When Wilfong the wolf fails to blow down the house of the Pygg brothers, he stays outside their door all winter learning their games and listening to their jokes and stories, but although he claims to be reformed, the pigs are reluctant to offer friendship.

A collection of narrative poems about three girls growing up in the South during the 1950s and what happens when they discover boys.

Courtney Carmichael, her younger brother, and her depressed, newly-divorced, out-of-work mother move from New Hampshire to Florida into a decrepit house on Cemetery Street, where spooky occurrences make the family feel increasingly unsettled.