In Baltimore in the 1920s, ten-year-old Dorothea slowly comes to a better understanding of Stubs, the oldAfrican American ragman who used to frighten her, and in the process she begins to cope with her mother's recent death.
Includes instructions, and in some cases background information, for a variety of artistic or useful items that can be made with readily available materials.
Running away after the random stabbing of her mother, a junior high school girl encounters a wounded coyote pup and nurses him in an abandoned root cellar in the Wisconsin woods.
