Eve Bunting
2) The Wall
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A boy and his father come from far away to visit the Vietnam War Memorial in Washington and find the name of the boy's grandfather, who was killed in the conflict.
3) Ducky
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A yellow plastic duck makes a long perilous journey when he is washed overboard with a crate full of bathtub toys during a storm.
5) Yard sale
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A young girl named Callie learns that her family will be moving from their house to a smaller apartment, and must have a yard sale to downsize their possessions. Callie is sad to see strangers bargaining for precious family mementos, but she eventually realizes that home is about family rather than things.
6) Smoky night
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When the Los Angeles riots break out in the streets of their neighborhood, a young boy and his mother learn the values of getting along with others no matter what their background or nationality.
8) Going home
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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.
10) Tweak, tweak
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While out for a walk, Mama Elephant answers her child's questions about a monkey, a frog, a songbird, a butterfly, and a crocodile, all the while teaching about Little Elephant too.
14) Our library
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Celebrating Libraries and Reading
Picture Books about Books & Libraries
Prolific Children's Book Author Eve Bunting
Picture Books about Books & Libraries
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A raccoon and his friends go to great lengths to make sure they will always have a library from which to borrow books.
15) Emma's turtle
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When Emma's box turtle digs his way out of his pen, he imagines that he is having adventures in Africa, India, and other faraway lands that Emma has described to him.
16) The wedding
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One by one, Miss Brindle Cow encounters a group of animals who are late for a wedding and agrees to carry them there.
18) Rudi's pond
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When a sick boy dies, his friends and classmates remember him by building a schoolyard pond in his memory.
20) One candle
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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.