Dream On Child's Room

Molly and Emmett are back in a new, charming story! This delightful addition to the Molly and Emmett series finds Molly hard at work on an autobiography for a school assignment. As Molly pours over family photos and gathers stories from relatives, Emmett is dismayed that he knows nothing of his own history! But rather than mope, the resourceful cat dreams up some famous cat relatives of his own-cats that lived everywhere from the pyramids of Ancient Egypt to the shore of Plymouth Harbor!

"An ingenious simplicity and grace mark the first-person telling of the story of eleven-year-old Rinko and her Japanese family in Berkeley, California. Times are hard for everyone in 1935, but being Japanese is for Rinko an added burden. . . . Compared with the many worldly-wise contemporary book heroines, Rinko in her guilelessness is genuine and refreshing, and her worries and concerns seem wholly natural, honest and convincing."--The Horn Book.

Benjamin Hunter gets two things for his twelfth birthday: a freshly renovated room in the attic from his parents and a letter from his uncle, Ian, whom he hasn't seen in nearly ten years. Ben is lukewarm about the room . . . but the letter! It's an invitation to visit, and Ben has an unexplainable urge to see-and know-this man who's been estranged from the family for so long. That is, if Ben's mother can let go of an old grudge long enough to let him have his wish...Beloved author Kevin Henkes delivers...