Follows a family's emigration by prairie schooner from the East, across the plains to Kansas.
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With her father and brothers gone to serve in the Civil War and her mother sick, teenage Valor ignores what is proper behavior for a girl and fights to defend her North Carolina mountain farm.
The wisdom of peace and the absurdity of fighting are demonstrated in seventeen stories and poems by outstanding authors of today such as Jean Fritz, Milton Meltzer, and Nancy Willard, illustrated by famous illustrators such as Paul Zelinsky, the Dillons, and Maurice Sendak.
Nine-year-old Gregory's house does not have room for a garden, but he creates a surprising and very different garden in an unusual place.
What would have happened if atomic bombs had not been dropped on Japan in August 1945? Distinguished military writer historians Thomas B. Allen and Norman Polmar answer that provocative question in Code-Name Downfall, a vivid and dramatic narrative of America's war in the Pacific...
As he and his family prepare to leave, a child takes one last look at their farm home.
Unrequited love. Abiding fear. Infinite vengeance. Unfinished business. Sometimes the dead return? Ghost Stories: The stuff that screams are made of.
Examines the exorcism of a Mt. Rainier boy in 1949 that prompted Peter Blatty to write The Exorcist.
The kids' classic about a magical summer of baseball, wild adventures, first kisses, and fearsome confrontations with the dreaded Beast.
A farm boy meets his hero, Colonel Charles Lindbergh, when he lands his bi-plane in a field near Canton, Mississippi, in 1929.
A biography of Revolutionary War general and first President of the United States, George Washington, focusing on his use of spies to gather intelligence that helped the colonies win the war.
Tells the life story of Hungarian-born poet and Holocaust heroine Hannah Senesh, who was only 22 when she parachuted into Nazi-occupied Europe as part of a rescue mission to save the Jews of Hungary. Dramatizations, interviews, photographs, newsreel footage, letters, and diary e...
Lincoln knew that winning the war would take more than the same old strategies and maneuvers. It would require using technology to create new ways of waging war. Lincoln worked to make sure his soldiers and sailors had the best and latest hardware. By combining new tools with tim...