Christine McDonnell

""ustice is not three hots and a cot. Justice is having your own key." -Kip Tiernan When Kip Tiernan was growing up during the Great Depression, she'd help her granny feed the men who came to their door asking for help. As Kip grew older, and as she continued to serve food to hungry people, she noticed something peculiar: huddled at the back of serving lines were women dressed as men. At the time, it was believed that there were no women experiencing...

Dog is eager to have fun, but no one in the barnyard will play with him except one special friend.

The adventures of Leo in which he finds a lost dog, surprises the class on book report day, and survives his mother's experiments with vegetarian cooking.

During the summer between third and fourth grades, Leo plays in a baseball league, buys his sister's tree house and camps out in it with his friend Johnny, gets a dog from the animal shelter, and endures a visit from his whining younger cousin Tim.

Reunited for the summer, friends Emily, Ivy, and Lydia keep busy creating a day camp, a toddler day care center, and other projects.