When the tide recedes, a young Eskimo girl living in northern Canada, journeys alone for the first time under the ice, walking on the seabed floor to gather mussels.

Todd and his grandfather prepare for the sale of the farm and its contents by telling stories about life there and making scarecrows

When Danya, Rachel, and Sean discover that their busy divorced mother has turned into a pumpkin, they decide to manage on their own until she turns into herself again, but continue to make the pumpkin the center of their home life

Going alone for her first time to search for mussels under a thick shelf of ice near her Inuit village in Canada, young Eva is successful in her hunt, but when her candle goes out and she must scramble to find her way out before the tide returns, Eva tells her mother that she wants a partner the next time. An ALA Notable Children's Book. Reissue.

Although this year's potato crop has hope, Ephraim's father must turn to logging to make ends meet and when he returns months later, he finds that the potatoes have rotted, in a depiction of a farm family's struggle to survive the Great Depression.

Filled with spectacular illustrations, a modern retelling of classic folktales includes Pinkoya's Child, which was originally from Chile, now set on the coast of North America, and the Russian tale entitled Little Daughter of the Snow, now set on the prairie. (view table of contents)

On each successive day of summer, a youngster finds an increasing number of animals and other natural wonders in the surrounding world and leaves behind a remembrance of the day's discovery. Reprint.

Drawn from folk stories around the world, this collection, filled with humor and action, teaches readers not to take themselves too seriously and includes such tales as 'Jane Saves the Day,' which illustrates the power of the underdog.

It's all going wrong. Keri's Gran is dead, her Dad's working far away. Keri and her mum are fighting. Keri wants to reach back into the family's past; she wants to do something brave and heroic. When she and her brother find a whale washed up on the beach, that seems to be her chance.