The Gift-Giver

by Joyce Hansen

Published 1 March 1989

Yellow Bird and ME

by Joyce Hansen

Published 1 April 1986
Doris becomes friends with Yellow Bird as she helps him with his studies and his part in the school play and discovers that he has a problem known as dyslexia.

One True Friend

by Joyce Hansen

Published 1 January 2001
Fourteen-year-old orphan Amir, living in Syracuse, exchanges letters with his friend Doris, still living in their old Bronx neighborhood, in which they share their lives and give each other advice on friendship, family, foster care, and making decisions.