Youth Paperback Non-fiction Durrell, Gerald. Tired of English weather, the Durrell family moves to Greece, where young Gerry's animal collections are only a small part of the unusual household. The Giver , 1993. In a future world where people are assigned to particular families and jobs, a boy learns that his assigned life-task will separate him from everyone else. Rio Grande Stories , 1994.
Seventh graders collect stories about their families and traditions for a local history project.
Loosely based on the author's youth, these stories introduce a number of peculiar family members and acquaintances. Cassie Logan and her family face prejudice and discrimination in the deep South during the 1930s. Four children are abandoned by their mother and walk several hundred miles to the grandmother who does not know they exist.