Eve Bunting
22) Mouse island
Author
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Mouse enjoys living on his island but feels that something is missing from his life until the day he performs a daring rescue and acquires an unlikely friend.
23) December
Author
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
A homeless family's luck changes after they help an old woman who has even less than they do at Christmas.
24) Jin Woo
Author
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Davey is dubious about having a new adopted brother from Korea, but when he finds out that his parents still love him, he decides that having a baby brother will be fine.
26) Pop's bridge
Author
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Robert and his friend Charlie are proud of their fathers who are working on the construction of San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge.
28) Swan in love
Author
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
Despite the ridicule of the other animals, Swan persists in his adoration for a swan-shaped boat named Dora.
29) Butterfly house
Author
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
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Bee City USA, Pollinators & Wildflowers - Children
Plant Wildflowers Campaign: Fiction for Kids ages 0 - 8
Plant Wildflowers Campaign: Fiction for Kids ages 0 - 8
Description
With the help of her grandfather, a little girl makes a house for a larva and watches it develop before setting it free, and every summer after that butterflies come to visit her.
32) My red balloon
Author
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
A young boy waits for his father to disembark from the aircraft carrier returning to port after many months at sea.
33) One candle
Author
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Every year a family celebrates Hanukkah by retelling the story of how Grandma and her sister managed to mark the day while in a German concentration camp.
34) Yard sale
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Callie and her family are moving from their house to an apartment, so they're having a yard sale. It can be hard to let things go, but in the end, it's who you have - not what you have - that counts.
35) Whose shoe?
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
A conscientious mouse tries to locate the owner of a single unclaimed shoe.
36) Night Tree
Author
Pub. Date
[1991]
Language
English
Description
A family makes its annual pilgrimage to decorate an evergreen tree with food for the forest animals at Christmastime.
37) Going home
Author
Pub. Date
[1996]
Language
English
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Description
Although a Mexican family comes to the United States to work as farm laborers so that their children will have opportunities, the parents still consider Mexico their home.