country life

"When Sara and her King cousins go exploring near the old,run-down Lloyd mansion - and discover reclusive Old Miss Lloyd within - Sara makes it her mission to discover the secrets behind Old Lady Lloyd's lonely, reclusive life. She gets some unexpected help from Sylvia Grey, Aunt Olivia's dear friend and a talented songstress, whose beautiful voice casts a mesmerizing spell on hard-hearted Miss Lloyd, and begins to reveal the truth." - cover.

Fourteen-year-old Calogero Scalise and his Sicilian uncles and cousin live in small-town Louisiana in 1898, when Jim Crow laws rule and anti-immigration sentiment is strong, so despite his attempts to be polite and to follow American customs, disaster dogs his family at every turn.

Fourteen-year-old Eleanor "Peewee" McGrath, a tomboy and automobile enthusiast, discovers new possibilities for her future after the 1914 arrival in her small Indiana town of four young librarians.

Introduces the letters of the alphabet in woodcut illustrations and brief text depicting the changing seasons in the northern woods.

In 1949 in the Florida Everglades, a ten-year-old girl called Bones, whose father is part Miccosukee Indian, tries to discover what really happened when he is accused of two murders and sent to jail.

Thirteen-year-old fraternal twins Dallas and Florida have grown up in a terrible orphanage but their lives change forever when an eccentric but sweet older couple invites them each on an adventure, beginning in an almost magical place called Ruby Holler.

Anne, an eleven-year-old orphan, is sent by mistake to live with a lonely middle-aged brother and sister on a Prince Edward Island farm and proceeds to make an indelible impression on everyone around her.

Eleven-year-old Toby wants a normal vacation, so he keeps secret a new lump he discovers to avoid additional treatments for his cancer. He learns about the important things in life from Pearl, an older woman on a nearby farm, and her cow named Blossom.