Ruby wants to be a teacher, but after her father's death in a logging accident she must quit school to care for her ten brothers and sisters, until a chance meeting with a lonely old blind woman transforms her life.
The Call of the Wild and White Fang (The Call of the Wild, White Fang, #1) (North Epic Tales, #1)
by Jack London
With an Introduction and Notes by Lionel Kelly, University of Reading. The Call of the Wild (1903) and White Fang (1906) are world famous animal stories. Set in Alaska during the Klondike Gold Rush of the late 1890s, The Call of the Wild is about Buck, the magnificent cross-bred offspring of a St Bernard and a Scottish Collie. Stolen from his pampered life on a Californian estate and shipped to the Klondike to work as a sledge dog, he triumphs over his circumstances and becomes the leader of a w...
After Meredith's girlfriend commits suicide, she abandons art school and goes home to Washington, D.C., intending to kill herself, but a chance street encounter leads her to create a painting that acts as a magical passage through which the young, nineteenth-century French poet Arthur Rimbaud emerges, and both their lives are changed.
Twelve-year-old Homer, a poor but clever orphan, has extraordinary adventures after running away from his evil uncle to rescue his brother, who has been sold into service in the Civil War.
Norse, of Course (Norse, of Course, #2)
by Kristin Valkenhaus and Nick Valkenhaus
Pagan's Vows (Pagan Chronicles, #3) (Pagan Chronicles S., #3)
by Catherine Jinks
Follows the adventures of Pagan, squire to Lord Roland, through the years 1188 to 1189, as he accompanies his master, now determined to be a monk, to the French monastery of St. Martin and uncovers a dangerous blackmail plot.
Ghost Pirates (Young Heroes, #6)
by Zak Lyon, Storyshopusa, and John Jenkins
The Complete Gideon Trilogy (Boxed Set) (Gideon Trilogy, Books 1-3)
by Linda Buckley-Archer
The Young Texan's Series Elsie and the Hurricane
by Linda Baton Johnson
