Escape from Egypt: Branches Book (Time Jumpers #2) (Time Jumpers, #2)
by Wendy Mass
Bridie's world is torn apart when her parents and baby brother die in the Great Hunger. She leaves Ireland, and strikes out alone to claim a life for herself in Australia, on the other side of the ocean.Bridie's Fire is heart-warming story of courage and resilience. It affirms Kirsty Murray's keen understanding of the human spirit. Starting in the 1840s and ending in present-day Australia. The Children of the Wind quartet tells the stories of four courageous young people, Bridie, Billy, Colm and...
Who’s Jim Hines? is a story based on real events about Douglas Ford Jr., a twelve-year-old African American boy growing up in Detroit in the 1930s. Doug’s father owns the Douglas Ford Wood Company, and Doug usually helps his dad around the scrap wood yard located in the side lot next to their house. But after Doug loses his school textbooks one day he is faced with the prospect of paying for new books and must join his father in the backbreaking work of delivering wood throughout the city and su...
Shortlisted for the 2005 Young Adult Canadian Book Award Susanna's Quill is a work of historical fiction based on the life of Susanna Moodie, writer and pioneer, by award-winning author Julie Johnston. The story takes us into Susanna’s genteel English childhood, through her humorous teenage attempts at writing, growing to her burgeoning independence, marriage to Dunbar Moodie, and their decision to emigrate from England. To the Moodies, Canada was the answer to their prayers. They would have th...
A fictionalized account of an incident in the life of a fourteen-year-old girl who tends her family's lighthouse during a fierce storm on the coast of Maine in the winter of 1856.
Now even young readers can enjoy Shakespeare's stories in a bold new retelling that captures the drama and adventure of the original plays.
Includes 75-minute audio CD Playful goblins with long noses, magic tea kettles, and a delightfully brave hero who just happens to be one inch tall-these are some of the wonderful characters you'll meet in this collection of the 20 best-loved Japanese children's stories. Drawn from folklore and passed down for generations, these classic tales speak of the virtues of hard work, humility, kindness, and good humor. "Once upon a time . . ." has never sounded so inviting.
When Eomma's mother is chosen by the emperor to be a seamstress in his court, Eomma vows to learn to sew the beautiful Korean bojagi, or wrapping cloths, just as well so that she will also be summoned to the palace and be reunited with her mother.
Fourteen-year-old Nathan, fishing with the Makah in the Pacific Northwest, finds himself holding a vital clue when a mysterious stranger comes to town looking for Spanish treasure.
Sugar Snow (My first little house books)
by Laura Ingalls Wilder
A cold snap late in winter allows a pioneer girl and her family to enjoy the rich sugar candy made from maple tree sap.
Brookfield Days (A Little house chapter book)
by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Presents the daily experiences and adventures of young Caroline Quiner, the girl who would grow up to be Laura Ingalls Wilder's mother, in the frontier town of Brookfield, Wisconsin.
In the early part of the 1900s, Beatrice and Lionel, two Blackfeet Indian children, escape from the Chalk Bluff Indian Boarding School in Montana to find their grandfather, and must elude their pursuers and make a life for themselves in the wilderness.
Freaks and Frolics of Little Girls (American Antiquarian Society)
by Josephine Pollard
Brave Tin Soldier (Hc) (American Antiquarian Society)
by Hans Andersen
Freaks & Frolics of Little Girls & Boys (American Antiquarian Society)
by Josephine Pollard
The Mystery of the Scarlet Rose (Sherlock, Lupin, and Me, #3)
by Irene Adler
John Henry, Hammerin' Hero (Graphic Spin (Quality Paper))
by Arch Stone