Polacco, Patricia

Say Curtis describes his meeting with Pinkus Aylee, a black soldier, during the Civil War, and their capture by Southern troops. Based on a true story about the author's great-great-grandfather.

During a scarlet-fever epidemic one winter in Michigan, a Jewish family helps make Christmas special for their sick neighbors by making their own Hanukkah miracle.

Drawing on the author's memories of her youth, a girl recalls the special summer spent in Michigan with her yarn-spinning father and a magic rock.

The author remembers the summer when she was ten years old and staying with her father in Michigan where she took riding lessons and became best friends with a perfect horse.

Grandparents, aunts and uncles, and children gather at a farm house to celebrate Christmas in the Russian tradition.

A rhyming celebration of goats and their antics, from A to Z.

Emma Kate and her best friend share many activities, such as homework and soccer practice, and even have their tonsils out at the same time--all the things best friends do, but there is more to this best friend than meets the eye.

A homemade quilt ties together the lives of four generations of an immigrant Jewish family, remaining a symbol of their enduring love and faith.

Presents a collection of traditional rhymes, rewritten to feature Russian characters and scenes.

When the Graves family goes on their annual camping trip to Lake Bleakmire, they make a frightening discovery in the forest.