The Minnow Leads to Treasure (Gregg Press Children's Literature)
by Philippa Pearce
Two English boys, with just an old riddle for a clue, spend a summer searching the banks of the river for a treasure hidden by the ancestors of one of the boys.
A Growing Suspicion (American Girl: Rebecca Mysteries)
by Jacqueline Dembar Greene
Volunteering at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden in the early 1900s, Jewish cousins Rebecca and Ana must find the real culprit when they are unfairly blamed for a series of mishaps in the Japanese garden.
Hope! (Graphic Flash) (Graphic Flash Graphic Novels (Library))
by Eric Stevens
Hospitalized with the dreaded atom bomb disease, leukemia, a child in Hiroshima races against time to fold one thousand paper cranes to verify the legend that by doing so a sick person will become healthy.
"It is 1932. Polly, almost ten, and her older sister, Maud, travel by train and boat from Winnipeg to an island between Vancouver and Victoria. There they will live with their grandmother, who will be their guardian. Maud will go to boarding school in Victoria, while Polly will live with her grandmother and attend the small school on the island. Their grandmother and other family members welcome the girls warmly; new-school jitters give way to new friendships and even a new puppy; and slowly Pol...
Recounts the tales of King Arthur and his knights, from the early prophecies of Merlin and Arthur's birth to the destruction of Camelot.
Because Rosie, who lives in Little Italy, wants to be a modern American girl, she finds a way to make her dream come true while celebrating the feast of St. Gennaro.
Davy Crockett (Texas Heroes, #1) (Frontier Legends)
by Robert E Hollmann
