At the Little White Cabin Author:Marian Schooland "Bonnie Baxter and her best friend, Bessie Small, are very excited when a moving van backs up to the little brown house on the corner--just across the backyard fence at Bessie's house. Who can be moving into such an old run-down place? They soon find out, and the ones who live there soon draw Bessie, Bonnie, and Bonnie's brother, Bruce, into a p... more »roject that causes them anxious and nervous moments. Bonnie and Bruce's parents encourage and help them, and the summer turns out to be a very exciting and interesting one. The children learn some good lessons on helpfulness, kindness, and forgetting themselves for the good of others, while experiencing the happiness that doing this always brings to those who do it. They learn not to judge others before they learn to know them. And they learn a host of fascinating secrets of nature that were about them all the time, but that they had never paid any attention to or observed before. There is a great happiness near the end of the book, and also sadness. Life always brings changes, some happy and some not so happy. A book that junior age children are sure to enjoy."« less