Historical fiction at its best, this novel by bestselling author Marissa Moss tells the story of Sarah Emma Edmonds, who masqueraded as a man named Frank Thompson during the Civil War. Among her many adventures, she was a nurse on the battlefield and a spy for the Union Army, and was captured by (and escaped from) the Confederates. The novel is narrated by Sarah, offering readers an in-depth look not only at the Civil War but also at her journey to self-discovery as she grapples with living a li...
In their small town of Monroeville, Alabama, in 1930, misfits Tru and Nelle strike up a friendship and find a mystery to solve when someone breaks into the drugstore and steals some candy and a fancy brooch.
Thanksgiving Coloring Books (Pet Cartoon, #19) (Funny Zoo, #4)
by J K Mimo
Sheryl Swoopes, member of the Olympic gold medal-winning U.S. women's basketball team, uses her own life as an example of the importance of never giving up.
A boy describes growing up in the 1930s in a Brooklyn seaside community filled with colorful characters.
George Washington Carver (Real Readers) (Real Readers Series: Level Blue)
by Miena Benitez and Mirna Benitez
A biography of the agriculturist for beginning readers, chronicling his struggle to get an education, his work at the Tuskegee Institute, and how he helped popularize peanuts as a cash crop in the South. Simple text and illustrations describe the life and accomplishments of the African American scientist who promoted the idea of crop rotation and found many uses for peanuts.
Mystics and Psychics (World Religions and Beliefs)
by Joanne Mattern
Animal Coloring Pages (Cartoon in the Zoo, #14) (Animals in Winter, #3)
by Harry Blackice
My American Heroes
by Debra Hedstrom, Deborah Hedstrom, and Elaine Schulte
Frederick Douglass (Famous African Americans) (Great African Americans S.)
by Patricia C. McKissack and Fredrick McKissack
Describes the life and work of the man who escaped slavery to become an orator, writer, and leader in the anti-slavery movement of the nineteenth century.
After their mother dies of typhoid, Verna and her younger sister Carlie move with their father, a psychiatrist, and stern Aunt Maude to an asylum for the mentally ill in early-twentieth-century Michigan, where new ideas in the treatment of mental illness are being proposed, but old prejudices still hold sway.
Rachel's Journal: the Story of a Pioneer Girl (Young American voices)
by Marissa Moss
In this first book in the Young American Voices series, young Rachel and her family travel by covered wagon following the Oregon Trail from Illinois all the way to California. The terrain is rough and the seven-month trip is filled with adventure--a surprise encounter with Indians, a thunderous buffalo stampede, even the perilous crossing of a flooded river. Rachel's own handwritten journal chronicles every detail and features cherished "pasted-in" mementos--wildflowers, buttons, quilt patches--...
Hometown Holidays
by Lori Angdahl, Tina Richardson, and Angela Kuhn
The Adventures of Lo on The Go ( Lo goes to Africa)
by Lolanda Bunch Copper