Gail Fleming catches polio, and is left unable to walk.

    Used to the regularity of home life, orphaned Emma goes to live with a bohemian aunt in Edinburgh who keeps unusual hours, has strange friends, leaves the dishes, which helps Emma develop a sense of responsibility and maturity.

    15 new, extremely funny, pieces by the author of "Please Don't Eat the Daisies." These stories run the gamut from home entertaining to Twiggy with a laugh every step of the way.

    SHE knows why she fires stones at anything and everything -- isn't she the best shot in Georgia? SHE knows why she is defiant with her teachers and deliberately mean to her schoolmates -- aren't they all against her? And Queenie doesn't care -- not Queenie Peavy!The fact is that Queenie has a chip on her shoulder too big for a lonely thirteen year old to carry. Times have "turned off hard" for everybody in the early 1930s, and they are especially hard for a girl whose idolized father has been in jail and whose mother works long hours. But in spite of all that, Queenie can be happy, for Queenie has character. ~ from back cover of 1975 Dell paperback edition

    He would lie on it for hours, dreaming of all the distant towns and cities he wanted to see. But late one fall afternoon, it slipped out of the shallows where he kept it hidden and into the dark, powerful current of the river.All through the night Chris clung to his raft as it swept past the empty miles of wilderness to the South. When he finally swam ashore, he faced a long, nightmare journey home. Barefoot and equipped with nothing but a broken-bladed pocket-knife, Chris had to find food, make his own fire, stave off wild animals- and reach safety before the first snow fell.