Graff, Nancy Price

A mother and child listen and look as night settles in.

Captures the way of life of the Joyces, a fishing family on Swans Island off the coast of Maine, as they spend their lives harvesting the bounty of the sea.

After moving to his mother's small hometown in Vermont, twelve-year-old Riley must reconsider his feelings about war and heroes when he meets a man who refused to fight in Vietnam and makes a discovery about one of his own relatives.

Portrays life on a small family farm in Vermont by describing a single day in the hard-working but prideful existence of its owners.

Describes the experiences of a family of Cambodian refugees as they learn to adjust to a different way of life in the United States while holding on to their ethnic heritage.

Thirteen-year-old Gus, sent to live with his grandparents in Vermont while his mother recovers from tuberculosis and his father serves in the Army Air Corps during World War II, learns lessons about life, responsibility, and friendship while hatching and raising a brood of orphaned ducks, and getting to know and understand his neighbor Louise Lavictoire.