Life is beautiful, ever changing, sometimes not easy, but always worth waking up in the morning to see what might happen.

Shortly before her thirteenth birthday, shy and withdrawn Tara is sent to stay with her aunt, uncle, and cousin in her parents' hometown of Willow Falls, where she makes friends and becomes involved with an elderly buyer and seller of collectibles, who seems to be trying to give Tara some kind of mysterious message.

Unusal things begin to happen when a young girl finds a silver thimble.

On a day when everything goes wrong for him, Alexander is consoled by the thought that other people have bad days too. Alexander wakes up to a bad day & things get progressively worse as the hours wear on, until he thinks he may escape it all & go to Australia. On a day when everything goes wrong for him, Alexander is consoled by the thought that other people have bad days too. Alexander knew it was going to be a terrible day when he woke up with...

During their first four years of marriage, Laura and Almanzo Wilder have a child and fight a losing battle in their attempts to succeed at farming on the South Dakota prairie.

When a big new yellow tractor arrives, Otis the friendly little tractor is cast away behind the barn, but when trouble occurs Otis is the only one who can help.

Relates Sally Jane's experience of changing times in rural America, as she lives through the drowning of the Swift River towns in western Massachusetts to form the Quabbin Reservoir.

Talkative, ten-year-old Rebecca goes to live with her spinster aunts, one harsh and demanding, the other soft and sentimental, with whom she spends seven difficult but rewarding years growing up.

The journal of a fourteen-year-old girl, kept the last year she lived on the family farm, records daily events in her small New Hampshire town, her father's remarriage, and the death of her best friend.

Illustrations and rhyming text present some of the different ways a well-behaved dinosaur can celebrate the eight days and nights of Chanukah.