Tricia struggles in elementary school because she has difficulty learning to read. Finally in fifth grade she gets a teacher who is able to recognize her problem and help her succeed.

The author remembers the summer when she was ten years old and staying with her father in Michigan where she took riding lessons and became best friends with a perfect horse.

An injured goose rescued by Babushka, having broken the painted eggs intended for the Easter Festival in Moscva, lays thirteen marvelously colored eggs to replace them, then leaves behind one final miracle in egg form before returning to her own kind.

A homemade quilt ties together the lives of four generations of an immigrant Jewish family, remaining a symbol of their enduring love and faith.

During the Nazi occumpation of France, Monique's mother hides a Jewish family in her basement and tries to help them escape to freedom.

Whenever Mary Ellen needed Betty Doll she was there. Now when Mary Ellen's daughter needs Betty Doll most, she opens a package and rediscovers the sweet old doll, along with a letter written by her mother just before she died.

Three goats visit a fair but run home after they seem to encounter a troll.

To thank Miss Eula for her wonderful Sunday chicken dinners, three children sell decorated eggs to buy her a beautiful Easter hat.

A stray dog secretly adopted by the men of a U.S. Coast Guard base in San Francisco Bay proves to be a hero.

Presents a collection of traditional rhymes, rewritten to feature Russian characters and scenes.