Author: Eve Bunting
Publisher: Clarion Book
Keywords: muller, miss, spying
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 1995-04-24
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 0395691729
ISBN-13: 9780395691724

Before World War II began, Jessie Drumm and her friends at Alveara boarding school in Belfast liked their German teacher, Miss Muller. But after Jessie sees the teacher climbing to the roof at night, she and the others wonder if Miss Muller is a secret agent, signaling the enemy. Hoping to prove her favorite teacher’s innocence, Jessie agrees to help spy on her. The escalating war, Jessie’s family problems, a first romance, and the revelation of Miss Muller’s real purpose intertwine in this suspenseful, sensitively written novel. Eve Bunting combines her own youthful experien

Author: Eve Bunting
Publisher: Sandpiper
Keywords: wheels, summer
Number of Pages: 48
Published: 1996-05-01
List price: $7.00
ISBN-10: 0152009884
ISBN-13: 9780152009885

The Bicycle Man lends bikes to the neighborhood kids for free, and Lawrence and Brady ride them all summer long. But when a new kid takes advantage of the Bicycle Man, Lawrence and Brady discover that there’s one thing that the Man likes more than bikes: kids. "An inspiring story."--Kirkus Reviews

Author: Eve Bunting
Publisher: Sandpiper
Keywords: work, day
Number of Pages: 32
Published: 1997-04-14
List price: $6.95
ISBN-10: 0395845181
ISBN-13: 9780395845189

Francisco, a young Mexican-American boy, helps his grandfather find work as a gardener, even though the old man cannot speak English and knows nothing about gardening.

Author: Eve Bunting
Publisher: HarperCollins
Keywords: books, picture, trophy, home, going
Number of Pages: 32
Published: 1998-09-30
List price: $6.99
ISBN-10: 0064435091
ISBN-13: 9780064435093

Christmas is coming and Carlos and his family are going home-driving south across the border to Mexico. But Mexico doesn’t seem like home to Carlos, even though he and his sisters were born there. Can home be a place you don’t really remember?At first, La Perla doesn’t seem very different from the other villages they pass through. But then Carlos is swept into the festivities by Grandfather, Aunt Ana, and the whole village. Finally, Carlos begins to understand Mama and Papa’s love for the place they left behind, and realizes that home can be anywhere, because it stays i

Author: Eve Bunting
Publisher: HMH Books
Keywords: board, book, sized, lap, garden, flower
Number of Pages: 30
Published: 2008-03-01
List price: $10.95
ISBN-10: 0152065164
ISBN-13: 9780152065164

A girl and her father go to the store to buy plants, soil, and a window box for a flower garden that’s going places: from the store, to the shopping cart, on the bus ride home, and up the stairs to become a colorful birthday surprise for the little girl’s mother.

Author: Eve Bunting
Publisher: Sandpiper
Keywords: somewhere, train
Number of Pages: 32
Published: 2000-04-17
List price: $6.95
ISBN-10: 0618040315
ISBN-13: 9780618040315

Marianne, heading west with fourteen other children on an Orphan Train, is sure her mother will show up at one of the stations along the way. When her mother left Marianne at the orphanage, hadn’t she promised she’d come for her after making a new life in the West? Stop after stop goes by, and there’s no sign of her mother in the crowds that come to look over the children. No one shows any interest in adopting shy, plain Marianne, either. But that’s all right: She has to be free for her mother to claim her. Then the train pulls into its final stop, a town called Somewh

Author: Eve Bunting
Publisher: Sandpiper
Keywords: home, sunshine
Number of Pages: 32
Published: 2005-05-23
List price: $6.99
ISBN-10: 0618551573
ISBN-13: 9780618551576

Eve Bunting addresses the social issue of the elderly or unwell grandparents and how even a child can offer real consolation to them.