Pat Lowery Collins

The War Between the States may be over for the rest of the country, but not for Kit Weston. Disguised as a boy, she's come to New York City to kill Baron Cain, the man who stands between her and Risen Glory, the South Carolina home she loves. But unknown to Kit, the Yankee war hero is more than her most bitter enemy -- he's also her guardian. And he'll be a lot harder to kill than she's figured on....

A youngster relates the unusual attributes of his friend, Andrew.

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.

Poet Pat Lowery Collins shows children that their everyday motions—catching a ball, reaching up to a shelf, or shuffling through the rain—can contain all of the elements of a dance. Mark Graham's lovely oil paintings give the reader a new appreciation of the beauty of natural movements.

An artist describes finding natural beauty in the world around us.

Hildy is so angry that she thinks she will hide from her family forever, but they manage to find her and make things right.

In the mid-nineteenth-century shipbuilding town of Essex, Massachusetts, twelve-year-old Addie learns a startling secret about her past when she escapes servitude by running away to live in the snowy woods and meets an elderly Wampanoag woman.

A young boy accompanies his father on a woodland tour in the hope of spotting a deer, a shared quest that takes them over dunes and through a marsh into a wooded area filled with captivating wildlife.

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

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

John makes a "pet" of a tumbleweed, considering it to be a friend and missing it when it disappears.

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

Text and photographs describe what happens when Missy's brother Joe is born prematurely and needs special care in the hospital, disrupting family routines and causing Missy to feel confused and left out.