Jessie lives with her grandmother in an East European village. Her life is a full and happy one. She sits in at the boys’...

Sun-hee and her older brother, Tae-yul, live in Korea with their parents. Because Korea is under Japanese occupation, the children study Japanese and speak it at school. Their own...

Ten-year-old Ursula helps her parents run their stagecoach stop in Whistle, Montana, spends time wandering through the hills, and plays a pirate adventure game...

Can too much education drive a girl to the brink of insanity? Residents of Victorian England believed the answer to be yes. Bright, curious Louisa Cosgrove, who has very...

“Dear Judith, I’m coming home,”is the beginning of William Shakespeare: His Life and Times. In this letter to his daughter Judith, he apologizes for being away so long. The...

Set in Maine, as it becomes a state, this is the story of Will, who has lost his leg. He goes to live in town with his sister and...

Have you ever finished a book and felt that there must be more to the story? Perhaps there were characters left behind and you wanted to know their stories,...

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What sort of choices does a fourteen-year-old boy have during the Civil War, when his father dies and leaves him to take care of the farm and family? His...

This book deals with the harsh and true realities of racism in the South after the court decision for integration of schools in 1954. Dawnie is one of the...