Product Description: Book by Krensky, Stephen

This story takes readers through the everyday ups and downs of the extreme feelings of childhood, using analogies like a storm cloud that's big, dark, rumbling, grumbling, and ready to burst into a shower of tears.

Coriander the contrary hen sits, refusing to move, in the middle of the road causing a traffic jam until one clever little girl comes up with a solution.

When the British began stealing anything made of metal in order to melt it down into weapons in Pennsylvania in 1777, eleven-year-old John Jacob Mickley and his father had to use their courage and wit to get their beloved bell down from the tower and into a secret place in order to keep it safe from harm during the war.

Tessa the mouse likes to dance, prance, shimmy, and shake instead of scurrying around like the rest of her family during their raids through Mrs. Timboni's kitchen, and when a strange new cat named Oscar, who likes to sing instead of chasing mice and taking naps, arrives, these two talented individuals put on quite a show!

Farmer Puckett's custom of hauling a wagonload of fireworks to the fairgrounds for the Independence Day Social is endangered when his stubborn new mule Jake Johnson refuses to move. By the author of Hunting the White Cow.