INTERMEDIATE FICTION
Kalmar, Daphne

A Stitch in Time

(3) 4-6 In Prohibition-era Vermont, eleven-year-old taxidermist Dorothy Sedgewick, called "Donut," is still reeling from the accidental death of her beloved father when her caregiver, Aunt Agnes, announces that they must move to Boston. Heartbroken and determined not to go, Donut runs away and has an eye-opening adventure of her own. Readers will warm to this unique historical tale's tough-as-nails young heroine.

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