A young Comanche boy experiences his tribe's conflicts with the Tejanos in 1840s Texas.
Abandoned on the Wild Frontier (Trailblazer Books (Numbered), #15) (Trailblazer Books, #15)
by Dave Jackson and Neta Jackson
His friendship with Peter Cartwright, a Methodist circuit-rider evangelist, enables 13-year-old Gil to pursue his dream of locating his mother who was kidnapped by the Sauk Indians during the War of 1812.
Chalkovski Descubre America (Art, Music and Theater)
by Esther Kalman
A brother and sister living off the Texas Gulf Coast befriend Tom the Tramp who becomes a hero during the Great Storm of 1900.
Benjamin Brown and the Great Steamboat Race (History Speaks: Picture Books Plus Reader's Theater)
by Shirley Jordan
A fictionalized account of ten-year-old Ethel Roosevelt's early experiences in the White House after her father, Theodore Roosevelt, becomes president in 1901.
Best friends Lee Jones and Joan Lee have more in common than their twisted names, they have both learned that their parents are getting divorced, and while on their class trip to San Francisco they go off on their own to talk about the divorces and fall asleep but when they wake up they find the Golden Gate Bridge gone and they meet a man named Sam Clemens who is on the run from a mysterious stranger. Lee Jones and Joan Lee have more in common than their twisted names. They have learned that th...
School Days (A Little house chapter book, #6) (Little House Chapter Books)
by Laura Ingalls Wilder and Melissa Peterson
Laura and her sisters share some good and bad times when they attend different schools near their various prairie homes.
Presents the journal of a sixteen-year-old girl whose family operates a stop on the Underground Railroad.
When Desperado Dan breaks out of jail, Nellie sets out to find her Pa, the sheriff, but finds the outlaw first.
In the late 1800's, a fourteen-year-old Ozark mountain boy spends the summer trying to recapture monkeys escaped from a traveling circus.
The Snowshoeing Adventure of Milton Daub, Blizzard Trekker (History's Kid Heroes (Quality Paper)) (History's Kid Heroes)
by Margaret K Wetterer and Charles Wetterer
An 1888 blizzard has paralyzed much of New England, but twelve-year-old Milton Daub puts on a pair of homemade snowshoes and braves the storm to bring food and medicine to many of his neighbors in the Bronx, New York.
In the aftermath of the Great Peshtigo Fire of 1871, thirteen-year-old Carrie and her little brother Fritz are taken in by a wealthy couple in nearby Oconto, Wisconsin, and start life anew with the help of friends, including a Menominee Indian girl.
