Eve Bunting
3) Smoky night
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Daniel and his mother look out of their window at the smoky night below. There are looters on the street, fires in the distance. Daniel clutches his cat, Jasmine. But later, when they're forced to leave the apartment building, Jasmine can't be found. Mrs. Kim's cat is missing too. Where are they? They can't be with each other. Those cats don't get along ... This story is about cats and people who couldn't get along until a night of rioting brings...
4) The Banshee
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When Terry wakes up in the middle of the night to horrible screeching, he thinks the Banshee has come to pay his family a visit.
5) Whose shoe?
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A conscientious mouse tries to locate the owner of a single unclaimed shoe.
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Danny, new to town, is proud when a glittery-eyed tiger invites him for a ride. He climbs up onto the tiger's massive back, and together they cruise the neighborhood. Everyone gives them respect--shopkeepers and passersby, even other kids. Danny feels powerful and much older than ten. Soon, though, he realizes it isn't respect people feel for him and the tiger--it's fear. And when he decides to get down off the tiger's back, he discovers it's a lot...
8) December
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A homeless family's luck changes after they help an old woman who has even less than they do at Christmas.
9) One candle
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Every year a family celebrates Hanukkah by retelling the story of how Grandma and her sister managed to mark the day while in a German concentration camp.
10) Yard sale
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Callie and her family are moving from their house to an apartment, so they're having a yard sale. It can be hard to let things go, but in the end, it's who you have - not what you have - that counts.
14) Rudi's pond
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When a sick boy dies, his friends and classmates remember him by building a schoolyard pond in his memory.
15) Pop's bridge
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Robert and his friend Charlie are proud of their fathers, who are working on the construction of San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge.
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Big Bear outgrew his little boat, so he is building himself a big boat and can't wait till he's rowing, fishing, and relaxing in it. When his friends start suggesting improvements, Big Bear obligingly follows theri advice. To his dismay, his big boat is turning out all wrong. It's because he hasn't followed his own dream, and he knows ecactly how to fix it. With all the simplicity, warmth, and wisdom of Little Bera's Little Boat, this book honors...