Tugs Button is not expected to make anything of her life. She comes from a perfectly ordinary, if not unlucky, family in rural Iowa. It's 1929 and 12 year old Tug is at an in-between stage. She doesn't know where she fits in with her family or with the other girls in her neighborhood. When she ma...
A boy and his loyal dog roam freely and make mischief in a compelling portrait of a spirited family in bygone America.Born Harold Sylvester George Klein, Little Klein can’t seem to measure up to the "Bigs." His older brothers are a boisterous gang held together by the bustling, bighearted Mother ...
"The letters are personal and immediate, and the story is full of details that evoke the historical period. . . . The simple words grab your heart." — BOOKLIST It’s a good thing nine-year-old Isabelle is learning to write letters at school, because she has a lot to write to Papa about after he d...
Ike pulled Barfoot’s snout out of the daisy patch at the boardinghouse on Water Street. He leaned his forehead into his horse’s neck and took a deep breath, then another. He wished he could unsee what he’d seen. A carriage clattered by and Ike ducked under Barfoot’s belly and stood out of sight o...
He glanced at the clock, then back out the window. If only Granddaddy would meander past the school like he sometimes did, pausing to talk to anyone who happened to be out, or if Ned could just see him sitting in his spot on his porch, whistling or napping. The day was dragging on forever. When t...
Tugs didn’t know if she was supposed to open the screen to reach the knocker or if she should knock on the screen door itself or simply shout yoo-hoo, as was her habit when she was running into familiar houses. There was a doorbell, but she couldn’t make herself press it. She could hear squeals a...