Yearning for adventure and tired of farm life in New Hampshire, sixteen-year-old Mary Margaret Malarkey journeys to California in 1848 to find her father who arrived earlier to make his fortune in the goldfields.
During the Vietnam War, Captain Anne Donovan's aid station is pinned down by a sniper near the front lines, and the doctor performing a life-threatening surgery is critically wounded. Donovan must take control of not only the operating room, but her emotions as well.
Voyage of Ice (Chronicles of Courage (Knopf Library), #1) (Chronicles of Courage (Yearling))
by Michele Torrey
In 1849, fifteen-year-old Nick and his older brother, longing to be whalers, sign on as hands on the whaling ship Sea Hawk, and find that the journey is full of hardship and unexpected dangers.
After his older brother Casey goes off to fight in World War I, Aubrey and his family are so worried that Aubrey writes a letter to Uncle Sam asking him to send Casey home.
Determined to avenge the massacre of his family, fourteen-year-old Robert Bradford joins Nathaniel Bacon's rebel army in hopes of wiping out the Susquehannock Indians of Virginia.
Hawks Don't Say Goodbye (Nathan T. Riggins Western Adventure, #6)
by Stephen Bly
Lily's Victory Garden (Tales of Young Americans)
by Helen L Wilbur
Lily gets permission to plant a Victory Garden at the house next door, where the Bishops' son has died in the war, and slowly the garden helps Mrs. Bishop recover from her grief.
Dear America: Across the Wide and Lonesome Prairie (Dear America (Reissues))
by Kristiana Gregory
Hill of Fire (1 Paperback/1 CD) (I Can Read Books: Level 3)
by Thomas P Lewis
In this sequel to "The Other Side of the Door," ten-year-old Dora makes a quilt to record her experiences as she finally starts school and her Mormon family's efforts to secure homestead rights for their farm in New Mexico.
The Silver Eyed Prince (Highest Royal Coven of Europe, #1)
by VJ Dunraven
