator's best friend, Rudi, is very sick, and it's hard for her to understand. When Rudi dies, the narrator and the other children in school help to build a pond by the big knobby oak to remember him by. A hummingbird feeder that Rudi...
By: Eve Bunting
Mr. and Mrs. Bear have never celebrated St. Valentine's Day because they hibernate during the winter.
By: Eve Bunting
I'm taking you out for Father's Day,' Susie tells Dad. 'First we'll go for lunch.' 'Good,' Dad says. 'May I drive?' 'Certainly,' Susie says. She chooses the restaurant, and pretty soon Dad can see that she's filled this special day with...
By: Eve Bunting
It's naptime, but Susie isn't sleepy. Daddy tries everything to tire her out. They boogie, they bongo, and they do the creepy camel, but still Susie says 'No nap.
By: Eve Bunting
When Matt and Abby go to live with Great-Aunt Gerda in Sierra Madre Canyon after their mother dies, Matt is put off at first by the life-size wooden dolls whom Aunt Gerda talks to and calls her "children." However, when someone vandalizes...
By: Eve Bunting
On her way to town, Miss Brindle Cow meets a host of animals who are late for a very important wedding. What can she do? Gracious Miss Cow doesn't miss a beat. One by one, they climb on her back--the organist, the pastor, the florist, and more. But...
By: Eve Bunting
It'll take some frog to win the frog-jumping contest at Billy's school. But Billy's all set--he's got a champion jumper, a grandpa with lots of good advice, and a mom and grandma to cheer him on. Everything will be perfect--if only his dad shows...
By: Eve Bunting
When everyone on Linda's T-ball team starts 'losing one' at the oddest times and places, Linda wonders when her big moment will come. This easy-reading mystery keeps readers guessing right up to the very end.
By: Eve Bunting
Thirteen-year-old Brodie Lynch was ready for the perfect summer of adventure along the awesome Blackwater River. That was before everything changed forever. When a harmless prank goes too far, the unthinkable happens. Brodie's lies make him a...
By: Eve Bunting
At seventeen, Dru gets involved with the latest high school stunt-leaping between deadly cliffs into the ocean far below. Things get out of hand as manipulative relationships and resulting jealousies cause more students to risk their lives....
By: Eve Bunting
In this stunning collaboration of two exceptional talents, the striking charcoal illustrations and nimble text reveal what happens at night when the gargoyles come to life.
By: Eve Bunting
During a night of rioting in Los Angeles, fires and looting force neighbors--who have always avoided one another--to come together. David Diaz was awarded the Caldecott Medal for his bold acrylic paint and photo-collage illustrations.
By: Eve Bunting
'Maybe that's one of the reasons people get dogs, to kind of close up the empty places inside them.'Eleven-year-old William never needed a friend more than now. After his parents' separation, his father's new engagement, and his...
By: Eve Bunting
Anna and Grandma are planning a surprise for Dad's birthday. Dad thinks he has received all his presents, but Grandma stands up and gives him the best one of all: she reads aloud the stories that Anna has taught her.
By: Eve Bunting
Jamie seeks a way to prove that he is not too young to march in the big St. Patrick's Day parade.
By: Eve Bunting
My father cuts a moon-counting stick that he keeps in our tipi. At the rising of the first moon he makes a notch in it. 'A new beginning for the young buffalo,' he says. 'And for us.' In this beautifully written...