Liz Garton Scanlon

"This is a truth about growing up: Once in your life, sometime after your first memory . . . something is going to happen to you that doesn't happen to anyone else. . . . For Millie, it's something really sad. Lolo, her neighbors' infant daughter, dies unexpectedly . . . on the night Millie babysits. It's not Millie's fault. There's nothing she could have done. And there's nothing she can do now,. So how does she go on?"--Provided by publisher.

"A young girl finds a way to tame the winds besieging an old man who lives on a hill above her village." --

"When a young boy gets a cold, he just wants his mommy. But his stuffy nose makes it difficult for him to call out to his mom--not 'Bob, ' who happens to be the family dog"--

Illustrations and rhyming text portray the birthday party of a beloved baby.

"In a series of letters a student laments the absence of her teacher and daily routine, but she soon realizes there are benefits to mixing things up, and that perhaps having a substitue teacher is not so bad after all." --

Frances is a spirited city kid itching to explore, but city walls aren't for climbing, city rooms aren't for running, and city parks are way too crowded. When she visits her cousins in the country, she finally gets her chance to roam, before inviting them to come visit her, too, where the city cats croon and city alleys echo and city streets beep and shine...

A litter of baby wolf pups are born in the wild and grow during their first full lunar cycle"--

A poetic celebration of non-traditional pockets and what they hold, pointing out that a sock is a pocket for your toes and a vase is a pocket for a rose.

Posy Peyton and her friends are very sad that she will be moving away, but when they try to cheer themselves up by baking a pie, they realize that Posy's leaving does not have to mean saying goodbye.

"Precocious eight-year-old Bibsy navigates a relationship with a teacher who thinks she talks too much."--