History's Kid Heroes
2 total works
The Snowshoeing Adventure of Milton Daub, Blizzard Trekker
by Margaret K Wetterer and Charles Wetterer
Published 1 January 2010
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.
The Midnight Adventure of Kate Shelley, Train Rescuer
by Margaret K Wetterer
Published 1 August 2010
On July 6,1881, in Moingona, Iowa, when a ferocious storm washes out the railroad bridges, fifteen-year-old Kate Shelley risks her life to prevent a terrible train disaster.