Collins, Pat Lowery

Lyrical narrative and richly detailed illustrations capture the quiet wonder of a young boy and his father on a nature walk through the summer woods.

A teenage girl living on a tropical island runs away to escape her tribe's customs of arranged marriages and female genital mutilation.

A teenage girl living on a tropical island runs away to escape her tribe's customs of arranged marriages and female genital mutilation.

Looks at the natural movements children make throughout everyday life as dancing.

During the Depression, having discovered that she has the ability to have out-of-body experiences, twelve-year-old Mary Francis tries to use it to deal with the "peculiar domestic situation" caused by her family's financial plight.

In a series of letters, a fourteen-year-old convent school student who never knew her mother and resents her father, grapples with her belief that God has chosen her to give birth to a prophet.

When Turtle tells Squirrel he'd like to fly, Squirrel finds a way to help him--much to Turtle's dismay!.

Anetta, Rosalba, and Luisa, find their lives taking unexpected paths while growing up in eighteenth century Venice at the orphanage Ospedale della Pieta, where concerts are given to support the orphanage as well as expose the girls to potential suitors.

On a trip to the aquarium with his brother Jon, Tim finds that his inability to read the many signs gets him in trouble.

Millie knows her three-year-old cousin will love the way she takes care of him when his parents go away--even though he does kick and spit and scream at her.