When her father hatches a plan to bring publicity to their small Tennessee town by arresting a local high school teacher for teaching about evolution, the resulting 1925 Scopes trial prompts fifteen-year-old Frances to rethink many of her beliefs about religion and truth, as well as her relationship with her father.
During the Depression, Gunther Grunt buys a new car with the money his wife has been saving to send their bright twelve-year-old daughter to college, beginning a chain of events that teaches the Grunts the value of their family.
El Beisbol Nos Salvo / Baseball Saved Us
by Ken Mochizuki and Dom Lee
Lizabeth's Story (Girls of Lighthouse Lane, #3)
by Dr Thomas Kinkade and Erika Tamar
During a scarlet fever outbreak in 1906, thirteen-year-old Lizabeth must decide whether it is more important to be Strawberry Queen or to be at the bedside of her younger sister, who is ill.
Stars, Canes, and a Christmas Tree & the Wanderings of a Box Turtle (The Young Pioneers Adventure Series for Kids)
by Joann Klusmeyer
Blossom Culp's gift of second sight, which she discovers gradually, leads her into some unusual adventures.
Silent Superstitions (Christy of Cutter Gap, #2) (Christy)
by Catherine Marshall
Winding Valley Farm (The Polish American girls) (Living History Library (Bethlehem Books))
by Anne Pellowski
A young girl shares pleasures and disappointments with the other members of a large Wisconsin farm family in the early twentieth century.
Peppe's father is upset when he learns that Peppe has taken a job lighting the gas street lamps in his New York City neighborhood.
Opal's Greenwood Oasis
by Quraysh Ali Lansana and Najah-Amatullah Hylton
During World War II, a little boy is sent to live with his grandma, a cook in a camp for workers building a road through the wilderness.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt (Dear Mr. President S., #4) (Dear Mr. President)
by Elizabeth Winthrop