A young Chinese girl beginning a new life in America describes how her difficult adjustment was made more endurable when she made her first American friend.
A collection of "word riffs" written by students as they express in words what they see in a number of photographs of children around the world playing.
Although they don't know anything about her, a farmer and his wife take in a secretive, starving young woman and allow her to hide on their isolated farm when the Nazis come looking for her. Based on the experiences of the author's grandmother.
A desperate Indian begs the Spirit for food for his hungry people; and after offering his most precious possession as a sacrifice, his people are rewarded with the buffalo, which they have treated with reverence ever since.
