CHILDREN MAKE TERRIBLE PETS & MORE ST

When Lucy, a young bear, discovers a boy lost in the woods, she asks her mother if she can have him as a pet, only to find him impossible to train; follows a circle of family and friends through the course of a day from morning until night, affirming theimportance of all things great and small in the world; nine-year-old Liz accompanies the stranger who is her father, just returned from the war, when he goes hunting for crows in Pennsylvania farmland; Elizabeth longs to care for something of her own after her baby brother is born.