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Front Porch Stories at the One-Room School
Front Porch Stories at the OneRoom School Author:Tate Twelve-year-old Margie Carson love hearing stories. And her daddy loves to tell them. One hot summer night Daddy, Margie, and her seven-year-old cousin Ethel troop over to the old one-room school for a round of special storytelling. Daddy tells the girls about the time Aunt Daisy was chased by a scary, eight-foot-tall shadow one Sunday night ... more »in her backyard... about the flood that nearly washed away the whole town and left a catfish on a neighbor's pillow... stories about rocks that bite and walnut wars... stories about Mary McLeod Bethune and the time Eleanor Roosevelt came to town...ten wonderful stories in all.« less