Ann Warren Turner

One stormy night just before Halloween a ginger cat finds shelter and kind people at a library, but at night, all alone, she recognizes that the library cannot be a real home because something is missing.

In Greenmarsh, Massachusetts, in 1774, thirteen-year-old Prudence keeps a diary of the troubles she and her family face as Tories surrounded by American patriots at the start of the American Revolution.

Papa's statement that he would like to have Mrs. Hedgehog for breakfast leads George and Charles to try to cook her in their kitchen, but their guest does not seem to realize that they intend her for the main course.

A boy who came from far away to be adopted by a couple in this country remembers how unfamiliar and frightening some of the things were in his new home, before he accepted the love to be found there.

A series of poems describe what Christmas means to various members of a household--grandparents, parents, children, pets, and even the house itself.

Celebrates the way of life of the people who began forming communities in America in 1774 and who numbered more than 4,000 members in the late 1820s.

The Clark family keeps busy through all four seasons at their apple orchard, pruning dead branches at the end of winter, carrying the beehives among the trees in May, propping up branches heavy with summer fruit, and harvesting the apples in the fall.

When she, her sister Rose, and her parents come to live in her grandmother's old country house, eight-year-old Emily draws them all into her efforts to find youngest of a neglected family of dolls.

Lying in bed at night, Sarah wonders what life will be like when she moves to her new house, and her mother comes and reassures her.