Maggie Kneen

Relates the special relationship between a young girl named Fern and Wilbur, the spring pig she raises and loves.

Poems and illustrations trace the yearly life cycle of toads from tadpoles in the spring to adults which hibernate in the winter.

With their father en route to Africa for Doctors Without Borders, city-kids Nicholas and younger twin sisters Haley and Hetty are off to spend the summer with their Great-Uncle Nick at his house on Forsaken Lake. Despite some initial doubts, Nicholas is right at home in the country: he learns to sail, learns about his father as a boy, and makes fast friends with a local-girl, the tomboy Charlie.
The summer takes a turn toward the mysterious, though,...