Jackie French Koller

Thirteen-year-old Danny and his family are struggling to make ends meet in New York during the Great Depression. His father leaves to search for work, and Danny and his mother do what they can to survive. With his mother pregnant and unable to help, Danny is forced to beg for food. Through it all, they retain their good humor and family pride, and in the end help arrives in a most unexpected guise.

One by one, seven monkeys who go out to have a good time wind up falling in love over the course of a week.

One hot summer day, four bored children start a watermelon seed-spitting battle that soon spreads throughout their town.