Lynne Rae Perkins

"The sea is salty and stretches for miles. The waves keep waving. The sand is hot. The gulls are diving. The dolphins are jumping. And the sisters-little sister, big sister, true sisters, secret sisters-are ready for summer."--Page [4] of cover.

A teenaged boy encounters one comedic calamity after another when his train strands him in the middle of nowhere, and everything comes down to luck.

Lissie fearlessly embraces new experiences when she travels to Guatemala with her dad and grandmother.

When the world feels too big, loud, and busy, a young girl imagines a museum where she can organize little pieces of it and wonder about them.

Given a camera that takes and prints tiny pictures just before leaving for the family farm in Canada, a young girl records a vacation that gets off to a slow start, but winds up being a family reunion filled with good memories.

When Debbie tries to interest Tina in playing the piano by creating a cardboard keyboard, they find not only does it not have the same appeal but also that they do not need to share everything to be best friends.

Hoping for trees or a flower garden, Tiffany transplants and cares for some seedlings that she finds and is surprised by what they become.

It takes a visit to her aunt's house to make Janet appreciate her parents and their unusual way of looking at everything.

"Little Bird faces many challenges when attempting to find her flock's good-luck charm that was lost during an attack by a wild fisher cat"-- Provided by publisher.