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Uses the imagined viewpoint of Edna St. Vincent Millay to recreate her early years as a poet in New York City. Includes her poem "Recuerdo" and a brief profile of her life.

Visiting Bigmama's house in the country, young Donald Crews finds his relatives full of news and the old place and its surroundings just the same as the year before.

Tells about the daily life and activities of a pioneer girl growing up on the prairies of Nebraska.

Davy Crockett and his friend Georgie Russel decide to hunt down Death Hug, a rogue bear that is making trouble for the local farmers in Tennessee.

Based on an historic account, Cora Frear and her father find themselves in danger when they are surrounded by a prairie fire in nineteenth-century Iowa.

Perhaps, she thinks, I’ll make a poem. Emily smiles. The garden makes her feel all sunny, like a poet. As a young girl, Emily Dickinson loved to scribble curlicues and circles, imagine new rhymes, and connect with the bountiful flowers in her spring garden. The sounds, sights, and smells of home swirled through her mind and Emily began to explore writing and rhyming her feelings. She thinks about the real and the unreal. Perhaps poems are the in-between. This thoughtful spotlight on Emily’s ea...