Nine-year-old Katie Mackey, the daughter of the most affluent family in a small Indiana town, disappears one night while riding her bike to the library, throwing the town into turmoil.
While surreptitiously reading Darwin's "Origin of the Species," hoping to prove it wrong, fourteen-year-old Mel, a "Jesus freak," uncovers a family secret that changes her views on her family, her church and, most vitally, her assumptions about God and science.
Everyone in Eerie, Indiana loves the new vegetables the local farm is growing, but when people start growing leaves and turning green, Marshall and his friend know that they have to do something before everyone in town turns into a plant.
As a young boy and his family endure hard times on their Indiana farm, they look forward to the letters and promises of help from their uncle out West.
An introduction to Indiana that describes the geography, history, and social conditions; and includes a drawing activity, a time line that highlights important events, additional facts, and important figures. Presented in English and Spanish.
A young boy recalls life with his feisty grandmother who came to stay after the birth of his baby brother. Loosely based upon the author's boyhood in Indiana during the early 1900's.
