Edward Fenton

Feeling imprisoned by life in a grimy town of poor immigrant families near Pittsburgh during the 1930s, young Timothy Brennan sets out to find his father who abandoned him many years earlier.

In a quiet Greek village during the summer of 1922 five children, among them an American boy and girl, inhabit a private world which reflects the troubled world of their elders.

Impressed by the lion at the zoo, a little boy decides he, too, is a lion but nobody will believe him.

A poor Sicilian boy meets a professor and a painter and learns that miracles are not the splendid stories of the past, but are built from the events and realities of the present.

When no one finds a way to bring back his famous pet pelican, kidnapped by fishermen from another island, the young master decides to act alone and late one night rows to the other island.

A cat stalks a big yellow balloon that he thinks is the sun and begins a strange parade of animals and people.

When Paul finds a nickel, he has a brief chance to be the center of attention in Widow Shinn's candy shop.

An Irish-Catholic boy growing up in the Pittsburgh area in the 1930's painfully searches for his identity.

Depressed over the death of her mother, twelve-year-old Carla makes a visit to her mother's aunt and uncle in Greece where she finds comfort and joy with the family situation, but shock and danger with the political situation in the early 1970s.