Lois Lenski

In 1945, in Florida, ten-year-old Birdie Boyer and her family struggle to make their new farm prosper despite heat, droughts, cold snaps, and rowdy neighbors.

A boy and his grandpa hope to strike oil in drought-ridden Oklahoma 
It’s hot in Oklahoma. There’s no wind, the wells are dry, and the ground is dead. Orvie’s family is doing everything they can to keep their farm going. If they miss a payment on the mortgage, the bank will take their home away, and they’ll have nowhere else to go. Farming is tough, honest work, and it’s no way to get rich. For years,...

Joel, son of an Oregon logger, grows up in a family that sees the forest as a thing to be cut down; but as he watches fire, flood, and cutting damage the forests he loves, and realizes the dangers of his father's profession, he is better able to select the right future for himself.

Sally and her family live in Vermont. A major flood in towns affects everyone. The family stays in the high school until the flood recedes.

During a blizzard Miss Martin, the teacher, and some of the children are forced to stay in the school house.

After Tacy Kelly moves into the house across the street from Betsy Ray, the five-year-olds become inseparable friends.

Jim Drummond and his family want a piece of land of their very own and the security that comes with it. Travelling as a migrant farm workers brings daughter Judy in contact with lots of people of different walks of life, color, and beliefs.

A young African American girl moves from the South to the North and finds that family is the same wherever you go
Nobody can climb a tree as fast as Lula Bell. Although her mother tells her to be ladylike, Lula Bell prefers fishing and climbing and scrapping in the dirt with the boys. When her day is done, she sits on the porch with her grandmother Hattie, and listens to her tell stories of the North. Up there, Mama Hattie says, everybody’s...

Cowboy Small takes good care of his horse, rides the range, helps in the roundup, and rides a bucking bronco.

Celebrate the 90th anniversary of The Little Engine That Could with this all-time classic reillustrated by Caldecott Award-winning artist Dan Santat! The kindness and determination of the Little Blue Engine have inspired millions of children around the world since the story was first published in 1930. Cherished by readers for ninety years, The Little Engine That Could is a classic tale of a little engine that, despite her size, triumphantly pulls...