Jim LaMarche

"A group of friends discovers a neglected pond in the woods and decides to fix it up together"--

After grasshoppers ruin the crops, eight-year-old Laura Ingalls and her family leave Plum Creek and move to Burr Oak, Iowa, where they experience life in a small town and help manage a hotel.

In Depression-era New York City, construction workers at the Rockefeller Center site help a family in need--a gift that is repaid years later in the donation of an enormous Christmas tree.

One day when Albert is at his window, two cardinals come to build a nest in his hand, an event that changes his life.

Passenger pigeon hatchlings, thought to be extinct, are discovered in Grandmother's room after she departs on a voyage to Greenland.

Soothing text takes the reader on a bedtime journey across a peaceful and beautiful sea to sleep.

A young bear who is fascinated by the mysterious marks he sees on paper finds a friend when a kind woman reads to him.

As the zookeeper makes his nightly rounds, he has no idea that Gorilla is letting all the animals out of their cages. A thoughtful little bear decides to get the moon a birthday present, so he climbs a mountain to ask the moon what it wants. Granny and all the critters in her house pile on her bed for a nap, until a little flea has a big surprise. An old couple pines to have children, so the moon presents them with twelve tiny babies. A lonesome trombone...