Lois Lenski

Ten-year-old Birdie can not wait to pick the strawberries her family has planted at their new home in the Florida backwoods.

A Cajun girl tries to keep her family together on the Louisiana bayou. It's been almost 2 years since Suzette's father caught 2 bullets in his back. Since then, he's been bed-ridden, too sick to hunt or fish or do any of the things a bayou man must do to keep his family fed. While he heals, Suzette scours the swamps around her house for fish, gators, or anything she can sell to put food on the table. It's hard, but Suzette is a proud Cajun, and work...

What would it be like to live on a houseboat on the Mississippi River with two parents, four kids, eight chickens, several turtles, a dog, and a cat? Patsy and her family are about to find out! At first, Patsy is upset when her parents decide to move from their home in River City, Illinois, to a houseboat on the Mississippi River. She'll miss her house and friends, and she's sure the trip downriver will be boring. Gradually, she and her brother and...

This story tells all about Mr. Small and his little red auto, how he keeps it shining, how he rides out in it, how he fills it with gas, how he stops for red light signs, and how he parks it. In fact it tells everything about a little auto that very young boys and girls want to know --Dust jacket.