RIF's 60th Anniversary Highlighted Book for 1969. A tiny caterpillar hatches from an egg one sunny morning, and he is very, very hungry! He munches his way through all kinds of yummy foods, getting bigger with every bite. What will happen when he wraps himself in a cozy cocoon, and what will he become when he comes out?
The Pecan Sheller is a moving historical novel set in 1930s San Antonio, following thirteen-year-old Petra as she is forced to leave school to work in a grueling pecan factory.