The Boy on the Porch
by Sharon Creech
151 pages

What is the right thing to do?  This mysterious and bittersweet tale raises some moral questions as it unfolds.  A boy is discovered one morning sleeping on the porch of a young farming couple, John and Marta.  The note that they find promises "Wil be bak wen we can," but when day after day nobody appears to reclaim him, John and Marta have to work out what to do.
Grade 4