Good-Bye, Chicken Little

A boy discovers that he doesn't have to feel responsible for his uncle's drowning.

A river ran through Morgantown, West Virginia, and sometimes it froze solid in the winter. While I lived in Morgantown, there were several newspaper stories of men attempting to walk across the ice with varying degrees of success. This book begins with one of the attempted crossings that didn't succeed. But Jimmie Little's family turns what was a tragedy into a celebration of life.