Title: The berry-picking man
First published: 2003
Description: Nine-year-old Meggie resents spending time with a strange, smelly old man who calls her mother whenever he needs a ride, but when Christmas finds him in the hospital she knows what she must do.
Subjects: Empathy, Family life, Fiction, Old age, Berries, Christmas, Children's fiction, Farm life, fiction
LC classification: PZ7.B877135 Be 2003