Eve Bunting
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.
7) Night tree
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A family makes its annual pilgrimage to decorate an evergreen tree with food for the forest animals at Christmastime.
8) A day's work
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When Francisco, a young Mexican American boy, tries to help his grandfather find work, he discovers that even though the old man cannot speak English, he has something even more valuable to teach Francisco.
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.
11) Cheyenne again
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In the late 1880's, a Cheyenne boy named Young Bull is taken to a boarding school to learn the white man's ways.
12) Dandelions
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Young Zoe searches for a way to make her mother happy after the family moves to its new home in the Nebraska Territory.
14) 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.