Larson, Kirby

A little girl wants to build a snowman with her brother but he is too busy sledding to help, so she tells her Bitty Baby doll a story about Bitty Baby and a polar bear learning to play together and discovering what they are able to do.

Wanting to share a tea party with a new next-door neighbor, a little girl and her doll, Bitty Baby, overcome their trepidation about making new friends with someone who is different by remembering the story about Bitty Baby and a hedgehog.

A little girl calms her nervousness about a ballet recital by telling her Bitty Baby doll a story about a bunny who overcomes stage fright before a hopping contest.

An Asian girl loves playing with her baby doll and wishes they can be best friends forever.

After inheriting her uncle's homesteading claim in Montana, sixteen-year-old orphan Hattie Brooks travels from Iowa in 1917 to make a home for herself and encounters some unexpected problems related to the war being fought in Europe.

Throughout the twentieth century, Miss Kanagawa, one of fifty-eight dolls made to serve as ambassadors from Japan to the United States, travels the country learning to love while changing the lives of those who need her.

Thirteen-year-old Piper Davis records in her diary her experiences beginning in December 1941 when her brother joins the Navy, the United States goes to war, she attempts to document her life through photography, and her father--the pastor for a Japanese Baptist Church in Seattle--follows his congregants to an Idaho internment camp, taking her along with him. Includes historical notes.

Quinn's class is celebrating National Pig Day, and she's the only one who hasn't brought something for the class Pig Patch.