Patricia Polacco

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.

Naomi, an Amish girl whose elders have impressed upon her the importance of adhering to the simple ways of her people, is horrified when one of her hen eggs hatches into an extremely fancy bird.

During a scarlet fever epidemic one winter in Michigan, a Jewish family helps make Christmas special for their sick neighbors by making their own Hanukkah miracle. Includes a CD of the author reading the story with music by Hankus Netsky.

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.

Drawing on the author's memories of her youth, a girl recalls the special summer spent in Michigan with her yarn-spinning father and a magic rock.

Grandma finds a way to dispel her grandchild's fear of thunderstorms.

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.

When Mr. Lincoln, "the coolest principal in the whole world," discovers that Eugene, the school bully, knows a lot about birds, he uses this interest to help Eugene overcome his intolerance.

After losing running, climbing, throwing, and burping competitions to her obnoxious older brother, a young girl makes a wish on a falling star.

During the Depression, a young Memphis boy trains his pet duck to do tricks in the fountain of a grand hotel and ends up becoming the Duck Master of the Peabody Hotel.